I'm Tal Weiss, an Israeli-born founder and engineer based in Amsterdam.
I studied electrical engineering, worked on communication security and telecom systems, and then spent most of my professional life building products and companies around language, machine learning, and software systems.
In 2009 I co-founded Evature, an NLP startup in travel. We raised venture money, won awards, survived rocket attacks, and were eventually acquired by Booking.com in 2017.
I stayed for seven more years and ended up running machine learning teams there.
Then I went back to what I like most: building from scratch.
Today I co-run Kychee with Barry Volinskey, my co-founder of more than fifteen years. We are building several products, including voice AI for seniors and infrastructure for AI agents that can actually do useful work.
I also spent an earlier chapter of my life in the Israeli military and left as a Major. That chapter shaped my tolerance for pressure and my interest in real systems, but I try not to turn biography into branding.
I write about AI, agents, aging, work, co-founders, and the occasional absurdity of automation.
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