8chili

Aravind Upadhyaya is founder and CEO of 8chili. Aravind is a technologist with more than a decade of experience bringing concepts to market in the mixed reality and computer vision space. He holds an engineering degree in electronics and an MBA from Purdue and Leibniz University.

Outside of work, Aravind is a yoga master. He also enjoys helping fellow entrepreneurs, playing with his golden retriever, Lucky, and going on long drives.

8chili is a deeptech startup based in San Francisco, California that is transforming training and collaboration space with their proprietary non-invasive device AIR. The company’s initial focus is in healthcare with a mission to increase patient satisfaction and workplace efficiency by enabling access to cutting-edge mixed reality applications like patient engagement, pre-op planning, training, and remote collaboration.

8chili’s unique 3D data lake creates a hyper-personalized learning experience that will help train medical robots to perform safe surgeries in the future.

AeroShield

From renewable energy to building efficiency, Elise has always been motivated by the economic and environmental impact of removing the real-world adoption barriers of pivotal technologies.

This passion led her to found AeroShield Materials Inc. based on her doctoral work in Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Her mission as CEO of AeroShield is to provide the next generation of energy-efficient and cost-effective materials for building windows, bringing us one step closer to a low-carbon future.

Outside of AeroShield, Elise enjoys many creative and rewarding outlets. One of her biggest passions is writing and performing music with the band, Veisty. A maker at heart, Elise loves to create artwork and jewelry in wire-working and pyrography. She also enjoys sharing the skills she’s learned throughout her life by mentoring others, with a special focus in technical communication and graphic design.

AeroShield is a glass insulation, advanced materials, B2B startup based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. AeroShield is creating high-clarity silica aerogel with state-of-the-art materials developed at MIT. The material is twice as insulating as air and lighter than a marshmallow.

Agtools, Inc.

Martha Montoya is the CEO and founder of Agtools Inc. Martha has over 25 years of worldwide agricultural and supply chain experience and was appointed by the Governor of California to serve on the board of the California Department of Agriculture and Food.

Martha is passionate about putting technology to work to help farmers on a practical basis and was the genesis of Agtools Inc. She is a natural-born leader and has volunteered on a national level serving on the boards of the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the CA Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and many more. Outside of her entrepreneurial pursuits, Martha enjoys playing tennis in her spare time.

Agtools is a B2B based in Irvine, California. Agtools SaaS platform provides farmers, shippers, freight companies, and retailers the data they need to increase profitability and reduce food waste.

Agtools proprietary technology streamlines complex agriculture and market data into an all-in-one dashboard.

AuraLab

Robert Alexander holds a Ph.D. in Design Science from the University of Michigan. As a NASA Fellow he pioneered research in the field of data sonification.

Before launching AuraLab he was a Chief Innovation Officer at the University of Michigan and he lectured on Sound Design and Psychology at the renowned HK Polytechnic University School of Design. For his work he was featured in Origin Magazine’s list of the top 100 creative leaders.

Robert has traveled the world learning various forms of meditation and breathwork, his creative passion is fueled by his daily practice. He fell in love with music composition at an early age and began using technology to enhance musical expression. He has now constructed software interfaces to collaboratively explore data across a wide range of fields including space-physics, genetics, neuroscience, meteorology, and geopolitics.

Breathscape is at the intersection of his passion for science, technology, creativity, and self-discovery.

AuraLab is a B2C and B2B HealthTech startup based in Ypsilanti, Michigan. AuraLab’s Breathscape application is one of the first mobile apps that is capable of accurately measuring and analyzing the breath. Their patent-pending biofeedback algorithms generate music in real-time based on the breath of the user. The application teaches deep slow breathing which has been clinically proven to promote better health and wellbeing.

Avee Health

Nicole Cook is a health tech innovator and entrepreneur. She is currently the Founder & CEO of Alvee, a company that provides ai-driven solutions to address SDOH and promote health equity.

She spent 7 years at Epic where she worked with dozens of health systems across the country helping them to implement their EHR system.

Prior to starting Alvee, Nicole worked at digital health startup, SameSky Health, where she helped to scale both the team and revenue by over 10x. Her combined EHR, clinical, and startup experience give her unique insights into interoperability, as well as using data and technology to drive impact.

Stephanie Grein, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Stephanie Grein spent over 15 years in healthcare technology based in San Francisco. She was a founding member of Sycio (healthcare SaaS) and led the acquisition of the company ot Cochlear for $78mm. After serving on Cochlear’s global leadership team, Stephanie went back to the startup worked serving as COO of develop the sales and operational strategies of grow and scale companies. Stephanie is also an active angel investor in startups. In her free time, Stephanie enjoys hiking with her Australian shepherd, running and mountain biking.

