About Us

Future of communication, in a visual language.

Our Mission

For ages, communication has been dominated by words. While effective, words can be inefficient. Visual mediums, such as pictures, movies, or interactive visual objects, are often more impactful.

At Vivify, we aim to unlock the vast reservoir of tacit knowledge within individuals. Our goal is to incentivize knowledge sharing by simplifying nuanced and precise expression, reducing reliance on lengthy explanations.

The Challenge

Designers, whether in UI, graphics, product, or landscape, face communication hurdles that involve multiple platform transitions. These challenges lead to project delays and emotional exhaustion, making traditional methods unsustainable.

Our Solution

Vivify introduces copilots that offer an intuitive way to communicate naturally, enhanced by visual assistance. This lets users focus on creativity without needing to become tool experts or prompt engineers.

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Our Approach

While our communication solutions have universal applications, we are initially focusing on designers. Our project and tool-agnostic agents empower designers to work autonomously, eliminating repetitive training and enhancing scalability.

By integrating with existing communication layers, our agents adapt to various tools and projects, ensuring seamless collaboration and efficiency.

Meet Our Founders

Uma Kelkar
Uma Kelkar

Uma Kelkar

Uma brings over 30 years of experience in the design ecosystem, addressing scalability challenges and fostering creativity. As an Executive Board Member of Urban Sketchers (350K+ members, 300+ global chapters) and international faculty since 2017, she has bridged communication gaps for freelancers and creators across diverse platforms. ...more

With AI, increased pace of content generation will only exacerbate the problem of content curation, guided choices, giving meaningful attention without exhausting humans. This was the keystone problem that shaped Vivify's agentic flows.

M.S. (EE), Stanford University

Past: Finisar, AMD, Teranetics, Transmeta

Gabriel Zaccak
Gabriel Zaccak

Gabriel Zaccak

A seasoned computer scientist with over 20 years of experience, Gabriel has built distributed systems for major broadcasters like NPR, XM Radio, FranceTV, ABC, and CBC while leading AI teams at doc.ai. He successfully exited two startups, one in EdTech with Elsevier’s Sherpath and another in healthcare AI that served 100 million members and secured a $100M contract from Anthem BCBS. ...more

Recognizing that data is king in an AI-driven world, Gabriel saw that vast, valuable data remains unlocked unless individuals are properly compensated. He believes owning the full technology stack is essential to capture granular insights and build effective, creator-centric AI agents.

M.Sc. (CS, AI+ML), MIT

Past: Sharecare, doc.ai, Dalet, Google, Shell

Our Advisors

Dr. Rami Al-Rfou

Dr. Rami Al-Rfou

OpenAI, Ex-Waymo, Ex-Google Research

Hetal Pandya

Hetal Pandya

Stanford Seed Consultant, Exited Founder, Edison Software

Pavni Diwanji

Pavni Diwanji

Ex-VP at Facebook, Intuit, Google; Exited Founder, Mail Frontier

Our Angels

Pravin Indurkar

GM at Microsoft

Faisal Siddiqi

Ex-Director at Netflix

Our Vision

Empowering professionals across disciplines to communicate and collaborate seamlessly, eliminating barriers to effective feedback and understanding.

"If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles." — Jim Rohn