The founder · David Marin
A coach for the calls you handle yourself.
Sussur is built by David Marin for founders and early sales hires. It brings preparation, live coaching, and call review into a Mac app.

David Marin · Founder, CTO and owner of Basetool Labs SRL. Building Sussur full-time since 17 March 2026.
Constanța · Romania
Serial founder. Two YC interviews.
Co-founded Avo (open-source Rails admin, Y Combinator S21 interview) and Basetool (database admin tool, Y Combinator W22 interview) with brother Adrian Marin. Avo hit #2 Product of the Day on Product Hunt. Adrian continues Avo solo today.
Sussur is the third take. This time the product is on-device real-time sales coaching for the SMB and mid-market sales teams the enterprise tools price out.
Engineering background
Eight years across the YC ecosystem and at enterprise scale. Waydev (YC W21) as an early engineer for startup-velocity discipline. The Social Cat as lead dev on an influencer marketing platform. Amdocs on the Vodafone enterprise engagement. Deloitte Digital on the consultancy side.
BSc Computer Science, University of Twente (2019). Best Thesis Award in the Data Science track. Co-author of Effectiveness of neural language models for word prediction of textual mammography reports (Marin, Mocanu, Seifert), IEEE Xplore 2020.
Ironman finisher.
Building Sussur
Sussur shipped a working macOS app in three months of solo execution. Every layer: macOS audio capture, on-device speech-to-text via NVIDIA Parakeet TDT, the coaching loop against a cloud model provider, RAG pipeline, six-signal rapport algorithm, persona memory, post-call report.
Product updates links to the published app releases.
On stage · Gluon Conference
We put Sussur on stage and ran it live.
Pitched Sussur and ran a live, on-device demo at the Gluon Conference. The audio never left the Mac.
· Biometrics House · Bratislava

Watch the pitch on YouTubeThree named advisors
- Paul Burca
- Founder, Assista AI (CEE AI syndicate portfolio, Feb 2025)CEE AI fundraising, syndicate process, post-SAFE GTM
- Alex Circei
- Founder/CEO, Waydev (YC W21)Enterprise B2B GTM, YC ship cadence
- Adrian Marin
- Co-founder, Avo (avohq.io)Product and go-to-market (brother)



For investors
Talk to David.
Fifteen minutes is enough to know if Sussur fits your portfolio. Calendly is the fastest path; email is the fallback.







