Inventing next generation
of customer care
Our Mission
“We have pioneered Generative AI technology to help businesses grow by giving them AI that breathes life into their brands. Palona will replace the shopping ‘doomscroll’ with a delightfully friendly and individualized experience that builds relationships,” said Maria Zhang, CEO and co-founder of Palona. “Building relationships with customers requires a precise mix of human skills that even the best salespeople train for years to achieve. We captured that skillset and turned it into models and actions our AI Agents can consistently perform.”
Who are we?
Maria Zhang
Former VP of Engineering at Google, VP/GM of the AI for Products group at Meta, and CTO of Tinder. Maria also founded Alike, acquired by Yahoo in 2013.
Steve Liu
Former Chief Scientist at Samsung AI Center and Tinder. Tenured professor at McGill University; Associate Academic Member at MILA; Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering; Fellow of the IEEE; Chair of ACM SIGBED. Steve authored/co-authored over 390 papers in top referenced computer science publications.
Tim Howes
Co-Inventor of LDAP, the internet directory protocol, Co-founder of LoudCloud and OpsWare, sold to HP in 2007 for $1.65B. Former CTO at both Netscape and HP Software. Rockmelt Co-Founder and CTO. Most recently he led Developer Productivity at Meta AI Infrastructure.
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