Deep tech, AI/ML-focused VC fund with a global mandate and globally-distributed team and portfolioSelect deals: Advanced Navigation, Anjuna Security, Exostellar, Higgsfield AI, Our Next Energy (ONE), Proscia

AI-enabled autonomous compute resource optimization and management. Spinout from Cornell University

Venture capital, startup strategy, and innovation ecosystem design consultingSample clients:[-] Marro Technologies (Board of Directors, 2023-2024): Arizona-based startup providing enterprise-grade SaaS solution to reduce software expenditure by proactively eliminating unnecessary and underutilized licenses. Integration-free. Vendor-, Application-, and OS-agnostic.[-] Neurosetta (Advisory Board, 2022-present): Wisconsin-based startup providing human stem cell-derived platform for quantitative high-throughput modeling of early human brain and spinal cord development. [-] Paeonia Ventures (Managing Director, 2020-2022): Singapore-based family office investing in VC funds and deep-tech, university spinouts.[-] Universities in Kazakhstan via University of Wisconsin-Madison International Projects Office (Innovation Consultant, 2019 - Present): Development of startup and innovation ecosystem to support [-] AFRETEC (VC Advisor, 2023-Present): AFRETEC is a pan-African collaboration of technology-focused universities from across the African continent[-] WiscAI (Chief Strategy Office, 2024 - Present): AI strategy and implementation consulting for for-profit and non-profit organizations

Mentoring researchers on university technology commercialization, pitching, and startup strategy

WARF Accelerator provides proof-of-concept and de-risking funding, mentorship, and business resources to help inventors advance commercially promising University of Wisconsin-Madison technologies closer to the marketplace.

- Consulting with WARF Accelerator gap funding program. Provided assistance to WARF-funded researchers and startups on project management, funding proposal drafting, pitching, startup formation and fundraising, and commercialization strategy - Consulting with WARF, UW-Madison International Projects Office, and Nazarbayev University Research and Innovation System (NURIS) to evaluate the Business Incubator and Business Accelerator programs

The Doyenne Evergreen Fund is a $2.5M micro VC fund managed by Doyenne Group. The Evergreen Fund gets critical dollars into women- and people of color-led businesses! Doyenne has raised private and public dollars for the Evergreen Fund. All returns from loans and investments are put back into the Evergreen Fund for future disbursement to entrepreneurs. The Evergreen Fund awards $5K grants, $50K equity investments, and $50K loans to WI-based innovative, scalable businesses led by women and people of color. In addition to capital, Evergreen Fund recipients are also accepted into the 12-month Doyenne Accelerator program.

gener8tor Minnesota is a US-based, gold-tiered, industry-agnostic, equity-based accelerator program

gBETA Madison is the flagship gener8tor pre-accelerator program, an equity-free, industry agnostic pre-accelerator program serving the greater Dane County region

Venture Capital Associate for gener8tor Madison