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Board Observer
Dec 2025
Generative Bionics is an Italian company founded on research and technologies developed at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and dedicated to building intelligent humanoid robots based on Physical AI. The company integrates robotics, artificial intelligence, and design to develop humanoids designed to operate safely and reliably in real-world settings, prioritizing industrial use cases.
Board Observer
Sep 2025
Seekr delivers AI you can trust in mission-critical environments.
As a privately held artificial intelligence company, we help government and critical infrastructure leaders make accurate, explainable decisions when the stakes are highest. From defense to telecom to finance, we power the systems society depends on.
Build accurate, explainable AI securely with your data with SeekrFlow™, our end-to-end platform with comprehensive content-scoring capabilities and a toolset to build domain-specific large language models and AI agents. By addressing bias, data integrity, and model complexity, we power informed, auditable decisions that drive real-world results. Our AI solutions are optimized for various enterprise and government use cases and run on all leading cloud and hardware providers. As a SOC 2 certified company, we provide you with full control to deploy on our cloud, your cloud, your data center, or at the Edge.
Board Observer
Jun 2024
Essential AI is on a mission to make frontier AI more accessible through an open, collaborative platform. Our open models, robust tooling, reproducible pipelines, and evaluation frameworks empower anyone to build, iterate, and innovate at pace.
Powerful AIs dont trace their origins to singular breakthroughs, but from an amalgam of improvements, incremental and large. Essential AI creates the ideal environment to catalyze these advancements, enabling a steady path to sustained frontier capabilities.
By incrementally releasing frontier-capable models alongside sharing significant open science components, we translate research into real-world impact. In the near term, this accelerates discoveries, broadens adoption, and draws new talent into our ecosystem, equipping emerging domains with open models as the essential entry point to tackle critical challenges. Over the long run, it shapes AI’s evolution globally and sustains scalable, durable business models through strategic API and domain partnerships -partnering with the world’s builders to drive relentless, frontier-level innovation.
Board Observer
2021
Jariet Technologies, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in high-speed data converter technology. Jariet is based in Redondo Beach, CA.
Board Observer
2019
Looking beyond parallelization and focusing on customization and specialization for energy-efficient computing, Falcon Computing provides automated compilation tools, a runtime management tool, and acceleration libraries to enable scalable and seamless integration of heterogeneous accelerating technologies into existing data center infrastructures, with focus on FPGA-based acceleration.
Falcon Computing brings orders-of-magnitude performance/power efficiency improvement for key big-data applications, including machine learning and computational genomics/precision medicine.
Founded in 2014, Falcon Computing leverages the multi-year research outcomes and experience from the Center for Domain Specific Computing (CDSC), funded by a $10M award under the Expeditions in Computing program from the National Science Foundation in 2009. The CDSC Director, Prof. Jason Cong from UCLA (http://vast.cs.ucla.edu/people/faculty/jason-cong) is a key co-founder of this company.
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2025
Board Observer
Dec 2025
Generative Bionics is an Italian company founded on research and technologies developed at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and dedicated to building intelligent humanoid robots based on Physical AI. The company integrates robotics, artificial intelligence, and design to develop humanoids designed to operate safely and reliably in real-world settings, prioritizing industrial use cases.
Board Observer
Sep 2025
Seekr delivers AI you can trust in mission-critical environments.
As a privately held artificial intelligence company, we help government and critical infrastructure leaders make accurate, explainable decisions when the stakes are highest. From defense to telecom to finance, we power the systems society depends on.
Build accurate, explainable AI securely with your data with SeekrFlow™, our end-to-end platform with comprehensive content-scoring capabilities and a toolset to build domain-specific large language models and AI agents. By addressing bias, data integrity, and model complexity, we power informed, auditable decisions that drive real-world results. Our AI solutions are optimized for various enterprise and government use cases and run on all leading cloud and hardware providers. As a SOC 2 certified company, we provide you with full control to deploy on our cloud, your cloud, your data center, or at the Edge.
2024
Board Observer
Jun 2024
Essential AI is on a mission to make frontier AI more accessible through an open, collaborative platform. Our open models, robust tooling, reproducible pipelines, and evaluation frameworks empower anyone to build, iterate, and innovate at pace.
Powerful AIs dont trace their origins to singular breakthroughs, but from an amalgam of improvements, incremental and large. Essential AI creates the ideal environment to catalyze these advancements, enabling a steady path to sustained frontier capabilities.
By incrementally releasing frontier-capable models alongside sharing significant open science components, we translate research into real-world impact. In the near term, this accelerates discoveries, broadens adoption, and draws new talent into our ecosystem, equipping emerging domains with open models as the essential entry point to tackle critical challenges. Over the long run, it shapes AI’s evolution globally and sustains scalable, durable business models through strategic API and domain partnerships -partnering with the world’s builders to drive relentless, frontier-level innovation.
2022
Sr. Investor at AMD Ventures
Feb 2022
We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry, our communities, and the world. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences – the building blocks for the data center, artificial intelligence, PCs, gaming and embedded. Underpinning our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges. We strive for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives.
AMD together we advance_
2021
Board Observer
2021
Jariet Technologies, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in high-speed data converter technology. Jariet is based in Redondo Beach, CA.
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