Cohort & mentor dinner.
You're invited
Come for dinner.
Details
When and where.
The Goal
Purpose of the Evening.
The Day
A day of workshops.
The cohort arrives at 9am for a day of hands-on workshops, running through to the evening dinner. Leading sessions:
Chief Operating Officer of Apple, overseeing its worldwide operations, global supply chain, and AppleCare; a thirty-year Apple veteran who became COO in 2025.
Partner and Chief Product Officer at Kleiner Perkins; co-founder and former Chief Creative Officer of Electronic Arts; long-time Amazon board member.
Founder and Managing Partner of Principal Venture Partners, investing in AI-native startups; former President and Chief Strategy Officer of NCSoft; a member of the MIT Corporation now on the advisory council of Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI.
Climate investor at Emerson Collective, backing companies decarbonizing the economy; earlier co-founded a climate-tech startup; Stanford MBA.
Co-founder and CEO of Ornn, a GPU compute futures market ($5.7M seed); partners with ICE and Kalshi.
xCTO Groq & Cypress. Founding Partner Silicon Catalyst. Senior Technologist - Gateway(Cadence), SCS(Mentor) & Synopsys.
Co-founder and CEO of Cardinal Robotics, building autonomous cleaning robots (~$800M finance fund); Forbes 30 Under 30, Stanford PhD.
Co-founder and CTO of Glean, the AI-powered enterprise search and work assistant; spent nearly a decade in engineering leadership at Facebook before co-founding the company in 2019.
AI Product Leader at Disney with over twenty years in technology; teaches generative AI for creative professionals at Oxford; earlier built products at the World Bank and the United Nations.
Co-founder of Architect Labs, an AI-native chip-design startup ($24M seed); worked on silicon at Apple and Tesla before co-founding, and started college at fifteen.
Partner and head of the West Coast at Vine Ventures, an early-stage software fund; was its first hire, and earlier spent five years in private equity at Blackstone.
A GTM expert & more to come…
Go-to-market workshop and further sessions to be announced.
Attendees
Around the table.
Everyone (bar the cohort), at a glance.
Co-founder of Architect Labs, an AI-native chip-design startup that raised a $24M seed; earlier an AI researcher at Harvard working on code verification, before dropping out at nineteen.
Head of a Startup Investor Management GTM team at AWS; a two-time AI startup founder & CEO with exits, and a go-to-market and product strategy expert.
Partner at Vine Ventures, backing AI-native founders; previously a Managing Director at General Catalyst for over a decade, with investments including Rapyd, Monzo, and Deliveroo.
General Partner at Trinity Ventures, investing in consumer and business software; earlier co-founded the Emmy-winning media-tech company Pinnacle Systems.
Founder and CEO of Inkitt, a data-driven publishing company that uses reader behavior and AI to find and scale bestsellers.
Co-founder and CEO of Patronus AI, the automated evaluation and security platform that catches LLM mistakes at scale; previously led machine-learning explainability at Meta.
Co-founder and CEO of Cardinal Robotics, building autonomous cleaning robots (~$800M finance fund); Forbes 30 Under 30, Stanford PhD.
Co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, maker of the wafer-scale engine, the largest computer chip ever built; previously founded SeaMicro, acquired by AMD.
President and CEO of Cadence Design Systems, the computational-software company whose tools design most of the world's chips; succeeded Lip-Bu Tan in 2021; ex-IBM, IEEE Fellow.
Co-founder and CEO of Standard Kernel, building AI-written GPU kernels ($20M seed); ex-NVIDIA, KernelBench author.
VP and Chief Enterprise Architect at Stanford Health Care, leading its AI/ML operations.
Managing partner of planX AI Consulting & Lab in Silicon Valley, advising companies on applied AI strategy; Chief Innovation Officer at Imagination in Action
Former President and COO of AMD and a veteran SF semiconductor operator; TekTrek host for the June 26 dinner.
AI and security software engineer at Google and a hackathon builder.
