Botty Dimanov

Botty Dimanov is the Co-founder and CEO of Tenyks, an artificial intelligence startup based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. He established the Y Combinator-backed machine learning operations platform following his doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge, where he earned a PhD in Explainable AI. During his academic tenure, Dimanov published seven research papers at top-tier artificial intelligence conferences and simultaneously founded four bootstrapped businesses. He also served as President of the Cambridge University Entrepreneurs Society, where he restructured the organization and increased its annual key performance indicators by 50 percent. In 2022, he led Tenyks through the Y Combinator Winter batch and subsequently secured a $3.4 million seed funding round to expand the company's data validation software. His career centers on bridging rigorous academic research in explainable artificial intelligence with early-stage venture building and machine learning infrastructure.