Building a listed tool
Irana Wasti
Chief Executive Officer, named behind the Lens (Thought Industries) listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Irana builds
Lens (Thought Industries) E · Company knowledge & data catalogues
Lens, from Thought Industries, indexes a company's website, help centre, files, Zendesk articles and Academy courses into one knowledge layer. It answers customer questions through a website widget, a remote MCP server, a REST API and answer-engine files.
Chief Executive Officer, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Barry Kelly Co-founder; CEO from 2013 until April 2024, then founder and board member
- Julien Denaes Chief Strategy Officer, also overseeing engineering
- Karishma Wadhwani Head of Product - AI & Monetization; Agentic Platform
- Sarah Phoenix Chief Product Officer
Backed by
Questions
Who is Irana Wasti?
Irana Wasti has been chief executive and a board member of Thought Industries since October 2025, and announced its Customer Knowledge AI Platform and Lens. She was earlier chief product officer at BILL and president of GoDaddy EMEA, where she led the company's expansion across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
What does Thought Industries, Inc. make?
Anchor Terminal lists Lens (Thought Industries) from Thought Industries, Inc.. Lens, from Thought Industries, indexes a company's website, help centre, files, Zendesk articles and Academy courses into one knowledge layer. It answers customer questions through a website widget, a remote MCP server, a REST API and answer-engine files.
Who has invested in Thought Industries, Inc.?
The sources our research read name Luminate Capital Partners.
How are Irana's tools graded?
Lens (Thought Industries) is graded E, 43.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (9)
- https://www.thoughtindustries.com/about-us/leadership-team/
- https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/thought-industries-launches-lens-and-unveils-customer-knowledge-ai-platform/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahptalis
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/karishmawadhwani
- https://www.thoughtindustries.com
- https://support.thoughtindustries.com/hc/en-us
- https://lens.thoughtindustries.com/
- https://support.thoughtindustries.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404061896343-Premium-Live-Chat
- https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/thought-industries-promotes-robin-wadsworth-to-ceo/
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