About
Roman Doronin is an AI entrepreneur who founded EORA.AI in 2015, a services company that has delivered over 60 AI projects for enterprises including PepsiCo and Nestlé, and co-founded Optic in 2022 with backing from KPCB, Pantera, and Greylock. Within Optic he launched AIorNot.com, a tool for detecting AI-generated content that later became an independent company and raised $5 million by 2025. In 2023 he moved into biotech to co-found Bioptic, which applies similarity search technology to drug discovery and reported 15 wet-lab-validated de novo drug programs by Q1 2025; he holds a bachelor's in Information Security and a master's in Sociology of Management.
VP of Engineering, Co-Founder at Optic
Intro paths
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Co-founders at Optic
Experience
- OPTICCo-Foundercurrent2022 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- EORAFounder2016 — 2022Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Roman Doronin?
- Roman Doronin is an AI entrepreneur who founded EORA.AI in 2015, a services company that has delivered over 60 AI projects for enterprises including PepsiCo and Nestlé, and co-founded Optic in 2022 with backing from KPCB, Pantera, and Greylock. Within Optic he launched AIorNot.com, a tool for detecting AI-generated content that later became an independent company and raised $5 million by 2025. In 2023 he moved into biotech to co-found Bioptic, which applies similarity search technology to drug discovery and reported 15 wet-lab-validated de novo drug programs by Q1 2025; he holds a bachelor's in Information Security and a master's in Sociology of Management.
- Where does Roman Doronin work?
- Roman Doronin is VP of Engineering, Co-Founder of Optic.
- What companies did Roman Doronin found?
- Roman Doronin founded Optic.
- Where did Roman Doronin go to school?
- Roman Doronin studied at Moscow State University (Incomplete graduate school, Economics of Innovations); Moscow State University (Master of Sociology, Sociology of business); Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography (MIIGAiK) (Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information security systems).
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