Yurii Filipchuk 🇺🇦 -- e/acc

OpenBabylon

Building the post-training stack for real-world AI adaptation & Sovereign AI models. We fine-tune, benchmark, and optimize AI for enterprises & governments — ensuring models aren’t just built, but deployed effectively.

Founder

Techstars ‍Startup Weekend San Francisco AI

At Techstars Startup Weekend SF AI, we're hosting a fast-paced, 3-day event where tech enthusiasts come together to bring AI startup ideas to life. My role is to create an energetic and welcoming atmosphere, build connections with important sponsors, and guide participants in making their pitches clear and impactful.

Community Lead: Vibes & Sponsorships | Pitching Mentor

Ментори в тилу

Leveraging my B2B sales and fundraising expertise to support aspiring entrepreneurs while raising funds for Ukraine

Mentor

Goatstack.AI

As Founder of Goatstack.ai, I lead the creation of an autonomous agent that aggregates data from over 100 sources, delivering summaries of relevant AI/ML research papers directly to your inbox. Our mission is to make the latest insights accessible and personalized, driven by community input and early adopter insights. Join us in transforming the way AI/ML research is consumed.

Party.Space

- Raised over $2m from leading European VC funds and angels
- Hired and led a cross-functional team of 18 people in sales, marketing, delivery and operations, aligning them with a development & product team of 16 led by co-founders
- Managed a $5M sales pipeline, driven by sales-led mid-market $60K ACV deals, and partnership-driven enterprise deals of $150K+ ACV, established through a network of 13 event agencies
Successfully launched two brands, TownHall and DogeTemple, positioning products on new markets
- Helped to raise over $1M for Ukraine on a charity NFT Auction
- Led a strategic pivot to a technology provider for the gambling industry and a few GenerativeAI experiments

CEO & Founder

044.ai

Innovative AI Development | Strategic Consulting | Transformative Solutions

As a Business Advisor at 044.ai Lab, I provide expert guidance and strategic advice to clients in navigating the dynamic landscape of artificial intelligence (AI). With a deep understanding of AI technologies and trends, I shape clients' AI strategies and ensure the successful implementation of AI initiatives.

Business Advisor

Founder Institute

Mentor for Ukrainian chapter: fundraising and B2B sales

CYFRD

Partner

VP of Business Development

JSC Ukreximbank

- Foreign bank analysis, over twenty credit committees
- Macro Analysis and country risks
- Created and managed compliance and international sanction database
- Moody’s and Fitch account management

Analyst at Trade Finance and Financial Institutions department

Founder @ Stealth AI |TechStars AI Startup Weekend SF

I'm an entrepreneur with experience in banking, investments, and tech. I've been both an investor and a founder. Passionate about tech, AI, physics, math, cosmology, and history, I hold a master's in international economics and management from Kyiv National Economics University. I believe accelerating AI is critical to humanity's prosperity.

As the founder of OpenBabylon, I’m building the post-training stack for real-world AI adaptation & sovereign AI models. I focus on making AI deployable, efficient, and aligned by driving strategic partnerships, revenue growth, and enterprise adoption. Our work enables enterprises and governments to optimize AI performance, cut costs, and scale deployment across diverse markets.

Previously, as CEO of Party.Space, a B2B virtual events platform, I navigated pivots and secured partnerships with Google, Zapier, Grammarly, UC Berkeley, and Fortune 500 companies, raising over $2M from top European VCs and angels.

I advise several early-stage companies on fundraising, zero-to-one hustle, and go-to-market strategies. My understanding of AI technologies and trends helps these companies shape and implement their strategies.

Known for my lively personality and ability to build connections, I enjoy mentoring aspiring entrepreneurs and sharing my experiences. My goal is to keep learning, explore new possibilities, and create a lasting impact through technology and innovation.

Saw a man eating soup at a Vietnamese market.

He didn't look up from his bowl once.

I thought: "This man understands focus."

Asked what he does. "GPUs," he said.

"Pho cures bubble hangovers," he added, unprompted.

Finished eating. Put chopsticks in leather jacket pocket. Didn't tip. Left.

His company is worth $4.4T.

3 lessons for startup founders:
→ Soup > Slack 
→ Street stalls > WeWork 
→ $3 meals, $65B quarters

While you were posting about Nvidia earnings, Jensen was already eating breakfast thinking about 2026.

That's the difference.