Kristi Olsen, Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Kristi Olsen received her masters in healthcare from OHSU and joined Providence (PS&D) recruiting physicians and building out resident programs. She was the leader of the organization and managed 60+ recruiters and hired thousands of physicians while developing resident outreach programs. She now serves on the advisory council for Pacific University and remains very active in the PNW healthcare community. Kristi is an avid skier and loves being a boy mom of her two boys Calum (3) &McCoy (6).

Biocanic

Jeremy Malecha is the CEO and Co-Founder of Biocanic with over 20 years of medical and software related experience. Prior to Biocanic, he was the Vice President of M&A Strategy in ResMedʼs SaaS Business. Jeremy holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University.

Jeremy has always been passionate about health and wellness – originally starting out in exercise science, then exploring pre-med, and ultimately landing in biomedical technologies. He continues that passion in his personal life and is always tinkering with various health and exercise approaches.

In addition to his work, Jeremy is a surfer, furniture builder, and even a home coffee roaster. Despite living in San Diego for over 20 years, youʼll always find him in front of the TV for University of Oregon sporting activities. Go Ducks!

Biocanic is the first of its kind health program intelligence system specifically designed to streamline personalized health programs for functional and integrative health practitioners.

Canopii

David Ashton is a founder and CEO of Canopii, producer of a fully autonomous green house.

David holds a degree in Bioresource and Agricultural Engineering from Cal Poly SLO and focusses on CAD, materials sourcing, and mechanical integration for Canopii’s vertical farming technology.

Together with his co-founder, Justin Gravett, David is building food security, climate resilience, and better livelihoods for small and midsized farmers.

Clickvoyant

Mia Umanos, founder and CEO of Clickvoyant, is a 14-year veteran of marketing analytics who grew her career from junior to director inside digital marketing agencies.

Her talent for balancing math and intuition turns her projects into gold.

As a 2022 Tory Burch Foundation Fellow, and recipient of the FearlessFund Women of Color grant, Mia spends pro-bono time advising other female founders on how to leverage data to optimize their businesses.

Co-Z

Max is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Co-Z. Max is an experienced product designer and Mechanical Engineer with 9 years of manufacturing and product design experience. Max graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a B.S in Mechanical Engineering. He started his career as a Product Design Engineer with Smith & Wesson, forming a strong knowledge base around metal and plastic part design and fabrication.

Later, he expanded his manufacturing skill set to include metal injection molding while working for ARC Colorado, a plastics and metal injection molding company in Longmont, CO. Max later made the transition to connected hardware where he co-founded Co-Z and led the product development team to deliver products to pilot customers. He is currently the Chief Product Officer, of Co-Z bringing new software and hardware products to market in 2020.

Fueled by a childhood spent outdoors, Max has always had a great appreciation for the natural world. When the opportunity arose to change career paths towards clean energy initiatives, Max didn’t hesitate. As the “first” Co-Z employee (now co-founder), Max brought the vision of the Orchestrated Power Outlet (“OPO”) to life through imaginative CAD models, renders, and 3D printed prototypes. As his learning about the energy sector has increased, it’s become clearer than ever that innovation and invention are sorely needed in a world of aging electrical infrastructure and a warming planet.

Co-Z is a Boulder, Colorado-based startup founded in 2017. Co-Z aims to optimize energy efficiency with their OPO (Orchestrated Power Outlet) to transform how people use, save, and manage their electricity. Co-Z’s OPO is simple to integrate, stores energy from renewable sources and keeps users’ electricity protected even during power outages.

Community Energy Labs

Tanya has 20 years of experience as an innovator, entrepreneur, technologist, and utility nerd building enduring practices and products, including a successful business exit.

From 2016-2019 Tanya helped reformulate and re-start PECI, securing millions in non-dilutive funding for execution of all aspects of technical service, product development, operations and commercialization of PECI’s grid edge products.

In 2019 PECI spun off its technical and grid-edge products as Community Energy Labs with Tanya at the helm. Tanya’s speciality is in leading systems and people to set the stage for the high achievement culture necessary to iterate and scale. Tanya is fluent in Swedish and functionally proficient in Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic.

Concord

Dash Lavine is the co-founder and CEO of Concord, a data privacy and data ownership company that gives brands and people the right tools to provide regulation-ready privacy protection and an equitable exchange of data where privacy is respected.

