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Leo
POLOVETS
General Partner, Humba Ventures
Notable Investments
Mashgin, Scalyr, People Data Labs, Veho (angel), Placer (angel)
About
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Leo manages Humba Ventures, an early stage fund focused on deep tech companies, and on critical sectors like defense and manufacturing. Humba Ventures writes $500k checks at pre-seed and seed.
Leo previously co-founded Susa Ventures (seed investor in Robinhood and Flexport) and was the 2nd engineering hire at LinkedIn. He studied computer science at Caltech.
Chris
Sacca
Founder, Lowercase Capital & Lowercarbon Capital
Notable Investments
Twitter, Uber, Instagram, Twilio, Stripe, Kickstarter
About
An accomplished venture investor, company advisor, and entrepreneur, Chris manages a portfolio of over seventy technology and consumer startups through Lowercase Capital, as well as countless dozens more at his firm Lowercarbon Capital.
Primarily known for its investments in early stage technology companies like Twitter, Uber, Instagram, Twilio, Stripe, and Kickstarter, Chris and his wife and venture partner, Crystal English Sacca, have grown Lowercase into one of the most successful funds ever.
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Ariana
Thacker
Founding Partner, Conscience VC
Notable Investments
Machina Labs, Loyal, Tiny Health, Revela, Humane Genomics, Jona, Integrated Bio
About
Ariana Thacker is the Founding Partner of Conscience VC, an early-stage firm investing in science-led companies empowering humanity.
Ariana has an extensive background in early-stage and deep tech investing. She is a chemical engineer with technical operating experience spanning Fortune 500 companies to formation-stage start-ups and academic spin-outs.
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Gaurab
CHAKRABARTI
CEO, Solugen
About
Gaurab is the co-founder and CEO of Solugen. As a physician-scientist, Gaurab took an oath to first do no harm—and for him, that goes beyond patients or medicine. So in 2016, he started Solugen to decarbonize the chemicals industry, one of the most damaging for people and the Earth. Gaurab believes in using biology in unconventional ways to solve incredibly complex problems and is building a world-class team to join him on the journey.
Gaurab studied computational neuroscience as an undergraduate at Brown University and received his MD & PhD in cancer biology and enzymology at the University of Texas. He is an author or co-author on more than 20 peer-reviewed publications and patents, and he is a Forbes 30 Under 30 in Industry and Manufacturing.
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John
Gedmark
CEO & Cofounder, Astranis
Notable Investments
Varda, Hadrian, Lightcell Energy
About
John Gedmark is CEO & Cofounder of Astranis and an aerospace engineer. Astranis builds and operates small, low-cost telecommunications satellites for high orbits, starting with geostationary orbit (GEO). Astranis is deploying satellites on contract for enterprise and government customers around the world, bringing low-cost broadband internet to remote and underserved areas. The company has raised over $500 million to date with rounds led by Andreessen Horowitz, Venrock, and Blackrock, and has a team of 300 based out of their San Francisco Bay Area headquarters.
John cofounded and served as Executive Director of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, the industry association for new space companies including SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic. John reported to a CEO-level board of directors and led the commercial space industry's efforts to privatize flights of NASA astronauts to low Earth orbit, a historic shift worth more than $10 billion to the commercial space industry.
Previously John served as the Director of Rocket Flight Operations for the X Prize Foundation. John holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue University and a Master of Science degree from Stanford University, both in aerospace engineering, with a focus on rocket propulsion.
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Ali
Tamaseb
General Partner, DCVC
Notable Investments
Rocket Lab, Fervo Energy, Oklo, Agility Robotics, Amogy, Desktop Metal, Evolv, MosaicML, CH4, Reality Defender, Twelve, Quilt, Pano
About
Ali Tamaseb is a General Partner at DCVC, Deep-Tech only VC fund with over $3.5 billion invested in founders solving trillion-dollar problems with complex engineering and science. For over 10 years, DCVC has invested in industries such as biotech (Abcellera, Recursion Pharma), defense (Fortem, Primer, Capella Space), robotics (Agility Robotics, Fulfil), agriculture (Pivot, Blue River), space (Rocket Lab, Planet), climate (Twelve, Fervo), energy (Oklo, Zap), as well as many other foundational technologies. The investments Tamaseb has made has generated an enterprise value of over $10 billion and the companies he sits on as a board director employ over 4,000 people.
Tamaseb has 7 publications, consisting of two books and five academic papers on ML/AI, holds several patents, and has won medals in national and international Physics and Computing Olympiads. Ali’s latest book “Super Founders: What Data Reveals about Billion-Dollar Startups” became the #1 bestselling Venture Capital and Startup book, is published in over 50 countries and is being translated into over 10 languages.
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Ela
MADEJ
Founding Partner, Fifty Years
Notable Investments
Aalo, Brave Care, Cover, Substack, Solugen, Varda
About
Ela started her first company, Applicake, at the age of 21. It was a Ruby on Rails, and later iOS/Android development shop based in Kraków, Poland. Ela later co-founded Base (acquired by Zendesk) and organized large events for software developers in Europe.
She went through Y Combinator in the summer of 2012 and, soon after, permanently moved to the U.S. in 2014. While living in NYC, she became a Partner at a Polish VC fund, Innovation Nest.
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Packy
McCormick
General Partner, Not Boring Capital
Notable Investments
Pipedream, Atomic AI, Varda, Hadrian, General Fabrication, Digital Biology
About
Bio: Packy writes the Not Boring newsletter and invests at Not Boring Capital, an early stage fund that backs hard startups and helps them tell their stories. Prior to Not Boring, Packy worked at a real estate startup, Breather.
