CEOInterviews.AI
Start App
Try: AI strategy tariffs earnings guidance layoffs interest rates growth

Iulian Circo

Cofounder, Hyfe

Search every verified Iulian Circo interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Iulian Circo, co-founder of Hyfe, an acoustic artificial intelligence company that detects and classifies coughs using phone microphones, discussed the company's applications and his background in two podcast appearances. In an April 2023 episode of the "Behind Company Lines" podcast, Circo described Hyfe's role in public health, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, noting that aggregated cough frequency data could be used to create heat maps and detect potential pathogen outbreaks in neighborhoods, campuses, or buildings. He also highlighted institutional opportunities for the technology, such as aiding patient outcomes, and mentioned that no new antitussive drug has been approved by the FDA since the late 1950s, suggesting that rigorous evidence standards have changed since then. In a December 2021 episode of the "Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast," Circo, who was born in Romania and lives in Austria, discussed his work on humanitarian missions in places like Somalia and East Timor, and his focus on using technology for social impact. He stated that access to diagnostics is a major barrier to healthcare worldwide, citing pneumonia as a preventable and treatable cause of mortality in children under five, and argued that artificial intelligence could serve as a diagnostic tool, particularly through sound analysis, which he said had not been previously explored in medicine. He also criticized the healthcare user experience, comparing it to a "terrible product" due to long wait times and repetitive administrative processes.

Recent appearances

  • Episode 254: Iulian Circo, Co-founder of Hyfe | Host: Julian Torres

    April 26, 2023 · 📺 Behind Company Lines

    Iulian Circo is a serial entrepreneur and recovering humanitarian operating at the frontiers of technology and impact. His latest venture (Hyfe) is the world’s most sophisticated acoustic AI, used daily by researchers, medical professionals as well as thousands of regular people all over the world. Over the years, Iulian has been part of action-packed operations in some of the world’s most challenging environments. These included dozens of humanitarian missions as well as things like supporting transition during peace-keeping operations in East Timor or DR Congo, leading the operations of a U…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • Discussion with Social Entrepreneur & Co-founder of Hyfe - Iulian Circo

    February 02, 2022 · 📺 Jodi Grinwald - Today is the Day Changemakers

    Welcome to season 2, episode 5 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast. Doing Good in the World is Good for Business! This week my guest is Iulian Circo, Co-Founder of Hyfe, an acoustic Artificial Intelligence cough detector. He is a serial entrepreneur and recovering humanitarian operating at the frontier of technology and impact. Visit https://www.hyfeapp.com/ for more information. Born in Romania and now living in Austria, Julian has had an incredibly interesting journey and cares deeply about human rights, human rights, protection, the environment, and the advancement of technolog…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

The summary and quote tags on this profile are produced with AI assistance from verified, first-person interview transcripts, then checked by our team to confirm the speaker's identity and the accuracy of every quote. See how we verify →