Rembrand CEO Omar Tawakol on Generative AI and Product Placement in Videos - Voicebot Podcast 332

Omar Tawakol is CEO and co-founder Rembrand, a company using
generative AI to automate product placement in online videos.
Earlier this year, he announced an $8 million seed funding round
and this month added several more strategic investors.


Rembrand represents a return to Tawakol's roots in advertising
technology and his graduate work in AI. He saw there was an
underutilized opportunity for product placement at scale that
could be delivered cost-effectively for online influencers. AI is
enabling the company to significantly expand the market.


Tawakol was my guest for Episode 61, in 2018. At the time, he was
CEO of Voicera, which later rebranded to Voicea and then was
acquired by Cisco 2019. Voicea was an early leader in the
automated meeting transcription space and pioneered novel
architectures that led to rapid increases in performance. Earlier
in his career, Tawakol was CEO of Blue Kai, the leading DMP for
enterprise marketers. The company was acquired by Oracle in 2016
and he then served as SVP of Oracle Data Cloud. He was formerly a
board director at PlaceIQ and is a board member for Liveramp.