Michelle D.

METALAB Editor-in-Chief | OYW Ambassador | Angel Investor & AI Venture Scout | MiM: ESSEC & Global Management: University of Queensland

📍 Other🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
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Investor
Jan 2025
We enable the most efficient lattice structures at industrial scale for manufacturers in Automotive, Aviation and Space. We support these manufacturers from design through scalable production using our Lattice Design Suite CAD & FEA plugins plus our Adaptive Spatial Lattice Manufacturing industrial toolchain.
Investor
Jul 2024
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Investor
Dec 2023
Interstellar Lab is a biotech company founded in 2018 that develops, manufactures, and operates advanced bio-farming platforms to produce the cleanest plant-based ingredients. Our bio-farming technology combines automated farms, AI, and bioscience with a unique data-driven approach. We accelerate plant growth while optimizing plant molecular composition. We provide a sustainable solution for high-quality plant-based ingredients production to large health, beauty, and F&B companies. Our technology has also been awarded twice by NASA and will deployed in space stations and lunar environment. The company counts 45 engineers, scientists, and researchers located between our flagship 65,000 sq. ft. BioPod Facility and Plant Lab in Ivry-sur-Seine (France), a Space Lab at NASA KSC Florida (USA), and a Business Hub in San Francisco (USA). You can reach out at contact@interstellarlab.earth
Angel Investor
Dec 2023
This is a catchall company for the doers, the thinkers, and the innovators.
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2025
Founder's Associate
Mar 2025
A new type of team for the new world of work. Doing what we love, making a real difference for companies that care. We provide fully flexible, in-house fractional teams to some of the world’s most rapidly growing businesses. How we work: Our amazing people split their time across multiple companies every week. We match their knowledge and skills with each customer’s unique needs. We come together every week to learn, grow and have fun. We support and invest in our team so they can always make the biggest impact possible. We’re here to revolutionise the employee-employer relationship and build a better way of working. We started in finance. We were ashamed to call ourselves accountants. So we created a new path: FinOps. But we’re not stopping there. We’re opening up even more opportunities for passionate people to redefine how they work - including LegalOps and PeopleOps. We support and invest in our team so they can always make the biggest impact possible. We’re here to revolutionise the employee-employer relationship and build a better way of working.
Investor
Jan 2025
We enable the most efficient lattice structures at industrial scale for manufacturers in Automotive, Aviation and Space. We support these manufacturers from design through scalable production using our Lattice Design Suite CAD & FEA plugins plus our Adaptive Spatial Lattice Manufacturing industrial toolchain.
Venture Scout
Jan 2025
Kinetic Investments is a venture capital firm dedicated to early-stage companies that are transforming the digital landscape. Our mission is to drive startup ambitions to definitive successes through strategic investments and dynamic partnerships. Since our inception in 2016, we have invested in 12 transformative startups and been behind over 100+ digital brands. We specialise in pre-seed and seed-stage investments, offering strategic guidance from day one. Our robust operational support and extensive network access is designed to help our portfolio companies scale globally and achieve significant milestones. We are not just investors; we are catalysts for change, committed to shaping the future of digital transformation.
2024
Investor
Jul 2024
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
2023
Investor
Dec 2023
Interstellar Lab is a biotech company founded in 2018 that develops, manufactures, and operates advanced bio-farming platforms to produce the cleanest plant-based ingredients. Our bio-farming technology combines automated farms, AI, and bioscience with a unique data-driven approach. We accelerate plant growth while optimizing plant molecular composition. We provide a sustainable solution for high-quality plant-based ingredients production to large health, beauty, and F&B companies. Our technology has also been awarded twice by NASA and will deployed in space stations and lunar environment. The company counts 45 engineers, scientists, and researchers located between our flagship 65,000 sq. ft. BioPod Facility and Plant Lab in Ivry-sur-Seine (France), a Space Lab at NASA KSC Florida (USA), and a Business Hub in San Francisco (USA). You can reach out at contact@interstellarlab.earth
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