# Vlad Chernyshov

> Vlad Chernyshov is the co-founder and CEO of Dasha.AI, a New York conversational-voice-AI company he started in late 2016 to build machines that talk like people - with the ums, the breaths, the interruptions and all. A competitive programmer out of Novosibirsk, Russia, he landed his first paying customer (a San Francisco dental practice) the day after Y Combinator rejected him, raised a $2M seed from RTP Global in 2019, and has framed Dasha's real target not as call centers but as artificial general intelligence reached through speech.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Dasha.AI
- **Organizations:** Dasha.AI, Genome, Dedal
- **From:** Novosibirsk, Russia
- **Nationality:** Russian
- **Education:** MSc, Computer Science, Novosibirsk State University
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Dasha.AI, a conversational voice-AI platform used across banking, healthcare and insurance., Raised a $2M seed round led by RTP Global (2019) and subsequent Series A funding., Built a voice engine where roughly 90% of callers cannot distinguish the AI from a human.

## Career timeline

- **2007** — Began building entrepreneurial coding projects while studying computer science in Novosibirsk, including one of the first instant messaging apps for Android.
- **2008** — Co-founded Genome (through 2015).
- **2016** — Co-founded Dedal; founded Dasha.AI in late 2016.
- **2017** — Built a custom conversational AI for a construction company to automate dealer outreach; landed first Dasha customer (a San Francisco dental practice) the day after a failed Y Combinator interview.
- **2019** — Raised a $2M seed round led by RTP Ventures / RTP Global; profiled by TechCrunch.
- **2021** — Opened Dasha platform beta on NVIDIA GPUs; raised Series A funding.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Dasha.AI, a conversational voice-AI platform used across banking, healthcare and insurance.
- Raised a $2M seed round led by RTP Global (2019) and subsequent Series A funding.
- Built a voice engine where roughly 90% of callers cannot distinguish the AI from a human.
- Assembled a research team including former Kaggle No.1 GrandMaster Dr. Alexander Dyakonov and 16-plus ACM ICPC finalists/semi-finalists.
- Shipped DashaScript, a domain-specific language for designing human-like voice conversations.
- Reached over 33 million minutes of conversation on the platform since January 2017.

## Latest updates

- **2021-11** — Dasha raised Series A funding (last reported raise).
- **2021-03** — Dasha opened its conversational-AI platform beta, running on NVIDIA GPUs.

## Links

- Website: https://dasha.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladislavchernyshov/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/vladchers
- GitHub: https://github.com/bloodcarter
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpsiig9Gz9A

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Last updated: 2026-07-07