Sailesh Ramakrishnan brings an unusual technical background to venture capital, having worked on AI for robotic assistants at the University of Michigan, cancer modeling at the University of Pittsburgh, and Mars rover contingency planning at NASA Ames before co-founding and selling LocBox to Square. At Rocketship.vc, he champions a data-driven sourcing approach that algorithmically screens millions of companies globally to find outliers, particularly focusing on climate-tech startups where he can apply his systems-engineering perspective to planetary-scale problems.