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The Beginning of CVOYA

There’s a unique energy that comes with starting something new — a blend of excitement, uncertainty, and boundless creativity.

For me, that energy has taken the shape of a new company: CVOYA.

The name is inspired by “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage,” the documentary by Carl Sagan that deeply influenced me during my teenage years. In the first episode, Sagan — with his distinctive, awe-inspiring voice — says “We are about to begin a journey to the Cosmos,” as the ocean stretches behind him. “Cvoya” draws from that moment: the “c” evokes the sea, and “voya” the voyage — a tribute to exploration, discovery, the cosmos, and the vast unknowns that compel us to push boundaries.

Today, CVOYA, LLC is a reality. It marks the next step in my personal journey through AI-powered companions, technology, and innovation in service of humans. I formed the company to explore ideas around AI-powered assistance, combined with a memory system managed by AI agents — one that prioritizes provable privacy and trustworthiness.

The name “CVOYA” won’t be visible to end users 🙂 It’s simply the formal entity that will help me explore and productize the ideas and technologies I’ve been experimenting with over the last few months. It will also help me bring in partners/collaborators with whom I can pursue CVOYA’s vision.

Every founder talks about the “thrill” of starting up. But for me, the thrill is really about possibility — that moment when an idea stops living in your head and starts finding its place in the world.

And for everything that I build for the world, I aspire to adhere to the sentiment in Max Stossel‘s words:

So here we are.
The ship is built.
The compass is set.
The stars are above us.

And the voyage begins.

PS: Stay tuned for more about my partners, plans, progress, and more. Follow the company’s news at https://linkedin.com/company/cvoya and https://savas.me.

Savas Parastatidis

Savas Parastatidis works at Amazon as a Sr. Principal Engineer in Alexa AI'. Previously, he worked at Microsoft where he co-founded Cortana and led the effort as the team's architect. While at Microsoft, Savas also worked on distributed data storage and high-performance data processing technologies. He was involved in various e-Science projects while at Microsoft Research where he also investigated technologies related to knowledge representation & reasoning. Savas also worked on language understanding technologies at Facebook. Prior to joining Microsoft, Savas was a Principal Research Associate at Newcastle University where he undertook research in the areas of distributed, service-oriented computing and e-Science. He was also the Chief Software Architect at the North-East Regional e-Science Centre where he oversaw the architecture and the application of Web Services technologies for a number of large research projects. Savas worked as a Senior Software Engineer for Hewlett Packard where he co-lead the R&D effort for the industry's Web Service transactions service and protocol. You can find out more about Savas at https://savas.me/about

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