Awards & Recognition
★Westinghouse Science Talent Search semi-finalist
★Term member at The Council on Foreign Relations
★Trustee at the Santa Fe Institute
★Chairman of Coney Island Prep charter school
★White House and Capitol Hill advisor on nanotechnology and emerging technologies
Notable Facts
→Co-founded Lux Capital in 2000, which has raised over $1.5 billion in funds
→Co-founded and funded Kurion, which helped clean up Fukushima nuclear disaster and was acquired by Veolia for $350M
→Founding investor and board member with Bill Gates in Kymeta satellite communications company
→Lecturer at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Columbia and NYU
→Published scientist with background in molecular biology and AIDS immunopathology research
→Previously worked at Salomon Smith Barney and Merrill Lynch in investment banking
→Has over 108,000 Twitter followers
→Invested in major companies including Anduril, Planet, Echodyne, and numerous biotechnology firms