Our Mission

Accelerate financial inclusion for people. Mitigate risk for financial institutions.

When co-founders Laura and Dmitry met, they were both looking for ways to make better predictions – Laura in credit risk, and Dmitry in financial markets. It felt like they were constantly being forced to make trade-offs between accuracy and transparency.

They envisioned a new approach to AI-based decision making – one where AI-enabled data insights and human understanding were combined to embrace the complexity of how important decisions really needed to be made.

Since then, we’ve focused on building Stratyfy intentionally with this vision at our core. Our belief is that highly accurate and interpretable AI should be the standard in financial services – because it’s what all customers and institutions deserve.

Our core values guide what we do everyday.

What we stand for

Transparency

We can’t advance fairness and equity without real transparency and accountability.

AI for
Good

We’re building for a better future, and we prioritize technology that serves everyone, not just a select few.

People
First

We’re redefining what human-in-the-loop really means by putting people first in everything we do.

Bold

We have a bold vision for how AI will shape a more inclusive world, and we’re focused on big impact.

Teamwork

We tie each others’ shoes every day, and 1+1 = 3 is our favorite kind of math.

Female-founded and Led

10 Countries Represented

11 Languages Spoken

6 Musicians

5 Cute Dogs

3 Former College Athletes

We’re AI meets IQ meets EQ
Laura
Kornhauser
Co-founder & CEO
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Dmitry
Lesnik
Co-founder & Chief Data Scientist
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Deniz
Johnson
Chief Operating Officer
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Shannan Herbert
EVP of Inclusive Credit
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Ravi
Iyer
Operations Lead
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Mark Dreux
Business Development
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Sam
Fisher
Data Science Engineer
Bogdan
Loukanov
Data Science Engineer
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Valerie Wilkins
Director of Engineering
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Andrew
Lin
Machine Learning Engineer
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Ben
Callaway
Software Engineer
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Stefano Vegnaduzzo
Data Science
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Jose Tagunicar
Product Strategy
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Liz Haile
Product Analyst
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Abi Quackenboss-Karpf
Client Project Coordinator
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Liam Kenneally
Business Analyst
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Working Towards a Better Future

We’re backed by forward-thinking investors with big visions for financial services.

Join the Team

Let’s make financial services more transparent — together. We’re always looking for talented and motivated critical thinkers to help drive Stratyfy’s growth and push us to be better every day.