Jacky Koh
Founder and Co-CEO at Relevance AI
Jacky Koh is co-founder and co-CEO of Relevance AI, an Australian platform that businesses use to build and run teams of AI agents. Miro reports that Canva, Databricks and Uber use it. Koh launched the company in 2020 with Daniel Vassilev, a high school friend, and Daniel Palmer, a university peer. Koh's background is in machine learning. Before Relevance AI, Koh and Vassilev built consumer apps including PokeWhere, which reached number one on the App Store; their apps drew seven million users combined. Relevance AI raised a US$24 million Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners in 2025. The three founders were named in Forbes Australia's 30 Under 30.
In their own words
From Jacky Koh (Relevance AI) on Building the AI Workforce and Why Most AI Agents Are Just Workflows · In The Blink Of AIDon't lock yourself into a specific provider. Model improvements are coming out on a monthly or bi-weekly basis, and the state of the art is changing rapidly.
Career
- Now Founder and Co-CEO · Relevance AI
- Earlier Head of Machine Learning · Insurance Australia Group (IAG)
- Earlier Data Scientist · EY
Sources: bvp.com
Key moments
Jump straight to the part of Pain is a Moat: How Australia’s Top AI Founders Are Building Global Giants you want.
- 2:25 SF vs Australia: The 6 to 9 Month AI Gap
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- 8:20 How Founders Use AI Agents Inside Their Companies
- 10:54 What Twilio for AI Agents Really Means
- 12:39 Making AI Agents Relatable for Everyday People
- 15:45 Culture, Ambition and the Australian Mindset
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- 22:18 The $100B Ambition Mindset
- 31:33 Why Hard Problems Create Real Moats
- 33:32 Inside Everlab’s Massive Seed Round
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