Essam Sleiman

I'm CEO & Founder of Canvas AI building the future of Sales backed by YC.

Back in high school, I built a gloves distribution business making 6 figures in revenue selling to local businesses through cold calling and ebay.

Later in college, I built AI systems at Twitch and AWS, co-founded Komma (sales automation), and started CodeLab, a student builder club (now 150+ members)

I'm based in SF and love to play backetball, grab coffee, and hike. Feel free to reach out, you can find me on Twitter.

Experience

Canvas AI (YC F24)Founder

Building Canvas AI backed by YC. The future of Sales.

HarvardResearch Intern

worked on LLMs and Vision Models. Over 100+ citations in top conferences like CVPR and ECCV. Check out my Google Scholar for more.

TwitchApplied Science Intern

Trained Twitch's first video foundation model. Developed a continual learning framework for unsupervised, online model training.

AWSML Eng Intern

Built ml platform for AWS IVS customers to deploy their ml models. Service in production

KommaCo-Founder/CTO

covid hit and all meetings went online. scheduling a time to meet for clubs and group projects was a pain so we built komma to automate it. realized sales reps had a similar problem so we sold to them.

CodeLabFounding President

noticed there wasn't a strong builder community here, so founded and led CodeLab, which has become the largest builder club at uc davis with now over 150 members. we build software for both students and tech companies like Snapchat and Reddit.

Gloves ODFounder

started a glove distribution business in high school to support my family, reaching 6 figures in annual revenue. sourced latex and nitrile gloves and sold to SMBs including mechanic shops, medical clinics, and dental offices. prospected using yellow pages, cold called, delivered products, and later expanded to selling on ebay.

Hi i'm Essam 👋

Experience

College