Company

We are teaching
AI what
humans love.

Tastry is an interdisciplinary team of chemists, machine-learning researchers, and consumer scientists. We are building the infrastructure layer for predictive product development. One category at a time, starting with the chemistry that nobody else has captured.

Mission

We are teaching AI what humans love, so the world can make products that are tastier, healthier, and built for the people who want them.

For a century the consumer industry has launched products and waited for the market to tell it whether the launch was right. Tastry answers that question before the launch, from the molecule up. Product development becomes predictive, not reactive, so brands can reformulate out the sugar and the additives nobody wants, and put the products people will actually love on the shelf.

The opportunity

Beverage is the wedge.
The rest of CPG is next.

Beauty, personal care, fragrance, nutraceuticals, and every other product on the shelf follow. Tastry sits where consumer packaged goods, predictive AI, and analytical chemistry meet, and the category we are ultimately building into is every CPG product made.

Leadership

The team behind
the model.

Chemistry. Machine learning. Enterprise software. Consumer behavior. The disciplines this required don't usually share a building.

Katerina Axelsson
CEO & Founder

Katerina Axelsson

Chemist turned inventor. International patent holder on the chemistry-to-preference method.

Charles Slocum
Chief Business Officer

Charles Slocum

25 years of enterprise business experience. Three-time founder. Runs commercial strategy and enterprise expansion.

Jeff Campbell
VP of Growth

Jeff Campbell

Former CCO at Sales Predict (acquired by eBay), CRO at Get Satisfaction (acquired by Sprinklr), VP Global Sales at SugarCRM (acquired by Accel-KKR).

Alex Dekhtyar
VP of AI & ML

Alex Dekhtyar

PhD in Computer Science. 18 publications. Co-inventor on the core patent. Leads the ML research and modeling team.

Open roles

We're hiring.

Chemistry, ML, enterprise GTM, and customer engineering. If you're great at one of these, send a note.

careers@tastry.com
SLOHeadquartered · California Central Coast
4  Patents issued (US, China, Japan, Canada)
The bigger picture

We're not building a tool. We're building
the infrastructure layer
for predictive product development.

Get in touch

Tell us
what you're
building.

R&D lead, brand owner, retailer, supply-chain operator, investor, future colleague. Whatever brings you here, a real person on the team will read it and write back.

Direct

hello@tastry.com

Office

3485 Sacramento Dr, Ste D
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401

Real responses, usually within two business days.