Co-founder and CEO of Mirendil, an AI lab building self-accelerating AI for scientific discovery ($200M seed at a $1B valuation); previously led Anthropic's scientific AI reasoning team and spent five years at Google DeepMind.
Partner and Chief Product Officer at Kleiner Perkins; co-founder and former Chief Creative Officer of Electronic Arts; long-time Amazon board member.
Founder and president of e3, building AI tools for the freight industry; an MIT engineer who earlier founded and exited the payments startup Fusepay.
Founder and CEO of Axiom Math, an AI mathematician startup ($64M seed); MIT '22 in math and physics, Rhodes Scholar.
A Princeton computer scientist building intelligent systems from simple principles; his published research applies self-supervised goal-reaching to multi-agent reinforcement learning.
Co-founder of Standard Kernel ($20M seed); MIT systems background.
Co-founder and CEO of Godela, an AI physics engine (YC X25); Stanford MechE and Forbes 250 innovator.
AI Product Leader at Disney with over twenty years in technology; teaches generative AI for creative professionals at Oxford; earlier built products at the World Bank and the United Nations.
Co-founder and CTO of Candor, a fintech for stock compensation; ex-Lyft, Facebook, and Disney Imagineering; Harvard master's.
Founder and CEO of BlueIO, an early-stage deep-tech and SpaceTech venture firm; previously founded Kodiak Venture Partners, an early backer of companies later bought by Cisco, IBM, and AT&T.
Chief AI Officer at Nutanix and a founding member of MLCommons; previously a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco.
Partner and head of the West Coast at Vine Ventures, an early-stage software fund; was its first hire, and earlier spent five years in private equity at Blackstone.
xCTO Groq & Cypress. Founding Partner Silicon Catalyst. Senior Technologist - Gateway(Cadence), SCS(Mentor) & Synopsys.
Co-founder of Architect Labs, an AI-native chip-design startup ($24M seed); worked on silicon at Apple and Tesla before co-founding, and started college at fifteen.
Co-founder and CEO of Soshi, an AI social media manager that runs a brand's growth like a real employee; ex-WHOOP engineer, Northeastern.
Managing Director at Link Ventures.
Former CTO of AMD, where he led the AMD64 architecture and the first x86 64-bit processors, the Opteron and Athlon 64; member of the National Academy of Engineering.
SVP of Engineering at AMD, leading silicon and system engineering for its adaptive and embedded computing group; joined through the Xilinx acquisition.
Founder and CEO of Oligo Space, building AI spacecraft design; MIT aerospace, Thiel Fellow, first launch 2026.
Co-founder and COO of Luminal (YC S25), an ML compiler that auto-generates fast GPU kernels to deploy AI models in one line; ex-Apple, repeat founder.
Co-founder and CEO of GLIDR, a product-discovery platform; founder of Preview Travel, which became Travelocity, and a longtime entrepreneurship lecturer at UC Berkeley Haas.
TekTrek co-founder, Chief Architect and Dean; MIT lecturer, founder of TEDxMIT and the IIA AI Summits, Forbes AI columnist.
Founder and General Partner of OSS Capital, the first venture firm dedicated to commercial open-source software; coined the COSS category and founded KubeCon.
Julien invests at the intersection of energy, AI, and physical infrastructure at Emerson Collective; earlier co-founded a climate-tech startup; Stanford MBA.
Founder and CEO of Zyphra, a superintelligence research company building efficient multimodal AI models; physics background, ex-Cambridge Quantum.
Co-founder and CEO of Ornn, a GPU compute futures market ($5.7M seed); partners with ICE and Kalshi.
Co-founder of Sublime Systems, a low-carbon cement company out of MIT; PhD chemist, MIT Tech Review 35-under-35.
Psychology researcher at Google Research, working on the human side of AI and the behavioral alignment of large language models.
CEO of Intel since 2025; previously CEO of Cadence Design Systems for twelve years and founder of the venture firm Walden International; veteran semiconductor leader and investor.
