# Erin Tavgac

> Erin Tavgac is the co-founder and CEO of Redbird, a New York based AI-powered analytics platform that lets non-technical employees run the full analytics pipeline - data prep, wrangling, analysis, reporting and data science - through natural language instead of code. A Stanford-trained ex-McKinsey consultant who spent a decade building data and consumer-insights practices, Tavgac launched the company (originally Cube Analytics) with brother Deren Tavgac, took it through Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch, and raised a $7.6M oversubscribed seed led by B Capital. By 2024 Redbird had reframed itself around conversational AI agents and counted eight Fortune 50 brands among its customers.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Redbird
- **Organizations:** Redbird, Mesh Experience, Converseon, NM Incite, McKinsey & Company, Y Combinator
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BS, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Redbird, an enterprise AI analytics platform, Raised a $7.6M oversubscribed seed round led by B Capital with participation from Y Combinator, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Alumni Ventures and Soma Capital, Graduated Y Combinator Winter 2022

## Career timeline

- **pre-2013** — Management consultant at McKinsey & Company; Director at NM Incite, the Nielsen-McKinsey social intelligence joint venture
- **2013-2015** — Partner at Converseon, leading the consulting and insights group
- **2015-2017** — President at Mesh Experience
- **2017** — Co-founded the analytics company that would become Redbird (originally Cube Analytics) with Deren Tavgac
- **2022** — Went through Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch; raised a $7.6M oversubscribed seed led by B Capital
- **2024** — Launched Redbird's conversational AI platform with specialist AI agents; reached eight Fortune 50 customers

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Redbird, an enterprise AI analytics platform
- Raised a $7.6M oversubscribed seed round led by B Capital with participation from Y Combinator, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Alumni Ventures and Soma Capital
- Graduated Y Combinator Winter 2022
- Grew Redbird's customer base sevenfold since its 2022 seed round
- Onboarded eight of the Fortune 50 and 30+ mid-to-large enterprise customers

## Latest updates

- **2024-09** — Redbird launched its conversational AI platform built on specialist agents, with coverage in VentureBeat, Forbes, SiliconANGLE and others; reported eight Fortune 50 customers and a sevenfold customer increase since seed.

## Links

- Website: https://redbird.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erintavgac/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/redbirdio

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