Stanford University

Ann Miura-Ko co-founded Floodgate with Mike Maples Jr. and helped define the modern seed-stage playbook, backing Lyft and Refactor Capital-era startups before micro-VC was mainstream. A Stanford PhD who lectures at the university, she is a frequent voice on what she calls 'thunder lizard' startups and co-founded the nonprofit All Raise to support women in venture.

Venture Advisor at Broadview Ventures and Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford University specializing in advanced heart failure, cardiac transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support. He helps source and evaluate cardiovascular investment opportunities and advises portfolio companies.

Venture Partner at Vensana Capital and a former medtech operator who served as CEO of Inari Medical through its IPO and earlier led Visualase and FoxHollow Technologies.

Dan Azagury is a surgeon and academic who serves as Associate Professor of Surgery and Chief of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine, and directs the Stanford BioDesign Fellowship Program. He co-founded Ciel Medical, which was acquired by Vyaire Medical, and holds an M.D. from Geneva University School of Medicine with fellowships at Harvard Medical School.

Healthcare executive and researcher focused on evaluating large language model applications in healthcare at Stanford. A former Internal Medicine clinician and startup founder, he was a Kicker Ventures Fellow from 2021 to 2022.

Jack Fuchs, a Stanford entrepreneurship instructor and operator (McKinsey, Becton Dickinson, four startups), is a mentor-first investor who helps founders define operating principles that scale and plan long-term career sequencing.

Professor of Computer Science at Stanford and former Department Chair and Vice Provost, with research in programming languages, software security, blockchain/DeFi, machine learning and trustworthy AI, and education platforms.

An early-stage investor at Menlo Ventures focused on 'utilitarian consumer' companies offering better, faster and cheaper ways to meet everyday needs, with early bets on Roku, Uber and Chime. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from Stanford GSB, was a software developer and previously founded his own startup, Handle; he joined Menlo in 2002.

Walter Greenleaf is Research & Innovations Director at Stanford University's Medical Mixed Reality Center and an advisor to the Virtual Human Interaction Lab, the Wearable Electronics Program, and the VR-IT Clinic. Over 35 years, he has designed and developed clinical systems in surgical simulation, medical visualization, telerehabilitation, sleep staging, and digital health products, and currently advises numerous medical technology companies and venture firms on digital health systems. He serves as founding Board Chair of the International Virtual Reality Health Association and has held chief science officer positions at Pear Therapeutics and Interaxon.

Fei-Fei Li created ImageNet, the dataset that ignited the deep-learning revolution, and now leads World Labs, the spatial-intelligence startup she co-founded in 2024 that raised a $1 billion round in February 2026 at a reported $5 billion valuation. Born in Beijing and raised in Chengdu, she immigrated to New Jersey at 15, helped run her parents' dry-cleaning shop through Princeton (BA Physics, 1999), and took a Caltech PhD in electrical engineering. She directed the Stanford AI Lab, served as Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud, co-founded the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and the nonprofit AI4ALL, sat on Twitter's board, and wrote the memoir The Worlds I See. TIME has twice named her to its TIME100 AI list; much of the field calls her the godmother of AI.

An expert in international and constitutional law and former dean of Stanford Law School, serving as provost (chief academic and budgetary officer) since October 2023, emphasizing academic freedom and civil discourse.

An economist and former dean of the Graduate School of Business, serving as Stanford's 13th president since August 2024, focused on strengthening the university's culture of inquiry and research leadership.

Lily Sarafan is co-founder and Chair of TheKey, a long-term care at-home company with over 10,000 employees. She serves as a board member at Instacart, Serve Robotics, and Thumbtack, and holds positions as a Stanford University Trustee and founding partner of the Stanford Brain-Immune-Gut Initiative. Sarafan holds an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering and a B.S. in Science, Technology and Society from Stanford, and has been recognized as a Henry Crown Fellow, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.

Alan Ma is a member of The MBA Fund. Before joining, he worked on electric boats at Photon Marine, neuromorphic chips at the Wu-Tsai Neurosciences Institute, and AI AgeTech devices at Reazon Holdings's R&D division. He focuses on solutions combining hardware and software, with interest in AI hardware, sustainability, and consumer.

Alex Gould is a co-founder and general partner at Gold Star Ventures, L.P. With over 15 years of venture capital experience across direct investing and fund of funds, he has also held five board seats and founded Revolution Media. Gould has taught entrepreneurship and finance at Stanford for 15+ years, where he established an undergraduate leadership program, and brings additional expertise from 15+ years in radio and music industries and 8 years operating in startup companies.

