Entrepreneurship


Founder

Covariant: 2017 - now (with: Peter Chen, Rocky Duan, Tianhao Zhang)
Gradescope: 2014 - 2018 acquired by TurnItIn (with: Arjun Singh, Sergey Karayev, Ibrahim Awwal)

Former Students and Post-docs Founders

Ajay Jain: Genmo (2023)
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity.ai (2022)
Denis Yarats: Perplexity.ai (2022)
Jonathan Ho: Mobius.ai (2022)
Josh Tobin: Gantry (2020)
Ziang Xie: Sapling Intelligence (2018)
Stephen McKinley: Ambi Robotics (2018)
David Gealy: Ambi Robotics (2018)
Kevin Sartori: Auterion (2018)
James Sha: Onyx.fit (2018) acquired by cure.fit (2021)
Jur van den Berg: Otto (2016) acquired by Uber (2016) | Ike (2018) acquired by Nuro (2020)
Sachin Patil: Ike (2018) acquired by Nuro (2020)
Xi (Peter) Chen: Covariant (2017)
Yan (Rocky) Duan: Covariant (2017)
Tianhao Zhang: Covariant (2017)
John Schulman: OpenAI (2015)
Sameep Tandon: Drive.ai (2015) acquired by Apple (2019)
Arjun Singh: Gradescope (2014) acquired by TurnItIn (2018)
Ibrahim Awwal: Gradescope (2014) acquired by TurnItIn (2018)
Stephen Miller: Fyusion (2013) acquired by Cox Automotive (2021)

Advisor / Investor

Graphcore
Preferred Networks
Sapling Intelligence
Wayve
Weights and Biases
Deep Valley Labs
Dishcraft Robotics
Off World
TensorFlight
Traptic
onai
inzone.ai
Onyx Fit
SuperAnnotate
January
Mezli
ZenML
Foxglove
Eliza Dolls

Venture Partner

Founding Investment Partner at AIX Ventures
Faculty Partner in The House Fund