Sid Bendre

Co-Founder

Sid Bendre is the co-founder of Oleve, a company building a portfolio of iconic consumer software across multiple verticals. With a lean team, Oleve has already launched two virally successful consumer AI products that have amassed over 250 million views across social media platforms. One of their products reached #4 on the App Store's Education charts in 2024 and #5 in 2025, competing alongside giants like Photomath (Google) and Duolingo. Backed by Neo, Cal Henderson (co-founder of Slack), Russell Kaplan (President of Cognition), and Maria Zhang (ex-CTO of Tinder), Oleve is building the AI infrastructure to run a $1B portfolio of consumer software over the next decade. At Oleve, Sid leads technical and AI efforts, running the “Platform” team responsible for the underlying AI infrastructure that powers their lean scaling approach. Before Oleve, Sid led AI experimentation efforts at a startup hedge fund and worked at Slack, Zendesk, and Microsoft.

Sessions

Tiny Teams Talk
The New Lean Startup
Wed 4 Jun, 11:35 – 11:55·Yerba Buena Ballroom Salons 2-6: Tiny Teams
AI Architects Talk
Testing the Un-Testable: Monitoring AI Products in the Wild
Thu 5 Jun, 14:20 – 14:40·SOMA: AI Architects