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New York attorney, angel investor, and founder of Cytowski & Partners. Advises startups, venture investors, and European founders entering the US market. An early investor in ElevenLabs.

Programmer, essayist and investor who co-founded Y Combinator with Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris and Trevor Blackwell. Previously co-founded Viaweb, acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Writes extensively about startups, entrepreneurship and programming at paulgraham.com; author of Hackers & Painters and books on Lisp, and creator of the Bel programming language. Holds a Harvard PhD in computer science.

Entrepreneur behind Blueprint and the Don't Die community, focused on longevity and health measurement. Founder of Kernel, developing non-invasive brain measurement technology, and OS Fund, which backs science-based companies. His work connects consumer health, neurotechnology and investment in scientific engineering. Appeared at the Network State Conference and on Balaji Srinivasan's Network State podcast. Distinct from Coinbase co-founder Brian Armstrong.

Founder and CEO of Pershing Square, known for concentrated, research-driven investments and active engagement with portfolio companies. Previously co-founded Gotham Partners and worked in real-estate investment banking. Executive chairman of Howard Hughes Holdings and co-trustee of the Pershing Square Foundation, whose philanthropy includes health, medicine and neuroscience. Holds a Harvard MBA and undergraduate degree. In August 2026, announced plans for the Ackman Oxman Institute, focused on brain research, rehabilitation, BCI development and longevity, with venture funding for translating research into patient-facing technologies.

OpenAI co-founder and Head of AI Resilience at the OpenAI Foundation, appointed in March 2026. Works on AI safety, alignment and society's preparedness for advanced AI. Previously led OpenAI teams working on robotics, code generation, language models and human data, with contributions to Codex, GPT-4 and reasoning models. Earned a PhD at NYU with Yann LeCun and Rob Fergus.

CEO and co-founder of Flourish, developing energy-efficient AI, and a venture partner at Lux Capital. A computational neuroscientist with a Columbia PhD, he co-founded CTRL-labs, acquired by Meta in 2019, and led research on non-invasive neuromotor interfaces using surface EMG. Earlier initiated Microsoft's Internet Explorer project and served as Openwave CTO. Co-author of the 2025 Nature paper on generic neuromotor interfaces for human-computer interaction; joined Columbia's board of trustees in September 2026.

Co-founder and Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist at Alphabet, as listed on Google's current author profile. AI researcher with a background in cognitive neuroscience at UCL, including research on memory and imagination and postdoctoral work at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit. Co-led the development of AlphaFold and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. DeepMind's work includes AlphaGo and neuroscience-inspired machine learning.

Professor at UC Davis and director of the Speech Neuroengineering and Cybernetics Lab. Studies speech perception, auditory attention and communication using EEG, fMRI and machine learning, with applications to hearing loss and speech restoration. Holds a joint UCSF/UC Berkeley PhD in bioengineering; joined UC Davis in 2004 after postdoctoral work in cognitive neuroimaging at Berkeley. His research includes brain-based hearing diagnostics and decoding facial-muscle signals to reconstruct speech.

Professor of AI and robotics at UC Berkeley and an Amazon Scholar. Directs Berkeley's Robot Learning Lab and co-directs the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab. Co-founded Covariant and Gradescope and is an investment partner at AIX Ventures. His research spans reinforcement learning, imitation learning, robotic control and foundation models, with contributions including TRPO, MAML and hindsight experience replay. Holds a Stanford PhD in computer science. His main expertise is AI and robotics rather than clinical neurology or EEG.

Founder of Network School, author of The Network State and technology investor. Former CTO of Coinbase and former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Co-founded Earn.com, Counsyl, Teleport and Coin Center; his background combines entrepreneurship, crypto infrastructure and genomics research. Holds Stanford degrees including a PhD in electrical engineering. Hosts the Network State podcast, including an interview with Bryan Johnson.

Leads compute at Meta and is an early-stage technology investor, often alongside Nat Friedman through their NFDG partnership. Co-founded Safe Superintelligence and previously co-founded Cue, acquired by Apple in 2013. Ran AI and search projects at Apple from 2013 to 2017 and later served as a Y Combinator partner, starting its AI program. His investments span AI, developer infrastructure and enterprise software.

AI product leader at Meta and technology investor, known for co-founding NFDG with Daniel Gross. Previously CEO of GitHub from 2018 to 2021 and co-founder of Xamarin and Ximian. Supports scientific projects including the Vesuvius Challenge to read ancient Herculaneum scrolls and PlasticList's testing of chemicals in food. Serves on the Arc Institute board.

