Dasha

Vladislav Chernyshov holds an MSc in Computer Science from Novosibirsk State Technical University (2009) and was a competitive programmer who participated in ACM ICPC. He previously co-founded Genome, a DNA-testing services company (2008–2015), and Dedal, an on-demand contractor marketplace (2016), before founding Dasha in 2019. Dasha is a platform for building hyper-realistic AI voice agents; its conversational AI is designed to be indistinguishable from a human caller and is used by enterprises for sales, support, and appointment-setting at scale.

Ilya Stupakov holds a PhD in Mathematical Modeling and Software Systems from Novosibirsk State Technical University, where he later served as Associate Professor, and participated in ACM ICPC competitions. He contributed to software projects at Intel as an intern and held research roles at ITMO University and Cryptography Research before co-founding Dasha. At Dasha, Stupakov brings nearly two decades of engineering leadership experience, overseeing the technical architecture of the company's voice AI platform.