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Alexei Chemenda

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Alexei Chemenda
CEO & Co-Founder of
Poolday (2011)
About

Alexei Chemenda is the Co-Founder and CEO of Poolday.ai, a San Francisco-based AI video platform that empowers apps, games, and e-commerce brands to produce fully edited UGC-style videos at scale using AI actors. He brings over a decade of deep expertise in martech, mobile advertising, and growth marketing to the company.

Before founding

Alexei holds a degree in Computer Science Engineering and co-founded MotionLead in 2013, which became the first French company accepted into Y Combinator (YC W14), later acquired by Adikteev where he served as CRO and Managing Director for the Americas.

Founder Insights

A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree (2019, Europe Media and Marketing) and one of France's Top 30 Most Active Business Angels in 2018, Alexei has invested in and advised over 200 startups including Checkr and Hugging Face.

Experience

Prior to Poolday.ai, Alexei also founded Skaalx, a mobile app publishing studio with 22 apps generating $6M in annual revenue, and built viral side projects including Uber Stats, which reached 1M+ users and 500K in its first four days.

Scale & Impact

Poolday.ai has raised $4.9M in Seed funding, grown to $1.4M ARR, and serves clients across global markets, helping marketing teams generate high-performing video ads for Meta, TikTok, and programmatic networks.

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Alexei Chemenda

Poolday
Co-Founder & CEO
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Alexei Chemenda

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Poolday

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SaaS

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About

Alexei Chemenda is the Co-Founder and CEO of Poolday.ai, a San Francisco-based AI video platform that empowers apps, games, and e-commerce brands to produce fully edited UGC-style videos at scale using AI actors. He brings over a decade of deep expertise in martech, mobile advertising, and growth marketing to the company.

Before founding

Alexei holds a degree in Computer Science Engineering and co-founded MotionLead in 2013, which became the first French company accepted into Y Combinator (YC W14), later acquired by Adikteev where he served as CRO and Managing Director for the Americas.

Founder Insights

A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree (2019, Europe Media and Marketing) and one of France's Top 30 Most Active Business Angels in 2018, Alexei has invested in and advised over 200 startups including Checkr and Hugging Face.

Experience

Prior to Poolday.ai, Alexei also founded Skaalx, a mobile app publishing studio with 22 apps generating $6M in annual revenue, and built viral side projects including Uber Stats, which reached 1M+ users and 500K in its first four days.

Scale & Impact

Poolday.ai has raised $4.9M in Seed funding, grown to $1.4M ARR, and serves clients across global markets, helping marketing teams generate high-performing video ads for Meta, TikTok, and programmatic networks.

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