Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

Jonathan

Previously worked in engineering at Y Combinator, Checkr, and Penny (acq Credit Karma). Exploring on-chain data infrastructure for crypto protocols & dapps.

Sean

Sean Howell, was CEO of Hornet, where he built a 40M-user LGBTQIA+ social network, and co-founder of Buffalo Market. Sean applies lessons from consumer tech to SaaS, leveraging his global experience to create impactful, user-friendly solutions.

Abhinav

Founder/CEO of Breez, a cyber-security startup that secures identities in the cloud. Before Breez, I was the Chief Information Security Officer and the VP of Infrastructure at Frame.io (an NYC startup) that was acquired by Adobe in 2021.

Vijay

I'm a Stanford C.S. grad with 25+ years of experience, mostly in gaming but also feature film visual effects and consumer and enterprise software. I love games, teaching, building tools, karaoke, climbing, and fantasy books.

Tarin

I am working on tackling robotics and AI by throwing out almost all of the existing paradigms. Instead, I want to develop and refine ideas around artificial life, virtual biology, etc. This will draw heavily on simulations, and biological principles. Furthermore, I am seeking to stand up a new type of organization to do this, a cross between a venture-studio, research-lab, and a traditional start-up. Bio: Angel investor and technologist, 20+ years of experience, Apple (Autonomous Vehicles), CTO @ Voyage (Autonomous Vehicles, acquired by Cruise), Director R&D @ CTRL-Labs, (Brain Machine Interfaces, acquired by Meta), US Army Research Labs / Naval Underwater Warfare Center / RADAR/SONAR imaging and autonomous systems / Neurosys computational neuroscience. (BSEE @ GMU 2004 / MSEE @ George Washington University 2007)

Riley

Working with Ani Kunaparaju on tooling for GTM teams. Previously product @ Nuro.ai.

Anthony

BA, MSc Natural Sciences at University of Cambridge PhD Computational Astrophysics at Charles University in Prague (interrupted)

Kunal

Kunal is a Senior Engineering Manager at Coinbase, leading Base Ads and the development of onchain growth protocols. Previously co-founded Spindl (acquired by Coinbase), and held engineering leadership roles at Airbnb and Facebook.

Yuran

Worked on the desktop client at Dropbox for a few years. Before that, co-founder of ZeroMailer, acquired by Dropbox. Before that, professional gambler. Now working on building System2.

Ankit

Builder. - liked to paint as a kid - worked on racecars and did standup comedy as a fresher in IIT - started off joining early YC-backed teams - found love in tinkering with tech to solve problems - failed building a company in final year of undegrad - moved to the Bay during masters at CMU - picked up on AI wave - building B2B SaaS startup with friends from college