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Sumukh Avadhani

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CTO at Pencil

London, England, United Kingdom

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Sumukh Avadhani is Co-founder and CTO of Pencil, a generative-AI platform for producing and optimizing ad creatives, where he oversees architecture, product vision, and technical roadmap, and has scaled the platform to process over $1B in media spend across more than 4,000 brands. Following Pencil's 2023 acquisition by The Brandtech Group, his work focuses on enterprise integration and global scale. He previously held roles at Google in product quality and anti-abuse, as well as at Samsung, Toshiba, and Kaybus, and holds an MSc in Signal Processing from King's College London and a BE in Telecommunication Engineering from BMS College of Engineering.

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Pencil's investors · 13

ArtesianSydney · $20M checks · since 2021Brandtech VenturesLondonCatapult VenturesSilicon Valley · $250K – $1.5M checks · since 2023Entrepreneur FirstBengaluru · $1M – $7M checks · since 2019Martlet CapitalCambridge · $317.5K checks · since 2023Mumbai AngelsMumbai · since 2021Northern GritstoneManchester · since 2023O2h VenturesCambridge · since 2023Octopus VenturesLondon · $130K – $1.3M checks · since 2023SGInnovateSingapore · since 2019SOSVNew York · $30K – $550K checks · since 2021SurgeTrianon · $500K – $5M checks · since 2023Wavemaker PartnersSingapore · $100K – $2.5M checks · since 2019

Co-founders at Pencil

WHWill Hanschell
Will HanschellCEO

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Who is Sumukh Avadhani?
Sumukh Avadhani is Co-founder and CTO of Pencil, a generative-AI platform for producing and optimizing ad creatives, where he oversees architecture, product vision, and technical roadmap, and has scaled the platform to process over $1B in media spend across more than 4,000 brands. Following Pencil's 2023 acquisition by The Brandtech Group, his work focuses on enterprise integration and global scale. He previously held roles at Google in product quality and anti-abuse, as well as at Samsung, Toshiba, and Kaybus, and holds an MSc in Signal Processing from King's College London and a BE in Telecommunication Engineering from BMS College of Engineering.
Where does Sumukh Avadhani work?
Sumukh Avadhani is CTO of Pencil.
What companies did Sumukh Avadhani found?
Sumukh Avadhani founded Pencil.

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