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Two cofounders who have worked together since 2002, supported by senior advisors in machine learning and geophysics. With our seed round we are hiring a Chief Geologist, a Head of Geostatistics and a Head of AI/ML.
Two named engines: GeoSwarm (cross-domain detection) and GeoThinker (probabilistic modeling).
FOUNDING TEAM
Founders and Advisors
Two full-time cofounders and two part-time senior advisors.
Daniel Tonkopiy
CEO & COFOUNDER
Serial founder with 3 exits, including VisaNow.AI, an AI immigration platform sold to JustiGuide. Trained as a research geophysicist at Narxoz University and KazMunayGas, then spent seven years at KazMunayGas scaling its gas-station network from 6 to 500+ sites.
3 EXITS
GEOPHYSICS
Zhambyl Suraganov
COFOUNDER, MACHINE LEARNING
Builds our machine-learning pipeline: the GeoSwarm models in PyTorch, U-Net segmentation and XGBoost on A100 GPUs. MPA from UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy. Twenty years in data analytics in Kazakhstan's public finance, where the fraud-detection system he built brought in $560M of additional revenue over six years.
ML PIPELINE
UC BERKELEY
ADVISORS
Senior Machine Learning Advisor
MACHINE LEARNING, PART TIME
PhD. Project Leader at Cornell Tech. 5 patents and 30+ peer-reviewed publications. Built our uranium paleo-channel detection model.
Senior Geophysics Advisor
GEOPHYSICS, PART TIME
PhD from MIT, now at Stanford, with NASA experience. 40+ peer-reviewed publications in planetary geophysics. Advises on our geophysics methodology.
WE ARE HIRING
Open Roles for the Seed Round
These are the three senior roles we are hiring for with our seed round. The Chief Geologist is our first hire. To apply, write to [email protected].
HIRING
Chief Geologist
GEOLOGY & RESOURCE ESTIMATION
We are looking for: a PhD in structural geology with 20+ years in orogenic gold, porphyry Cu-Au and VMS deposits, ideally across Central Asia, Australia or West Africa, registered as a Competent Person under JORC or CRIRSCO.
QP (CRIRSCO)
MAusIMM
JORC CP
HIRING
Head of Geostatistics
RESOURCE ESTIMATION & QA/QC
We are looking for: a PhD in geostatistics with hands-on ordinary kriging, conditional simulation and variogram modelling for gold and base-metal deposits, registered as a Competent Person under JORC.
MAusIMM
JORC CP
PhD
HIRING
Head of AI/ML
MACHINE LEARNING & GEOPHYSICS
We are looking for: a PhD in machine learning with depth in ensemble methods, CNNs on geophysical data and Bayesian optimisation, to scale the GeoSwarm and GeoThinker engines.
PhD ML
GEOPHYSICS
24
YEARS THE COFOUNDERS HAVE WORKED TOGETHER
3
FOUNDER EXITS
3
SENIOR ROLES OPEN IN THE SEED ROUND