Dash is an accomplished technology executive with almost two decades of experience in the digital marketing, agency, and start-up worlds.

Prior to Concord, he started and ran two successful consulting agencies and also had a long and accomplished career at Webtrends, where he was most recently the North American Director of Sales & Customer Success. He holds an MBA from Portland State University, with a specialization in the Management of Innovation and Technology, and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.

CrowdComfort

As CEO of CrowdComfort, Eric is revolutionizing employee and customer happiness by leveraging the human sensor network. His platform offers building owners and managers access to aggregated data to improve employee productivity, safety & comfort while optimizing building performance and efficiency.

Eric is a creative spirit having founded a seafood import export company and developed enabling food transport technology. He holds three patents covering ultra-low temperature refrigeration and transportation methods, using recycled CO2 gas as a refrigerant. Eric was the Principal Investigator for the Department of Energy’s Innovation Ecosystem award program which served as the catalyst for CrowdComfort. He is a named inventor on 12 patents related to building, energy, crowd-sourced mobile operations, and geo-location related technologies..

Eric’s primary passion is his family. Together with his wife, Jenny, they have two children, Ella and Luke. Rugby has been a 35-year passion as a player, walk-on professional, and member of Northeastern University’s Maddog Rugby Hall of Fame. Eric is driven towards ocean excursions and the preservation of all of our planet’s animals, not just the human variety. Eric serves as board chair at the Safina Center (http://safinacenter.org/about/board/).

Yousof Naderi

DeepCharge

Yousof Naderi is the CEO and Co-founder of DeepCharge.ai. Yousof considers himself an entrepreneur of technology and an innovation leader who is tirelessly driven towards his passions. He applies his experience and expertise to next-generation wireless charging solutions, embedded systems, machine learning, and software-defined networks.

On a daily basis, Yousof loves to explore and test new hardware/software innovations and is a technology geek. He also finds great joy in experiencing nature and the discovery of new insights.

DeepCharge.ai is a wireless charging company based in Boston, Massachusetts. They have devised technology powered by artificial intelligence that consumes little energy and can sense a large variety of different kinds of electronic devices and intelligently drive enough power to charge them no matter where they are placed on the surface, or contactless in the air.

DeepSurface Security (Acquired by AttackIQ)

DeepSurface Security was founded by Tim Morgan and James Dirksen in 2017. James is the cofounder and CEO of DeepSurface Security. He has 26 years of experience, and started his career as a security and networking engineer in the Pentagon working for Northrupp Grumman.

He and his family moved to Portland in 1997 and he has since worked for PWC reengineering security solutions for Fortune 1000 companies, as a VP of Business Development for Procera (now Sandvine), VP of Product and Sales for RuleSpace (now Symantec), and as VP of Product at Galois in Portland leading effort to commercialize DARPA funded cybersecurity prototypes.

Created by a veteran cybersecurity team, DeepSurface Security is the first automated Predictive Vulnerability Management suite of tools that helps cybersecurity teams automate the process of analyzing and prioritizing vulnerabilities on enterprise networks. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, DeepSurface is a privately held company funded by Cascade Seed Fund, SeaChange Fund, and Voyager Capital.

Theresa Tribble
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Theresa Tribble has spent much of the past 20 years building early-stage life science companies, particularly in medical diagnostics. Prior to Droplet, she was an operating partner at The Engine. She served as Chief Business Officer of Everlywell (now Everly Health), the leading at-home testing company. She is the founding advisor at BigHat Biosciences, which is applying artificial intelligence to the challenges of antibody drug development, and Landsdowne Labs, a material sciences company. Theresa earned her undergraduate degree at Wellesley College and her MBA at Harvard Business School. (596)

Eden Technology

Hunter Manz is the Chief Executive Officer at Eden Technologies, overseeing finance, operations, company direction, and growth strategy.

Hunter offers insight and experience in technical, legal, and finance topics. Hunter invented the concept of the reverse osmosis centrifuge while attending Utah Tech University. There he majored in Mechanical Engineering and Finance. Prior to attending UTU and founding Eden Technologies, Hunter worked on an electrolysis device to separate water into Hydrogen and Oxygen gas.

This device’s purpose was to allow low-income households to have access to environmentally friendly fuel for cooking and home heating.

Edulis Labs

Edulis Labs is reinventing the way the world colors hair through modern material science.

