Deon Nicholas

Co-Founders of Forethought

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Deon Nicholas Biography

Deon Nicholas is the CEO and Co-Founder of Forethought, the Generative AI for Customer Support company. Forethought has raised $90M+ in venture capital, was recognized as one of G2’s Best Software Products for 2023, was named to CNBC’s 25 Top Startups for the Enterprise in 2022, and won TechCrunch Disrupt in 2018. Before starting Forethought, Deon built products and infrastructure at Facebook, Palantir, Dropbox, and Pure Storage.

Co-founded by Deon Nicholas and Sami Ghoche in 2017, Forethought is an enterprise search company that has built a question-answering retrieval AI agent called Agatha Answers. The tool embeds into existing employee workflows, supporting employee workflow rather than automating the work of real people.

Nicholas had a passion for computer science and problem solving that gave him access to opportunity and brought him to Silicon Valley. Deon attended the University of Waterloo, where he did a Bachelors in Mathematics (with Distinction), Honors Computer Science and Combinatorics/Optimization.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 04/11/2024.

Deon Nicholas Videos

  • Upper Bound 2023: Founding a Deep-Tech AI Company
    In this talk, Deon Nicholas, CEO and Founder of Forethought, shares his experiences as a deep-tech AI founder. He discusses the challenges he faced...
  • Ethics, Future and Singularity of Artificial Intelligence
    Deon Nicholas on the Ethics and Future of Artificial Intelligence, Singularity, and Whether the Robots Will Ultimately Kill Us All Forethought...
  • Deon Nicholas on Customer Experience Transformation through AI
    In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #175 we welcomed Deon Nicholas, CEO & Co-Founder at Forethought AI based in San Francisco,...

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