Founder @ OpenBabylon | Model University for Real-World AI Adaptation & Sovereign AI | Chaotic Good

Okay everyone, please disregard my AI bubble posts from last week. We are so back!
/sarcasm off
For real though: Nvidia just reported $57B revenue. Beat by $2.4B. Q4 guidance: $65B.
Jensen: Blackwell sales "off the charts."
The bubble is real. The infrastructure is getting built. Both things are true.

Cheers to that, Mr. Huang🍸

https://lnkd.in/ggk2Pd4R

Yeah you probably know me as the guy who started Party.Space from a cold email to Spotify.

Thought I had B2B sales figured out. Then I met  Alex Lugosch and Ilya Druzhnikov and they showed me what I was missing. The phone. 

We've done 15+ sessions together calling C-level execs at $100M+ mid-market and enterprise companies. 7am cold calls. Catching decision-makers before their calendar fills up.

The insights were pivotal for our new product direction at OpenBabylon. 

Hearing exactly why someone doesn't want your product -- in real time -- beats months of surveys and LinkedIn messages.

These guys are hosting a live cold-calling session tomorrow at European Startup Embassy (hidden gem of European culture in SF btw -  props to Luca Stirbat 🌀). They'll pitch founder products to real decision-makers while you watch.

If you want to learn how to actually talk to customers -- not send another email sequence -- this is it.

Tag your B2B founder friend or send them the link in comments 👇

Founder @ OpenBabylon | Strategic Foresight Engine | Chaotic Good

This post will make your AI founder friend wake up at night.

Especially if they didn't raise their sweet $50M seed round yet.

PitchBook just dropped 5 charts on the AI bubble debate. The numbers:
45% of fund managers say AI bubble is the biggest tail risk to markets. Up 12 points from last month.

For the first time since 2005, majority of investors say companies are overinvesting in capex.

$5 trillion required for AI infrastructure buildout. $1.4 trillion funding gap.

Hyperscaler CapEx tripled since end of 2023.

Late-stage AI valuations back to 2021 ZIRP-era levels.

Any fool makes money in a growing market. The real test is what you build for the falling one.

When the correction hits, CFOs will ask one question: "What's the ROI?"

Products that survive: 
→ Cost reduction (not growth acceleration) 
→ Decision-making under uncertainty 
→ Proving unit economics in 90 days 
→ Doing more with less compute

Products that don't: 
→ AI wrappers with no moat (except for AI GFs) 
→ "We'll figure out monetization later" 
→ Anything that needs 18 months to show value

At OpenBabylon, we're building AI for corporate strategy and decision-making. The kind of tool that becomes more valuable when markets get uncertain -- not less.

The bubble will pop. The infrastructure will remain. The question is whether your product is infrastructure or foam.

Tag a founder who needs to see this.

Karibu.AI

At Karibu.ai, we are building the future of workplace learning through real conversation, not static courses, checklists, or compliance modules. We’re creating an AI-powered learning platform where people grow by engaging in dialogue that reflects their role, environment, and culture.

Most training systems are rigid, one-size-fits-all, and designed to push content. At Karibu, we’re taking the opposite approach: our system listens, adapts, and guides like a great mentor would. It helps new hires and existing employees access their organization’s unique knowledge in the moments that matter, in the tone and language that fits.

What makes Karibu different isn’t just the technology (though we’re proud of our use of generative AI and structured knowledge extraction). It’s the learning science behind it we combine real-time conversation, contextual cues, and behavioral insights to drive deeper understanding, faster ramp-up, and more meaningful engagement.

We’ve seen firsthand that people don’t learn when they’re overwhelmed or forced. They learn when they’re curious, safe, and supported. Karibu’s experience models great conversations that makes you feel seen, capable, and clear.

We’re partnering with fast-growing organizations and mission-driven teams to replace rigid onboarding and fragmented SOPs with a living knowledge system that grows alongside their teams. My role spans product vision, experience design, customer strategy, and scaling with care all rooted in decades of experience in engineering, organizational psychology, and enterprise transformation.

If you’re working on the future of learning, team growth, or thoughtful AI in the workplace — let’s talk.

Founder & CEO

LeadingClearly

Founder | Advisor | Culture & Systems Strategist for High-Growth Organizations

Nathalie Brochstein is an experienced advisor and executive partner to Fortune 10 companies and high-growth tech firms, known for designing systems that align culture, strategy, and execution.

As the founder of her consulting practice, she led enterprise-wide transformations focused on leadership alignment, organizational health, and the creation of cultures where innovation can thrive. Her work consistently bridged the gap between vision and operational reality, helping leadership teams build scalable systems grounded in shared values and behavioral consistency.

