Dmitry Livshits and Davide Villa Give Interview to TechTrailblazers’ “Founders on Fire”

July 2, 2025

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Xinnor’s CEO and Co-Founder Dmitry Livshits and Chief Revenue Officer Davide Villa were featured on TechTrailblazers’ video series Founders on Fire, hosted by Rose Ross. The interview highlights Xinnor’s breakthrough RAID and erasure-coding solutions that deliver extreme performance and data resilience for AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and financial-trading workloads.

In the interview, Livshits reflected on Xinnor’s rapid progress since inception: “Xinnor was established in Israel a bit more than two years ago, but we did a lot in these first two years, so now the name speaks really well.”

Villa detailed the core mission driving Xinnor’s technology: “The main reason why Xinnor exists is to enable very fast access to data while protecting data from anything that could happen … we’re able to implement data protection without impacting performance or actually by enabling maximum possible performance.”

On the critical role of storage in AI deployments, Villa added: “What really makes the difference in term of cost is the GPU. So how can we help our customers in maximizing the utilization of the GPU? That’s where storage matters.”

Key discussion points in the episode include:

  • How traditional RAID schemes struggle with modern NVMe SSD parallelism, and Xinnor’s novel approach delivers both speed and resilience.
  • The importance of high-throughput storage for AI training pipelines, GPU loading, and checkpointing.
  • Adoption by advanced research institutions and financial-trading firms, where extreme I/O performance and uptime are mission-critical.
  • Collaboration with industry leaders—NVIDIA, Western Digital, Micron, Samsung, ARM—to integrate Xinnor’s engine into diverse hardware ecosystems.
  • Lessons on maintaining focus, prioritizing projects, and balancing bold innovation with realistic customer targeting.

Watch the full interview on YouTube: