Ep. 5/​27/​2025 - The Jiggy Jaguar Show Akli Adjaoute

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Akli Adjaoute is the founder of Exponion, a venture capital firm that provides cutting-edge startup companies with the financial resources and expertise they need to achieve success. Before Exponion, Adjaoute was the founder and CEO of Brighterion, which was acquired by Mastercard in 2017. Brighterion has received multiple awards, including the Innovation World Series Award, the Morgan Stanley Fintech Award, the Business Intelligence Group’s 2022 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award, the U.S. FinTech Award’s 2022 Banking Tech of the Year, the 2021 Business Transformation 150 and the 2020 Fortress Cyber Security Award for Threat Detection. Adjaoute holds 35 patents and has an additional 50 patents pending approval. His inventions have been cited over 2,000 times. He is a renowned academic, speaker and writer in the fields of AI and security. He served as an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco (USF) and as the Head of the AI department and Scientific Committee Chair at EPITA, one of Europe’s leading institutions for engineering and computer science education. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from the Université de Technologies de Compiègne and a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence from the University of Pierre & Marie Curie. For more information, please visit https://exponion.com/, or connect with Adjaoute on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/akli-adjaoute/).