In just seven years, Karim Beguir has transformed InstaDeep into an international AI reference. With the support of renowned investors and partners, he wants to enter new markets and sectors.
Karim Beguir (photo) is a Tunisian entrepreneur and Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning. With his high school friend Zohra Slim, he founded InstaDeep, an artificial intelligence startup that develops smart solutions to facilitate decision-making.
Within seven years, the startup founded in 2014 has gone intercontinental with offices in Paris, Tunis, Lagos, Dubai, London, Cape Town, and the USA recently. To upgrade its infrastructure and attract new talents, it raised US$100 million in a Series B round led by Alpha Intelligence Capital and CBIB. Participating investors included Google, Deutsche Bahn, and BioNTech.
For Karim Beguir, InstaDeep aimed to show that Tunisians can create cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies and conquer the African AI market. The co-founder is a science graduate. In 2003, he graduated from the French academic institution École Polytechnique with an Engineering diploma in applied mathematics and economy. In 2003, he graduated from New York University with an MSc in Applied Mathematics and Finance. With InstaDepp, he bagged several recognitions, was invited to international AI conferences, and collaborated with well-known firms. In 2017, InstaDeep was named one of the 20 Intriguing Global Startups to Watch by PCMag. The same year, it signed a partnership with Intel’s AI Builders and became an NVIDIA inception member.
About two years later, the startup published a joint research paper with Google’s DeppMind. In 2020, Karim Beguir announced a strategic collaboration with biotechnology company BioNTech and the creation of an AI innovation lab for the development of Novel Immunotherapies.
For two years, 2020 and 2021, InstaDeep was in CBInsights’ AI100 ranking, which showcases the world's most innovative AI companies. Last year, it became an NVIDIA Elite Service Delivery Partner.
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