About
Benjamin Gleitzman is CTO and Co-Founder of Replicant, a contact center automation platform that uses Agentic AI to handle customer service conversations. He previously developed the collective intelligence engine at Hunch, which was acquired by eBay, and built App Inventor for Android with Hal Abelson at Google Research. Gleitzman founded the hacker collective Ruse Laboratories, created The Algorithm Auction held at the Smithsonian, and serves as executive producer at Chinotto Records.
Founder at Replicant
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Gadi ShamiaFounder
CTO and Co-Founder at Replicant
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AtomicSan Francisco · since 2026Canaan PartnersStamford · $500K – $20M checks · since 2026Insight PartnersNew York · $120M – $350M checks · since 2026NewView CapitalBurlingame · since 2026Norwest Venture PartnersMenlo Park · $10M – $30M checks · since 2026Omega Venture PartnersSilicon Valley · since 2026Salesforce VenturesSan Francisco · $5M – $50M checks · since 2026StripesNew York · since 2026Telescope PartnersSan Francisco · since 2026
Co-founders at Replicant
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Gadi ShamiaCEO and Co-Founder
Experience
- ReplicantCTO and Co-Foundercurrent2017 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Stanford UniversityEthics, Technology & Public Policy Cohort Leader2023
- MONA - A Healing MuseumCTO and Co-Founder2018 — 2020
- Ruse LaboratoriesCTO and Co-Founder2014 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- eBaySenior Software Engineer2011 — 2018
- Network AwesomeCTO and Principal Software Engineer2012 — 2015
- ShockBottomsCEO and Founder2012 — 2015Oakland, CA
- NextStep TechFounder2010 — 2015
- Hunch Inc.Senior Software Engineer2009 — 2011
- GoogleVisiting Researcher2009Mountain View, CA
- Advanced Telecommunications Research, JapanSoftware Engineer and Visiting Researcher2007
Skills & more
Japanese2Programming13TeachingMobile Devices4Machine Learning3Software Engineering23Distributed Systems1Natural Language Processing1Data Mining1Algorithms6TeradataConversational AI
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Deep LearningEducationHealthcareTypeScriptSpeech RecognitionElectronic MusicJavaScriptPythonHTML 5DatabasesDjangoHadoopLanguages English · Japanese
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- Who is Benjamin Gleitzman?
- Benjamin Gleitzman is CTO and Co-Founder of Replicant, a contact center automation platform that uses Agentic AI to handle customer service conversations. He previously developed the collective intelligence engine at Hunch, which was acquired by eBay, and built App Inventor for Android with Hal Abelson at Google Research. Gleitzman founded the hacker collective Ruse Laboratories, created The Algorithm Auction held at the Smithsonian, and serves as executive producer at Chinotto Records.
- Where does Benjamin Gleitzman work?
- Benjamin Gleitzman is CTO and Co-Founder of Replicant.
- What companies did Benjamin Gleitzman found?
- Benjamin Gleitzman founded Replicant, Replicant.
- Where did Benjamin Gleitzman go to school?
- Benjamin Gleitzman studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); 岡山県立玉野高等学校.
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