S2E38: "PrivacyGPT: Bringing an AI Privacy Startup to Market" with Nabanita De (Privacy License)

My guest this week is Nabanita De, Software Engineer, Serial Entrepreneur, and Founder & CEO at Privacy License where she's on a mission to transform the AI landscape. In this episode, we discuss Nabanita's transition from Engineering Manager at Remitly to startup founder; what she's learned from her experience at Antler's accelerator program, her first product to market: PrivacyGPT and her work to educate Privacy Champions. 

Topics Covered:

• Nabanita’s origin story, from conducting AI research at Microsoft as an intern all the way to founding Privacy License
• How Privacy License supports enterprises entering the global market while protecting privacy as a human right
• A comparison between Nabanita's experience as a corporate role as Privacy Engineering Manager at Remitly versus her entrepreneurial role as Founder-in-Residence at Antler
• How PrivacyGPT, a Chrome browser plugin, empowers people to use ChatGPT with added privacy protections and without compromising data privacy standards by redacting sensitive and personal data before sending to ChatGPT
• NLP techniques that Nabanita leveraged to build out PrivacyGPT, including: 'regular expressions,' 'parts of speech tagging,' & 'name entity recognition'
• How PrivacyGPT can be used to protect privacy across nearly all languages, even where a user has no Internet connection
• How to use Product Hunt to gain visibility around a newly-launched product; and whether it's easier to raise a financial round in the AI space right now
• Nabanita’s advice for software engineers who might found a privacy or AI startup in the near future
• Why Nabanita created a Privacy Champions Program; and how it provides (non)-privacy folks with recommendations to prioritize privacy within their organizations
• How to sign up for PrivacyGPT’s paid pilot app, connect with Nabanita to collaborate, or subscribe to "Nabanita's Moonshots Newsletter" on LinkedIn

Resources Mentioned:

• Check out Privacy License
• Learn more about PrivacyGPT
• Install the PrivacyGPT Chrome Extension
• Learn about Data Privacy Week 2024

Guest Info:

• Connect with Nabanita on LinkedIn
• Subscribe to the Nabanita's Moonshots Newsletter
• Learn more about The Nabinita De Foundation 
• Learn more about Covid Help for India
• Learn more about Project FiB

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