Kiara Nirghin is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Emanate, a San Francisco-based startup building the first AI growth engine for industrial companies.

As a Stanford AI Lab senior researcher and alum, former Stanford CS instructor, and Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI advisor, Kiara has pioneered the use of generative AI in the physical economy through research and real-world deployments. She is a Google Science Fair Grand Prize winner for seminal research in AI algorithms, a TIME Magazine Most Influential honoree, and named one of the top 100 entrepreneurs in AI.

Emanate is backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Peter Thiel and is on a mission to help the most important industrial materials companies in America experience exponential growth.