Distinguished Researcher and Technical Director at Google DeepMind, working on Gemini.
Co-founder and CTO of Liquid AI, the MIT spinout building efficient liquid foundation models; helped invent liquid neural networks and remains a research affiliate at MIT CSAIL alongside Daniela Rus.
Founder & CEO of Borderless, unlocking second passports to help people become global citizens.
CTO of Nvidia since 2020, architecting across the company's technologies; co-founder and former CTO of Mellanox, acquired by Nvidia for $7B; earlier a chip architect at Intel.
Nandini Saraiya Raza
CEO and President of a multi million dollar designer jewelry company “Reveti Jewels Inc". She has a degree in computer science and has worked in jewelry design and sales for over three decades.
MIT undergraduate researching LLMs at CSAIL.
Six years a senior robotics engineer at Boston Dynamics; now co-founder and CEO of a stealth robotics startup heading into YC.
Managing Partner of Mayfield, one of Silicon Valley's oldest venture firms, backing AI founders at inception; an eighteen-time Forbes Midas List investor and three-time founder.
Co-founder and General Partner of Cervin Ventures, an early-stage enterprise-tech firm; previously founded and led the IT-services companies Nexient and Cymbal.
Managing Director at Insight Partners, investing in high-growth software, fintech, and crypto-infrastructure companies; previously at Altimeter Capital, Bain Capital, and Goldman Sachs.
Senior software engineer at Google DeepMind; built the computer-use feature that became Gemini Agent and the rendering system behind Gemini Canvas.
President of Products and Technology at Veeam and founder and CEO of Securiti AI, the data-security and AI-trust platform Veeam acquired for $1.7B; previously founded Elastica and WiChorus.
SVP of Telecom at NVIDIA, leading its 5G and 6G AI networking strategy; previously CEO of eASIC and a VP at Intel.
Chief Operating Officer of Apple, overseeing its worldwide operations, global supply chain, and AppleCare; a thirty-year Apple veteran who became COO in 2025.
Founder and CEO of Navier, building electric hydrofoiling boats (the N30); MIT mechanical-engineering PhD, ex-NASA.
Building a new company; an MIT Sloan MBA and venture associate at Emerson Collective, and interim director of Stanford's Product Realization Lab.
President of the MIT Club of Northern California; a private-equity and seed-stage investor, founding partner of Mentors Fund, and an MIT Sloan alum.
Principal Design Manager at Microsoft leading design for Copilot; Silicon Valley human-AI product leader.
Founder and Managing Partner of Principal Venture Partners, investing in AI-native startups; former President and Chief Strategy Officer of NCSoft; a member of the MIT Corporation now on the advisory council of Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI.
Head of Internal Events and Team Culture for the Office of Eric Schmidt
A longtime venture investor in Israeli and US tech; she has invested with Greylock's Israel practice and SVB Capital, and holds an MIT Sloan MBA.
Co-founder and head of product engineering at Glean; spent a decade at Google modernizing web search and founding the Chrome Speed Team.
Leads early-stage AI applications and infrastructure investing at Premji Invest, backing companies like Writer and Hugging Face; earlier at Sequoia Capital India, and an HBS and IIT Madras graduate.
Senior scientist at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center and co-founder of Bay Compute and Radium Cloud; focuses on AI infrastructure and data-center energy efficiency.
Partner at Mayfield investing from its $250M AI Start seed fund, backing AI companies at inception; previously led AI investments at Intel Capital, including SambaNova and Landing.ai.
Co-founder and CTO of Glean, the AI-powered enterprise search and work assistant; spent nearly a decade in engineering leadership at Facebook before co-founding the company in 2019.
MS Operations Research at Columbia and a University of Washington engineering alum; her published research used simulation to reduce delays in neonatal medical transport.
Calendar
More to come.
QUESTIONS
Anything you need before the day, reach out:
John Werner — Chief Architect — jwerner@mit.edu
Theo Ehrmann — Ops Lead — theo@ehrmann.haus
See you on the 26th.