Tonia SamsonovaFounder

United Kingdom - ND

Tonia Samsonova is a serial entrepreneur and founder of the AI platform for artists, Exactly.ai. Born in Russia, she became a well-known broadcast journalist, TV Anchor, and online editor before moving to London in 2013 as a foreign correspondent for the Echo of Moscow.
Building on her media career, Samsonova, aged 28, founded the Russian-language opinion platform The Question in 2014. Five years later, she sold it to Yandex, ‘the Russian version of Google.’
Driven by her lifelong passion for art, in 2022, Samsonova founded Exactly.ai, a platform that enables artists to easily train their own personalised AI model and scale their creative work while keeping ownership of every image created and the model that created it. She lives in London and has four children.