Ginkgo Bioworks

OS Fund is founded by Bryan Johnson, founder of Braintree (the creator of Venmo) to support inventors and scientists who aim to benefit humanity by rewriting the operating systems of life The firm believes biology is programmable, and invests in platforms and enabling technologies (i.e. Ginkgo Bioworks).

Investing in technical founders at the earliest stages solving the biggest challenges facing our world.

TSVC is a US venture capital firm focusing on seed-stage investing over 12 years. Their investing team includes founders who have built companies in Deeptech, Fintech, SaaS and Healthtech.

Twice a year YC invests $500,000 per company in a large number of startups. They work intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.

Believes that iconic companies transcend boundaries: they can be built anywhere, by anyone, and in any corner of the economy, from curing rare diseases at scale to powering global payments for organizations of all sizes. They partner with founders around the world, across sectors, and at various stages, primarily before success is obvious.

Backs ambitious early-stage companies, setting the stage for emerging technologies since 2004. CRCM has invested in over 200+ companies resulting in 6 IPOs and 18 acquisitions - with more on the way. Their 2004 and 2012 vintage funds were ranked 4th and 1st respectively in Preqin Top Performing Early Stage VC Funds.

Backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost

Manifesto-driven venture fund investing in disruptive companies with a global impact.

Sundeep Peechu is a General Partner and founding member at Felicis. He led Felicis’ investments in Cedar, Coalition, Earnin, HealthIQ, Juniper Square, Komodo Health, Plaid, Pindrop, Picnic Health and a few others. He also led Felicis’ investments in Ginkgo Bioworks (IPO: $DNA), Matterport (IPO: $MTTR), Recursion Pharma (IPO: $RXRX), Wish (IPO: $WISH). Prior to joining Felicis in 2010, he held various product roles at Intel within the software division. Sundeep joined Intel through the acquisition of Sarvega, where he was an early employee responsible for the design of the security infrastructure. Sundeep has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, a M.S in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Jake is passionate about helping founders solve the biggest challenges facing our world in healthcare, biology, and sustainability. Jake brings venture and startup experience, having worked across three early-stage funds and a startup accelerator. Prior to 11.2 Capital, Jake helped launch 30Ventures, an early-stage healthcare and biotechnology fund focusing on digital health and precision medicine. Jake was formerly an Associate at gener8tor, a nationally ranked startup accelerator, and Lewis & Clark Ventures, a $125M series A and B growth capital fund in the Midwest. Jake holds a Biochemistry degree and MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from University of Wisconsin, where he still advises as a proud Badger alumni.

Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Founder of Breakthrough Energy. Co-founder of Microsoft.

Has been an investor for over two decades in more than 100 companies. Previously he was a Partner at venture capital firms Athena Technology Investors, Madison Angels, at private equity firm Chatterjee-Soros Group ($2 billion), and at technology banking firm Cowen & Co He was also co-founder, seed investor and chairman of Modulus Video (acquired by Motorola). Select Exits: IPO: Trulia, Fortinet, Selectica, Commerce One. Acquired: Modulus Video (Motorola), Future Advisor (BlackRock), Cloud Volumes (VMWare), Movity (Trulia), Healthagen (Aetna), DramaFever (Softbank), Invite Media (Google), Sirocco Systems (Sycamore Networks, $3bn), Growth Networks (Cisco), Quake Technologies (AMCC), Illuminet (Verisign, $1.2bn).

Shelley has over fifteen years of experience in technology as a software engineer, research scientist, business executive, and venture capitalist. Prior to founding 11.2 Capital, Shelley was formerly EVP of Business Development at Ecoplast Technologies, where she oversaw business development & sales efforts in North America. Previously, Shelley was a Principal at DFJ, where she was actively involved in a number of investments including FeedBurner (acquired by Google for $100M), Flurry (acquired by Yahoo for $240M), PPLive (acquired by Suning for $420M), TicketsNow (acquired by Ticketmaster for $265M), Xfire (acquired by Viacom for $102M), YeePay. Shelley is a techie at heart and holds a BS in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently an advisor at Skydeck, ML7 Associate at Creative Destruction Lab, and served on Enigma 2016's program committee.

Paul Graham is the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first SaaS company, which in 1998 became Yahoo Store. In 2002 he discovered a simple spam filtering algorithm that inspired the current generation of filters. He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard.

Previously a co-founder and CEO of Justin.tv from 2007 2011 and the co-founder and CEO of Socialcam in 2012. Graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in political science.