Their bio-inspired hair color technology eliminates hair damage, unpredictability, and toxicity associated with incumbent chemistry.

Go from jet black to platinum blonde, cover grays, or increase gloss with one system designed to protect your hair and health.

Robert Toppel

Robert Toppel co-founded Breeze Test Instruments in 1983 as VP Operations. He then moved with the company when it was acquired by Tektronix in 1986 as Division Engineering Manager, Logic Analyzer Division.

Robert joined Axiom Electronics in 1981 as President, an EMS company specializing in defense and aerospace, which he guided through an acquisition, and later led through a management buyout with private equity.

Axiom products orbit Mars, fly into space, and operate in the air, underwater, and on the ground worldwide. Robert’s programming and hardware interests birthed e1ectr0n, a robotics company debuting the pr0t0n robot arm for industrial workbench use. He holds a B.A. in Physics from the University of Colorado in Denver.

Epitel

Mark Lehmkuhle is the CEO/CTO of Epitel.

He originally joined Epitel to develop the Epoch system – a much needed EEG solution for pre-clinical epilepsy research. It was then he realized there was a huge need for people living with epilepsy as well and brought Epilog to life as Epitel CEO. Mark has 23+ years of experience in biomedical engineering with a focus on the nervous system.

During his free time, Mark is a part-time ultramarathoner and defender of the west against the west. He built his own whitewater dory, the Wasatch, and rowed it down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon. The dory sits next to Epilog, atop his list of finding or building a solution to pretty much every problem he stumbles across.

Epitel is a digital health startup based in Salt Lake City, Utah. They specialize in medical-grade seizure monitoring with their non-invasive wearable EEG technology.

FINSUM (Acquired by Broadridge)

Duncan MacDonald-Korth is the founder and CEO of FINSUM. Through its patent-pending warm lead generation and management tool, AdvisorTarget, FINSUM uses proprietary analytics to help asset managers increase their fund sales in the wealth management space.

Originally from Miami, Duncan has been working in the financial and media industries for close to a decade.

Prior to FINSUM, Duncan completed his PhD at the University Oxford and worked in equity research at Morgan Stanley and bond trading at Merrill Lynch.

Gadusol (Acquired by Arcaea)

Gadusol Laboratories is a UV protectant engineering and manufacturing company based in Corvallis, Oregon. Their gadusol-based sunscreen additive is entirely natural, safe for humans, and has no negative impact on oceanic ecosystems.

Imaginostics, Inc.

Dr. Codi Gharagouzloo, PhD, MSc is technical founder and CEO of Imaginostics. Dr. Gharagouzloo is an expert MRI Physicist and inventor of the QUTE-CE MRI technology. He completed a two-year T-32 postdoctoral fellowship at the Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School. He completed his Ph.D. in Bioengineering at Northeastern University.

He obtained a Master of Science in Biophotonics from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay in France, where he specialized in nonlinear optical microscopy.

Prior to that, he graduated with two Bachelors of Science degrees in Physics and Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering from Kansas State University and was a National Science Foundation research fellow at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich, Switzerland.

Codi is married to his wonderful wife Julie, a passionate immigration attorney, dedicated spouse, and amazing mother, and has two children– a 9-year-old boy named Noah and a 1-year-old cuddly baby named Esther. Codi enjoys riding mountain bikes through the forest, exploring nature, reading books, and playing board games with friends and family.

Imaginostics is revolutionizing the future of precision medicine by offering preventative diagnostic solutions. The company has developed a proprietary software suite for renal safe vascular imaging (gadolinium-free) and a novel panel of quantitative imaging biomarkers that are compatible with existing MRI scanners and hardware.

INERGY

Sean Luangrath, the CEO of Inergy, is a seasoned international executive of Fortune 100 companies including HP, Oracle and Apple.

Sean has also held management positions at startups like Aerohive Networks and Mellmo. Sean joined Inergy to fulfill the company’s mission of providing the world with affordable, renewable power.

Sean received a Bachelor of Science degree in International Finance from Brigham Young University, and an MBA from University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University.

Married with three sons and a dog, Sean spends most of his free time with his family, enjoying the outdoors or exploring the world. Sean is passionate about cleantech, social business, entrepreneurship, Boy Scouts, Southeast Asian business, and the Warriors.

Inergy is an energy integration and storage company that engineers solar powered generators, portable solar panels, and solar accessories for off-grid living.

