Sanas

Maxim Serebryakov grew up in Russia and moved to the US at 18 to study engineering at Stanford, where he also conducted AI research at Stanford's AI Lab. His founding motivation was personal: a classmate who relocated to Nicaragua to work in a contact center was repeatedly penalized in customer ratings for his accent. Serebryakov co-founded Sanas in 2020 to eliminate accent bias through real-time speech conversion technology. The company raised a $65 million Series B in February 2025, and its R&D is anchored in Stanford AI Lab research.

Shawn Zhang is a Co-Founder and CTO of Sanas, co-founded in 2020. He oversees the technical development of Sanas's real-time accent conversion and speech understanding platform. Detailed prior-career information beyond his co-founding role at Sanas is not publicly substantiated.

Sharath Keshava Narayana holds a degree in Computer Science Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University and completed a program at Y Combinator. He previously co-founded Observe.AI as CRO, scaling it to a $125 million Series C and multi-million ARR before departing. He also founded Carya Venture Partners. He joined Sanas as co-founder and COO in May 2022, bringing over 18 years of enterprise AI SaaS go-to-market expertise, and now serves as President and CEO.

Andrés Pérez Soderi is a Co-Founder of Sanas, co-founded in 2020. Detailed prior-career information beyond his co-founding role at Sanas is not publicly substantiated.