A finance and operations executive with 15+ years across private and public tech companies. Former COO of 500 Startups, he led strategy at PayPal and eBay and served as divisional CFO of eBay's North American Marketplace business.

Amit Etkin is the founder and CEO of Alto Neuroscience (NYSE: ANRO), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing biomarker-based treatments for psychiatric conditions, with four drugs in mid- to late-stage clinical trials. Trained as a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, he joined the Stanford University faculty in 2010 and holds a tenured professorship in psychiatry. He completed his PhD under Eric Kandel, received the NIH Director's Pioneer Award, and has ranked in the top 0.1% of researchers by citations.

Amy Chang is a Founder Advisor at Decibel. She founded Accompany, a relationship intelligence platform for professionals serving Fortune 500 financial and professional services clients, which was acquired by Cisco, after which she served as EVP leading Cisco's Collaboration business. Earlier she led Google Analytics, Website Optimizer, Trends, and multichannel attribution teams at Google for over seven years, led product for paid search and affiliates at eBay, worked at McKinsey, and began her career at Intel, AMD, and Motorola. She holds a BS and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Anand Lalwani is the Chief Executive Officer of Cardinal Robotics and holds a PhD from Stanford University, where he also serves on the faculty. His work spans robotics, and he is an angel investor and board member for several companies.

Founder of AI Fund.

Anjney Midha focuses on founder UX—offering uncapped convertible notes and no governance clauses—and brings rare founder/operator experience scaling AI and AR products.

Advisory venture partner focused on the interface of data, computation, and disease therapeutics, advising early-stage founders and academic spin-outs. He is a physician-scientist and Professor of Pathology and Immunology at Stanford, and co-founded biotech companies including Cartography Biosciences and Immunai.

Ari Qayumi is Founder and General Partner at Mindful Venture Capital, investing in early-stage technology companies across infrastructure, healthcare, and financial services. Previously, she held investment and product leadership roles at Silicon Valley Data Capital and Royal Bank of Canada, where she developed strategies in digital transformation, enterprise AI, and fintech. Qayumi holds a Bachelor of Science in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University and serves as Senior Advisor to the Stanford Behavior Design Lab.

Artem Trotsyuk is a bioengineer and computer scientist who focuses on early-stage investments from pre-seed through Series A, working with founders to build companies. He previously worked at the venture capital fund R42 and lectures on bio-entrepreneurship at Stanford University. He earned a PhD in Bioengineering and a Master's in Computer Science with an AI specialization at Stanford, where his research covered gene editing, wearables, CRISPR therapy, regenerative medicine, and ethical data use in drug development.

Advisory board member serving as an SVP and Chief Data Officer.

Azalia Mirhoseini is a co-founder of Ricursive Intelligence and an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where she directs the Scaling Intelligence lab. She previously worked at Google Brain, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind, contributing to the development of Claude and Gemini, and her research includes Mixture-of-Experts neural architectures, AlphaChip, and work on LLM test-time scaling. Her recognitions include the Okawa Research Grant, the Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award, MIT Technology Review's 35 Under 35 Award, and the Best ECE Thesis Award at Rice University.

Azeem Azhar is the founder of Exponential View, where he analyzes technological development and its societal impact. He has experience as a researcher, investor, and entrepreneur, and advises policymakers and business leaders on emerging technologies including artificial intelligence.

Bedy Yang, a Chinese-Brazilian who founded the 10,000-member Brazil Innovators community, speaks six languages and creates VC training programs with Stanford partners while leading government collaborations in Egypt and Africa.

He earned his PhD in computer science at Stanford University after research work at Columbia University's cryptography laboratory and a stint as a software developer at 1010data. Alongside his work at Espresso, he teaches as an assistant professor at Yale University and has advised projects including Protocol Labs, the Chia Project, and Eco.

Benjamin Muñoz-Cerro is the CEO of Velum Labs and studied physics at Harvard and quantum computing at Stanford.

Bernard Liautaud, a pioneer who co-created the business intelligence category, grew Business Objects from a French startup into a global leader acquired by SAP and champions European tech independence.

