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Tasso Argyros
Founder of ActionIQ
New York, New York
Overview
Tasso Argyros is the Founder and CEO of ActionIQ, a prominent role where he leads the company's growth and strategic direction. With a background that includes serving as the Founder and CTO of Aster Data and holding senior positions at Teradata, Argyros has a proven track record of success in the technology and data services industry.
Argyros has made significant contributions to the tech industry, including founding successful companies, serving in leadership roles at major corporations, and investing in innovative startups such as Espresso AI and DataHero. His current position as CEO at ActionIQ showcases his expertise in driving business growth and innovation within the sector.
Work Experience
SVP, Head of Strategy
2025 - Current
Driving product strategy, positioning, and strategic partnerships for Uniphore's GenAI & Data product portfolio.
Uniphore provides conversational AI tools for speech recognition, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis.
Raised $620,875,000.00 from GoldenArc Capital, Employee Stock Option Fund, March Capital, New Enterprise Associates and BAM Elevate.
Founder & CEO
2015
[Merged with Uniphore in late 2024 resulting in a multi-billion dollar joint entity.] Pioneered the Customer Data Platform (CDP) category, a new market in the intersection of Data Infrastructure and Customer Experience software. Prior to its acquisition, ActionIQ was recognized as the overall market leader, including ranking as the #1 CDP vendor in Forrester’s inaugural CDP market report. ActionIQ earned the business of dozens of Fortune 500 customers such as Atlassian, Bloomberg, Dell, Hertz, HP, Morgan Stanley, News Corp, Verizon and many others.
ActionIQ is a purpose-built enterprise Customer Data Platform solving complex data problems: flow and scale, analytics, and orchestration.
Raised $144,700,000.00 from Balius Partners, March Capital, FirstMark, Bowery Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, March Capital, Sequoia Capital and FirstMark.
Founding Advisor
2023
Bespoke Labs is developing tools and algorithms for efficient post-training of LLMs. Founded by Berkeley AI Professor Alex Dimakis and Google Brain engineer Mahesh Sathiamoorthy.
Founding Advisor & Board Director
2018
Bayesian Health is a Johns Hopkins spinoff, founded by Prof. Suchi Saria, developing the next generation of AI diagnostics for inpatient (in-hospital) care.
Bayesian Health is an adaptive AI platform that offers health systems through clinical AI.
Raised $15,225,000.00 from Andreessen Horowitz, Health2047 Capital Partners, Lifeforce Capital and Catalio Capital Management.
Founding Advisor & Board Director
2015
Velos Rotors produces the leading mid-size electric UAV drone for mission-critical industrial, public safety and defense applications.
Velos Rotors offers and develops UAV, helicopters, and drones.
Raised $2,000,000.00 from Marathon Venture Capital.
Member of the Board of Directors
2015
Volunteer position helping to strengthen ties between government and tech companies in NYC and the tri-state area.
Board Director
2017 - 2022
Workspan is revolutionizing the way the technology ecosystem is collaborating. Members of the Workspan Ecosystem Cloud include Google, Microsoft, SAP, Accenture and others.
WorkSpan is the #1 ecosystem management network that empowers companies to turbocharge and scale their co-sell revenue growth.
Raised $66,000,000.00 from Insight Partners, Mayfield Fund, Milliways Ventures and M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund.
Co-President
2011 - 2014
Co-President of Teradata's Big Data products division. Directly managed product, marketing, demand generation & strategy for Teradata's Aster, Hadoop and 1XXX product lines. Helped align Aster's product roadmap, marketing & sales in Teradata's Americas, EMEA and ROW regions. Drove ~300% YoY revenue growth for the division in FY2013 (this information was publicly disclosed in Teradata's quarterly earnings call.)
Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.
Founder & CTO
2006 - 2011
Dropped out of Stanford CS PhD to pioneer a novel shared-nothing (MPP) distributed database architecture. Our massive-scale database was successfully deployed by some the largest banks, telcos and other enterprises across the world to help solve their biggest data challenges. Acquired by Teradata in 2011 for approximately $300M.