Matt Miesnieks
CEO of Dejavu
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
CEO
2025 - Current
Building an applied AI lab crafting JEPA agents for computer vision developers
CEO
2024 - 2024
Cinematic quality immersive rendering. Wound down after a death in my cofounders family.
CEO
2021 - 2023
Overly ambitious attempt to build a consumer metaverse product that blended the real world with a digital twin, powered by 3D computer vision & 3D Generative AI. Amazing team, amazing ideas (which I'm certain will prove to be correct), but way too early & unfundable once the metaverse hype evaporated & before the GenAI mania took off.
Advisor
2020 - 2020
Helping figure out the future of AR
Niantic develops reality platforms that focus on mapping and security for current and future AR hardware generations.
Raised $770,000,000.00 from ID8 Investments, Pure Imagination Brands and Coatue.
CEO
2017 - 2020
Applied frontier AI to computer vision, to crowdsource via smartphones a machine readable 3D map of the world. The tech now sits at the center of Niantic Spatial's Global World Model and powers 10+m Pokemon Go players, and 400+m Snap clients.
6D.ai develops application programming interfaces (APIs) for the Augmented Reality (AR) Cloud.
Raised $4,499,999.00 from Ahren Innovation Capital.
Partner
2016 - 2020
Early Stage Investor in AR, VR and Wearable startups. Giving people Super Powers
Early-stage fund dedicated to augmented reality
Director Product Development
2014 - 2015
VR/AR R&D
CEO & co-founder
2010 - 2015
Dekko created the first Mixed Reality platform for IOS. 3D Computer Vision, SLAM, Real-Time 3D Reconstruction, Innovative Augmented Reality UX and applications.
Dekko develops 3D mapping and augmented reality (AR) engines that allow apps and users to interact with their real world surroundings.
Raised $5,100,000.00 from MicroVentures, Eniac Ventures, Echo Ventures, Raymond Tonsing, EchoVC Partners, Grace Beauty Capital, Thomvest Ventures, LaunchCapital, Blumberg Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners.
Worldwide Head of Customer Development
2009 - 2010
Layar was the first Mobile Consumer Augmented Reality company
Vice President & Managing Director, Asia Pacific
2007 - 2008
Sylantro Systems provides software for service providers that deliver hosted VoIP applications.
Raised $85,500,000.00 from Rembrandt Venture Partners.
Education
BCsci
1989 - 1992