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Jason Davis
I'm an entrepreneur and data scientist. I co-founded Simon AI (formerly Simon Data), the AI-first composable customer data platform, which was acquired in 2026.
Before Simon, I founded an ad platform for online retailers that Etsy acquired in 2009.
I hold a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin, where I worked on machine learning & large scale numerical methods.
I'm currently working on a new AI startup which I'll be sharing more about after we launch publicly.
News
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Monetate acquires Simon AI Business Wire
Monetate acquired Simon AI to pair its personalization and experimentation platform with Simon's AI-first composable CDP.
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Simon Data raises $54M Series D Business Wire
Led by Macquarie Capital with Polaris, .406 Ventures, and F-Prime, to build the fully-connected, warehouse-native CDP.
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Simon Data hauls in $30M Series C TechCrunch
Led by Polaris Partners with .406 Ventures and F-Prime Capital, bringing total funding to $59M.
Research
Overview & publications →Ph.D. work at UT Austin on metric learning, clustering, and statistical software analysis.
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Information-Theoretic Metric Learning
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2007 2,000+ citations
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Metric and Kernel Learning Using a Linear Transformation
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2012
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Differential Entropic Clustering of Multivariate Gaussians
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2006