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About Tanya Van Gastel

Hi,


I make and market things.

-> AI headshots at the Multiverse AI

-> Build community with Barcelona Startups

-> Leverage AI for mental health with Capybara Affirmations AI.


My products have been used by over 15,000 people.


I've lived in Taipei, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Düsseldorf, Antwerp and Tokyo. I'm mostly based in Barcelona these days.


Get in touch for collaborations, speaking events or more via LinkedIn (I'm fairly active there) or email.

Cheers,
Tanya

Projects

☝️ This is my AI headshot made with our product
☝️This is an AI headshot of me created with the Multiverse AI

Co-founder & CMO of The Multiverse AI, the go-to B2B AI headshot solution 📸

Our clients include Google, Walmart, McKinsey, Deloitte and more. We are at ~$30k/m. You can read more about how we did that here.


Co-founder & CMO of The Multiverse AI, the go-to B2B AI headshot solution 📸

Our clients include Google, Walmart, McKinsey, Deloitte and more. We are at ~$30k/m.

Created Barcelona Startups to enable Barcelona Startups to connect and forge critical partnerships by amplifying their visibility, and creating a directory of local startups.

Created Barcelona Startups to help startups forge critical partnerships and grow the Barcelona startup ecosystem.

Created mental well-being app Capybara Affirmations AI 🍊 Clinically-backed positivity, powered by AI. And capybaras.


There's a fun feature in Digital Trends about the app, which you can read here.

Created mental well-being app Capybara Affirmations AI 🍊


Clinically-backed positivity, powered by AI. And capybaras.


Capybara Affirmations AI has over 2000 users. You can read more about how Capybara Affirmations that here.

Events & Media

Media

Events

  • How is the sausage made? An AI startup addresses bias - Keynote at Beyond Boundaries, La Salle University, Barcelona (watch here)

  • Getting to +$100k revenue: Lessons from a bootstrapped startup - Keynote at DigiMarCon Spain, W Hotel Barcelona

  • How to bootstrap your startup? - Keynote at Startup Grind, Barcelona

  • How to build futureproof ai experiences - Keynote at the CX Al Summit, Athens, Greece

  • Unlocking ai business opportunities - Fireside Chat at the EU SME Center

  • Judge at Barcelona's first Al hackathon HackBCN



Books

I like to read. Here are some books I like.


Non-Fiction

  • An Economist Gets Lunch, Tyler Cowen

  • How Asia Works, Joe Studwell

  • Shadowplay, Tim Marshall

  • Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, Peter Pomerantsev

  • Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino

  • Moonwalking with Einstein, Joshua Foer

  • Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall


Fiction

  • Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien

  • The Topeka School, Ben Lerner

  • My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante

  • Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • Paper Menagerie, Ken Liu

  • Exhalations, Ted Chiang

  • House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski



I love getting recommendations too so feel free to drop DM me a rec on LinkedIn or Twitter.


Books

I like to read. Here are some books I like.


Non-Fiction

  • An Economist Gets Lunch, Tyler Cowen

  • How Asia Works, Joe Studwell

  • Shadowplay, Tim Marshall

  • Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, Peter Pomerantsev

  • Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino

  • Moonwalking with Einstein, Joshua Foer

  • Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall


Fiction

  • Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien

  • The Topeka School, Ben Lerner

  • My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante

  • Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • Paper Menagerie, Ken Liu

  • Exhalations, Ted Chiang

  • House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski



I love getting recommendations too so feel free to drop DM me a rec on LinkedIn or Twitter.


Bio

Tanya Van Gastel is co-founder & CMO of the Multiverse Al, the go-to B2B Al headshot solution. Clients include Google, Walmart, McKinsey, Deloitte and more.


Tanya has featured in Forbes, Wall Street Journal and BBC for her insights on Al and tech trends. With over a decade of experience in tech marketing, she previously worked at OnePlus, the EU Chamber of Commerce, and global venture capital firm Orbit Startups. She is a Forbes 20 Women in Tech and Authority Magazine's Woman Leading AI.


Tanya grew up in Antwerp, Belgium and has lived in Taipei, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Dusseldorf. She speaks English, Dutch, French, German, Chinese and is working on her Spanish.


Contact

Feel free to contact me for collaborations, speaking engagements on generative Al, inclusivity in tech and more via tanyavangastel@gmail.com


You can also follow me on

-> LinkedIn @ Tanya Van Gastel

-> Twitter @ twizzles7

-> YouTube @ twizzles7