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Board Member
Jul 2025
San José State University is a major, comprehensive public university located in Silicon Valley. The founding campus of the California State University system, SJSU takes pride in a faculty and student body that is active in hands-on learning, research, community service and the arts. What powers us changes our world.
SJSU CAREER CENTER
sjsu.edu/careercenter
Hire Spartans
The SJSU Career Center connects tens of thousands of employers to current students and alumni. Get connected to Spartan talent by registering as an employer at sjsu.joinhandshake.com. Visit sjsu.edu/careercenter for help with recruiting strategies.
Mentor Spartans
The transition from college to career can be stressful and uncertain. Help Spartans prepare for the next steps in their careers by sharing your journey with students who are interested in your professional path. Join the professional mentor community at bit.ly/sjsu2career.
SJSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
sjsualumni.com
Since 1873, the SJSU Alumni Association has endeavored to connect graduates to their alma mater and each other, while adding value to the SJSU degree.
Today, the Alumni Association continues to serve the universitys 226,000+ network of graduates. The association annually hosts a variety of social and recreational events. The association offers members an assortment of benefits that range from medical insurance to life insurance to merchandise and travel discounts to access to the SJSU Career Center.
Shareholder
Apr 2025
DeFi Development Corporation, formerly Janover Inc. (Nasdaq: JNVR), has adopted a treasury policy under which the principal holding in its treasury reserve on the balance sheet will be allocated to Solana (SOL). In adopting its new treasury policy, the Company intends to provide investors a way to access the Solana ecosystem. The Companys treasury policy is expected to provide investors economic exposure to SOL investment.
As veterans of both TradFi and crypto, weve witnessed firsthand the accelerating convergence of next-generation blockchain technology with the internet of tomorrow. Our perspective has allowed us to see how decentralization and programmable digital assets are transforming traditional infrastructures, enhancing transparency, security, and efficiency, while also reshaping the foundations of finance, technology, and economic collaboration.
Decentralization is no longer theoretical. The future is inherently decentralized, interoperable, and powered by cryptographic integrity rather than institutional trust, to which Solana will be central. Solana offers the necessary infrastructure for scalable decentralized applications through its high throughput, rapid transaction finality, and developer-friendly environment.
At DeFi Development Corporation, were leveraging our experience in capital markets and Solana validator operations to bring a new crypto-native treasury model to the public market. We aim to provide shareholders with superior risk-adjusted returns relative to holding SOL directly, while accelerating Solanas role as foundational infrastructure in the decentralized future.
Investor
Apr 2025
Relli is the marketplace for private real estate — built for investors who want premium opportunities without the traditional friction.
What We Offer:
🔹 Invest – Browse high-quality deals and speak directly with top-tier sponsors.
🔹 Connect – Find vetted real estate professionals across legal, finance, and construction.
🔹 Fund – List your project and connect with serious investors ready to support it.
Our platform gives you access to institutional-quality investments, zero commissions, and professional management — all in one place.
Whether you’re looking to invest, connect with experts, or raise capital for your own real estate deal, Relli makes it easy.
Investor
Feb 2025
LawFi is building the first-of-its-kind Lawyer Procurement and Legal Fee Financing platform empowering more inclusive access to legal services and credit. Our platform and embedded payments & financing technology will offer real-time invoicing, real-time payments, and the financing of lawyer retainers and legal fees.
Products and Services Include:
Legal Fee Financing
Legal Fee Loans
Legal Service Financing
Retain-Now-Pay-Later
Real-time Requests for Payments (RfP)
Real-time Legal e-billing and invoicing
Real-time Legal Fee Payments (RTP)
Real-time Loan Requests (RLR)
Investor
Jan 2025
Graphio stops revenue loss before it happens by detecting broken handoffs between teams.
We analyze API-enabled metadata from your existing systems to automatically identify when Sales, CS, Legal, Finance, Product, and Operations are misaligned before deals stall, renewals fail, or contracts slip.
Technically, It’s a Context-Change Graph AI that learns your companys blueprint for success. It tracks live performance against that map to predict, alert, and repair dangerous deviations the moment they happen
Zero integrations. Zero workflow disruption. Privacy by design: we dont analyze your content - only metadata. Launch in under 48 hours.
SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA compliant.