Betsy Fore is the Founding Partner and Managing Director of Velveteen Ventures, which invests in solutions for children and the planet. She previously co-founded and co-led Tiny Organics, a company selling organic baby and toddler meals, and earlier founded Wondermento (creators of the WonderWoof dog wearable) and worked at Mind Candy in London leading product. She also co-founded the non-profit Natives Rising, a community of Indigenous technologists and founders.

Early-stage investor focused on AI, cloud/SaaS and security.

Co-author of the bestselling book Blitzscaling and co-teacher of the Stanford class that inspired it.

Cindy Lang is a fundraiser and connector who coordinates engagement and strategic conversations in the Bay Area and internationally, with particular familiarity with Brazil's business culture and language. She serves on the boards and advisory bodies of several social-impact organizations, including Action for India, Sustainable Conservation's Advisory Board, and Stanford's IRiSS Advisory Board and Center on Poverty and Inequality, and has advised Embrace and mentored at the Miller Center GSBI. She holds a BA in French and English Literatures from Stanford University and an MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School, and is a certified diversity and life coach.

Founder, CEO, and innovator serving on Reaction's advisory board.

Dan Riskin is Chief Executive Officer of Verantos and a Clinical Professor of Surgery at Stanford University. A surgeon and entrepreneur, he has founded and led multiple healthcare companies focused on applying artificial intelligence to clinical data for outcomes analysis, risk assessment, and clinical decision support. His work extends to health policy, including Congressional testimony on the 21st Century Cures Initiative and service on the U.S. Health Information Technology Advisory Committee.

Designer, engineer, and entrepreneur, Stanford adjunct professor, and Designer Fund advisor. Founded Ozlo, which was acquired by Facebook.

David Schwab blends Stanford/Lockheed aerospace engineering with founder experience taking Scopus Technology to IPO and enterprise-software insight from advising Fortune 500 CIOs, spotting a shift toward vertical solutions.

David Danielson, an ARPA‑E founding program director and former DOE Assistant Secretary who oversaw multibillion‑dollar efficiency and renewables portfolios, brings deep expertise decarbonizing cement and steel, bridging academia and VC.

David Mount, founder of Element Analytics and Stanford professor, is an operator-investor who backs missionary founders using connectivity, edge processing and AI in asset-heavy sectors: energy, manufacturing, logistics and transportation.

Partner at Informed Ventures focused on founders applying AI and new technologies to reshape financial services. Previously a tech journalist at Forbes, a consultant at McKinsey, and head of strategy at an AI-powered fintech unicorn.

Dawn Lippert unites nonprofit, venture and policy roles to pioneer a place-based, community-first approach—moving to Hawaii to decarbonize an island and scaling that model to Asia-Pacific, California and 50 states.

Divya Gupta, a former VC partner who backed AI and cryptocurrency at seed/early stages, is co-founder of Beacon Software building AI tools for Main Street firms via an anti-private-equity rollup.

Listed on the Sandbox Industries people page; detailed bio not available in the extracted content.

Venture advisor associated with LinkedIn and Google.

Venture advisor associated with Stanford and Nvidia.

Dr. Peter Fitzgerald is a cardiologist/PhD engineer who founded 20+ med‑device companies, with 150+ clinical trials, co‑founded an Israel–US fund, and flies monthly to mentor Israeli AI‑driven digital health startups.

Founding partner of Springbank and a social entrepreneur and former Obama Administration technology policy official who worked with the FCC and State Department. Served as innovator-in-residence for CARE and advised companies including Etsy, Kickstarter, and Google; previously a McKinsey consultant.

Elyas Obbad is co-founder of Alara. He previously worked as an engineer at Meta, Google, and DoorDash on large-scale AI systems and consumer products. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford and a B.S. from Columbia, with research experience at Stanford's Trustworthy AI Lab focusing on language model data and alignment.

Emma Blackburn uniquely combines senior CFO finance leadership with Venture Partner investing at the same early-stage platform, runs an active angel portfolio, and unlocks international co-investment opportunities through trusted relationships.

Stanford professor and Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, co-founder of Workhelix, and a leading economist on information technology and productivity. He holds a PhD from MIT.

Faye Sahai is a Managing Director at Vinaj Ventures with over 30 years of experience in healthcare innovation and emerging technology. She has served as a board director and advisor to organizations including Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, UCSF Catalyst, and Samsung Technology, and previously held leadership roles at AIG and Kaiser Permanente, where she launched innovation centers and managed investment funds. Her work spans digital health, insurtech, and workplace technology, including investments in care delivery applications, robotic systems, blockchain solutions, and artificial intelligence platforms.

