Herbert Bay

Co-founder of six Swiss/US AI ventures:
- Earkick, Current Position. tracking mental health.
- PMF Engine, find product market fit using AI.
- kooaba, the first cloud-based image-recognition platform - exit 2014 to Qualcomm
- Shortcut, a secure notes app
- Inspiced, an AI-powered cooking app
- Waypoint.li, a mapping app for sailors (discontinued)
Driving innovation with AI at companies such as Ifolor where I led Captural as their CEO and co-initiator, an AI-enabled photo-book app
Investing in AI companies such as Let's Enhance
Coaching AI companies such as ethonAI

Lead-inventor of the SURF algorithm that was cited nearly 40,000 times in scientific publications
Received the 2016 ECCV - Koenderink Prize given to fundamental contributions in computer vision that stood the test of time.
Received the 2011 CVIU Most Cited Paper Award, and many more...
Building and leading Computer Vision and Machine Learning teams at companies such as Magic Leap

Member of the board of directors at Ifolor 2019 - 2023
Co-founder and member of the board of directors at 47nord
Investor and advisor to US-based AI company Let's Enhance
Previously advising Tokyo-based AR / SLAM startup company Kudan
Previously advising Moscow-based mapping startup company Maps.me (acquired in Nov 2014 by Mail.Ru)

Crossed the Atlantic and the Pacific ocean on a sailboat with my wife and our two wonderful boys 2 and 4 years old when we left.
More adventures coming soon, stay tuned :-)