Focus Areas:
•	Cultural Transformation: Guided organizations from siloed operations to collaborative, purpose-driven cultures
•	Organizational Health: Developed and implemented a proprietary Organizational Health Check to assess and improve team dynamics and cultural coherence
•	Leadership Development: Created the “Envision Strategic Leadership Experience” to help senior leaders lead with clarity, authenticity, and systemic impact
•	Enterprise Change: Designed and launched lean-agile operating models integrated with cultural rituals and leadership behaviors
•	Sustainable Systems: Built internal Centers of Excellence and Communities of Practice to embed continuous learning and adaptive capability

Nathalie’s ability to diagnose complexity, foster alignment, and design systems for growth has made her a trusted partner to executives navigating change. The lessons from this work now inform her leadership at Karibu.ai, where she is building the next generation of human-centered learning platforms.

Managing Partner

Deloitte

Organizational Strategist | Leadership Coach | Agile Transformation Consultant

At Deloitte, Nathalie served clients across sectors — from healthcare to tech — helping organizations navigate rapid change through a blend of organizational design, agile strategy, and executive coaching.

She partnered with senior leaders to diagnose systemic challenges and co-design solutions that aligned structure, process, and leadership behavior. Her work spanned enterprise transformations, product development strategy, and the design of learning experiences that supported long-term capability building.

Key Contributions:
•	Designed and facilitated workshops, courses, and micro-learning programs for cross-functional teams
•	Advised C-level executives on organizational effectiveness, product alignment, and leadership growth
•	Led agile transformation initiatives at the team, portfolio, and enterprise level
•	Managed large-scale client engagements, including strategic planning, budgeting, and delivery oversight
•	Advanced practice development by creating tools and frameworks that shaped Deloitte’s approach to agile and human-centered transformation

Nathalie’s work at Deloitte reinforced her belief that systems thinking, adaptive learning, and leadership clarity are core to organizational success — principles that now guide her work as a founder.

Enterprise Agililty Transformation Leader

Multiple Sites in U.S. and Internationally

From 2009 to 2018, Nathalie served as a sought-after enterprise agility leader and transformation consultant, guiding Fortune 500 companies and high-growth organizations through the transition from legacy systems and structures to adaptive, people-centered ways of working.

With a focus on blending organizational design, agile methodologies, and cultural transformation, she worked hands-on with leadership teams to embed new ways of thinking and operating. Her approach emphasized human connection, clarity of purpose, and sustainable execution—bringing both energy and stability to organizations navigating change.

Selected Contributions:
•	Coached C-level executives on how to measure outcomes, build resilient agile teams, and lead large-scale transformation with clarity
•	Led enterprise transitions from waterfall to agile, leveraging frameworks such as SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and Design Thinking
•	Fostered collective team intelligence through mindset coaching, group facilitation, and organizational behavior practices
•	Delivered executive workshops, team interventions, and cultural redesign initiatives across North America and internationally

Clients included: Best Buy, State Farm, Wells Fargo, Hewlett Packard, Gap Inc., Safeway, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Landmark Education, MicroDental, Navis LLC, LoanCity (E*TRADE), and Covad Communications

This chapter solidified Nathalie’s belief that truly effective change begins with people—not process—and that trust, alignment, and purpose are the cornerstones of long-term success.

Enterprise Agility Consultant | Culture Architect | Executive Coach

Executive Leader | IT Transformation | Operational Excellence

At AAA, Nathalie served as a senior leader driving large-scale IT and business process transformation within an organization managing an annual operating budget of over $12.5M.

As a core member of the eBusiness team, she played a pivotal role in redesigning the IT organization shifting from a traditional pyramid structure to a streamlined, process-based model that improved agility, alignment, and accountability. She led with clarity and foresight during critical transition periods, including overseeing the migration of AAA’s web hosting infrastructure during the bankruptcy of a key vendor, ensuring continuity and mitigating risk.

Key Contributions:
•	Spearheaded a technology redesign initiative that reduced portal costs by an estimated $13M in hard savings and $15M in soft savings over three years
•	Delivered a high-impact project ahead of schedule, under budget, and with zero unplanned downtime — increasing revenue and organizational momentum
•	Provided strategic leadership during enterprise-wide restructuring, fostering durable success and enhanced operational clarity

Nathalie’s ability to drive transformation while managing complexity positioned her as a trusted strategic leader setting the foundation for her later work in enterprise advisory and AI-powered systems design.

