Eiso kant

poolside

The Research and Applied AI Summit (RAAIS) is a community for entrepreneurs and researchers who accelerate the science and applications of AI technology. In the run up to our 9th annual event on June 13th 2025 in London, we’re running a series of speaker profiles to shed more light on what you can expect to learn on the day!

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Eiso Kant is the co-founder and CTO of poolside, a frontier AI company focused on revolutionizing software development by building advanced AI models that assist and enhance coding efficiency. 

A seasoned innovator at the intersection of AI and software development, Eiso has spent over a decade transforming how engineers build and deploy technology as the founder and CEO of multiple companies. His entrepreneurial journey includes founding Athenian, which transformed engineering operations through data-driven insights, and source{d}, which broke new ground as the first to harness AI for code analysis. This experience would later shape his early ideas for technical and applied research at his current company, poolside.

As CTO of poolside, Eiso has conviction that the best route to AGI is through software development. He's helped raise $623 million in funding to accelerate the company's mission of transforming software development through AI.