Mindcorp.ai provides an enterprise superintelligence platform for research, analysis and strategy.

Founder and CEO of Magical, a science and technology venture production studio based in Los Angeles. Seed-funding and developing breakthrough innovations in augmented reality, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, energy, medicine, and more.

Blocktag provides technology for connecting physical things to the digital world.

Advisor on Special Projects for The Global Connective Center (https://gcc-us.org/about/) - an independent, non-partisan provider of highly specialized solutions supporting people, governments, industry, and academia.

A spinout from Fuzionaire, based on chemistry breakthroughs that enable the rapid creation of theranostic radiopharmaceutical candidates for imaging and precision treatment of cancer.

I co-founded, and serve on the board of, the Arch Mission Foundation (http://archmission.com) as a non-profit foundation to help launch humanity's most important knowledge and genetic data into special "Archs" (archives) designed to survive for millions of years in space. The Arch Mission brings together experts and professionals from the space industry to spread our intelligence and knowledge beyond the fragile ecosystem of planet Earth.

Helped incubate and co-found a new venture to commercialize a patented breakthrough in "green chemistry" based on a revolutionary new catalyst discovered in a Nobel Prize winning lab at Caltech. Currently in stealth mode.

Intellectual Property Development and patent portfolio holdings for augmented reality technologies.

EES is a seed-stage venture fund focused on cleantech and sustainable energy technologies.

The Daily Dot is the newspaper of record about life and culture on the Web, for consumers.

KVB is a very different venture production platform that will deliver multiple products to a select group of clients harnessing the latest technologies - AI, robotics, neuroscience and quantum computing - answering the most critical industry issues faced by the participating clients. A repeatable start-up capability but side stepping the typical innovation risks and disappointments. KVB melds the very best Israeli technology talent - drawn from the elite Talpiot group; takes the very best thinkers from our chosen industries to rethink a problem or opportunity and we have invested in an ‘engine room’ that will deliver again and again. Most importantly, it is all driven by the participating clients.

Scour is in stealth. SaaS enterprise cloud search and knowledge management application.

VLX is a medical supply commodities exchange that matches healthcare providers with suppliers of critical medical supplies and equipment. We work with national health organizations and large healthcare providers, as well as factories and suppliers in dozens of countries worldwide, to help get critical medical resources to where they are needed most.

VLX Corporation operates a technology platform for optimizing supply chain trading relationships. The platform applies advanced data mining and analytics to help enterprise buyers source, rank and transact with suppliers of items they need to procure. We are currently focused on the supply chain for COVID-19 medical supplies, through our Valence Medical service (www.valencemed.com), which runs on the VLX platform.

Germinfo.org is an initiative, under the auspices of the Arch Mission Foundation (USA 501c3 nonprofit charity), that provides online medical information and community health services related to infectious diseases and community health, founded in 2020 to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

I was invited to join as a Patron of the leading industry association for the commercial spaceflight industry, where I help the organization along with a who's who of commercial space industry leaders.

Advised in the formation and strategy of a family office originated venture studio in the UK.

Bottlenose pioneered the application of artificial intelligence to business intelligence with a patented enterprise application platform for automating what analysts and data scientists do at scale. KPMG made a large strategic investment in the company and Bottlenose became a KPMG affiliate. At its peak, Bottlenose was named a Gartner Cool Vendor for 2016 in in-memory computing and streaming analytics. I left the company to focus on new ventures in Q4 of 2016.

Free, open 5 billion page search index of the Web

Advising SRI's incubator, nVention, now (SRI Ventures) on venture formation. Advising new ventures.

The schedule of the Web. Shows you what's happening when, on the Web. Sold to OVGUIDE, which was sold to FilmOn.

The leading measure of reputation and influence on the Web. I was the first investor in the company and helped incubate it for many years. Acquired by Lithium.

Radar Networks made a product which was once Twine.com, one of the first consumer applications of the Semantic Web. The company pioneered, and patented, many core technologies for applying RDF and OWL for next-generation social media, graph search, semantic graphs, graph databases, and collaborative knowledge management and filtering. Acquired by EVRI (Evri was then acquired by Facebook).

Co-founded SRI's in-house incubator, nVention. This incubator has launched more than 40 startups.

I co-founded EarthWeb with Jack Hidary and Murray Hidary in 1994. We were among the first few Internet companies in the world at that time. We grew the company for many years and went public in 1998. I left the board of directors in 1999. EarthWeb was a wild ride -- we were one of the first companies to make commercial Web sites (for the Met Museum of Art, The New York Stock Exchange, BMG Music Club, AT&T and many others), then we evolved to provide online services for other Web integrators -- for example Gamelan.com, Developer.com, Dice.com, etc. The IPO was an unexpected hit -- rising around 247% in the first day of trading and kicking off the second IPO bubble. In my time there I spearheaded our product strategy, marketing strategy and technology strategy, as well as working on key accounts, business development and deal structures with my partners. (Note: EarthWeb was taken private for more than $200M and later was taken public again under the name of one of our acquisitions, Dice Holdings, in 2007)

This company was a pioneer of using artificial intelligence to filter the news. We generated automatic newsfeeds about key strategic trends and topics for Fortune 1000 clients.

Thinking Machines built the world's most powerful supercomputer, in its day. I started as a programmer, and then also did technical writing and technical marketing. I did this part-time and full-time while I was in college.

Ray Kurzweil's character recognition venture which was acquired by Xerox. Worked on neural network software, and software to create databases automatically from OCR. I did this while I was in college.