Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

Dakota

Lifelong Midwesterner, currently living in Kansas City along with the wife and two pets (dog-Sunny, cat-Kit Cat). I'm passionate about building solutions with outcomes of healthier communities and people, which is what has led me to working in an endeavor that's aimed at helping to drive adoption of regenerative agriculture. (check out Rooted Ag) Beyond work, I love spending time in nature and observing, making warm connections with people, and listening to good music.

Apurv

Apurv Mehra is a Computer Engineer and Researcher. Past Microsoft Research and IIITD

Aman

Building my second venture focused on Software Testing Automation with AI Agents. Previously Co-founded, TurboHire and scaled it to over $1m in ARR. Earlier worked as a Product Manager & Software Engineer at Microsoft.

Rob

Co-founder and CTO of Vori, bringing modern tools to streamline food supply chains. Previously worked on vehicle systems at SpaceX and Lyft, with a background in electrical engineering from Stanford.

Andrew

Andrew is a Research Scientist at TikTok focused on AI and music. Previously held roles at Scale AI and The Data Institute, and founded MusicAutobot to explore generative music. Former South Park Commons deep learning researcher with a background in ML infrastructure and creative AI.

Franck

Engineering leader with deep expertise in Web3 and large scale infrastructure. - VP of eng. at a DeFi crypto startup (Origin Protocol). Built smart contracts handling hundreds of millions of dollars. - Built search infra from ground up at Dropbox pre-IPO as tech lead. - Founded and managed the team that built the first Content ID system at YouTube pre Google acquisition. - Early engineer at PayPal, TLM for the Merchant facing engineering team

Anil

Engineering leader and 2x founder; CS at UT Austin. Past experience at Cisco and Apple. Led teams developing media and ML platforms, including on-device infrastructure and optimizations for running Apple Intelligence language & vision models.

Vladimir

Founder and CEO of Lighter, and previously co-founder of Lunchclub. Earlier roles include Head of Machine Learning at Quora and VP Engineering at Addepar. He’s also an active investor in startups like Robinhood, Ramp, and Cognition, with a background in economics from Harvard (graduated at 18).

Pete

Pete is the co-founder of Swoop.

Jeff

Working at the intersection of 3d simulation and digital fashion. Previously at Snowflake, Cruise, etc.