Carson Kahn is a prolific entrepreneur and software engineer, famous for his mission to "give 1 billion people superpowers" by 2030. He is the co-founder of Spindle, a low-code Prescriptive Analytics startup backed by Accel Partners, and a former CEO and CTO at Volley AI, where he led the creation of natural language generation solutions that autonomously trained and enabled sales teams for health and financial firms, garnering millions in real labor cost savings annually. Carson is recognized as a Goldman Sachs 100 Entrepreneur for innovation and has been tapped for his expertise in Machine Learning, cybersecurity, and cross-border venture capital by various organizations, including the National Economic Council, the Congressional Caucus on AI, and the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, where he served as a Senior Advisor for Machine Learning in Counterintelligence.

Carson has served on boards of advisors for several institutions, including the School of Computer Science at the University of Colorado and the UCSC Center for Excellence in Data Science Research. He is a former mentor and angel investor at Techstars and currently invests as a Venture Partner with Thiel-backed VC firm SI Capital, the $100m Pandemic Impact Fund, and Transpire Ventures, focusing on DeepTech startups in ML/NLP, GTM, and product marketing. Carson is also an accomplished Black Belt in Karate and a jazz pianist who loves to compose tunes for his wife, Seda.