Technology entrepreneur and investor who runs Gil & Co, a multi-stage investment firm. Co-founded Color Health and Mixer Labs, which was acquired by Twitter, where he became a vice president; previously worked on AI and mobile at Google. An early investor in numerous AI and infrastructure companies, he co-hosts No Priors and wrote High Growth Handbook. Holds an MIT PhD and has supported longevity research and companies.

Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of OpenAI, leading the company developing ChatGPT, frontier AI models and the infrastructure supporting them. Previously president of Y Combinator and co-founder of Loopt. An entrepreneur and technology investor, he writes about startups, economic growth and the long-term implications of AI on his personal blog.

Co-founder of Discovery Loop, launched in 2026 with Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals to automate machine-learning research and scientific experimentation. Previously Google's Chief Scientist for Google Research and DeepMind and a co-founder of Google Brain, with decades of work on large-scale computing and AI infrastructure. His career includes contributions to MapReduce and Google's machine-learning systems. The current company site and August 2026 founding announcement supersede older Google biographies.

Co-founder of World Labs, developing spatial intelligence and world models, and Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford. Founding co-director of Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute; previously directed Stanford's AI Lab and served as Google Cloud's chief scientist for AI/ML during a sabbatical. Known for creating ImageNet and the ImageNet Challenge. Her research spans computer vision, machine learning and cognitive neuroscience.

AI researcher, co-author of the Transformer paper, and co-founder of NEAR Protocol who now leads NEAR AI.

Consumer technology and AI investor who announced his departure from Andreessen Horowitz in 2026 to start his own fund. Previously a16z partner, with investments including ElevenLabs, Function Health, Partiful and Slingshot AI. Earlier worked on growth at Snap and served as CFO at Bungalow. Writes about consumer AI, distribution, engagement and monetization. His own writing identifies @kirbyman01 as his X account.

President and co-founder of OpenAI, working on frontier AI systems, engineering and company strategy. Previously CTO of Stripe, helping grow its engineering organization from an early startup. His projects include OpenAI Gym, OpenAI Five, the OpenAI API and large-scale model training. Writes about software engineering and technology at gregbrockman.com and his personal blog.

Partner at Khosla Ventures

Chief Scientist at OpenAI, appointed in May 2024 after serving as Director of Research. Joined OpenAI in 2017 and led work on GPT-4, OpenAI Five, large-scale reinforcement learning, and deep learning optimization. Holds a PhD in theoretical computer science from Carnegie Mellon University (2016), where his research focused on fast algorithms for high-dimensional convex optimization.

Creator and leader of Base, the Ethereum layer-2 network incubated by Coinbase. Previously led consumer engineering at Coinbase, working on Coinbase, Coinbase Pro, and Coinbase Wallet. Earlier founded Clef and worked as an engineer at BuzzFeed. Also develops open-source software.

Chairman and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates and Professor Emeritus at NYU Stern. His official biography also lists roles as Senior Economic Strategist at Hudson Bay Capital and Chief Economist and Portfolio Manager at Atlas Capital Team. An economist focused on international finance, macroeconomic risk and geopolitics, he previously served at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and the US Treasury. Holds a Harvard PhD and has written extensively on financial crises and global economic risks.

Co-founder and partner at Gigafund; professionally known as Luke Nosek. Co-founded PayPal, where he was VP of Marketing and Strategy, and later co-founded Founders Fund with Peter Thiel and Ken Howery. Led Founders Fund's first SpaceX investment in 2008 and has served on SpaceX's board. Also associated with boards including Last Energy, ResearchGate and Luminous Computing. Focuses on backing ambitious companies over long horizons.

Founder of DeepLearning.AI, Managing General Partner at AI Fund, Managing Partner at AI Aspire, Executive Chairman of LandingAI, and co-founder and chairman of Coursera. An adjunct professor at Stanford, he previously led Google Brain, served as Baidu's chief scientist, and directed the Stanford AI Lab. His work spans machine learning, online education and creating AI companies. Holds a UC Berkeley PhD in computer science.

Independent AI researcher and educator producing technical and general-audience courses on neural networks and large language models. A founding member of OpenAI and former Director of AI at Tesla, where he led the Autopilot computer-vision team. Returned to OpenAI in 2023–2024 to build a team working on midtraining and synthetic data. Earned his Stanford PhD with Fei-Fei Li and designed and taught Stanford's CS231n deep-learning course.

