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Cem Dilmegani

Cem Dilmegani

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Cem has been the principal analyst at AIMultiple since 2017.

Cem's work at AIMultiple has been cited by leading global publications including Business Insider, Forbes, Morning Brew, and Washington Post, global firms like Deloitte and HPE, NGOs like World Economic Forum, and supranational organizations like European Commission. [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]

Professional experience & achievements

Throughout his career, Cem served as a tech consultant, tech buyer and tech entrepreneur. He advised enterprises on their technology decisions at McKinsey & Company and Altman Solon for more than a decade. He also published a McKinsey report on digitalization.

He led technology strategy and procurement of a telco while reporting to the CEO. He has also led commercial growth of deep tech company Hypatos that reached a 7 digit annual recurring revenue and a 9 digit valuation from 0 within 2 years. Cem's work in Hypatos was covered by leading technology publications like TechCrunch and Business Insider. [6], [7]

Research interests

Cem's work focuses on enterprise AI and software.

Cem's hands-on enterprise software experience contributes to his work. Other AIMultiple industry analysts and the tech team support Cem in designing, running and evaluating benchmarks.

Education

He graduated as a computer engineer from Bogazici University in 2007. During his engineering degree, he studied machine learning at a time when it was commonly called "data mining" and most neural networks had a few hidden layers.

He holds an MBA degree from Columbia Business School in 2012.

Cem is fluent in English and Turkish. He is at an advanced level in German and beginner level in French.

External publications

Media, conference & other event presentations

Sources

  1. Why Microsoft, IBM, and Google Are Ramping up Efforts on AI Ethics, Business Insider.
  2. Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI to pursue artificial intelligence that’s smarter than we are, Washington Post.
  3. Empowering AI Leadership: AI C-Suite Toolkit, World Economic Forum.
  4. Science, Research and Innovation Performance of the EU, European Commission.
  5. EU’s €200 billion AI investment pushes cash into data centers, but chip market remains a challenge, IT Brew.
  6. Hypatos gets $11.8M for a deep learning approach to document processing, TechCrunch.
  7. We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck AI startup Hypatos used to raise $11 million, Business Insider.

Latest Articles from Cem

Agentic AI
Insight
Sep 1

Building AI Agents with Composable Patterns

We spent 3 days experimenting with workflows and agent pipelines in n8n, following Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s guides on building effective AI agents. Explore the core AI agent components, how to choose the right components and tools, in addition to building agent workflows based on Anthropic’s simple, composable patterns such as prompt chaining, routing, parallelization, orchestrator…

Cybersecurity
Open World Evaluation
Sep 1

Analysis of Top 4 Open Source NGFWs Based on Features

Teams using NGFWs, AI-driven security, and automation save ~$2M more than those using traditional tools. See open source NGFW as a cost-effective network security solution for comprehensive security: Table 1. Key features For details of key features of open source NGFW and their importance, check the ngfw features. Table 2. Market presence *Based on data…

Cybersecurity
Open World Evaluation
Sep 1

Compare 10 Open Source MFA Tools

We compared 10 free and open-source MFA tools across their authentication protocols, MFA methods, deployment options, and most recent releases. When starting your free and open source multi-factor authentication (MFA) implementation, consider: All tools (except LDAP) support hardware tokens (e.g., YubiKey) and the FIDO2 / WebAuthN passwordless authentication protocol. FIDO2 does not use shared secrets,…

Cybersecurity
Open World Evaluation
Sep 1

Top 40+ Network Security Audit Tools

Network security audit tools scan a network and report on its security. They flag threats, vulnerabilities, and missing patches, then alert administrators. These tools vary widely in function. Some handle patch management. Others fall into the categories below: These tools scan these assets for vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit. They create a detailed inventory of…

Cybersecurity
Open World Evaluation
Sep 1

Top 10 Open Source Micro Segmentation Tools

Traditional network segmentation doesn’t work for microservices. IP addresses and ports can’t protect API communications when services spin up and down dynamically across containers. Large enterprises running microservices architectures need different approach: identity-based segmentation that follows services wherever they run. CISOs look for open source micro segmentation tools that can: We ranked the top 10…

Cybersecurity
Insight
Sep 1

9 Real-life RBAC Examples

Role-based access control (RBAC) is the dominant access management model in enterprise IT. 94.7% of organizations have used RBAC at some point, and 86.6% still consider it their top access control model as of 2026.35 Yet most published material treats RBAC as a theoretical framework. We focused on what actually happened when real organizations deployed…

Cybersecurity
Feature Comparison
Sep 1

DAST Software Pricing Comparison: Burp Suite, Nessus & More

With over 20 DAST tools on the market, selecting the most suitable one can be challenging given their varying features and pricing options. We’ve compiled publicly available information on vendors’ pricing strategies, making it easy to get an overview and estimate the likely costs you may face. The following are important to consider when it…

Enterprise Software
Feature Comparison
Sep 1

Top 7 MOVEit Alternatives

We reviewed the leading alternatives to MOVEit in the secure file transfer market, looking at protocol support, verified product capabilities, and user reviews. * Ratings are based on Capterra, Gartner, and G2. The vendors are listed according to their reviews. ** The number of the workforce is gathered from the companies’ LinkedIn pages. For the…

Cybersecurity
Feature Comparison
Sep 1

Top 12 Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) Software

Endpoint privilege management (EPM) is the practice of removing standing local administrative rights from endpoint users and replacing them with temporary, policy-based elevation for specific applications and tasks. This approach addresses the ransomware and lateral-movement risks associated with over-privileged accounts. We summarize 12 endpoint privilege management solutions with features and pricing. Products are in alphabetical…

Enterprise Software
Open World Evaluation
Sep 1

Top 10+ Managed File Transfer Software Tested: See the Best One

We tested Files.com, Thru, Cerberus FTP Server, Serv-U MFT Server, Diplomat MFT, and bTrade TDXchange hands-on, working through setup, file transfer workflows, security configuration, automation, and administration. See the MFT benchmark methodology for our scoring criteria and how each score was calculated. * Providers with “-” have not provided us access yet. Feature coverage data…

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