Helping invest in the next crop of the top unicorn YC founders.

Mission: Accelerating interspecies communication starting with dogs. We've built AI to better understand how dogs communicate with humans and are exploring opportunities.

Mission: Expand Marine Protected Areas using cutting-edge scientific research and sound economic models. Work: Using AI to measure human impact on the oceans. Portfolio:1. Studied 75 million data points across the oceans to study how fishing vessels are effecting behavior of Atlantic sharks worked with data from Beneath the Waves & Global Fishing Watch. 2. Looked at the evolution of species along coasts of California worked with data from Reef Check. 3. Developed and expanded product offering for 5Gyres.

Designed the oracle for the badge used to authenticate all the users for OrangeDAO

Developing tech-enabled freight factoring firm. Scaled the company from < $1M / month to $2.5M / month in invoice factoring. Started as CTO when Comfreight was six weeks from bankruptcy. I worked with the CEO to raise their $3.2M seed round, transitioned from logistics to fintech platform, hired the tech team, developed the architecture for their ledger system on top of spaghetti infrastructure, initiated development on automated credit risk system, and developed models for debt investors. Lead investors for seed: Initialized Capital, MHS Capital

Founded under the principle of creating "APIs for Instant Logistics" or as our YC Pitch says "AWS for Warehouses". Built incredibly strong development team that worked on complex problems such as efficient algorithms for bin packing. Raised $1.8M led from Nexus Venture Partners & YCombinator. As well as managed a warehouse. We fatefully went into robotics development. Hard Lessons learned:+ Managing a team through personal trauma (a team member had a brother pass away) + Pivoting a company+ Laying off a team & post-layoff employees transition + Hiring against Google + Co-founders leaving+ Difficult investor conversations

Developed and implemented technical strategy for startups.Built an open source community to build self-driving cars.

Worked on building back-end software that processed more private company transactions through the system. Additionally, worked on building internal tools that reduced the effort involved in testing.

A startup competition at Northeastern University that encourages the development of business ideas into prototypes and market-ready execution strategies. The HIC helps student ventures to develop the foundation of their company, work collaboratively with students of diverse backgrounds and equips them with the knowledge and skills they need to move their company forward. By incorporating strategy development Boot Camps, networking with experienced Boston entrepreneurs and collaborative events throughout the semester we helped launch 5 ventures in 3 semesters.

Amp Idea started with in its first business of developing hardware to fulfill the mandate for advertising screens and credit card machines in all taxi cabs in Boston. Eventually the business was sold and Amp Idea was accepted to an entrepreneurship program called TechStars.

Working on writing regression tests, developing automated reports, and creating an online process to streamline the process of hiring employees.

Wrote a program to automate their report generation. Additionally, added shortcuts to automate frequent tasks in one of their highly used tools. Also, investigated and determined problem areas in the wireless network.

Developed tools to help the team create Visio reports on their IT hardware. Additionally, worked on stress testing existing websites.

Initiated strategic business relationships with companies involved in text processing (e.g. plagiarism detection).