The MBA Fund

Hiro Tien studied at Stanford Graduate School of Business, pursuing an MBA and an MS that he did not complete. He co-founded and served as CEO of Viralspace.ai, which was acquired by Smartly.io, and previously co-founded and led a Groupon-equivalent company in Brunei. He also has venture capital experience from Google.

Iynna Halilou is a General Partner at The MBA Fund, an early-stage venture firm backing founders from Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, and Berkeley. She previously invested at Moxxie Ventures and earlier worked at the United Nations Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications before founding an edtech startup and working as an operator supporting global founders scaling in the US. She also teaches venture capital and finance as adjunct faculty at HEC Paris and the City University of New York, and holds degrees from Durham University, NYU, and the Wharton School at UPenn.

Josh Hoffman-Senn is Co-Founder and General Partner at The MBA Fund. Before that, he founded two software companies, Causemo (acquired by Pursuant) and Lesson Squad (acquired by KHS America). He earned a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Chemistry from Brandeis University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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 Liu began his career as a software engineer at DoorDash in its early startup phase. He later served as CTO and cofounder of both B2C and B2B startups. He is currently attending business school to develop the business side of his entrepreneurial experience.

Angela Zhang studies Economics/Philosophy and Computer Science at Harvard, with interests in the economic and existential implications of AGI development. Before The MBA Fund, she evaluated early-stage investments at Industry Ventures and worked with her parents' travel agency as a translator.

Carolyn Zhou focuses on the intersection of healthcare and technology. She previously served as Chief of Staff at Tomorrow Health, a Series B healthtech company in home health, and before that worked as an investor at EQT on late-stage technology buyouts. She is affiliated with The MBA Fund and attended Wharton.

Catherine Li has four years of experience across investment banking and venture capital, with roles at J.P. Morgan's investment banking division in Hong Kong and early-stage investing at IDG Capital. Her work has centered on AI infrastructure, applications, and the broader technology, media, and telecom space. She focuses on generative AI, e-commerce, autonomous driving, semiconductors, and B2B software.

Dan Lee was a cofounder at 3MERGED, a Web3 game publishing platform spun off from NOD Games (backed by a16z and Sequoia). He began his career at a venture studio in Korea before joining one of its incubated startups, where his role focused on sourcing game studios interested in developing Web3 games. He is now looking to move into investing in the gaming industry.

Daniel Mika co-founded getdressed, where he served as CTO until recently, and runs Descope, a company focused on helping pre-seed founders handle their engineering needs. He has an engineering background with expertise in applied AI/Machine Learning, particularly computer vision and recommendation systems. He is currently pursuing a dual degree in the Management and Technology program at Wharton and Penn Engineering.

Danielle Zhang previously invested at Clocktower Ventures in Los Angeles, focusing on fintech companies from pre-seed through Series C across the US and LatAm. She began her career as a mortgage-backed securities trader at JP Morgan in New York. She earned a BA in Economics from the University of Chicago.

David Cao is a sophomore at Harvard College studying Physics and Statistics. His stated interests include next-generation computing, advanced nuclear reactors, and statistical genomics.

Isabel Senior previously worked as an early-stage VC investor at Touchdown Ventures, where she covered critical infrastructure, the energy transition, and proptech. Before that, she led business development at Realize Design, an AI-based furniture-shopping startup. She is currently associated with The MBA Fund and attended HBS.

Jessica Diao is a junior at Harvard College studying Economics and Computer Science. She has an interest in finance, technology, and entrepreneurship.

Jordan Silva studied neuroscience at Harvard, focusing on neurodegenerative disease research and cognitive neuroscience, and later attended HBS. He worked in life sciences consulting at Health Advances in Boston within their diagnostics practice before starting medical school at the University of Michigan, where he led the university's largest student-run biotech incubator and served as senior GTM strategist for an early-stage health tech startup applying AI to healthcare provider search. His investing interests include healthcare, primary care delivery, surgical device technology, and consumer diagnostics.

Marcello Rossi spent three years as an investment analyst and associate at GGV Capital (also known as Notable Capital), where he worked with a Managing Director on building a fintech portfolio across the U.S. and Latin America. He later moved into a Chief of Staff role at Novo, a fintech portfolio company, supporting the CEO on growth, product, and operations.

Mark Levin previously held operating roles at Whatnot, where he grew its collectibles business, and at Uber, where he contributed to scaling Uber Eats. He was a founding team member of Seated, a restaurant rewards marketplace, and holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and Computer Science from Harvard College.

Miu Kumakura has worked in strategy consulting for public and private sector clients across six continents and in business development for a pre-seed construction startup. She focuses on the intersection of entrepreneurship and sustainable development, with a specific interest in urban and climate technology.

Niels Agterhorst is pursuing an MBA at Harvard Business School. He previously worked in private equity at Blackstone in London, focusing on infrastructure and industrials, and before that in J.P. Morgan's investment bank advising clients in energy and renewables. He holds an MSc in Physics from the University of Amsterdam, where he researched photonics and nanotechnology at the Netherlands Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics.

Nikita Satish worked as an investor for six years before Stanford GSB, starting in buy-side equities at AllianceBernstein and then in venture capital at Blisce, an early growth fund with offices in NYC and Paris, where she covered Series A-C tech and software investments across the US, UK, Germany, and the Nordics. She holds a BS in Economics with a minor in Mathematics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Patricia Tang previously worked as a New Ventures Product Manager at ThredUp, where she led intrapreneurship programming and built zero-to-one initiatives for ThredUp's B2B product and other special projects. She has also spent time investing at Amino Capital and Virta Ventures, focusing on technology driving industry and community change.

Raishaun McGhee started his career as a listed derivatives trader and investment banker at Credit Suisse in New York, then worked at TPG's RISE Fund in San Francisco, an impact fund covering healthcare, edtech, fintech, and food & agriculture. He more recently interned at Trenches Capital, an early-stage venture firm, and holds a B.A. in Economics from Harvard College.

Stephanie Liu is affiliated with The MBA Fund and attends HBS. Before business school, she worked on the Strategic Finance teams at MongoDB and Pilot, and earlier was an investor at Warburg Pincus, where she focused on cybersecurity and sales & marketing investments.

Tatiana Bouri previously worked as a consultant at BCG and held a leadership role in healthtech, with experience in growth strategy, partnerships, and scaling operations. Her focus is on healthcare-related organizations as an operator or investor.

Vikram Chari previously helped lead healthcare technology and services investing on the Growth Equity team at Adams Street Partners before attending business school. He focuses on later-stage venture rounds (Series B onward) in healthcare companies that have reached product-market fit with a repeatable go-to-market motion.

Wyeth Coulter is a first-year MBA student at Stanford GSB. He previously worked in venture groups at Point72, where he focused on AI's impact on financial services, and at K5, where he helped manage the firm's growth fund and incubations such as 818 Tequila. He earned an undergraduate degree in Management Sciences and Engineering from Stanford.

Xaviera Ho began her career at J.P. Morgan and went on to work in private equity and venture capital across Singapore, Vietnam, and the U.S. Her investment focus has spanned fintech, climate tech, and healthcare at stages ranging from Series A to pre-IPO. She is also an angel investor affiliated with Hustle Fund Angel Squad and Epic Angels.

Yasmeen Jassim previously worked as an Investor at Defiance Capital, drawing on five years of experience leading product teams at enterprise, growth-stage, and startup companies. She earlier held product roles at Microsoft (Azure) and at CloudKitchens and Wonders, where she focused on restaurant technology. She is currently affiliated with The MBA Fund and is pursuing an MBA at HBS.