Senior Manager

Sense4Web inc.

Nathalie led engineering teams across several Silicon Valley startups, applying agile principles long before they became mainstream. She championed eXtreme Programming (XP) practices to drive rapid iteration, improve product quality, and foster collaboration between developers and stakeholders.

Her architectural leadership shaped products from concept to scale, bridging technical innovation with business needs. This formative chapter laid the foundation for her future work integrating engineering with organizational design.

Software Architect | eXtreme Programming Evangelist

Aman Group

Nathalie began her career as a self-taught developer at Aman Group, where she built one of the company’s earliest Visual Basic client-server applications for financial reporting automating key workflows and replacing legacy mainframe processes.

During this time, she developed a deep appreciation for the intersection of systems thinking, software, and human behavior an insight that would shape her entire career.

Software Engineer

I believe alignment starts with a conversation, not a course.

I’m the Founder & CEO of Karibu.ai, a platform for conversational alignment in operations — helping organizations reduce friction, accelerate execution, and keep their culture strong as they scale.

With 20+ years in tech, startups, and Fortune 100 consulting, I’ve seen how hard it is to keep people and processes aligned through constant change. Karibu turns organizational knowledge into adaptive, guided conversations that make change easier and execution faster.

If you’re exploring the future of work, operations, or GenAI, I’d love to connect.

Nathalie Brochstein

I’m grateful for the chance to build alongside people who are motivated by purpose, vision, impact, and long-term value. 

People who want to solve meaningful problems and contribute to something larger than themselves. 

And I’m equally grateful for the customers and early adopters who choose to partner with us, lean in, experiment, and help shape what’s possible.

This is my true joy of being a founder. I get to surround myself with missionaries, with people who choose belief, commitment, and creation over stability and comfort. 

It’s an incredible experience, and I’m thankful for every person who brings that spirit into the work.

Founder Karibu.ai | Guiding People Through Your Org’s Unique Way of Working

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Sunday evening I got locked out of my apartment.

Forgot my phone with my access key while walking my dog.

The front desk staff know me. She wanted to help.

But she couldn’t reset my code.
Couldn’t generate a temp key.
Couldn’t authorize anything.

She had to call her supervisor → wait 15 minutes → get the master code read to her → write it on a piece of paper → hand it to me.

I asked why she couldn’t just do it herself.

“My manager thinks tenants should remember their codes.”

They built a system that punishes people for forgetting instead of helping them.

Sound familiar?

“It’s in the training from 3 months ago.”
“You should’ve bookmarked that link.”
“Didn’t you read the docs?”

People don’t forget because they’re careless.
They forget because they’re juggling 47 things. 
Just like your team trying to recall a process from onboarding or a protocol buried in Confluence.

If your process collapses the moment someone forgets something…

You don’t have a people problem.
You have a guidance problem.

And without real-time guidance, people improvise, and all those great systems you put into place fall apart.

This is why we’re building Karibu.AI
to deliver on-demand, conversational guidance that doesn’t punish you because you forgot something.

Always patient.
Never judgmental.
No need to bother anyone else.

No need to feel embarrassed for forgetting, Karibu simply guides you forward.

No tapping on a busy shoulder.
No searching through a deck.
Not buried in Confluence.
Not dependent on someone remembering something from three months ago.

If you’re in L&D, People Ops, or Enablement and want to learn more about redesigning training around guidance, not memory:
comment “COHORT” or DM me for details.

I’ll let the photos speak for themselves, Oakland Tech Week was a blast.
Thank you Brian💥 Sparkes and STAK Ventures for hosting and creating such a positive, supportive and growth minded vibe.

PITCHING @ STAK Space 

We’ve been deploying AI-guided training at Karibu.AI, and early on we started calling our approach Conversational Learning. It felt right so I went back to the research to see how the term is actually used.

It turns out Conversational Learning appears in three different domains.
Each captures something useful, but none fully describes our work:

1. Organizational learning theory
Kessels, Schön, and Korthagen use the term for reflective dialogue; 
how teams make meaning after the work is done.
Valuable, but retrospective.

2. Tech Literature
Here it refers to learning delivered through a conversational interface.
Important distinction: Chatbots follow scripts and keywords
Conversational AI understands intent, adapts, and improves over time
But even this is still describing the interface not the learning method.

3. Constructivist Pedagogy
Occasionally applied to inquiry-based learning: 
questions, scenarios, feedback loops.
Interactive, but still classroom-oriented, not operational.

