Christopher Nguyen
AITOMATIC
Co-founder and CEO building industrial AI for engineers.
AI
Our founders are family
The engineers, scientists and operators Tess has backed, with those building AI, robotics and frontier infrastructure first.
Belinda Mo
Viva Translate
Co-founder and CEO of a real-time AI translation company.
AI
Dan Turchin
PeopleReign
Founder building AI agents for IT and HR teams.
AI
Julija Bainiaksina
SygnalXYZ
Engineer and founder with a PhD in machine learning and NLP.
AI
Phoebe Yao
Pareto
Founder and CEO focused on distributed expert work.
AI
Till Pieper
CoScreen
Built collaboration tools for engineers; acquired by Datadog.
Infrastructure
Iain Usiri
Ramani
Co-founder and CEO building supply chain infrastructure in Africa.
Infrastructure
Vlad Tenev
Robinhood
Co-founder of Robinhood.
Fintech
David Velez
Nubank
Founder of Nubank.
Fintech
Dan Levin
Degreed
Co-founder of Degreed.
Consumer
Earl Valencia
Plentina
Co-founder of Plentina.
Fintech
Kevin Gabayan
Plentina
Co-founder of Plentina.
Fintech
Ray Pulungan
Pintaria
CEO building education and skills in Indonesia.
Consumer
Amber Ju
Kithward
Founder of Kithward.
Consumer
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