About Us

Our mission is to accelerate the transition to an AI-First World that benefits everyone.

Our History

InstaDeep, founded in 2014, is a pioneering AI company at the forefront of innovation. With strategic offices in major cities worldwide, including London, Paris, Berlin, Tunis, Lagos, Cape Town, Boston, and San Francisco, InstaDeep collaborates with giants like Google DeepMind and prestigious educational institutions like MIT, Stanford, Oxford, UCL, and Imperial College London. We are a Google Cloud Partner and a select NVIDIA Elite Service Delivery Partner. We have been listed among notable players in AI, fast-growing companies, and Europe’s 1000 fastest-growing companies in 2022 by Statista and the Financial Times. Our recent acquisition by BioNTech has further solidified our commitment to leading the industry.

Highlights

2014

Apr

InstaDeep Founded

2017

Mar

Named Top 20 Intriguing Global Startups to Watch by PCMag

Jul

Partnered with Intel’s AI Builders Program

Aug

Joined NVIDIA’s Inception Program

2018

Sep

Opened Office in Paris

2019

Apr

Opened Office in Lagos

Jun

First AI Collaboration with DeepMind

2020

Jan

Opened Office in Cape Town

Feb

Opened Office in Dubai

Mar

Nominated in CBInsights’ Top 100 Most Innovative AI Startups 2020

Nov

BioNTech and InstaDeep Announce Strategic Collaboration and Form AI Innovation Lab to Develop Novel Immunotherapies

2021

Apr

Nominated in CBInsights’ Top 100 Most Innovative AI Startups 2021

Apr

InstaDeep Promoted to NVIDIA Elite Service Delivery Partner

Nov

InstaDeep and AI Hub announce collaboration to benefit Tunisian AI ecosystem

Dec

InstaDeep Raises $100M Series B

2022

Jan

BioNTech and InstaDeep develop and successfully test SARS-CoV-2 Early Warning System

Feb

InstaDeep Co-Founders speak at Harvard Business School

Mar

InstaDeep given access to NVIDIA Cambridge-1 supercomputer

May

Opened office in Cambridge, MA

May

Opened office in San Francisco, CA

May

Nominated In CB Insights’ Top 100 Most Innovative AI Startups 2022 third year running

Aug

Joins Google Cloud Partner Advantage programme

Aug

Hosts Deep Learning Indaba Tunisia

Sep

Hosts MENA’s biggest ever AI Hack

2023

Jan

BioNTech announces acquisition of InstaDeep

Jul

BioNTech Completes Acquisition of InstaDeep

Sep

First ever Tunisian woman author accepted at Neurips

Oct

Opened office in Kigali, Rwanda

Nov

InstaDeep invited to UK Government Global AI Safety Summit

Dec

Record 13 papers presented at Neurips

2024

Jan

InstaDeep CEO named as Time 100 Impact Award recipient

Feb

Cape to Carthage AI documentary released

Partners

The company is an Elite-level service provider within the NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN). InstaDeep is one of only a handful of companies in the EMEA region to earn this designation. It is also a certified Service and Build partner in the Google Cloud Partner Advantage programme.

Academic Partners

Thanks to its mentoring programs and ecosystem initiatives, InstaDeep provides opportunities for promising young talent, and hires elite researchers and engineers from across the African continent and Europe. InstaDeep has developed strong ties and research collaborations with leading universities in France, the UK and the US.

Our Values

Integrity

We work with integrity in everything we do, and embody our principles when working with customers, suppliers and colleagues. We don’t deal in politics, hidden agendas or passive-aggressive behaviour.

Diversity

We welcome people with different ideas, strengths, interests, and cultural or ethnic backgrounds and firmly believe they make our company better. We encourage healthy debate and differences of opinion.

Fairness

We treat our colleagues and customers with a standard of performance that is morally right and fair. We make decisions in a equitable way based on appropriate criteria.

Respect

We treat people with respect in all dealings, and show respect for their talent, time and opinions. When we disagree, we respectfully and constructively speak our minds, but ultimately work as a team to implement the final decision.

Teamwork

We work together to ensure our individual expertise and skills make InstaDeep the best company it can be. We recognise that we are stronger together as a team.

Innovation

We continuously strive for a culture of innovation and improvement. We value growth and vision, and always challenge the status quo in order to deliver for our customers.

Our Offices

We have offices across the world, spanning Europe, Africa, the Americas and the Middle East.

InstaDeepers

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Leadership Team

Karim Beguir

Co-Founder and CEO

Karim is InstaDeep’s Chief Executive Officer. He helps companies get to grips with the latest AI breakthroughs and deploy these in order to improve efficiency and ROI. As a graduate of France's Ecole Polytechnique and former Program Fellow at NYU's Courant Institute, Karim has a passion for teaching and using applied mathematics. He is also a mentor at Google for Startups Accelerator and is a steering committee member of Deep Learning Indaba. Karim is on a mission to democratise AI and make it accessible to a wide audience.

Zohra Slim

Co-Founder and CWO

Zohra is InstaDeep’s Chief Web Officer. She is completely self-taught with in-depth knowledge of software and system integrations. In addition, she possesses a unique drive which, combined with her second-to-none people management skills, ensures projects are delivered to excellence and on time. After leading a team of developers in India, Zohra co-founded InstaDeep.

Isabelle Levard

CFOO

Isabelle is the Chief Financial & Operations Officer at InstaDeep, based out of our Paris office. Prior to joining, Isabelle was the Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Baobab. She also has strong knowledge and experience of Business Planning, Banking, Credit Risk, Private Equity, and Financial Modelling following various roles previously. Isabelle has a finance degree from Université Paris Dauphine.

Amine Kerkeni

Head of Engineering

Amine is leading the Engineering team at InstaDeep. He joined the company in 2017 after a career in software development where he lead engineering teams in various industries (semiconductor, consumer electronics, investment banking). Initially, Amine started Deep Learning and AI as a hobby, but ended up dropping everything to pursue his goal of deploying artificial intelligence to solve real life problems. He is driven by the ambition of replacing classic operational research techniques with AI.

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