Anna Kazlauskas
Vana | Co-Founder & CEO
Anna is the co-founder and CEO of Vana, building the first network for user-owned data. With Vana, users own their data and the value it creates, including the AI models trained on their data. She believes data will power the AI economic shift over the next decade. Giving users true ownership of their data opens up walled gardens and pushes AI progress forward through data abundance. She studied computer science and economics at MIT, where she got into crypto through mining ethereum in 2015. She left school to start a machine learning company (YC W18) and was an early contributor to Celo. She also did research at CSAIL (MIT's AI lab), the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the World Bank, helping her see that the future currency will be data.
Anna is the co-founder and CEO of Vana, building the first network for user-owned data. With Vana, users own their data and the value it creates, including the AI models trained on their data. She believes data will power the AI economic shift over the next decade. Giving users true ownership of their data opens up walled gardens and pushes AI progress forward through data abundance. She studied computer science and economics at MIT, where she got into crypto through mining ethereum in 2015. She left school to start a machine learning company (YC W18) and was an early contributor to Celo. She also did research at CSAIL (MIT's AI lab), the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the World Bank, helping her see that the future currency will be data.