Investor
Nov 2024
Hatchproof is the next-generation retention platform for growing teams who need to retain top talent. Built on behavioral science and AI, Hatchproof aligns employees from hire to growth by helping organizations hire the right talent, personalize onboarding, and nurture long-term development. This ensures your best people stay longer, perform at their highest potential, and drive success. With Hatchproof, you reduce turnover, boost engagement, and position your team to consistently win.
Investor
Nov 2024
Demandly simplifies demand planning in ecommerce businesses.
Within 24 hours Demandly tells you what you need to order, when you need to order it and where youll need to store it.
Investor
Jan 2023
Carbonlink is the premier marketplace for on-chain carbon credits.
Buy, manage, and retire verified and trusted carbon credits on the Carbonlink platform to offset your companys emissions.
Investor
Jun 2022
upSWOT is a white-label embedded finance and business management platform designed to enhance online/mobile banking with just several lines of code. Using an approach similar to Plaid, SMBs connect their accounting, ERP, payroll, eCommerce, marketing, CRM, and other apps to the Bank to get accurate cashflow forecasts, actionable insights, credit score boost, and business valuation tools within their banking experience
Data is aggregated in real-time and thousands of signals are analyzed to help SMBs better understand the health of their businesses via interactive dashboards.
On the back-end, upSWOT surfaces meaningful data for relationship managers to help them upsell the right products and services while building more meaningful and longer-lasting relationships.
Founded in August 2019, upSWOT technology serves hundreds of financial institutions helping them to build loyalty and grow engagement among their SMB clients.
Angel Investor
Jan 2022
Twig is AI-Brain for customer support teams.
Twig is used to get 2X faster response time for customers, with half the size of the support team.
Based in San Francisco, CA, Twig is backed by noted Silicon Valley VCs.
Investor
Dec 2021
Verdata has built a proprietary data network that empowers the rapidly growing embedded retail lending sector—rent-/lease-to-own, buy-now-pay-later, point-of-sale, SMB Lending, Merchant Acquirers/Payment Processors, Healthcare--Medical Financing and others to assess, mitigate, and monitor for fraud, regulatory exposure, and customer service risk that has emerged as a threat.
Investor
Feb 2021
California Crescent Fund is on a mission to support and embolden the most thoughtful, creative, interdisciplinary, diverse, and compassionate student-entrepreneurs driven to change the world for the better – starting with our home-base of Southern California.
Because we believe that providing ambitious dreamers with the tools and encouragement they need to actualize their visions will produce a more delightful, sustainable, and exciting future for us all.
#LongLA to the moon :)
Investor
Oct 2020
Truv is the industry-leading consumer-permissioned data platform with unmatched coverage, compliance, and data quality. With Truv, your customers easily verify income and employment, assets, insurance, switch direct deposit and more, at 60-80% cost savings compared to traditional verification methods.
Were proud to be a Freddie Mac Loan Product Advisor® asset and income modeler (AIM) provider and Fannie Mae Desktop Underwriter® (DU®) validation service provider—the only consumer-permissioned VOIE platform with both accreditations, solidifying our commitment to delivering top-notch verification services tailored for mortgage lenders, banks, and credit unions.
Co-Founder & Shareholder
Jan 2016
LendFoundry has digitized the end-to-end loan origination and loan management process, allowing lenders to approve, disburse, and manage loans quickly and easily.
Our scalable, flexible, robust, and affordable full-stack technology platform empowers lenders to reduce their time to market, service their customers, and monitor their loan portfolios, all while reducing risk and maintaining compliance.
In fact, our customers have experienced some jaw-dropping successes when they’ve moved their loan operations to LendFoundry:
80%+ decrease in turnaround time for loan closures (24 hours vs 5 ~12 days)
10-12% increase in conversion rates & thus improved ROI on marketing spend
40% savings in cost of managing operations (underwriting, sales, support)
In addition, LendFoundry integrates with 60+ third-party providers, such as ADP, DocuSign, multiple email service providers, and the three major credit unions through independent micro-services that were built to be accessed easily via API.
Founded in Irvine, California in 2015, LendFoundry’s mission is to build the systems that will allow marketplace lenders to eliminate tech build out, minimize IT infrastructure and accelerate marketplace lender’s growth strategy.
We enable digital lenders to focus on their core lending business, with access to latest acquisition, underwriting technologies, ready-made loan servicing software and portfolio benchmarking.
