our team

The Brains behind AGIGO

OUR TEAM

The industry-leading team in conversational AI

AGIGO was founded in February 2025, with 18 AI pioneers bringing decades of experience in advancing conversational AI and bringing it into real-world enterprise use. The team quickly grew to more than 30 experts across AI research, engineering, and business.

Our expertise spans the entire conversational AI stack, from speech recognition and language understanding to dialogue management, speech generation, LLMs, MLOps, and AI infrastructure. This breadth and depth of expertise enables us to develop every layer in-house and deliver a truly complete enterprise-grade platform.

Our team has successfully deployed conversational AI agents at large enterprise scale and has a track record that includes delivering some of the earliest conversational AI technologies to leading tech giants.

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Leadership team

Vijeta Avijeet

Co-founder & CTO

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25+ years pioneering & leading development of Conversational Al

Visionary R&D leader, co-founder, and globally recognized conversational AI scientist. For two decades, Vijeta has led and inspired the core AI experts working together across SVOX, Nuance, Telepathy Labs (co-founded), and now AGIGO, building multiple generations of conversational AI platforms and delivering, to date, the only successful large-scale enterprise deployments of autonomous AI agents capable of handling complete, open, multi-turn customer calls.

Erik Stricker

Co-founder & CEO

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25+ years building & scaling global tech ventures

Tech entrepreneur, co-founder, and CEO with extensive leadership experience building and scaling technology companies. Erik has led companies across conversational AI, enterprise software, telecom, and IoT, turning advanced technology into industry-leading businesses, from early R&D through productization, market entry, and international growth to global market leadership and successful company exits. He is recognised for building high-performance organisations, impactful strategic alliances, and trusted partnerships.