Matt Frank

Contact

• LinkedIn
• Email: matthewifrank2 [at] gmail [dot] com

About

I lead strategy at Hirundo, a research lab based in Tel Aviv. We remove things from artificial intelligence models after they have been trained: unwanted behaviours, vulnerabilities, memorised data, and more.

Before that I played football professionally for Hapoel Tel Aviv, and before that I studied political science and computer science at Stanford. 

I read philosophy, mostly the old kind, and I am interested in what the long history of thinking about mind and creation has to say about the machines we are now building. I sometimes write about this.

Work

Since 2024 I have been Chief of Staff and Head of Strategy at Hirundo. We raised an $8 million, contracted revenue >$1m, and our work has been featured by Google DeepMind (Gemma 4), IBM (Granite 4.2) and NVIDIA (Nemotron). I've done some cool stuff, including leading:

• Go-to-market strategy and core partnerships, from sales calls and product demonstrations to technical writing for releases such as Hirundo in the Gemmaverse.
• Research direction, informed by customer feedback and market trends.
• Investor relations.
• Day-to-day operations: contracts, payroll, finance and hiring.
• Company media channels.

Projects

• More soon.

Writings

• Give Me One Minute, short essays on Substack.
• Hirundo in the Gemmaverse, a release write-up published by Google DeepMind.