Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

Aaron

Aaron co-founded Matrix Operations, a high-frequency trading firm operating in NYC and London. He designed the software infrastructure and am responsible for realtime performance of the trading systems.

Bryan

After a PhD in AI/ML, cofounded a unique fintech—Angaza—to make solar energy and smartphones radically more affordable in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. Helped millions of households connect to electricity and internet. Now focused on AI again.

Deepak

A software engineer at heart, Deepak co-founded Quizizz, a student engagement platform, in 2015 and served as the CTO. In those years, the company scaled to over 80 million monthly active users around the world, with active users in over 90% of US schools. The company raised $61M in funding over the years and has been profitable since 2021. Deepak is passionate about product development, technology and startups. He is currently getting back to coding hands-on, and would be happy to chat with anyone building something cool.

Ryan

Seasoned engineering leader: systems, data platform, MLOps, open source. Now focused on climate tech and decentralized social. Previously: NCX, Color, Quip, Google. More at https://snarfed.org/

Somdev

Former World No. 62 and two-time NCAA Singles Champion, he led India to Davis Cup World Group and won gold at the Commonwealth and Asian Games. A recipient of the Arjuna Award and Padma Shri, he’s now a coach, mentor, and sports development advocate. He also serves as a tennis commentator across major global events.

Liz

loves making things that expand how one views the world, particularly in wearables. ex-design team humane, ex-vision pro. favorite thing ever is to travel to new places, explore new cultures, and especially be in awe of unique architecture

Tuhin

Co-founder of Baseten, building infrastructure to deploy and serve machine learning models at scale. Previously co-founded Shape and worked on ML at Gumroad and Skulpt.

Kerem

NLP researcher, product builder, token juggler, occasional prankster.

Christina

Christina is the co-founder and CEO of Vanta, the leading trust management platform for security and compliance. Previously led product for Dropbox Paper, co-founded Nebula Labs, and taught at SVA. Earlier in her career, she was on the investment team at Union Square Ventures.

Andrew

I grew up in San Diego and studied CS at Brown. I dropped out to be an early engineer at Snackpass (YC, a16z, Craft) and built out our marketplace infra that scaled from $100k's a year to $120M+ today. I am passionate about DeFi and creating globally inclusive financial products.