Angel investor outreach

Joel Hellermark

Founder of Sana. Leading company in AI in Europe.

$\mathrm{NEA}$

Luke can approach directly.

$\mathrm{confirmed}$
$50\mathrm{k}$

Laura Modano

OpenAI

$\mathrm{NEA}$

$\mathrm{confirmed}$
$\mathrm{\$}25-30\mathrm{k}$

Brad Klingenberg

Co Founder Naro

$\mathrm{NEA}$

$\mathrm{wired}$
$20\mathrm{k}$

Lukas Biewald

Weights & Biases

$\mathrm{Beta}$

$\mathrm{confirmed}$
$50\mathrm{k}$

Sean Gourley

Primer

$\mathrm{Beta}$

$\mathrm{wired}$
$30\mathrm{k}$

Arjun Singh

Volition

$\mathrm{Beta}$

interested

Amir Rustamzadeh

Respectable Data Infra investor

$\mathrm{NEA}$

spoke $2$ times at this point

Werner Vogels

Former CTO Amazon. Technical celebrity. Hosted the show "No Go Build"

$\mathrm{NEA}$

Luke can reach out to him through AWS contacts.

scheduled

NVIDIA

The venture arm of NVIDIA is NVentures. Luke knows several members of that team and we have co-invested with them before. They can help us introduce to NVIDIA researchers, and possibly Jensen too.

$\mathrm{NEA}$

Luke can reach out to NVentures. Brooke Seawell can reach out to Jensen. JD knows Devang who's deeply invovled with NVentures.

met

Alexander Wissner-Gross

Physics researcher and founder

$\mathrm{Daft}$

JD can reach out direct.

scheduled

Chris Re

Stanford

$\mathrm{NEA}$

met

Jim Greer

Roblox

$\mathrm{Beta}$

$\mathrm{out}$

Wes McKinney $+$Jake Zeller

Posit // ML $+$ AI

$\mathrm{NEA}$

spoke w Wes, he pulled Jake for $2$nd meeting. Feels like too pricey for him.

$\mathrm{out}$

Pieter Kemps

Sequioia

$\mathrm{NEA}$

$\mathrm{out}$

Tyson Mao

co founder of Tobiko AI

$\mathrm{NEA}$

$\mathrm{out}$

Immad Akhund

CEO of Mercury

$\mathrm{Daft}$

JD can reach out direct.

$\mathrm{out}$

Charles Songhurst

Microsoft

$\mathrm{Beta}$

met Henry $\mathrm{out}$

Zach Sims

CodeAcademy

$\mathrm{Beta}$

met $\mathrm{out}$

Gary Kasparov

Chess grandmaster. Very recognizable name.

$\mathrm{NEA}$

Can approach him through Sana Labs.

Luke started outreach.

Andrew Ng

Very well respected within AI. Has his own fund to invest in AI. Knows NEA very well.

$\mathrm{NEA}$

Luke can approach him directly.

Passed as he is too busy to look at new investments right now.

FeiFei Li

Same rationale as for Andrew. Founder of World Labs.

$\mathrm{NEA}$

Luke can approach directly.

Luke started outreach.

Neil DeGrass Tyson

Famous name on the internet for Physics and Math.

$\mathrm{NEA}$

Not connected directly, but we can find a way.

Nicholas Taleb

Famous mathematician and author with active media presence.

$\mathrm{NEA}$

Not connected directly, but we can find a way.

Mati Staniszewski

Founder of Eleven Labs. Leading AI company in Europe with strong personal brand. NEA portfolio company as well.

$\mathrm{NEA}$

Luke can approach directly.

Luke started outreach.

Victor and Steffen

Founders of Synthesia. Strong AI brand in Europe. NEA portfolio company.

$\mathrm{NEA}$

Luke can approach directly.

Victor passed as he has done too many investments recently.

Ali Ghodsi

Databricks CEO. One of the hottest companies in all of AI. NEA portfolio company.

$\mathrm{NEA}$

Our NEA team can send to him.

CUSP AI Founders

Academic team. Lower profile because they only recently raised, but they have a strong fit with our product. They could be users for example. NEA portfolio company.

$\mathrm{NEA}$

Luke can approach directly. JD knows founders.

Luke started outreach.

John Kodumal

LaunchDarkly

$\mathrm{Beta}$

Beta reaching out (James)

Mathias Biilmann Christensen

Netlify

$\mathrm{Beta}$

Beta reaching out (Roy)

Anthony Goldbloom

Kaggle and Sumble

$\mathrm{Beta}$

Beta reaching out (Roy)

Zak Stone

Google

$\mathrm{Beta}$

Beta reaching out (Roy)

Nick Arner

App developer and angel

$\mathrm{Beta}$

Beta reaching out (Roy)

Edith Harbaugh

LaunchDarkly

$\mathrm{Beta}$

Beta reaching out (Roy)

Chris Bakke

Laskie

$\mathrm{Beta}$

Beta reaching out (Roy)

Annie Duke

Poker player and author

$\mathrm{Beta}$

Beta reaching out (Roy)

Harshita Arora

AtoB and Y Combinator

$\mathrm{Beta}$

Beta reaching out (Lori)

Jensen Harris

Textio

$\mathrm{Beta}$

Beta reaching out (Roy)

Emmett Shear

Twitch

$\mathrm{Beta}$

Beta reaching out (Roy)

Nitin Gupta

Newfront and Pave

$\mathrm{Beta}$

Beta reaching out (Lori)

Brian O'Kelley

AppNexus

$\mathrm{Beta}$

Beta reaching out (Karin)

Helen Min

Articulate

$\mathrm{Beta}$

Beta reaching out (Lori)

Demis Hassabis

Deepmind

$\mathrm{Daft}$

JD can find a way to him.

Kyle Vogt

CEO of The Bot Co (Formerly Twitch and Cruise Founder)

$\mathrm{Daft}$

JD can reach out direct.

JD reached out

Adam D’Angelo

Quora CEO, OpenAI Board

$\mathrm{Daft}$

JD can reach out direct.

Lex Friedman

Podcaster

$\mathrm{Daft}$

JD can find a way to him.

Alexandr Wang

Meta

$\mathrm{Daft}$

JD reached out

Delian Asparouhov

Founders Fund

$\mathrm{Daft}$

JD reached out