We are a team of operators, founders, advisors, and investors.

First to sequence DNA in space; flew two missions to the International Space Station for 300 days in orbit, and now leads a space-biomedicine institute.

Led Google’s roughly $70B global data-center buildout.

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

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

Scaled Bharti Airtel to 570M+ users as CEO, deployed $15B+ across the SoftBank India portfolio, including Paytm, Ola, and Flipkart, and built 7 GW of renewable power as Executive Chairman of SB Energy.

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

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

Optoelectronics pioneer behind Intel RealSense 3D vision; his camera benchmark is used industry-wide.

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

Guided spacecraft navigation for the Starlink and Amazon LEO mega-constellations.

Earned a PhD in satellite communications and has built satcom systems across three continents.

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

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

Co-founded the original commercial rideshare launch company, filled a Falcon 9 with 88 satellites, and flew the first rideshare mission to the Moon.

Took Proxicom public on NASDAQ and sold Medialets to WPP; now CEO of Aescape, building consumer robots, with Tom Brady as Chief Innovation Officer.

Founder and CEO of Beewise, whose autonomous robotic hives use computer vision and AI to manage billions of bees and support the global food supply.

Managing Director of the $350M+ Camco REPP fund for African renewable energy; secured $50M from the Green Climate Fund.

Top-ranked Wall Street energy analyst for three decades; sits on the board of ONE Gas (NYSE: OGS), a publicly traded natural gas utility, and hosts fireside chats with energy CEOs and senior executives.

Chemical engineer and former Shell operator who spent nearly a decade running the global Draper Venture Network; now invests in energy, critical minerals, and data infrastructure across Africa.

Pioneered competitive fiber telecom across Europe, took a company public, and co-founded Geeks Without Frontiers to bring broadband to the hardest-to-reach places.

Chairs the UN Global Compact Network USA and leads global sustainability for a Fortune 500 company.

Runs a global CEO search firm and authored a landmark twenty-year report on women in executive leadership; Strategic Partner of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies and advisor to solar venture Exowatt.

Ran Xbox in Japan and served as president of Intellectual Ventures Canada; now invests in deep tech.

Launched Intel’s flagship chip on the CES main stage; builds immersive experiences for Oracle, Cisco, and Microsoft.

Organizational psychologist who helps founders build companies without breaking themselves or their co-founders; advises CEOs from seed stage through private equity, including at Warburg Pincus.

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

Co-founded TIDAL, the music service he sold to Jay-Z, and built Unacast into a leading global location-intelligence platform.

Started at the CIA, became a top law firm’s first chief data scientist, and now represents OpenAI and Anthropic on AI law.

Created Death Cigarettes, a brand built around radical honesty; now advises the world’s biggest brands on telling the truth.

Has deployed more than $1B and turned around 17 technology companies.