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Seth
Bannon
Founding Partner, 50 Years
Notable Investments
Aalo, Brave Care, Cover, Substack, Solugen, Varda
About
Seth has seeded a range of startups shaping the world for the better — companies like Upside Foods (culturing meat to eat), Solugen (engineering enzymes to produce industrial chemicals sustainably), and Astranis (small satellites to cover the Earth in Internet).
Seth is also the co-founder of Impact.Tech, a community of entrepreneurs combining purpose with profit, and was previously the founder & CEO of startup Amicus. A graduate of Y Combinator, Seth was named twice to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Social Entrepreneurship.
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Julian
Shapiro
Managing Partner, Julian Capital
Notable Investments
Ramp, Republic, Mercury, Yassir, and ClassDojo
About
Julian was the VP of Marketing for Webflow ($4B+ valuation). He then ran growth for Heap Analytics ($960M+ valuation), and helped grow Clearbit (now acquired by HubSpot). He later founded Demand Curve (YC 19) to help tens of thousands of startups grow (including Imperfect Foods, Tovala, Outschool and others).
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Joe Wilson
Managing Partner, Undeterred Capital
Notable Investments
Curative, Parallel Bio, AstroForge, AOA, Shinkei
About
Joe Wilson is the Founder and Managing Partner of Undeterred Capital, an early stage venture firm investing exclusively in deep tech and bioscience companies at the pre-seed and seed stages. Joe has worked as a deep tech operator for over a decade and was previously the co-founder and COO of Multiply Labs, a pharmaceutical robotics company that was spun out of MIT in 2016 and that has raised over $25M to date.
Undeterred has a portfolio of 17 companies collectively valued at over $1 billion. Investments to date include AI for drug discovery and formulation, gas fermentation for carbon-negative food production, advanced robotic systems for fish processing, and diagnostics for early detection of ovarian cancer, among others.
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Victor
Wang
Partner, HOF Capital
Notable Investments
OpenAI, Extropic, Neuralink, Metagenomi, BillionToOne
About
Victor Wang is a Partner at HOF Capital, where he leads the firm’s early-stage investments in AI, next-gen computing, & biotech startups. He is excited about partnering with visionary founders who are building category-defining companies that will accelerate the evolution of human biology, technology, & civilization.
Prior to joining HOF Capital, Victor served as a tech investment banker and startup advisor, helping VC-backed tech startups raise funding and achieve successful exits. Before that, he worked in business management and operations, leading a team of 150+ employees generating $30M+ of annual revenue.
Earlier in his career, Victor conducted genomic research at Stanford University and earned a Bachelor's Degree in Molecular & Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Rayyan
ISLAM
General Partner, 8090 Industries
Notable Investments
EquipmentShare, Astranis, Oklo, Circ, Cemvita, Quaise, Regent, Infinium, Living Carbon, Maple Materials
About
Rayyan is the Co-founder and General Partner of 8090 Industries, a VC firm backed by global energy and industrial titans, focused on breakthrough science, decarbonization and national security. The companies Rayyan has invested in have grown to $8B+ in private market value and employ 5,000+ people across the US -  including groundbreaking companies like EquipmentShare, Astranis, Infinium, Quaise, Regent, Living Carbon and Liberation Labs. Rayyan serves on the Boards of Oklo, Cemvita, Circ, Maple Materials and is a Co-founder of Gold Hydrogen, a producer of abundant clean hydrogen from microbes and old oil wells for less than $1/kg.
Rayyan was recognized by Business Insider as one of the top 100 early-stage investors of 2023 and amongst “the most powerful seed stage climate tech VCs” by Fortune Magazine. Every Sunday, Rayyan publishes Decarbon Weekly - providing energy transition insights to C-Suite execs, entrepreneurs and government leaders. Outside of 8090 Industries, Rayyan helps commercialize frontier science at Loomis Labs, advises the Earth BioGenome Project and helps equip the US defense apparatus with new capabilities and technologies.
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Shelley
Zhuang
Managing Partner, 11.2 Capital
Notable Investments
Human, Cruise Automation (acquired by GM for $1B), Ginkgo Bioworks ($15B SPAC), Forter, Hinge Health, Aeva ($2.1B SPAC), Covariant.AI.
About
Prior to founding 11.2 Capital, Shelley was formerly EVP of Business Development at Ecoplast Technologies, where she oversaw business development & sales efforts in North America. Previously, Shelley was a Principal at DFJ, where she was actively involved in a number of investments including FeedBurner (acquired by Google for $100M), Flurry (acquired by Yahoo for $240M), PPLive (acquired by Suning for $420M), TicketsNow (acquired by Ticketmaster for $265M), Xfire (acquired by Viacom for $102M), YeePay.
Shelley is a techie at heart and holds a BS in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently an advisor at Skydeck, ML7 Associate at Creative Destruction Lab, and served on Enigma 2016's program committee.
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Ian
Rountree
General Partner, Cantos Ventures
Notable Investments
Radiant, Solugen, Twelve, Astranis, Faeth Therapeutics, Nabla Bio
About
Ian is Founder & General Partner at Cantos, a first-check firm dedicated to founders tackling the world's most acute problems with real-world technology––across climate, biology, and aerospace & defense, though it prefers "n of 1" category-creators to founders who fit cleanly into other VCs' buckets.
Cantos is investing out of its $50M third fund and prefers to be technical founders' first investor partner from day one, investing anywhere from $500K to $2M.
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