Arry Y.

Building AI Leadership Globally | Policy Frameworks | Executive Director, C:TPI | WTIA Advanced Tech Chair | Chicago-Seattle Bridge

📍 Seattle, Washington, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2019𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Nov 2019
Give InKind is a modern social platform for coordinating support when life is disrupted. From the birth of a baby, to loss of a family member, to medical crisis, and disasters, friends and families need ways to give and receive help, from anywhere. Give InKind facilitates comprehensive support with its Care Calendar, Wishlist, and Donations on one easy-to-use page, empowering communities to support one another through life events that need more than just money.
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Apr 2019
STOW IT helps fill vacant spaces with vehicle storage. We provide access to a new market and a long term customer. Hosts set their own prices and create their property profiles with pictures and detailed features. Renters find storage for short term or long term with the location, price, and features that fit their needs.
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Oct 2018
Tenta is a next generation browser that is designed from the ground up for unparalleled privacy and security with built-in encryption. We are currently in beta and are inviting beta-testers to help us build the best private and encrypted browser. Our mission is simple. We believe privacy is non-negotiable and everyone should have safe access to the world's information without censorship or judgement.
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Jan 2018
tZERO Group, Inc. and its broker-dealer subsidiaries (tZERO) provide an innovative liquidity platform for private companies and assets. We offer institutional-grade solutions for issuers looking to digitize their capital table through blockchain technology, and trade on a regulated alternative trading system. tZERO democratizes access to private assets by providing a simple, automated, and efficient trading venue to broker-dealers, institutions, and investors.
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2025
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Convergence: Technology Policy Institute
Dec 2025
1871, a nonprofit global innovation hub, exists to inspire, equip, and support early-stage, growth-stage, late-stage, and corporate innovators in building extraordinary businesses. 1871 is home to ~500 early-stage startups, ~250 growth and late-stage companies, and ~60 corporates, and is supported by an entire community focused on accelerating their growth and creating jobs in the Chicagoland area. The member experience includes virtual and in-person access to workshops, events, mentorship, and more. The nonprofit organization has 350 mentors available to its members, alongside access to more than 200 partner corporations, universities, education programs, accelerators, venture funds, and others. Since its inception in 2012, more than 2,100+ alum companies are still active, have created over 18,700 jobs, and have raised more than $6.2 billion in follow-on capital.
Executive Director | Co-Founder
Dec 2025
C:TPI (Convergence: Tech Policy Institute) is the think tank mapping AI, blockchain, and quantum policy collisions to deliver trusted safeguards before $10T+ in infrastructure is at risk. We’re building the Policy Convergence Index™ and Chicago Accord to secure the post-quantum internet—where tech converges, policy leads.
2024
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Dec 2024
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Nov 2024
Stealth AI Startup is a private community for founders, researchers, and engineers building next-generation AI companies before public launch. Founders tag themselves here to: 🔹 Gain credibility while working in stealth 🔹 Connect discreetly with other AI founders 🔹 Receive inbound interest from early-stage VCs 🔹 Join curated founder-only circles & discussions 🔹 Access hiring pipelines for early team building If youre building an AI startup in stealth, add your profile to the community and tag yourself to this page. Your stealth journey deserves visibility — without revealing your idea. Join the world’s largest AI stealth founder network.
2021
Co-Chair | Cofounder
Jun 2021
US blockchain policy is log-jammed at the federal level due to hyper-partisan politics, and it will be for many years to come. There is little likelihood of Congress passing rational, helpful legislation to ensure the competitiveness of US blockchain companies on a global stage. Therefore, it is imperative that states operate in collaboration to build policies that, when combined, form a strong platform for US companies. When Congress is once again a functioning body capable of effective legislation,that collection of well-formed, consistent state policies will serve as a strong baseline for future federal policy. Blockchain is a nascent industry with few companies strong enough financially to influence policy for their own interests, let alone for the entire industry. Blockchain lobbying and advocacy organizations of companies are by extension also weak standing alone. There are national and international associations of blockchain companies, but they are underfunded, fragmented, and focus on national or international legislation and regulatory bodies. There are state blockchain associations, but they range from small, partially funded organizations, with very few strong enough to influence state legislation, let alone build a national coalition. A federation of state blockchain associations can combine resources and talents to share best practices, lessons learned, improve operational efficiency, purchasing power, and, where needed, political influence. Also, in partnership with the right national and international blockchain associations, the federation can also contribute to and influence broader regulations to help the industry succeed. Therefore, we are forming a North American Federation of state blockchain councils/associations. The mission is to share best practices, lessons learned, improve operational efficiency for each member, improve the purchasing power for the benefit of each member, and to consolidate political influence.
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