Enki is a San Francisco-based edtech company building an AI-powered coaching platform that helps professionals and teams learn coding, data, and no-code tools faster. Founded in 2019 by Kirill Makharinsky and Bruno Marnette, Enki pairs on-demand 1:1 AI coaching with structured, role-specific exercises for tools like SQL, Python, Excel, Tableau, Looker, and Power BI. It began as a mobile app that grew to millions of users and 20,000+ five-star reviews, then pivoted toward enterprise upskilling, offering companies a way to raise data literacy and tool adoption across their workforce.
Kirill Makharinsky is the co-founder and CEO of Enki, an AI-powered work-skills coach used by professionals at companies that want their teams fluent in data, SQL, Python and the rest of the modern productivity stack. An Oxford mathematician who graduated top of the UK, he previously co-founded Quid (now NetBase Quid) and Emerging Travel Group (Ostrovok, RateHawk, ZenHotels), two companies whose combined revenues run into the hundreds of millions. He angel-invests on the side and has been on Forbes' 30 Under 30 Europe list.