Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

Rhys

Building something to help farmers and ranchers implement regenerative agriculture. Former synbio PhD, founder, hedge fund associate, and eng leader

Dhruv

Co-Founder and former CEO of Elsewhere, the Brooklyn live music company + club. Legislative and policy advocate for music, nightlife, and small business at city, state, and federal levels. Born in Mumbai, raised in CT. Yale undergrad, first career in endowment-style asset management. Lover of jazz, oceans, surfing, sailing, SCUBA, yoga, meditation, cooking, civics, and motorcycles. Talk to me about mental health, neurological disorders, and headaches. Or just about anything. Curious about all, and love to nerd out.

Palash

Building an AI co-pilot for playable ads to help mobile gaming teams. Studied CSE at IIT Bombay. Spent 2 years at Samsung HQ, Korea as a software engineer. Worked at CRED ($6B fintech) in product. Built AI-driven personal growth products as part of an early stage startup—learnt a lot, but wouldn’t recommend it as a business.

Ted

Early Instacart engineer exploring new ideas & domains

Ritesh

Born in India, spent the last 10 years building a fintech in London and now building in Compliance x AI. I am almost always up for a run and I can't do spice in my food (that's one way to say I have been converted from Indian to Brit)

Yazen

Technical person

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)

Gaurav

Results-driven, hands-on software engineering leader with 18+ years of experience in building products. Solid communicator, able to forge relationships with key stakeholders. Brings joy, empathy, experience, and positive energy to the workplace.

Edward

Founder exploring directions in visual genAI. Researcher in Graphics/Vision/XR (ex-Apple research scientist, PhD from UWashington). Hobbies: Playing chamber music (Violin/Viola/Piano), board games, sci-fi/fantasy

Steffen

I'm an ML engineer that's worked on speech recognition (training embedded acoustic models, semi-supervised learning, accented languages). I also love building random projects with friends like a 3D version of Zoom, a collapsible water filled dumbbell, and an augmented reality NFT collection. Right now I'm exploring LLM's + ecommerce and learning how to breakdance