InVivo Biosystems

InVivo Biosystems is a biotechnology company that provides innovative solutions for genetic research and drug discovery. Since earning her Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Oregon, CEO Dr. Kat McCormick has dedicated herself to increasing the translation of academic science to human health. She is proud to lead the company today toward a vision of discovering and commercializing cutting-edge therapeutics for patient populations in need.  She is also incredibly proud to be a colleague and friend of the other fantastic women who make up  60% of IVB.

InVivo Biosystems has received numerous awards and recognition for its work, including the 2019 Eugene Oregon Innovation & Talent Job Creation Award, the 2018 Science Coalition American-Made Innovation Award, and the 2014 White House Most Innovative Platform Technology Award.

BlueDot Photonics, Inc. (Acquired by UbiQD)

Jared Silvia, CEO of BlueDot Photonics, has 9 years of experience in business execution in the energy sector. Jared joined BlueDot from Doosan GridTech, where he oversaw business and product strategy and worked to commercialize solutions for integrating distributed energy resources into the electric grid. Prior to Doosan, Jared worked at McKinsey and Co. where he served companies in the energy and materials sectors on strategy and operation topics.

Jared has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from MIT, and an MPhil in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge as a Churchill Scholar. A long-time resident of Washington, Jared is a graduate of the University of Washington where he earned a BS in Chemistry and a BS in Biochemistry. He supports undergraduate education and the Department of Chemistry through volunteer efforts. When he’s not trying to get more solar energy on the grid, Jared loves running across the hills of the Seattle area, cooking the latest food trend, and getting outside with his daughter, Marley, and wife, Brandi.

BlueDot Photonics is a Seattle-based company working to commercialize next-generation solar technologies based on perovskite semiconductor materials.

Keliomics

Dr. Lau is a surgeon scientist and serial entrepreneur. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics in three years from Yale University.

He earned his MD with Research Honors from University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor (a top 10 US medical school).

Dr. Lau did a plastic surgery residency and a stem cell research fellowship at Harvard, and simultaneously co-founded a startup that was later acquired by an international publishing house. He founded Keliomics with his co-founder, Jason Bourgeois, in 2022.

L5 Automation

Alex Gutierrez is passionate about the “Three Rs”: Reading, Running, and Robotics. An avid reader, he immerses himself in up to 40 books each year, with a keen interest in Science Fiction, Parenting, and Business.

Although less frequent these days, Alex still enjoys running marathons. Driven by a passion for robotics, he not only engages in professional projects but also enjoys tinkering with hobby robots and experimenting with 3D printing.

Magpie Technologies (Acquired by 130 Point)

Prior to her entrepreneurial endeavors, Kathryn spent nearly a decade at IBM. She most recently served as Director of Global Product Management for IBM Blockchain Platform, where she was the executive responsible for developing and delivering IBM’s open source contributions to Hyperledger as well as its blockchain software products.

Kathryn began her career in financial services at Gerson Lehrman Group in New York and Hong Kong. As a founding member of GLG Asia, she first led legal, political and regulatory research and then business development for the firm’s clients in Asia.

She is a term member on the Council of Foreign Relations, an American Council on Germany Young Leader, a French American Foundation Transatlantic Forum member, and a frequent conference speaker on topics related to collectibles, alternative assets, identity, cybersecurity, deepfakes and blockchain.

Kathryn has a Bachelor of Science from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, an MBA from the Wharton School and an MA from the Lauder Institute both at the University of Pennsylvania. Based in Bozeman, MT, Kathryn enjoys trail running, skiing, raising chickens, and mentoring women in technology.

Maxterial

Mehdi Kargar, co-founder and CEO of Maxterial, is a deep tech entrepreneur with 15 years of business and product development experience.

Mehdi has a PhD in engineering with additional trainings in chemistry and microbiology.

He reads history and is a fan of Persian literature. Mehdi grows 25+ types of fruits and veggies in his home garden.

mPathic

Grin Lord is a licensed clinical psychologist and founder & CEO of mpathic.

She previously worked as Chief Clinical Officer at Lyssn.io, Clinical Product Psychologist at Youper.ai, and Research Scientist at the University of Washington in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Areas of expertise include conversational design, using AI and machine learning to augment human connection, evidence-based therapies, empathy, and health coaching. Grin founded and serves on the board of Therapists in Tech, a collaborative that offers support to over 3,000 clinicians working together to define the digital mental health revolution.

Grin enjoys reading and writing about the history of psychology and textual interpretation as a member of Division 24 in the American Psychological Association. In her off time you can find Grin singing karaoke, drinking boba tea, and traveling away from Seattle to sunny destinations. She has two incredible sons and two annoying hairless cats that keep her busy.

