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Jeffrey Shainline

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Founder & CEO at Great Sky

Boulder, Colorado, United States

FoundedGreat Sky

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Jeffrey Shainline is the founder and CEO of Great Sky, a startup developing AI hardware based on superconductors and photonics, which recently closed its Seed funding round. He holds a B.S. in physics from CU Boulder (2005) and a Ph.D. in physics from Brown University (2010), and spent 12 years as a scientist at NIST, where he led a team working on hardware for AI and advanced measurement systems. He is an inventor on 11 patents, his research has been cited over 5,000 times, and in 2024 he received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

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Co-founders at Great Sky

JCJeffrey Chiles
Jeffrey ChilesCo-Founder & CTO
BP
Bryce PrimaveraCo-Founder & VP of Architecture
SKSaeed Khan
Saeed KhanCo-Founder & VP of Fabrication

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Who is Jeffrey Shainline?
Jeffrey Shainline is the founder and CEO of Great Sky, a startup developing AI hardware based on superconductors and photonics, which recently closed its Seed funding round. He holds a B.S. in physics from CU Boulder (2005) and a Ph.D. in physics from Brown University (2010), and spent 12 years as a scientist at NIST, where he led a team working on hardware for AI and advanced measurement systems. He is an inventor on 11 patents, his research has been cited over 5,000 times, and in 2024 he received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Where does Jeffrey Shainline work?
Jeffrey Shainline is Founder & CEO of Great Sky.
What companies did Jeffrey Shainline found?
Jeffrey Shainline founded Great Sky.

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