Vlad Gidea
AI & GTM Engineer | Ex-Founder & Venture Builder | Automating Revenue Teams with LLMs & Agents
Copenhagen OptimizationSoftware developer, designer, and former tech founder with 15+ years of experience across product, growth, VC and GTM. These days I'm using my broad skillset to drive AI adoption in organizations and automate tedious work.
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My main focus is enabling teams by building agentic solutions and experimenting with RAG pipelines in this new category of AI-enabled software companies. I'm leveraging my data science background, commercial experience and love for great design to explore better ways of working as a tool builder.
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- COPENHAGEN OPTIMIZATIONJOB
- GTM Eng10M
GTM Engineer
Copenhagen Optimization
AI enabled process automation in Growth & Marketing, Applied AI guidance to anyone who'd listen.
- PARTNERFULJOB
- Founder, CEO/CTO1Y 8M
Founder, CEO/CTO
Partnerful
Venture-backed Partner Relationship Management platform with built-in training & sales enablement features.
- NEXI GROUPJOB
- Head of PMM1Y 5M
Head of Product Marketing
Nexi Group
Led product marketing for Nexi Group’s online payment products across Europe, with responsibility for the Nordics and DACH markets.
- DIVE.FMJOB
- Founder, CEO/CPO1Y 8M
Founder, CEO/CPO
dive.fm
Bootstrapped an audio-based internal communication platform for distributed teams back when audio was cool.
- ITU BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT A/SJOB
- Investment Mgr3Y 9M
Investment Manager
ITU Business Development A/S
Invested in 12 early stage startups, bridging the gap between first check and first round (300%+ IRR)
- Incubator Mgr1Y 4M
Incubator Manager
ITU Business Development A/S
Started a startup incubator at my alma matter, growing a community of entrepreneurs and amazing companies.
- IT-UNIVERSITETET I KØBENHAVNSCHOOL
- M.Sc. Software Development2Y 11M
M.Sc. Software Development
IT-Universitetet i København
- Bachelor’s Degree, Global…3Y 11M
Bachelor’s Degree, Global Business Informatics
IT-Universitetet i København
- VARIOUS COMPANIESJOB
- Product Growth5Y
Product Growth
Various Companies
Built product with data-driven teams at Conferize, Gomore, Ernit
- COMPUTER SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL "GRIGORE MOISIL" IASI, ROMANIASCHOOL
- High School Diploma, Compu…4Y 11M
High School Diploma, Computer Science, Math
Computer Science High School "Grigore Moisil" Iasi, Romania
- Job: Copenhagen Optimization — GTM Engineer · 2025-10 – present · 10 mo — AI enabled process automation in Growth & Marketing, Applied AI guidance to anyone who'd listen.
- Job: Partnerful — Founder, CEO/CTO · 2023-09 – 2025-05 · 1y 8mo — Venture-backed Partner Relationship Management platform with built-in training & sales enablement features.
- Job: Nexi Group — Head of Product Marketing · 2022-05 – 2023-10 · 1y 5mo — Led product marketing for Nexi Group’s online payment products across Europe, with responsibility for the Nordics and DACH markets.
- Job: dive.fm — Founder, CEO/CPO · 2020-11 – 2022-07 · 1y 8mo — Bootstrapped an audio-based internal communication platform for distributed teams back when audio was cool.
- Job: ITU Business Development A/S — Investment Manager · 2018-01 – 2021-10 · 3y 9mo — Invested in 12 early stage startups, bridging the gap between first check and first round (300%+ IRR)
- Job: ITU Business Development A/S — Incubator Manager · 2016-08 – 2017-12 · 1y 4mo — Started a startup incubator at my alma matter, growing a community of entrepreneurs and amazing companies.
- Job: Various Companies — Product Growth · 2013-01 – 2018-01 · 5y — Built product with data-driven teams at Conferize, Gomore, Ernit
- School: IT-Universitetet i København — M.Sc. Software Development · 2017 – 2019
- School: IT-Universitetet i København — Bachelor’s Degree, Global Business Informatics · 2014 – 2017
- School: Computer Science High School "Grigore Moisil" Iasi, Romania — High School Diploma, Computer Science, Math · 2007 – 2011
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