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Coinbase, the cryptocurrency platform serving consumers, institutions and developers. Leads the company's work on crypto adoption, economic freedom and financial infrastructure. Writes publicly about Coinbase's strategy, decentralization and building an AI-native company. A speaker in the Network State community. Distinct from Bryan Johnson, the Blueprint and Kernel founder.

Head of MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and director of the K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center. Leads the Bioelectronics Group, developing multifunctional fibers and magnetic nanomaterials for recording and modulating the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nervous system. Earned her MIT PhD in 2009, completed postdoctoral work at Stanford, and joined MIT's faculty in 2011.

Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology at MIT, professor in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Media Arts and Sciences, and Biological Engineering, and leader of the Synthetic Neurobiology Group. An investigator at the McGovern Institute, he develops tools to analyze and repair neural circuits. Co-invented optogenetic control of neurons and helped develop expansion microscopy and non-invasive brain stimulation methods. Earned his neuroscience PhD at Stanford. Co-founded the Mindspan Institute in 2026 to scale human brain analysis technologies.

Brown University neuroscientist and BrainGate pioneer; became professor emeritus in July 2026 after a 42-year career at Brown and continues working on BrainGate. Previously Henry Merritt Wriston Professor of Neuroscience and professor of engineering. Helped establish intracortical brain-computer interfaces that allow people with paralysis to control computers and assistive devices, and built Brown's brain science research program. His work focuses on restoring communication and voluntary movement through neural interfaces.

CNRS researcher at École Normale Supérieure, currently seconded to Meta AI, where he leads the Brain & AI team. Studies the neural and computational basis of intelligence and language using deep learning with MEG, EEG, electrophysiology and fMRI. His research includes Brain2Qwerty, which decodes typed sentences from non-invasive brain recordings, and models linking speech and language processing in the brain to artificial neural networks.

Postdoctoral scholar in Stanford's Department of Neurosurgery and Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory; also publishes as Erin M. Kunz. Completed a Stanford PhD in electrical engineering, advised by Krishna Shenoy and Jaimie Henderson and co-advised by Scott Linderman. Works on machine learning and statistical models for BCI decoding, particularly speech and handwriting. Previously a controls engineer in automated and autonomous driving at General Motors. Co-first author of the 2023 Nature paper A high-performance speech neuroprosthesis.

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Stanford and co-director of the Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory. Also publishes as Francis R. Willett. Develops brain-computer interfaces for communication and movement after paralysis, including handwriting decoding and large-vocabulary speech decoding. Earned a PhD in biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University, then worked at Stanford as a postdoctoral scholar and research scientist before joining the faculty in 2025. Co-first author of the 2023 Nature paper A high-performance speech neuroprosthesis.

Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery at UC Davis and co-director of the UC Davis Neuroprosthetics Lab with David Brandman. A neuroscientist and neural engineer working across systems neuroscience, computation and AI, he develops implanted brain-computer interfaces to restore communication after paralysis. His work includes speech decoding and expressive voice synthesis for people with ALS, with longer-term interests in language disorders and high-channel-count neural interfaces.

Co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, the platform and community for sharing and building machine-learning models, datasets and applications. Leads its work on open AI collaboration and commercial partnerships that make models and infrastructure accessible to researchers and developers. Publishes as Clem on Hugging Face, where his interests include multimodal models, time series, biology and chemistry.

Co-founder of Square (now Block), co-founder and General Partner at FINTOP Capital, and founder of FastTrials, which works to streamline clinical trials. Serves on the boards of Block and Emerson Electric. Previously founded LaunchCode, Invisibly and Third Degree Glass Factory. An entrepreneur, inventor and glass artist, he wrote The Innovation Stack about building businesses through interlocking innovations.

Head of Operations and founding team member at Wordware (Sauna by Wordware).

Programmer and entrepreneur known as geohot; founder of comma.ai and tiny corp.

Co-founder of ElevenLabs. Previously worked at Palantir and studied Mathematics at Imperial College London.

Founder of The Thinking Company, angel investor and newsletter author.

Named backer of Tilde Research. Investment amount and round are not disclosed.

