Engineering & research profile

Aliisa Rosenthal

Acrew Capital · 2026

Aliisa Rosenthal invests in AI enterprise software and works on AI commercialization. At World’s Fair 2026, she was a general partner at Acrew Capital. Before that, she was OpenAI’s first commercial hire and head of sales, and vice president of sales at WalkMe through its 2021 IPO. She also held early leadership roles at Mixpanel and InVision.

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AI Engineer World's Fair 202619:10

Reverse-Engineering the AI Buyer — Aliisa Rosenthal, Acrew Capital

Aliisa Rosenthal draws on her experience at OpenAI to explain how AI companies can reduce friction in enterprise sales. She recommends starting with self-service and automation, adding people at demonstrated bottlenecks, limiting resource-intensive pilots, and lowering barriers to adoption. In Q&A, she distinguishes these scaling practices from the…

Aliisa Rosenthal

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