Great ideas often come from unexpected places. For Agemo founders Osman Ramadan and Aymeric Zhuo, the journey to building AI that could change the fundamentals of software development began in a Sudanese village and a family grocery store in French Guiana.
Their paths – through Cambridge, Microsoft, École Polytechnique, and TikTok – converged on a simple but powerful mission: making sophisticated software creation possible for anyone with an idea.
Meet the Agemo Founders
Aymeric Zhuo, Co-Founder & CEO
From Family Business to École Polytechnique
Aymeric Zhuo's story begins in French Guiana, where he grew up helping manage his Chinese immigrant parents' grocery store while maintaining academic excellence that placed him among the country's top students. This early exposure to entrepreneurship and dedication to excellence would become recurring themes throughout his career.
Scaling Gaming and Social Media Giants
After completing his Engineering and Applied Mathematics degrees at leading engineering schools including École Polytechnique in Paris, Aymeric joined Activision's media unit as a founding member working on all things data and analytics. There, he helped scale the business from zero to $350 million in revenue over four years, playing a crucial role in launching Call of Duty Mobile. At TikTok, he served as Senior Product Manager, where his work on creator monetization and algorithm optimization impacted hundreds of millions of users.
Osman Ramadan, Co-Founder & CTO
Early Breakthroughs in Sudan
Osman Ramadan's journey in technology began at age 11 in Sudan, where he built his first application - a matchmaking platform for his village. After ranking third among all students in Sudan, he emigrated to the UK to pursue his education at Cambridge University's Trinity College, where he combined Computer Engineering with Informational Neuroscience and earned the prestigious Senior Scholar distinction.
Leading AI at Microsoft
At Microsoft, Osman's four-year tenure transformed the company's machine learning initiatives. He led the federated learning initiative and spearheaded the Machine Learning and NLP Guild within Microsoft Mobile Experience, coordinating teams across London, Redmond, and Hyderabad. His work resulted in several widely-cited papers and patents in privacy-preserving machine learning and dialogue systems.
A Lab Experiment Gone Right
When Paths Align: The Lab Story
Aymeric and Osman's paths crossed at an applied AI Lab founded by early DeepMind employees. While developing an AI-powered Instagram Post Generator in December 2022, they discovered a broader opportunity: the potential to program language models to generate and orchestrate software architectures. Both were drawn by complex and ambitious problems and they could foresee how building a "text-to-app" system would open up a wide range of opportunities to empower non-developers to create software.
The Vision: Software Creation for Everyone
Their shared vision for making software creation available for the many led them to turn down positions at OpenAI and found Agemo. Their complementary backgrounds - Osman's expertise in research on language models and privacy-preserving AI, combined with Aymeric's track record in scaling products to hundreds of millions of users - and commitment to building a generational company uniquely position them to tackle the challenge of enabling billions of people to create software.
Dunia: Engineering Intelligence for Software
From a demo in the early days to an AlphaGo-like system for software reasoning, Dunia is the accumulation of months of research and development. Unlike traditional AI approaches that focus solely on code generation, Dunia reasons about software holistically - from system design to deployment - mirroring how experienced engineers approach and solve complex problems.
About Agemo
Backed by Fly Ventures and firstminute capital, along with notable angels including Olivier Pomel (CEO of Datadog), Jon Reynolds (Founder of Swiftkey) and senior researchers from Meta's Llama team, Agemo's vision is to empower anyone to create. If our mission resonates with you, get in touch or follow us (X and LinkedIn).