Venture Partner at Inovo.vc and SaaS specialist who works with companies as an active chairman or board member. Supports product development, sales, marketing, hiring and go-to-market execution. Helped develop the Microsoft accelerator in Israel and the Kama Tech accelerator.

Venture Partner at Inovo.vc with experience in e-commerce, fintech, payments, retail and online services. His background includes commercial and board leadership at Allegro during its IPO, leadership roles at First Data Poland and Loyalty Partner, and a partnership at McKinsey & Company. Specializes in general management, business development and commercial strategy.

Responsible for investor relations and fundraising at Inovo.vc since joining in 2019. Previously spent nearly a decade in banking and wealth management at ING, BNP Paribas and Noble Bank. Also made angel investments in Wedding.pl and FitAdept. Focuses on relationships with the firm's limited partners.

Analyst at Inovo.vc supporting the sourcing and evaluation of early-stage startups. Interested in AI SaaS, future of work, digital health and consumer technology, especially applications of AI in healthcare and productivity.

Principal at Inovo.vc, which he joined in late 2022. Focuses on B2B SaaS, marketplaces, consumer and small-business products, with an interest in the Baltics. Sources investments and supports portfolio companies with financial analysis, dashboards and analytics.

Partner at Inovo.vc focused on AI, data science and deep tech. Previously co-founded B2B marketplace Cateringoo and served as COO at data infrastructure startup Oxla and AI climate insurtech Climatica. Also worked at venture builder Daftcode and in technology M&A and venture investing.

Partner at Inovo.vc investing in developer tools, DevOps, infrastructure, deep tech and B2B enterprise software. Works with technical founders on products, business strategy and fundraising. His portfolio includes Spacelift, Archbee, AI Clearing and Eyerim. Member of Kauffman Fellows Class 26.

Partner at Inovo.vc focused on healthcare, B2C, B2B2C, SME software and SaaS-enabled marketplaces. Helps founders with sales, marketing and company growth. His background spans strategic consulting, building online businesses and FMCG marketing. Inovo's portfolio credits him with investments including Booksy, Preply, Infermedica, Tidio and Jutro Medical.

Managing Partner at Inovo.vc, leading the team and backing CEE founders building global technology businesses. Focuses on B2B enterprise companies, repeat founders and expansion into the US. Previously worked in investment banking at Rothschild and private equity at Penta. His Inovo portfolio includes Symmetrical, Intiaro, Packhelp and Restaumatic.

Managing Partner at Cambridge Innovation Capital

Senior Investment Associate at Cambridge Innovation Capital

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Partner & CFO at Cambridge Innovation Capital

Non Executive Director at Cambridge Innovation Capital

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Partner at Cambridge Innovation Capital

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General Partner at Zetta Venture Partners

Partner at Zetta Venture Partners

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Managing Partner at Zetta

Managing Director at Zetta Venture Partners

Managing Director at Zetta Venture Partners

Founding Partner at Wing Venture Capital

Partner at Wing Venture Capital

Co-Founder & General Partner at Work-Bench

General Partner at Work-Bench

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Partner at Wing Venture Capital

Founding Partner at Wing Venture Capital

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General Partner at White Star Capital

General Partner at White Star Capital

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General Partner at White Star Capital

General Partner at White Star Capital

General Partner at Vsquared Ventures

Founder & Managing Partner at White Star Capital

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Principal at White Star Capital

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General Partner at White Star Capital

General Partner & Chief Catalyst Officer at White Star Capital

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Venture Guide, Managing Partner at Venture Guides

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founder & general partner at Version One Ventures

General Partner at Version One Ventures

General Partner at Vsquared Ventures

General Partner at Vsquared Ventures

Technical Advisor at Venture Guides

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Managing Partner at VentureFriends

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Partner and Co-Founder at VentureFriends

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General Partner at Upfront Ventures

Principal at Unusual Ventures

General Partner at Upfront Ventures

General Partner at Upfront Ventures

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General Partner at Upfront Ventures

General Partner at Upfront Ventures

Board Partner at Upfront Ventures

Partner at Unusual Ventures

Advisor at Upfront Ventures

Partner at Uncork Capital

General Partner at Unusual Ventures

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Senior Investment Associate at Unusual Ventures

Managing Partner at Uncork Capital

Partner at The General Partnership

Partner at The General Partnership

Principal at Telescope Partners

Full-time Venture Partner at Systemiq Capital

Managing Partner at Speedinvest

Venture Partner at Speedinvest

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Partner at Speedinvest