H.R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Bernard and Susan Liautaud Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute, where he also lectures at the Graduate School of Business. He served as the 26th Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and retired as a Lieutenant General from the U.S. Army in 2018 after 34 years of service, including combat command roles in Iraq and Afghanistan and positions overseeing Army training and capabilities development. McMaster holds a PhD in military history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has authored two books on military history and strategy, along with numerous essays and articles published in outlets including Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, and the Wall Street Journal.

Heidi Roizen is a partner at Threshold Ventures and serves as a corporate director for multiple companies including Upside Foods, M7, EdgeQ, Elementary Robotics, Freeform, Moonlake AI, OpsLevel, and Tia. She began her career as co-founder and CEO of software company T/Maker before its acquisition by Deluxe Corporation, followed by a role as VP of Worldwide Developer Relations at Apple, and has worked as a venture capitalist since 1999. Roizen holds undergraduate and MBA degrees from Stanford, where she has lectured since 2011 and serves on the Advisory Council for the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.

Chief AI officer, entrepreneur, and VC serving on Reaction's advisory board.

Ira Ehrenpreis is Founder and Managing Partner of DBL Partners. He has held leadership roles across venture capital organizations, including the National Venture Capital Association, the Western Association of Venture Capitalists, and the VCNetwork, and founded the World Energy Innovation Forum. He earned a JD/MBA from Stanford Law School and Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. from UCLA.

Technical operator focused on structured data, knowledge graphs, and NLP, backing companies building vertical AI and data-intensive applications.

Jay Watkins has more than 45 years of experience in the medtech industry, having bought and sold numerous companies in healthcare. He co-founded Origin Medsystems (acquired by Eli Lilly) and Gynecare (acquired by Johnson & Johnson), held President and Management Committee roles at Guidant, and was a General Partner at De Novo Ventures. He holds a B.A. from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Jeff Epstein is an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners who leads the firm's CFO Council and advises portfolio company leadership. Previously serving as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President at Oracle, he has held CFO positions at DoubleClick, King World Productions, and Nielsen's Media Measurement and Information Group. He holds an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a BA from Yale College.

Detroit-area native with mechanical and electrical engineering training who worked on GM's original electric vehicle. He was an angel investor in Cruise and led Trucks investments in Universal Hydrogen, Skyryse, Joby, and Refraction.

Jeffrey Bird, MD, PhD, founded and leads Bluebird Ventures and previously spent nearly 20 years as a Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures investing in early-stage life sciences. He has served as an investor, CEO, and board member across companies including Verinata Health, GRAIL, Forty Seven, and Portola, and earlier held a 12-year operating career at Gilead Sciences; he holds a bachelor's, MD, and PhD in Cancer Biology from Stanford.

Jocelyn Goldfein specializes in AI-first B2B startups, leveraging engineering leadership at VMware and Facebook to provide hands-on help with technical hiring, engineering org design, and AI evaluation frameworks and metrics.

Joe Mandato has over 40 years in venture capital and medtech entrepreneurship. He has served as Managing Director at DeNovo Ventures and led several medical device companies, including Gynecare (acquired by Johnson & Johnson), Origin Medsystems (acquired by Eli Lilly), and Ioptex Research (acquired by Smith & Nephew), and held roles at Guidant Corporation and Heart Rhythm Technology. He has been an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mayfield Fund and lectures on medical device innovation at Stanford's Byers Center for Biodesign.

John Lilly is an Advising Partner at Gigascale Capital with roughly 30 years of experience as a founder, CEO, and investor. He previously spent 8 years as a General Partner at Greylock and was CEO of Mozilla, where he oversaw Firefox's growth. Earlier he co-founded the enterprise security company Reactivity, later acquired by Cisco, and held roles at Apple and Trilogy Software. He is also a Lecturer at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and holds BS and MS degrees from Stanford.

Serial entrepreneur and expert in compilers, cybersecurity, and machine learning who founded Moka5, UnifyID, and Redcoat AI, and created the Inception Studio accelerator. Holds a Stanford PhD and MIT degrees, and was named to the Forbes AI 50.

Juan-Pablo Mas is Managing Partner at Action Potential Venture Capital, a venture firm investing in healthcare, artificial intelligence, and frontier technology applications. With over 15 years of venture investing experience, he previously led a venture fund within GSK focused on bioelectronic medicines, AI-derived biomarkers, and regulated AI medical devices. He holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from Stanford University.

