Mohammad Asfour — Founder & CEO, Val
Mohammad Yousef Asfour (محمد يوسف عصفور) is a software engineer and Founder & CEO of Val, building the live visual layer for AI agents. Based in New York.
He holds a Master of Engineering (MEng) in Computer Science from Cornell University (Cornell Tech, 2022–23) and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from NYU Tandon School of Engineering, graduating Cum Laude (2019–22).
Currently
Val (Founder & CEO, August 2026–Present) — Leading product, engineering, and customer development. Building an API for live, narrated, interactive visuals that AI agents use to explain, founded on gpt_markdown, our open-source renderer for streaming AI output. All three team members work full-time on Val. useval.io
Cornell Tech — Industry Advisor · Product Studio: Selected to advise graduate student teams on user research, product strategy, and prototyping.
Selected Work
- gpt_markdown — Co-author (December 2025–Present) of Val’s open-source Flutter renderer for streaming AI output, Markdown, and LaTeX. Over 170,000 downloads in October 2026. Helps power Buzz by Block.
- Plusfinity AI — Co-founder & CEO (2023–August 2026). Built an AI learning app that reached 500,000+ installs, 20M+ answers, $100,000+ in app revenue, and 100B+ tokens processed.
- Xloosv, UniTags & ConnectMed — Earlier ventures spanning a private NYU social network, campus events at Cornell Tech, and a patient connection project with Johnson & Johnson and Cornell.
Research
Harnessing LLMs to Simulate Realistic Human Targets for Social Engineering Attacks — Published in IJCIC, 2023.
2nd Place, Best Paper · White Hat Conference · Boston University
Recognition
- Google for Startups Accelerator — MENAT 2026 cohort (Plusfinity AI)
- OpenAI Black Award — October 2025
- First Generation Founders Fellowship — NYU Entrepreneurial Institute, 2021
Contact
Email: mo@useval.ai
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/moasfour
X: @MoAsfour_
GitHub: github.com/masfour7
Website: moasfour.com