LendFoundry is built on scalable technology and modular infrastructure as a turnkey solution for fintech startups and existing marketplace ventures. Please visit us at www.LendFoundry.com
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2025
Board Member
Jul 2025
San José State University is a major, comprehensive public university located in Silicon Valley. The founding campus of the California State University system, SJSU takes pride in a faculty and student body that is active in hands-on learning, research, community service and the arts. What powers us changes our world.
SJSU CAREER CENTER
sjsu.edu/careercenter
Hire Spartans
The SJSU Career Center connects tens of thousands of employers to current students and alumni. Get connected to Spartan talent by registering as an employer at sjsu.joinhandshake.com. Visit sjsu.edu/careercenter for help with recruiting strategies.
Mentor Spartans
The transition from college to career can be stressful and uncertain. Help Spartans prepare for the next steps in their careers by sharing your journey with students who are interested in your professional path. Join the professional mentor community at bit.ly/sjsu2career.
SJSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
sjsualumni.com
Since 1873, the SJSU Alumni Association has endeavored to connect graduates to their alma mater and each other, while adding value to the SJSU degree.
Today, the Alumni Association continues to serve the universitys 226,000+ network of graduates. The association annually hosts a variety of social and recreational events. The association offers members an assortment of benefits that range from medical insurance to life insurance to merchandise and travel discounts to access to the SJSU Career Center.
Shareholder
Apr 2025
DeFi Development Corporation, formerly Janover Inc. (Nasdaq: JNVR), has adopted a treasury policy under which the principal holding in its treasury reserve on the balance sheet will be allocated to Solana (SOL). In adopting its new treasury policy, the Company intends to provide investors a way to access the Solana ecosystem. The Companys treasury policy is expected to provide investors economic exposure to SOL investment.
As veterans of both TradFi and crypto, weve witnessed firsthand the accelerating convergence of next-generation blockchain technology with the internet of tomorrow. Our perspective has allowed us to see how decentralization and programmable digital assets are transforming traditional infrastructures, enhancing transparency, security, and efficiency, while also reshaping the foundations of finance, technology, and economic collaboration.
Decentralization is no longer theoretical. The future is inherently decentralized, interoperable, and powered by cryptographic integrity rather than institutional trust, to which Solana will be central. Solana offers the necessary infrastructure for scalable decentralized applications through its high throughput, rapid transaction finality, and developer-friendly environment.
At DeFi Development Corporation, were leveraging our experience in capital markets and Solana validator operations to bring a new crypto-native treasury model to the public market. We aim to provide shareholders with superior risk-adjusted returns relative to holding SOL directly, while accelerating Solanas role as foundational infrastructure in the decentralized future.
Investor
Apr 2025
Relli is the marketplace for private real estate — built for investors who want premium opportunities without the traditional friction.
What We Offer:
🔹 Invest – Browse high-quality deals and speak directly with top-tier sponsors.
🔹 Connect – Find vetted real estate professionals across legal, finance, and construction.
🔹 Fund – List your project and connect with serious investors ready to support it.
Our platform gives you access to institutional-quality investments, zero commissions, and professional management — all in one place.
Whether you’re looking to invest, connect with experts, or raise capital for your own real estate deal, Relli makes it easy.
Investor
Feb 2025
LawFi is building the first-of-its-kind Lawyer Procurement and Legal Fee Financing platform empowering more inclusive access to legal services and credit. Our platform and embedded payments & financing technology will offer real-time invoicing, real-time payments, and the financing of lawyer retainers and legal fees.
Products and Services Include:
Legal Fee Financing
Legal Fee Loans
Legal Service Financing
Retain-Now-Pay-Later
Real-time Requests for Payments (RfP)
Real-time Legal e-billing and invoicing
Real-time Legal Fee Payments (RTP)
Real-time Loan Requests (RLR)
Investor
Jan 2025
Graphio stops revenue loss before it happens by detecting broken handoffs between teams.
We analyze API-enabled metadata from your existing systems to automatically identify when Sales, CS, Legal, Finance, Product, and Operations are misaligned before deals stall, renewals fail, or contracts slip.
Technically, It’s a Context-Change Graph AI that learns your companys blueprint for success. It tracks live performance against that map to predict, alert, and repair dangerous deviations the moment they happen
Zero integrations. Zero workflow disruption. Privacy by design: we dont analyze your content - only metadata. Launch in under 48 hours.
SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA compliant.
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