Whipsmart Ventures

Co-founder and Fund MD of a $500M AUM emerging-markets platform with 20+ solar, storage, and distributed energy investments across 20 countries.

Began at the CIA and became a top law firm's first chief data scientist; represents OpenAI and Anthropic on AI law.

Helped develop the original Macintosh, an early Ethernet prototype, and a 924-satellite constellation.

Retired Army colonel with five combat deployments who served as the Pentagon's chief of Army leader development.

Co-founded the original commercial rideshare launch company and flew the first rideshare mission to the Moon.

Organizational psychologist who advises CEOs from seed stage through private equity, including at Warburg Pincus.

Took Proxicom public on NASDAQ and sold Medialets to WPP; now CEO of consumer-robotics company Aescape.

Runs a global CEO search firm and authored a twenty-year report on women in executive leadership; strategic partner of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies.

Opened Arianespace's Washington office and spent four decades in the space industry across launch, satellite insurance, and remote sensing.

Built ILM's Academy Award-winning digital Yoda and managed a $250M media fund; now CEO of generative-AI platform Nomos AI and a Stability AI board member.

Astronaut who was first to sequence DNA in space and flew two missions to the ISS totaling 300 days; now leads a space-biomedicine institute.

Former MSUA president with 30+ years in the space industry; runs a marketing and media consultancy for space-tech and sustainability companies.

Former CEO of SoftBank India who scaled Bharti Airtel and deployed $15B+ across the SoftBank India portfolio; built 7 GW of renewable power as Executive Chairman of SB Energy.

Pioneered competitive fiber telecom across Europe and co-founded Geeks Without Frontiers to expand broadband access.

Launched Intel's flagship chip at CES and builds immersive experiences for Oracle, Cisco, and Microsoft.

Led SpaceX production for Dragon and Falcon 9 landing legs; later a DARPA program manager and CEO of EnduroSat USA.

Founder and CEO of Beewise, which uses computer vision and AI in autonomous robotic hives to manage bees.

AIAA Fellow and aerospace chair at CU Boulder, founder of a space-RF company with 50+ space missions.

Sid Mofya is the founder of MOTIF 54, which operates across Africa's energy, minerals, and compute sectors through ventures including CopperCloud, a sovereign compute infrastructure platform, and Kafwego Resources, focused on energy transition minerals. Previously, he served as CEO and Director of the Draper Venture Network and holds board or advisory positions at BongoHive, the African Diaspora Investment Fund, JeGo, Expeditionary, and AmaZethu. He is a Kauffman Fellow and holds a degree in chemical engineering.

Co-founded TIDAL, sold to Jay-Z, and built Unacast into a global location-intelligence platform.

Scholar of startup accelerators and creator of the global seed-accelerator rankings; Rice professor and MIT Sloan affiliate.