Ivan Braun

I'm a tech founder leading a team of 150 and serving 4M users. I live in a nice town with an ocean beach, pine forest, fiber internet, and top restaurants. What I miss is regular conversation with fellow tech entrepreneurs. I'm looking to find inspiring conversations, speak at conferences, and serve as an advisor for startups.

• Invited speaker, Horasis Global Meeting (São Paulo, Oct 2025).
• Voted Visitor's Choice at Visual 1st Conference.
• I'll be at Rio Innovation Week in August 2025. Message me if you want to meet.
• Available as an AI keynote speaker and artificial intelligence speaker for conferences worldwide. Open to new speaking invitations on AI, product development, and ethical data.

I consult governments on AI regulation, creative tools, intellectual property, and ethics. The agencies I've worked with:

European Commission

U.S. Department of Justice

UK Competition and Markets Authority

I'm a serial entrepreneur who launches bootstrapped products related to AI and design. My core experience is building AI products from zero, with no venture capital, and monetize them early. My three tools are:

Customer Development

What are the deep needs of our customers?

UX Design

Content, form, behavior.
My core profession.

Old Jacob Nielsen's books

Monetization strategy

Freemium, paywalls, limits.
Most heated topic.

• Founder of Icons8 and Generated Photos, delivering AI-generated images, datasets, and design tools used by 4M+ designers and developers.
• We supply large-scale resources and custom datasets to enterprise clients and are the largest graphics supplier to Canva.
• GenYOU – personalized AI selfies
• Face Generator – real-time faces
• Human Generator – full-body humans

As an investor and advisor, I offer my expertise in:

• Marketing: SEO, ProductHunt, press, mailing (some of my favorite books: expand). I'm bad at social media.
• AI bootstrapping: reduce spend, monetize early, reinvest profits.
• Hiring & management: from solo founder to 100+ person teams (books: expand).

• Low-tech – I own and operate a motorcycle and a tractor. I've also welded some of the tractor implements.


Riding a tractor is an underrated joy — and surprisingly extreme. In motocross, crashes happen in an instant. On a tractor, the horror of falling unfolds in slow motion, lasting minutes.

• Construction – I remodeled or built from scratch several houses. Especially, I enjoy applying new IT management to a millennia-old industry.


Recent build. Recent build. One of the successful innovations was having a QA engineer work on the bug log.

• Art – I visit art museums and art shows. My favorite ones are Tate Modern, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Biennale in Venice, and Art Basel.
• Classical music – Classical music – I'm a big fan of Mahler, the dude who made loud music for huge orchestras. Also, he wanted a bam! sound that past days instruments couldn't provide. We are looking for his perfect bam! sound until now.

Fluent: 🇦🇷 Spanish, 🇺🇸 English, 🇧🇷 Portuguese, 🇮🇹 Italian

Reader: 🇩🇪 German