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Mouna Apperson

Chief Data Scientist · Applied AI & Forward-Deployed Engineer · Former CTO (→ Series B) · LLMs, inference optimization, distributed systems · Built a sub-ms database serving ~100M users/mo

📍 St Louis, Missouri, United States🔄 Updated November 2026💼 5 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022
Operator-angel🌍 United States
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Board Member
Nov 2020
Finding the school that will help each child succeed is a daunting task. St. Louis families have to gather and sift through various bits of information, weighing the value and reliability of one piece against another. This puts a lot of onus on families to conduct an exhaustive school search and unfairly disadvantages those with limited time and resources. In 2015, local parents built an online school guide called STLCitySchools with the aim of working collaboratively to give all parents fair access to school finding information, resources and support. In 2019, a non-profit organization was formed to build upon these efforts. Working with parents, educators, and community organizations, we designed and launched the first-ever mobile focused school finder with a focus on increasing equity of access to information. The school finder is part of a larger effort to ensure all St. Louis families can find and access a school that enables each child to thrive. Navigate STL Schools is possible thanks to funding from SkipNV and The Opportunity Trust.
Investor
Jun 2013
Big data improves the patent prosecution process. Period. Juristat’s statistical modeling capabilities allow its users to visually plot their chance of success in every aspect of the patent application process. Using a proprietary natural language processing algorithm, Juristat organizes and structures raw USPTO data to build behavioral models of patent examiners’ past behaviors, allowing attorneys to more accurately predict examiners’ future behavior. Armed with Juristat's data analytics, patent attorneys can more effectively prosecute patents and attract and retain clients. To learn how we can help your firm, visit us at www.juristat.com
Investor
Feb 2013
Protect Interests. Inspire Engagement. Your stakeholders are counting on you. Monitor state and federal policy play-by-play, then seamlessly report this information to those who need to know. TRACK TrackBill keeps you informed on all important bill, committee, and legislator actions. Receive real-time alerts for introductions, amendments, hearings, votes, and more. COLLABORATE TrackBill ensures everyone is always in the loop. Add your colleagues to the account, and receive an alert when they track a bill for you or post to a group discussion. COMMUNICATE TrackBill makes legislative reporting simple. Create professional Word, PDF, and Excel documents, as well as fully customizable, auto-updating website feeds.
Experience · 6 entries
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2022
Board Member
Jan 2022
ALIVE's mission is to provide counseling, emergency sanctuary and other critical services to adults and children impacted by domestic abuse, as well as to increase awareness in order to create a supportive community. ALIVE's vision is to end domestic abuse, restoring safety and peace one family at a time. ALIVE (Alternatives to Living in Violent Environments) was incorporated in 1985 and with great determination and vision ALIVE prospered into a full-service domestic violence agency. Today's Nights of Safety program remains true to the founders' original concept of providing temporary emergency sanctuary when all domestic violence shelter beds are full. ALIVE's additional services include: a 24-hour crisis line, emergency transportation, individual and group adult counseling, children's treatment program, court advocacy, and outreach and community education.
2020
Board Member
Nov 2020
Finding the school that will help each child succeed is a daunting task. St. Louis families have to gather and sift through various bits of information, weighing the value and reliability of one piece against another. This puts a lot of onus on families to conduct an exhaustive school search and unfairly disadvantages those with limited time and resources. In 2015, local parents built an online school guide called STLCitySchools with the aim of working collaboratively to give all parents fair access to school finding information, resources and support. In 2019, a non-profit organization was formed to build upon these efforts. Working with parents, educators, and community organizations, we designed and launched the first-ever mobile focused school finder with a focus on increasing equity of access to information. The school finder is part of a larger effort to ensure all St. Louis families can find and access a school that enables each child to thrive. Navigate STL Schools is possible thanks to funding from SkipNV and The Opportunity Trust.
2014
Prosper Capital
Investor
Dec 2014
2013
Investor
Jun 2013
Big data improves the patent prosecution process. Period. Juristat’s statistical modeling capabilities allow its users to visually plot their chance of success in every aspect of the patent application process. Using a proprietary natural language processing algorithm, Juristat organizes and structures raw USPTO data to build behavioral models of patent examiners’ past behaviors, allowing attorneys to more accurately predict examiners’ future behavior. Armed with Juristat's data analytics, patent attorneys can more effectively prosecute patents and attract and retain clients. To learn how we can help your firm, visit us at www.juristat.com
Investor
Feb 2013
Protect Interests. Inspire Engagement. Your stakeholders are counting on you. Monitor state and federal policy play-by-play, then seamlessly report this information to those who need to know. TRACK TrackBill keeps you informed on all important bill, committee, and legislator actions. Receive real-time alerts for introductions, amendments, hearings, votes, and more. COLLABORATE TrackBill ensures everyone is always in the loop. Add your colleagues to the account, and receive an alert when they track a bill for you or post to a group discussion. COMMUNICATE TrackBill makes legislative reporting simple. Create professional Word, PDF, and Excel documents, as well as fully customizable, auto-updating website feeds.
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