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Manish Kothari, Ph.D.

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Aaron Sisto, Ph.D.

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Peter Olcott, Ph.D.

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Todd Meister

Founding General Partner

Eric Schmidt, Ph.D.

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Jennifer Wu

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General Partner, First Spark Opportunities

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Advanced Compute

As this generation of machine learning becomes ubiquitous, a whole host of new opportunities are emerging. Advanced computation will increase productivity and imbue computation with imagination.

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Digital Biology and Biotech

AI-based computational biology has the potential to be the largest source of advancement in this century. Human health spans will be improved through digital biology, therapeutics, and personalized medicine.

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CyberPhysical Systems

Physical systems with the scaling potential of software are a key source of productivity and safety enhancement over the coming decades, transforming recalcitrant industries via scalable automation and intelligence.

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Xona Space Systems

High-performance alternative to GPS designed to support the age of autonomy.

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Inworld AI

Conversational dialogue engine that is able to converse with users fluently and naturally.

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Vitara

Building a therapeutic platform that enables extreme premature babies to properly develop lung function.

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Valitor

Conquering limitations of established drug targets by leveraging its multi-valent biopolymer technology to maximize benefits for patients.

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Auxon

Auxon is a developer of a fully integrated suite of products for improving system performance and reliability.

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Confidencial

Selective Encryption for the Enterprise

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Latent AI

Latent AI Efficient Inference Platform (LEIP) is a modular, fully-integrated workflow designed to train, quantize, adapt and deploy edge AI neural networks.

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