Brad Booth

Chief Executive Officer

Brad Booth is a distinguished leader in technology strategy and development. Currently, he serves as the CEO of NLM Photonics and provides strategic guidance through his consulting firm: Dragon Horse Technologies. Previously, Brad held senior roles at Meta and Microsoft Azure focused on next generation Cloud and AI datacenters. He has also held technology strategist and engineering positions at Dell and Intel. Brad led the formation of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, the Ethernet Technology Consortium, the Consortium for On-Board Optics and the Ethernet Alliance, and he has served on IOWN Global Forum’s board of directors. Brad was named by Network World as one of the 50 most influential people in networking. The holder of over 20 patents related to networking technologies, he has also received awards for his contributions to industry consortia and IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standards.

Perfect Company

Mike has been creating and inventing for over 35 years. His inventions include the Power Glove for Mattel, the Power Plug for Tyco, and the Passenger Occupancy Detection System for General Motors. In addition he has authored two video games, Robot Odyssey for The Learning Company and Return to Atlantis for Electronic Arts. Prior to launching Perfect, Mike cofounded Pure Imagination and Ensequence.

Personality AI (Acquired by WildBrain)

John Goscha is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and Founder & CEO of Personality AI (formerly Native Voice Inc.). Personality AI builds custom AI-powered conversational character experiences for brands and IP owners, creating true-to-life digital personalities with proprietary AI models, synthetic voices, and enterprise-grade safety. The company’s technology enables beloved characters and brands to engage audiences through natural, interactive experiences across multiple platforms.

Prior to Native Voice, John founded Lucidity Lights, creating the widest spectrum of well-being benefits without sacrificing light quality or energy efficiency; where he is currently the Chairman of the Board.John is a serial entrepreneur whom enjoys bringing award winning companies from concept, to execution, to expansion. John is passionate about his work and spends the majority of his time traveling and engaging with stakeholders.

When he is not meeting with Board Members, investors, customers and end users, John enjoys hiking and Skiing back home in Colorado. John has been a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient multiple times and is a Babson Alumni.

Photon Marine

Marcelino Alvarez is CEO of Photon Marine, a Portland-based startup developing high-powered, electric outboard motor systems for commercial boat fleets.

Photon exists for the benefit of the world’s most fragile marine ecosystems and for those whose livelihoods and sustenance depend on them.

Prior to Photon, Marcelino served as Chief Product Officer at Fresh Consulting, which acquired Uncorked Studios, a product design firm that he co-founded in 2010 and served as CEO.

ProMedix

David Sheridan MD MCR is co-founder and CEO of ProMedix Inc. Dr. Sheridan is on faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at Oregon Health & Science University where he cares from patients ranging from common medical conditions such as viral illness and infections to critical care of pediatric trauma and cardiac arrest. His direct patient care in the pediatric emergency department has resulted in identification of the need for technology to rapidly assist in sepsis (overwhelming infection) and dehydration assessment in both the ER and home environment.

Dr. Sheridan graduated from medical school, completed his residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine in addition to obtaining his master’s degree in Clinical Research. This background and expertise has allowed ProMedix to rapidly iterate through prototype design and clinical testing to develop medical technology with measurable impact on patient care and outcomes.

Dr. Sheridan was born and raised in the Pacific NW. His first priority is his family including wife Stacey and 3 daughters (Brooke, Katelyn and Kendall). He dedicates time outside of work to many of their sports teams coaching soccer and basketball each year. Personally he enjoys fly fishing, running and home/landscaping projects. He is an avid Seattle Seahawks fans and hoping for a 2020 Superbowl run!

Sensory Robotics

Chris Edwards is CEO of Sensory Robotics. With nearly 10 years of experience in business and manufacturing automation, he has a Bachelor’s degree in finance and a master’s in computer science. Together with his co-founder Tristan Fogt, who has a master’s in robotics, they are forging a new path for industrial robotics. Before founding Sensory Robotics, Chris conducted research in cloud computing, and he automated the arbitrage of cryptocurrencies.

Chris’s long-term goal is to help make our modern society sustainable, efficient, and supportive of human achievement. He is accordingly a lifelong member of the Planetary Society along with several other public science organizations, and has supported the next generation of robotics experts through FIRST. For leisure he enjoys skiing, automotive racing, and travel; and occasionally he steps away from technology to delve into his library of history books or to craft things by hand.

