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California, United States

San Francisco, CA, US

Fabric creates next-generation cryptography technology that reimagines trust and privacy. We're a fast-growing deep tech startup (full-stack silicon, hardware and cloud) founded to unlock the next generation of cryptography by building new class of processor for the rapidly emerging verifiable compute market. Fabric’s flagship product - the Verifiable.

Co-founded Katena to capitalize on a unique opportunity in the Bitcoin hardware space. Advised and later led the development of a highly efficient 12nm Bitcoin mining chip that outperformed the industry leading chip on 7nm. Developed novel architectural concepts, including an approximate adder topology. Many of these ideas were tested on silicon down to.

Mountain View, California, US

Luminous Computing is a photonic AI hardware startup backed by Bill Gates, 8090 Partners, Neo, and Dara Khosrowshahi among others. We’ve raised >$130M to date and our mission is to create the most powerful, scalable AI supercomputer on Earth. - Assembled the original founding team in 2018- Created vision for a world with Luminous hardware and led the.

San Francisco, CA, US

Early pioneer in the low-code/no-code space, AlphaSheets was a collaborative online spreadsheet (competitor to Microsoft Excel) with a full-on no-coding-required visual interface for ETL and data science, along with an Apache Spark backend, AI-generated charts, live data plug-ins for Salesforce/Mixpanel/Hubspot, full Excel hotkey, formula parsing and.

Chicago, Illinois, US

I found Bitcoin at the age of 15. When I first got into it, it was the only way for me to open anything like a bank account online without my parents' permission. I mined 1 BTC on my parents' computer, and then invested in GPU mining farms and later, the very first ASIC Bitcoin hardware company in the world, eventually growing my investments to over 12000.

Applied Mathematics

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