EF Alumni

Swayam Narain

CTO. Affable

Founded:

Cofounder:

Interests / background:

Computer Vision, Marketing and Advertising, Media and Gaming

Location:

Singapore

Cohort:

Swayam Narain is an award-winning computer scientist who graduated top of his class at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He was a software engineer at Pivotal Labs where he turned client’s ideas to high quality products. He has expertise in building computer vision pipelines, social media platforms and cloud applications that scale.

Company:

Affable

Leverage AI for your Influencer Marketing Campaigns.

SGInnovate joins US$2M round in martech startup Affable

18 May, 2021

People & Companies

“That’s How We Knew We Were onto Something” Swayam Narain of Affable on Shaking Up Influencer Marketing

CJ Looi

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Bjarne Johannsen

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Kevin Yee

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Florian Savoy

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Matthias Richard

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Naveen Vedula

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Ritwika Chowdhury

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Reza Zolfaghari

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Alexander Reichenbach

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Kushal Pillay

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Arthur Wandzel

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Gui Wainwright

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Alex Palmer-Walsh

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Phong Vo

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Wilder Lopes

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Gary Roth

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Hemang Rishi

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Hasan Sheikh Faridul

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Manasa Nadipally

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Basilio Gentile

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Vedant Maheshwari

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Noreen Wu

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Arthur Sousa

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Gerald Pollak

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Dan Swygart

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Rumessa Raja

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Ritwika Chowdhury

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Michael Baumgartner

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Reza Zolfaghari

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Robert Van Den Bergh

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Brent Rohner

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Ian Chong

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Harold Mollison

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Dmitry Isupov

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Sumukh Avadhani

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Will Hanschell

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Lukas Dirzys

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Nisarg Shah

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Juan Barragan

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Aakash Dhuna

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Vibhas Jain

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Lucien Maman

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Dan Swygart

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Agrim Singh

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Michael Baumgartner

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Reza Zolfaghari

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Pamela Carvallo

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Sean Kortschot

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Srivar Harlalka

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Srinidhi Moodalagiri

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Alistair Thomson

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Rob Minford

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Sharon Reid

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Davy Smith

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Jiameng Gao

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Rose Haft

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James Thewlis

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