Joel Tan
Co-Founder, CTO at Ownit
- Role
- Co-founder, CTO at Ownit Ai
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Joel Tan
I’m the co-founder, CTO of Ownit AI, a venture-backed tech startup founded by ex-Amazon, Walmart, and Anycart eCommerce veterans. Experience in building out product taxonomies, knowledge graphs, and ML powered search systems. Ownit AI develops custom fine-tuned AI models for retailers and brands. These models are used to deploy AI-powered search, category pages, product pages and SEO content to drive organic traffic. Our current customers include Albertsons, Ulta Beauty and Alibaba.com. Ownit’s flagship AI search is an enterprise-grade, embedded search experience for retailers similar to Amazon Rufus - trained exclusively with the retailer’s product catalog. Ownit is backed by leading VCs and is based in Palo Alto, CA
Experience
Co-founder, CTO
Jun 2021 — Present · Palo Alto, CA, US
Ownit AI, co-founded by 3 ex-Amazon, Walmart, and Anycart e-commerce veterans, develops shopping-specialized LLMs for retailers to answer shoppers’ questions and make product recommendations similar to Google AI Overviews and Amazon Rufus.Building advanced AI powered systems (LLMs, Knowledge Graph, NLU/NLP, custom workflow) for e-commerce. Our models are fine tuned for each retailer and purpose with support for open source models like Llama and commercial models from OpenAI, Google and others.
Education
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Systems
2002 — 2005
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