Sensory Robotics makes a paradigm-changing safety product for industrial automation. Their product removes the barrier between workers and heavy machines, so they can safely interact and work side-by-side. This allows factories to quickly and cheaply automate manufacturing, and allows existing automation to run faster. Their clients include major automakers and major robot makers, which see the benefit that this has for manufacturing and the possibilities it opens for robotics.

Michael Shattuck, CEO & Founder

Mike Shattuck is a tech leader and entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in system architecture and fintech. Currently, he serves as CEO and Founder of Soon (Soon.App), a stress-free crypto platform offering fully automated buying, profit-taking, and portfolio management across major exchanges.

Spren

Jason Moore, founder, and CEO of Spren, is an expert in applying health and fitness data to the real world. Jason and his team have managed $100M+ engineering projects from start-up to IPO. Jason received his Bachelor of Science degree in Information and Operations Management from Texas A&M University.

Jason believes in work-life balance and enjoys spending time with his family as well as a good read. Passionate about food, sports, decision theory, psychology, and the interactions between humans and technology, Jason brings an intensity to everything he does as he seeks to embrace the present moment.

Spren is a B2C tech startup based in Asheville, North Carolina. Spren specializes in helping individuals monitor health by utilizing their comprehensive heart rate variability application.

St3ms

St3ms (previously ESG Brands), established in 2022, leads the way in sustainable innovation at the convergence of agriculture, chemistry, and fashion.

Our visionary team specializes in the transformative process of “cottonizing” agricultural waste from banana plantations, resulting in high-quality textile-grade fiber while concurrently producing valuable potable water as a byproduct.

We are deeply committed to advancing multi-purpose farming and fostering synergy between soil, nutrition, and material science. At ESG Brands, we are cultivating the materials of tomorrow and scaling the world’s next generation of natural fibers. Explore our mission further at st3ms.com.

Steamchain Corp

Dan Biggs is Founder and CEO of Steamchain Corp. Dan spent 40 years as founder of DBP, Inc. which specialized in business development, project management, strategic planning, marketing and consulting on International media and trade issues.

He was interim CEO of NTV-7 in Malaysia, where he helped with the roll out to the local and international business community. Dan also co-founded the Iris Financial Group, Roger Hong Foods and has served on the Board of several companies and non-profit organizations. He has a B.S. from the University of Oregon.

Dan is a great supporter of the arts and was previously Chairman of The Board of Directors for Portland Art Museum. He was also a trustee for the Portland Opera, co-founder of the Portland Creative Conference and is currently Chairman of the Board of the George D. Green Art Institute.

Steamchain Corp is a B2B startup based in Portland, Oregon. Steamchain Corp simplifies global B2B payments by reducing currency conversion costs, currency fluctuation risk, and reducing antiquated document processes with their software platform.

By eliminating financial institutions from the international business equation, Steamchain Corp only charges a 1.5% fee and is able to save their clients 4.5-9% on conversion costs. They utilize Smart Contracts (WTL) which replace cash conversion throughout the supply chain and are able to reduce contract settlement time by days.

Styleriser Inc.

Mark Hunsmann is an experienced entrepreneur with a passion for innovation and disrupting procedures that don’t work well, such as the status quo of apparel online shopping.

As co-founder and CEO of Styleriser Inc., Mark and his team have developed AI-driven tools that significantly enhance the online shopping experience through a series of professional virtual advisors.

Mark has studied Communication Arts and Media. Previous to Styleriser, Mark was involved in co-founding four service companies, most of them out of Istanbul, Turkey, where Mark remains invested, training and coaching junior entrepreneurs.

Tandem

David Paolella is co-founder and CEO of Tandem Biotherapeutics inc. Mr. Paolella founded Cambrooke Therapeutics, now part of the Ajinomoto group, to provide world-class clinical nutrition products for his two children Cameron and Brooke.

Mr. Paolella has built two clinical nutrition manufacturing facilities near Boston to provide medical foods for IEMs, Severe Protein Allergies, and Intractable Epilepsy. In 2010 Cambrooke brought the first intact protein dietary treatment to market using glycomacropeptide a novel whey fraction as a first-in-class treatment for these patients. Over the past dozen years, it has become the leading medical food for patients with Phenylketonuria and Tyrosinemia in more than 20 countries around the world.

