Episode 395 of The VentureFizz Podcast features Erez Kaminski, CEO & Founder of Ketryx.
As I’ve covered in multiple episodes of The VentureFizz Podcast, all industries are ripe for disruption with AI, especially life sciences. However, life sciences is difficult because it is heavily regulated which makes it challenging for people to build a startup without that industry knowledge.
Erez on the other hand, has been working towards this moment for years in a calculated fashion.
- Desire to start a company – ✅ that idea originated back in fourth or fifth grade.
- Experience in AI – ✅ he began working with AI about 10 years ago
- MIT educated – ✅
- Life sciences industry experience – ✅ he led AI for Amgen’s medical device division.
This has all led him down the path of starting Ketryx, a high growth startup that transforms the product lifecycle of life science teams to deliver safer products, faster.
The company has product market fit and is trusted by three of the world’s top five medical device manufacturers. Its AI-powered compliance platform overlays existing tools to automate documentation, create traceability, and accelerate release cycles—without disrupting existing workflows. Ketryx AI Agents cut manual work by 90 percent and close compliance gaps, elevating speed and quality across the entire product lifecycle which is extraordinary.
The company just announced a $39M Series B led by Transformation Capital, with participation from existing investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, MIT’s E14 Fund, Ubiquity Ventures, and 53 Stations.
In this episode of our podcast, we cover lots of great topics like:
- Erez’s background story growing up in Israel and how he ended up playing American football in Israel for a league that was funded by the Kraft family which led him to play football in college in Alabama.
- How he got into enterprise AI at Wolfram Research almost 10 years ago and how his role at Amgen opened his eyes to the challenges in the industry.
- Getting Ketryx started in the early days.
- The value and impact of the Ketryx platform, plus more details about the company’s funding announcement.
- The culture at Ketryx and hiring plans.
- And so much more!
Are you interested in learning more about Ketryx and their hiring plans? Check out our new initiatives at VentureFizz called Hiring Unlocked – an online event series where you’ll hear from executives at Ketryx on September 23rd at 12pm! The company is hiring aggressively across lots of functional areas: Sales, Marketing, Operations, Client Operations, Product, Engineering. You’ll hear from: Erez Kaminski, CEO & Founder, Mary Brook Delano, Chief Business Officer, and Gabriel Pascualy, Director of Solutions. Click here to register!!!
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