Across all three, one gap stands out:

There is no definition of Conversational Learning as real-time, AI-guided performance support that reduces cognitive load, increases consistency, and travels with the learner.

Yet research is already pointing to the value in this direction:

• Back in 2020 a study showed significantly higher intrinsic motivation for students learning with chat-based agents.
• Studies from 2013 showed learning performance “favors the conversational learning approach” over conventional instruction.
• Additional research shows benefits in language acquisition (Belda-Medina, 2022), civic engagement (Schouten, 2022), and mental-health awareness (Han Li, 2023).

What all these have in common:
People learn more, engage more, remember more, and apply more when they can ask questions, get feedback, and practice through conversation.

But here’s the missing piece:

None of the existing research frameworks address what happens when conversational learning sits inside the workflow itself. That’s the shift we’re building toward at Karibu.AI.

AI makes it possible for training to move from a one-time event to a continuous companion. From something you study to something that also supports you in the moment of doing.

I believe Conversational Learning will become its own category, not just an academic idea or a delivery channel, but a practical operational discipline.

If you’re leading Operations or in L&D and want to experiment with this firsthand, I’m running small hands-on cohorts where leaders design their own AI Conversational Learning journeys and experience the method live.

If this direction resonates, DM me for details.

Three months after a major training rollout, I sat in on a customer call.
The rep was phenomenal until the customer asked about our new pricing structure.

Visible panic.

"Let me... uh... check with my manager and get back to you."

We'd spent six weeks training on that exact pricing change. 
She'd passed the quiz. 
She'd attended every session.

But in the moment she needed it? 
Gone.

And I realized: we'd been thinking about this all wrong.

Learning isn't a destination you reach in a training room. 
It's a companion you need in the field.

So instead of asking "how do we make better training?" 
I started asking "how do we make knowledge follow people into real moments?"
That question became Karibu.AI.

We transform static documentation into real-time guidance, so when someone hits that moment of "wait, how do I do this?"
The answer is right there.

If you're an L&D or Ops leader who's felt that gap between training and reality, I'm opening a small beta cohort.

Comment or DM "Guide" and let's connect.

I highly recommend joining the events hosted by 12 (scrappy) founders Raphaella L. does a great job of bringing together supportive, passionate builders to do fun stuff. Like kayaking in Santa Cruz

Silicon Valley Venture, LLC - Chief Venture Officer | Host of Silicon🚀Valley Impact Podcast | STAK Ventures

🚀 Welcome to Oakland Tech Week! (Registration Link Below)

Join us November 20th at 1:30 PM for the STAK Ventures: Oakland Tech Week Pitch & Panel — a high-impact afternoon designed for founders, investors, and innovators who want to understand what fundability really looks like in 2025.

📍 Hosted at the iconic 1900 Broadway Tower - Oakland. Get ready for an afternoon of connection, conversation, and community as we bring together top investors and rising founders for a dynamic pitch session followed by a candid, insight-rich panel discussion.

🔥 Meet the Investor & Expert Panel
Tammy Schuring — Limited Partner, Progressive Ventures
Abhishek Goel — Startup Expert, Founder, Angel Investor
Mariane Bekker — Investor | Managing Partner, Founders Bay | Head of Developer Relations, You.com
Chima Osuka — Senior Partner, Suncoast Ventures

🌱 Meet the Startup Founders
Kit Chong — Co-Founder & CEO at BioTwin
Nathalie Brochstein  — Founder & CEO at Karibu.AI
Blake Beltram — Founder & CEO, at Offyo.AI
Himika Rastogi - Founder & CEO at Brainvoy

If you're building, investing, or simply curious about what fundable founders look like today, this is a session you don’t want to miss.

See you at the top of Oakland — November 20th at 1900 Broadway.
Register Here: https://luma.com/d7xl9ttp

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Curious about how AI will reshape workforce learning in 2026??

I’m launching small cohorts for L&D leaders who want to explore AI-guided conversational learning in a practical, hands-on way.
We start with a kickoff session on the core concepts, followed by a free Karibu.AI trial to experiment with your own teams. Fifteen days later, we host a Lunch and Learn, lunch delivered to your home or office, where we share what worked, techniques, and real use cases.

If you’re in L&D and want to join an upcoming cohort, use the link below to get an invite. And if someone in your network might benefit, I’d sincerely appreciate the share.

Open article: Start the New Year by adding Conversational Learning to your L&D Toolkit by karibuai.kit.com

Start the New Year by adding Conversational Learning to your L&D Toolkit

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