Determined to find better therapies for his family and this global community of rare diseases, Mr. Paolella co-founded Tandem Biotherapeutics with Dr. Sarkissian and Dr. Gramignoli in 2020 to develop safe and effective treatments for patients with congenital liver enzyme defects such as PKU. Initial indications suggest that Tandem’s cell therapy product can ameliorate disease in many conditions beyond the initial proof of concept.

THE WILD (acquired by Autodesk in 2022)

Gabe Paez is the Founder and CEO of The Wild, a cloud-based, real-time collaboration platform for designers to create and share spatial design in virtual and augmented reality.

He lives in Portland, Oregon and has 12 years of experience leading technical teams with an emphasis in experiential product design.

Prior to The Wild, he designed and engineered immersive software products for a diverse roster of Fortune 100 companies including Google, Samsung, Nike, AT&T, and Verizon. Gabe graduated with honors from New York University with degrees in Theater and Computer Science.

Transformative Optics

Geoff is CEO and co-founder of Transformative Optics, a company founded to bring the vivid colors enabled by CMOS sensors to life for everyone with a smart phone.

A proven entrepreneur, Geoff was founder of Digimarc (NASDAQ: DMRC) and pivotal to the turn-around of what became Immersive Media (TSX:IMC), the original developer of what the world now knows as Google Streetview. Within Digimarc Geoff led a 25 year+, billion dollar global counterfeit deterrence program.

His eventful history includes 12 years of highest-level classified activities for US space-borne reconnaissance efforts, a DARPA investigation, experience as Principal Investigator on an Air Force advanced navigation program, prototyping of Wi-Fi-based indoor navigation, and development of in-shoe motion sensing at Nike. Geoff holds more than 500 patents, cherishes time with family, still plays ice hockey, and is obsessed with launching Transformative Optics into trans-lunar orbit where it truly belongs.

Ubiai

Walid Amamou is the CEO and Founder of UBIAI, an AI platform that aims to transform unstructured data into intelligence.

1With a PhD in Material Science and Engineering and a research scientist stint at Intel for 3.5 years, Walid is a seasoned professional in the tech industry.

In 2020, Walid founded UBIAI with a vision to provide an industry-specific, no-code AI platform to help companies process, analyze and organize their unstructured data efficiently. Through UBIAI, Walid is committed to providing businesses with the tools they need to succeed in the digital age. In his free time, Walid is an avid soccer player and loves traveling around the world to explore different cultures. He also enjoys reading and expanding his knowledge in various areas.

Violett

Violett is excited to be partnered with Ideaship as we continue to grow our IP portfolio.

Ideaship’s team has the expertise to challenge assumptions, provide a trusted alternative perspective, provide an independent IP valuation for the company, and help develop an IP strategy into the future – each of these are incredibly valuable for Violett as an early-stage company with complex technology.

WAVE Drowning Detection Systems

Chris Barton is a seasoned technology entrepreneur, investor, and business leader with more than 35 years of experience founding, growing, and leading innovative technology companies.

Chris has overseen all aspects of company growth, including strategy, product development, operations, and business expansion. As CEO of WAVE Drowning Detection Systems, he is dedicated to advancing aquatic safety through innovative technology that helps save lives.

WAVE is an aquatic safety startup founded in 2016, and is based in Westport, Connecticut. The WAVE system can be deployed at all indoor and outdoor aquatic facilities including pools, lakes, rivers and beaches, and represents the most advanced solution in aquatic recreational safety.

Wonderfil

Amelia Eichel is co-founder and CEO of Wonderfil.

As a Lewis & Clark graduate with a degree in Interdisciplinary Religious Studies, Amelia brings a unique perspective to how technology shapes social and environmental change.

Her professional passions include exploring the ways in which cybernetics can be used to drive positive change and how we can create a world where everyone has the resources they need to thrive.

WRENCH.AI

Dan Baird, the founder of Wrench.AI, has co-founded numerous startups, advised over 50 crowdfunding platforms, and led innovation for both startups and some of the U.S.’s most well-known household brands. Dan received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Utah, and an MBA from Thunderbird in Global Branding and Global Entrepreneurship.

Dan lives in Salt Lake City, with his wife, Alissa, his son, Sully, and their two dogs, Panda and Fosse. Dan is an advisor for the Child Rescue Association and High Hopes for Pets.

In addition to his advisory roles, Dan is a foster care father and a volunteer ESL kindergarten teacher. Dan is passionate about product design, personalization, and product management. Dan has visited 40+ countries and wrestled an anaconda.

Wrench.AI is B2B SaaS company that uses AI Gen 2.0 artificial intelligence tools to personalize marketing campaigns.