Susan MacTavish Best interviews Ali Kashani, CEO and co-founder of last mile robot delivery company Serve Robotics (NASDAQ: SERV). Musicians Queen Esther and friends perform live. About Ali Kashani: Dr. Ali Kashani is the co-founder and CEO of Serve Robotics, the maker of Level 4 autonomous sidewalk delivery robots that has received investments from Uber and NVIDIA. Founded in 2017 as the robotics division of Postmates, Serve has completed tens of thousands of deliveries for enterprise partners such as Uber Eats and 7-Eleven.
Ali is a serial founder with multiple exits, including smart-home hardware maker Neurio (sold to Generac) and Lox (sold to Postmates). Following Postmates acquisition of his venture, Ali launched Postmates X, the internal innovation unit that created Serve’s award-winning robot.
Ali received his Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of British Columbia in 2012. He is the recipient of Canada’s premier scholarship, the Alexander Graham Bell Fellowship, and has been awarded over 15 patents.