Karl Handelsman is founder and managing partner of Codon Capital, where he invests in early-stage pre-clinical therapeutics and synthetic biology companies. His investment portfolio includes multiple companies that achieved acquisitions or IPOs within 18 months of founding. His experience spans biotech company formation and early-stage investing.

Karol Hausman is co-founder and CEO of Physical Intelligence, a company developing AI models for robotic control across different robots and tasks. He previously spent six years at Google Brain/DeepMind, most recently as Robot Manipulation Lead, and has served as an Adjunct Professor at Stanford, where he taught CS224r and CS330. His research focuses on the intersection of large AI models and robotic control.

Kavita Gupta is an investor with a background in impact and blockchain investing, having been founding managing partner of ConsenSys Ventures and having run a $250M+ fund aligned with UN SDGs across climate tech, edtech and fintech. She previously worked with the World Bank, IFC, McKinsey and the Eric Schmidt Family Office, founded the World Bank's first innovation fund in 2010, and is a visiting scholar and lecturer at Stanford University.

Kavita Patel is a Venture Advisor on NEA's Healthcare team, joining the firm in 2017. She holds an MD from the University of Texas Health Science Center and an MS in health services research from UCLA, and has experience as both a practicing physician and researcher. Previously she served in the Obama Administration as Director of Policy for the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, and currently serves as a Nonresident Fellow at The Brookings Institution.

Kedar Mate is co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Qualified Health, a digital health company focused on AI infrastructure for hospitals, and previously served as President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He is a Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, a Senior Scholar at Stanford's Clinical Excellence Research Center, and co-hosts the podcast "Turn On The Lights" with Don Berwick. Mate holds a BA in History from Brown University and an MD from Harvard, has worked with Partners In Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the World Health Organization, and serves on the board of Blue Shield of California.

Kunal Garg has held engineering and product roles at major companies including Facebook (internal tooling), Redfin (product and engineering), and Wealthfront (brokerage operations engineering). He is currently building Bracket.

Linus is Founder and Managing Partner of Kyber Knight Capital with over 25 years in venture capital and entrepreneurship, and remains a Partner at Signia Ventures. He co-founded Embrace (affordable infant incubators), was Zynga's tenth employee, and previously held roles at Microsoft, IBM, and Andreessen Horowitz.

Maha Ibrahim, longest-tenured GP with 20+ years' experience and a PhD in Economics, uses market-structure analysis to back category-defining data/infrastructure startups and guides founders on fit and longer runways.

Mar Hershenson is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Pear VC, a Palo Alto–based seed-stage firm whose portfolio includes Guardant Health (NASDAQ: GH), DoorDash (NYSE: DASH), Gusto, Aurora Solar and Branch. Before Pear, she started three companies and held product and engineering leadership roles at Magma Design Automation, and she earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, where she now teaches as a lecturer in the engineering school. She sits on the Board of Trustees of Harvey Mudd College and the Advisory Council of Carnegie Mellon's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and is a founding member of All Raise and the Equity Summit.

Michael Dalva is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Travo. He studied computer science and artificial intelligence at Stanford, researched hardware-fault resilience in machine learning pipelines, and previously worked on satellite software.

A Stanford bioengineering professor and director of the Stanford Microbiome Therapies Initiative whose lab has produced foundational advances in microbiome research. He is also a biotech entrepreneur, co-founding Revolution Medicines, Kelonia, and Azalea, and advising organizations including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Stand Up to Cancer.

Mike Palmer holds degrees in computer science and physics. He previously worked on web search at Inktomi, conducted research in computational biology and machine learning at Stanford, and founded and led ZipCam.

Professor of Surgery, Medicine and Pediatrics at UCSF, FDA Science Board member, Rosenman Institute founding fellow, and Medical Director of the Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program at UCSF.

Mohan Reddy is Chief Scientist at Cornerstone AI Labs following Cornerstone's 2024 acquisition of SkyHive, which he co-founded as CTO. Over two decades, he has co-founded nine technology companies with three exits, focusing on AI applications in perception, workforce systems, and industrial IoT, and holds an Associate Director position at Stanford's Human Perception Lab researching synthetic perception and multimodal sensing. His prior roles include leadership of machine learning and big data at Zynga, CTO at The Hive startup studio, and co-founder of FogHorn, Peritus, Neva, and Vizzario.

