Edwin Khodabakchian

Co-Founder & CEO Feedly

Last Reviewed: September 18, 2026

Executive Summary

Edwin Khodabakchian is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Feedly, which he started in 2007 and which became the principal home for RSS readers after Google shut down Google Reader in 2013. The company has since built something more durable than a feed reader: an AI layer that reads, filters, and summarizes large volumes of published material, commercialized most successfully as an enterprise cyber threat intelligence product. Khodabakchian arrived at it as an experienced enterprise software operator, having co-founded Collaxa and sold it to Oracle in 2004, then spent three years running product development for the Oracle SOA Suite as it grew from under $10 million to more than $150 million in revenue.

Career Highlights

• Co-founded Feedly in 2007 and has led it as CEO since.
• Positioned Feedly as the main destination for displaced Google Reader users when that service closed in 2013.
• Built Feedly for Threat Intelligence, an enterprise cyber threat intelligence product line.
• Leads development of what the company describes as the world’s first AI research assistant.
• Co-founded Collaxa and sold it to Oracle in June 2004.
• As Oracle VP of Product Development, grew the Oracle BPEL Process Manager and SOA Suite from 10 customers to over 2,000, and from under $10 million in 2004 revenue to more than $150 million in 2006.
• Former CTO of eCommerce at AOL and software architect at Netscape.

Professional Journey

Khodabakchian took a master’s degree in physics and computer science at CentraleSupélec in France and began his career as a lead developer at Accenture. He moved to Netscape as a software architect for roughly four years — placing him inside the company at the centre of the first browser era — and then to AOL as Chief Technology Officer for eCommerce.

He left to co-found Collaxa, which built business process orchestration software implementing BPEL, the standard for describing how enterprise systems coordinate multi-step processes across services. Oracle acquired the company in June 2004, and Khodabakchian stayed on as Vice President of Product Development, running what became the Oracle BPEL Process Manager and the broader Oracle SOA Suite. Over three years the product line went from 10 customers to more than 2,000 and from under $10 million in revenue in 2004 to over $150 million in 2006 — an integration outcome considerably better than the norm for acquired startups.

He founded Feedly in 2007, originally as DevHD, building a reader that organized the open web’s RSS output into something usable. The company’s defining moment came in 2013, when Google closed Google Reader, the service that had effectively been the infrastructure of RSS reading. Millions of users needed somewhere to go within weeks, and Feedly was the product best positioned to take them — a windfall that was also an operational test, since absorbing that influx meant scaling under load with no notice.

What Khodabakchian built on top of that base is the more interesting part. Feedly’s underlying capability is processing very large volumes of published text and surfacing what matters to a particular reader, and the market that values this most is not general news consumption but security research. Threat intelligence analysts must track vulnerability disclosures, exploit reports, vendor advisories, and attacker chatter across thousands of sources continuously, and missing something has consequences. Feedly for Threat Intelligence applies the company’s AI to exactly that, giving the business an enterprise revenue line distinct from consumer reading. The company has extended the approach further into what it describes as the world’s first AI research assistant.

Education

CentraleSupélec

Master’s degree, Physics and Computer Science