Dialectica, Inc.

Debate technology

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Internet / Web Services
  • Location Berkeley, CA, US
  • Currency USD
  • Founded December 2014
  • Employees 2
  • Website dialectica.us

Company Summary

Dialectica is real-time collaborative flowchart chat, the first of its kind in the world.

Our mission is to improve the world of public debate by democratizing its debate data. Our debate flow app is based on a traditional and instantly recognizable style of note-taking, the debate flow.

We are currently at pre-seed stage and building a public debate flow for open debate, with premium services for paid users and organizations.

Team

  • Founder

    Joohn Choe is a debater, editor, copywriter, and technical evangelist who patented Dialectica's debate flow interface and data model. An Honors graduate from the University of California at Berkeley in Art History and Psychology, Joohn has over 15 years of experience in working on problems of content and communicative context with specific focus on video games and behavioral economics, game-based technical education and debate.

  • Contributor

    Jennifer Georgevich is a User Experience designer, award winning debater, and recent Cognitive Science graduate from the University of California at Berkeley. She is experienced in human subjects research and has contributed design work to multiple startups.

  • Jason Venner
    Chief Technical Officer

    Jason Venner is the Vice President and Chief Architect at Mirantis and serves as Dialectica’s architect and chief technical officer, tasked with stack design, management and implementation strategy. Jason’s experience includes field-leading work in Hadoop, cloud architecture, big data, search, automation, highly available systems, high-velocity-data flows, infrastructure-as-code and OpenStack.

  • Abhilasha Bhatia
    Contributor - Technical Co-founder

    Abhilasha is a Master's graduate in Computer Science. Highly experienced with QA and testing, Abhilasha is a published researcher in computational algorithms, with notable work including designing the sensors package for a satellite.

Advisors

  • Dmitri Mehlhorn
    Strategic advisor
    Unconfirmed
    Amy Choe-Stone
    Legal technology advisor
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • John Campos
    Funding co-founder
    Unconfirmed
    Jason Venner
    Co-founder, Dialectica, Vice-President & Chief Architect, Mirantis
    Unconfirmed

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