Partner at Rethink Education focused on deal sourcing, portfolio management and fundraising, and leading the firm's work on responsible AI in education. Previously led Stanford GSB's Impact Fund.

A physician and scientist with over 20 years of healthcare experience, she advises medical startup and private company CEOs on business launches, growth, fundraising, and marketing. She is a Senior Advisor at Boston Consulting Group, Chief Medical Officer of Optina Diagnostics, and an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University, and serves as an EIR at DigitalDx Ventures.

Nan Li built his career at the intersection of computer science and life sciences, partnering with technical founders building platforms generating proprietary biological datasets and infrastructure for computational drug discovery.

An adjunct professor at Stanford and founder of the Emergence Program there, focused on health-related education and entrepreneurship. She co-founded and led Bina Technologies (acquired by Roche) and is on the leadership circle of MIT's Solve program.

Nirav R. Shah is a physician focused on digital health and innovation, with work spanning care for older adults, patient safety, quality, and the shift toward high-value, patient-centered care. He previously served as senior vice president and chief operating officer for clinical operations at Kaiser Permanente in Southern California and as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and holds degrees from Harvard College and Yale School of Medicine.

Omar Pimentel leads Type One Ventures' strategic markets, global government engagements, investor relations, and portfolio support across space, dual-use, and deep technology. He previously served as Policy and Strategy Lead and Program Manager for the Defense Innovation Unit's Space Portfolio and worked at NASA Headquarters and the U.S. House of Representatives. He holds a master's in international policy from Stanford and a B.A. from Florida State University.

Omar Siddiqui, a Stanford d.school product-design instructor and founder-investor, built gaming companies (Sequoia-backed Kiwi; Disney-acquired Trippert) reaching hundreds of millions of players and blending IDEO design with McKinsey/Bain strategy.

Parag Mallick is an Associate Professor at Stanford University, where his lab applies systems-biology and big-data methods to study disease mechanisms, biomarker discovery, and personalized medicine, along with physics-based approaches to artificial intelligence. Trained as an engineer and biochemist, his research spans proteomics, computational and experimental systems biology, cancer biology, and nanotechnology. He co-founded Nautilus Biotechnology, a company developing a single-molecule protein analysis platform, advises biotechnology and diagnostics companies, and works as a professional magician and variety performer.

Paul Kwan, with 22 years at Morgan Stanley, leads Global Resilience investing in defense and energy; he co-founded Valinor to fix defense‑tech procurement and champions startup–government collaboration and biodefense.

Prof. Utkan Demirci is a professor at Stanford University with experience in the medical device industry and expertise in microfabrication and microfluidics. His work focuses on portable point-of-care technologies, infectious disease diagnostics, fertility applications, and rare cell sorting, with early contributions to 3D bio-printing and biofabrication research. He has developed multiple technologies including Zymōt and maintains involvement in academic entrepreneurship and investor activities.

Executive in Residence with former Google engineering background.

Founder and Chairman of Alchemist, established to support technical founders on their journey to refine their craft and reach their potential.

Rhea Malhotra is co-founder and CTO of Kita. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science from Stanford and was accepted to pursue a PhD in Computer Vision and Robotics at Princeton. She has authored peer-reviewed papers and worked on vaccine development research at Pfizer.

Dr. Ronjon Nag is founder and president of R42 Group, a family office and venture firm investing in AI, biotechnology, and science-stage companies, and serves as an advisor to Stanford University's Lifestyle Medicine Group. He holds an adjunct professorship in genetics at Stanford School of Medicine and a visiting fellowship at the Stanford Center for Language and Information, where he teaches courses spanning AI, genetics, ethics, and venture capital. Over four decades, Nag has founded or advised approximately 100 AI and biotechnology startups, with exits to Apple, BlackBerry, and Motorola, and holds fellowships with the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Association for Computing Machinery.

Rowan Chapman is co-founder at BEVC and serves as an entrepreneur, investor, and board member. With experience spanning startups to Fortune 50 companies, Chapman has executed numerous transactions in therapeutics, digital health, research tools, diagnostics, vaccines, and medical devices, and maintains expertise in team building, business planning, equity investing, M&A, and LP relations. Chapman holds NACD Directorship Certification.

Healthcare investor, operator, and clinician who began in pediatric cardiology at Stanford and UCSF. Has invested through UCSF Innovation Ventures, Life Science Angels, and DigitalDx Ventures, and is a Venture Partner at Joyance Partners.

