co-Founded 3 startups, 2 venture capital firms, and 2 non-profit organizations

Raised / Managed 5 venture capital funds

Invested in 80+ startups

Served on more than 20 boards

Authored 30+ peer-reviewed papers and patents, with ~6000 citations

Advisor of research and innovation for the University of Colorado at Boulder

Chaired the 1st Solar Decathlon in Asia, a Zero-Energy-Consumption-Building competition that had 21 teams from 11 countries (United States, China, Israel, Sweden, Australia, Egypt, Singapore, Belgium, Iran, England, Switzerland, Malaysia). It's a collaboration of U.S. and China, supported by Presidents Obama and Hu.

Vahid Saadat is a serial medical device entrepreneur with 25 years of experience developing and commercializing medical products. Vahid currently runs Inquis Medical, Inc., a medical device company in Redwood City, California. Previously, Vahid run Arrinex, Inc., a company developing a one time,office based therapy for chronic rhinitis. Arrinex was recently acquired by Stryker, Inc. Prior to Arrinex, Vahid served as the CEO of Voyage Medical, funded by Kleiner perkins, Three Arch , RWI and Abbott Ventures. Mr. Saadat holds a Bachelor's and Master’s degrees in engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He is named an inventor on 200 patents in a variety of medical specialties.

Tim is a successful serial entrepreneur. He was the Co-Founder/CEO of TiDAL Systems (acquired by Micron), Co-Founder/CEO of HoneycombData, and Founder/Chairman of PETAiO.

Mark has been an investor in DeepTech startups since 2008 with 35+ investments in Digital Transformation and Sustainability. Exits include A123 (IPO), QD Vision (Acq by Samsung), Device42 (Acq by a PE), SeeClickFix (Acq by CivicPlus), LiveOak (Acq by DocuSign), MoQuality (Acq by Snap).