Shashi Jain is a venture capital investor at Portland Seed Fund who combines deep technical experience as a former Intel IoT/AI innovation manager with hands-on maker community leadership, having founded the 1,800+ member Portland 3D Printing Lab that has executed large-scale crowd-printing projects including medical and pandemic-response efforts. He has developed proprietary frameworks like the KPI Compass and Decision Quality Canvas to systematically measure innovation programs, and champions a "never ask permission to innovate" philosophy while serving as a key instructor in TiE Oregon's youth entrepreneurship programs.