BCV partner who led the firm's involvement with Archive and works closely with the founders.

An adjunct professor at Stanford University since 2003, he founded Google X and led self-driving car work at Google, where he served as VP and Google Fellow, after founding VuTool, the mapping company acquired by Google and rebranded as Street View. He also founded Kitty Hawk's Cora aircraft program, sold to Boeing, and now serves as CEO of Sage AI Labs.

Sevgi Gurkan joined OrbiMed in 2018 as a Venture Partner. She was previously a founding member of Merck Research Laboratories' South San Francisco Discovery site and a Director in Early Drug Development at MRL. Earlier in her career she was an Associate Professor at Rutgers, Director of the Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program at RWJ University Hospital, and a pediatric nephrologist; she holds a medical degree from Hacettepe University and a Master of Science in Clinical Research from Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

AI infrastructure and data systems founder-operator, formerly on Google Cloud's ML platform.

Shloke Patel studied mechanical engineering and computer science at Stanford University with a focus on robotics and systems engineering, conducting research at campus labs. He previously built and operated agricultural businesses and has background in robotics, mechanical design, and hardware systems.

Shri Raghunathan is the Chief Executive Officer of Noctrix Health, Inc., a company developing therapeutic wearables aimed at addressing needs in the neurological space. He has a background as an engineer and entrepreneur, with experience in medical device development and team building. Noctrix Health is backed by venture capital firms and corporate strategic investors.

Sydney Katz holds a PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford, where their research focused on safe machine learning. They have held positions at Reliable Robotics, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and NASA, and have authored a textbook on validation algorithms and taught a course on validation of safety-critical systems at Stanford.

Allbirds co-founder and former All Whites captain, bringing his experience to Kiwi founders.

Tisha Schuller is founding CEO of Adamantine Energy, a firm advising energy companies on sustainability strategy and policy. She previously served as President & CEO of the Colorado Oil & Gas Association and as Principal and Vice President at Tetra Tech. Schuller holds a B.S. from Stanford University, serves on multiple academic and nonprofit boards, and is a member of the National Petroleum Council; she has also authored four books on energy and decarbonization and hosts the Energy Thinks podcast.

Toby is VP of Ads at DoorDash and a key executive behind the company's growth, closing partnerships with major brands across restaurant, grocery, corporate, and retail categories; he advises on go-to-market and sales.

Todd Brinton is a physician and investor with a background in medical technology, having served as a founder, board member, and advisor to multiple startups with a focus on cardiovascular innovation. He was Chief Scientific Officer and Corporate Vice President of Advanced Technology at Edwards Lifesciences and was physician founder, board member, and Chief Medical Officer of ShockWave Medical. He is a clinical professor of medicine (cardiology) and adjunct professor of bioengineering at Stanford University School of Medicine, practices as an interventional cardiologist, and directs the fellowship at Stanford Biodesign.

Trevor Loy is Managing Partner and Founder of Flywheel Ventures and an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University in the Management Science & Engineering Department and Stanford Technology Ventures Program. He has held previous positions as a board director at the National Venture Capital Association, a mentor with the Kauffman Fellows Program, and as a semiconductor design engineer at Brooktree, Intel, and Teradyne. Loy holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, and Master of Science in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.

Widya Mulyasasmita is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at BEVC. He works as an investor, entrepreneur, and educator focused on supporting startups in the human and planetary health sectors.

Yana Welinder founded Kraftful (acquired by Amplitude) and previously held product leadership roles at multiple technology companies, including as an early product manager at a high-growth unicorn and heading product teams working on products with millions of users.

Zain Asgar is Co-Founder and CEO of Gimlet Labs, Inc. and serves as adjunct faculty at Stanford. His areas of focus include machine learning, edge computing, distributed systems, and multi-processor design and programming.

Zakir Durumeric is Co-Founder and CEO of Censys and an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. His work focuses on defending against internet-based attacks, including cybercrime, surveillance, harassment, and disinformation. He builds systems to measure networked ecosystems, using the results to identify vulnerabilities, design defenses, and inform public policy.

Zhenan Bao is Department Chair and K.K. Lee Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, with courtesy appointments in Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, and founded the Stanford Wearable Electronics Initiative (eWEAR) in 2016. Before joining Stanford in 2004, she worked at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies from 1995 to 2004, and she earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1995. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Inventors and serves as an advising partner for Fusion Fund.