Founders on Fire with Dmitry Livshits & Davide Villa, Xinnor

In this episode of Founders on Fire, host Rose Ross speaks with Dmitry Livshits, CEO and co-founder of Xinnor, and Davide Villa, Chief Revenue Officer, about their groundbreaking work in high-performance storage solutions. As winners of the Firestarter Award, Xinnor is revolutionizing data protection and storage performance, particularly in AI, HPC, and financial trading.Dmitry and Davide explain how traditional storage architectures struggle to keep up with the speed of modern SSDs and NVMe technology. Xinnor’s innovative RAID and erasure coding solutions enable extreme performance without compromising data resilience, making them a game-changer for industries that rely on fast, reliable access to massive datasets.The conversation dives into AI-driven workloads, the challenges of scaling storage for research institutions, and how Xinnor’s technology is helping universities, financial firms, and enterprises maximize their GPU utilization for AI training. Dmitry and Davide also share insights from their global partnerships with NVIDIA, Western Digital, Micron, and Samsung, and reflect on their startup journey, the challenges of focus, and the importance of strategic decision-making.Tune in now to hear how Xinnor is redefining storage performance for the AI era!