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

Dec 19, 2023

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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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