Dr. Radhika Dirks

Global AI Advisor | Forbes 30 Women in AI to Watch | Artificial Intelligence Expert | PhD in Quantum Computing | Keynote Speaker

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Mar 2022
The traditional office does not serve the needs of modern teams, leaving companies in an unfortunate position of blown capacity yet falling utilization. Enter Orbit. We want to change the way the office works. Work close to home, close to your colleagues in the most inspiring offices in Oslo (and soon beyond). Download Orbit and try it for yourself!
early stageReal Estate
Board Member
Nov 2018
Hala Systems develops advanced solutions for civilian and asset protection, accountability, and the prevention of violence before, during, and after conflict. Through the development and implementation of innovative technology, we aim to reduce harm, increase security, and stabilize communities.
Venture Investor
May 2012
Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, employing 96,000 people across 70+ countries. We serve around 1 million commercial and industrial customers, and around 33 million customers daily at our Shell-branded retail service stations. Our purpose is to power progress together by working with each other, our customers and our partners. #PoweringProgress
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2022
Board Member
Mar 2022
The traditional office does not serve the needs of modern teams, leaving companies in an unfortunate position of blown capacity yet falling utilization. Enter Orbit. We want to change the way the office works. Work close to home, close to your colleagues in the most inspiring offices in Oslo (and soon beyond). Download Orbit and try it for yourself!
early stageReal Estate
2020
CEO & Founder
Oct 2020
Ribo is a stealth mode AI-powered biotech moonshot finding new biology to unleash the next wave of highly effective drugs. Powered by a unique complexity physics-driven meta-AI, Ribo understands more of the complexity of human disease biology to discover new drugs, targets, pathways, as well as proprietary measures of gene expressions that are better correlated with disease. Its AI can learn on the full complexity of changes in omics data and genetic expressions of diseased tissue. Currently, Ribo has a pipeline of drug opportunities and lead molecules across 11 discovery programs in oncology. In addition to being automated and generalizable, Ribo has a massive scaling advantage.
2018
Board Member
Nov 2018
Hala Systems develops advanced solutions for civilian and asset protection, accountability, and the prevention of violence before, during, and after conflict. Through the development and implementation of innovative technology, we aim to reduce harm, increase security, and stabilize communities.
2017
CEO & Co-founder
Jun 2017
XLabs builds AI to amplify humans. We build meaningful futuristic moonshots powered by artificial intelligence, quantum computing and neurotech. Each of our breakthroughs cascade on top of a core meta-learning AI. An evolution on Silicon Valley’s past models, we use next-gen technologies to change 3 future slices of the world: culture, genetics and the internet. A new kind of Bell Labs building moonshot companies for the Intelligent Age. Powered by artificial intelligence, unconventional computing & neurotech. XLabs made major breakthroughs in understanding disease biology using our complexity-physics driven AI approach and created Ribo AI to commercialize our technical breakthrough. XLabs is no longer an operating company.
CEO & Co-founder
Jun 2017
XLabs builds AI to amplify humans. We build meaningful futuristic moonshots powered by artificial intelligence, quantum computing and neurotech. Each of our breakthroughs cascade on top of a core meta-learning AI. An evolution on Silicon Valley’s past models, we use next-gen technologies to change 3 future slices of the world: culture, genetics and the internet. A new kind of Bell Labs building moonshot companies for the Intelligent Age. Powered by artificial intelligence, unconventional computing & neurotech. XLabs made major breakthroughs in understanding disease biology using our complexity-physics driven AI approach and created Ribo AI to commercialize our technical breakthrough. XLabs is no longer an operating company.
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