Jesse Shemen

CEO, Papercup

Founded:
Papercup
Cofounder:
Jiameng Gao
Interests / background:
AI, Media and Gaming, Speech and Language
Location:
London
Cohort:
London 9

Jesse graduated summa cum laude from New York University’s undergraduate business school Stern. He then moved to the UK and co-founded Deloitte Ventures, an internal technology incubator as well as Deloitte’s first equity investment arm focusing on early-stage enterprise startups. After Deloitte, Jesse co-launched a wealth technology platform for financial advisors at Octopus Investments. In October 2017, he co-founded Papercup with Jiameng with the vision of making the world’s videos watchable in any language using a novel approach to speech synthesis.

Company:

Papercup

AI to translate the voice track on videos so every creator can expand their reach to seven billion people.
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