Amol co-founded several startups including Virgin Mobile USA (raised $550M, IPO 2007), Peek (raised $12M), Halo Neuroscience (raised $10M), Knotable, and Knotel (raised $350M). He has also worked at McKinsey and is a Global Vanguard at the World Economic Forum. He has personally invested in over 50 startups. He studied cognitive science for his PhD at Stanford University and holds an undergraduate degree from Columbia University, where he also teaches.

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Inaki has been a 3x CEO/entrepreneur in NYC: Pixable, acquired by SingTel in 2012 for $30M; Contactive, acquired by Fuze; and CoverWallet, which raised $60M, with over 500 employees and close to $1B in premium revenue, and acquired by Aon in 2020. He has worked at McKinsey & Company and Microsoft Corporate Strategy. He is a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and has personally invested in over 100 startups, cofounding Agentero and iPronics. He is a 14x marathon finisher (7x NYC).

Inaki earned Master and PhD degrees in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, and an MBA from MIT. He was also a two-year Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University and a postdoc at the Cambridge-MIT Institute.

Rika Christanto is a Partner at LifeX Ventures.

She has been the Chief Operating Officer of AI healthtech company Idoven, where they raised $20M from Insight Partners and Northzone. She previously spent 5 years as Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of climate-tech startup Ontruck, helping raise $60M from Atomico and Cathay Innovation. As an investor, she has done seed and pre-seed investments for Accel.

Previously, she spent 4 years as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company in New York and London, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Uganda. She also spent 3 years as a technology investment banker at Morgan Stanley, working on internet (Alibaba, Perfect World, Netease) and climate (Yingli, Trina Solar) deals.

She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University (magna cum laude). She has triplets.

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Tiffany Chen is an investor at LifeX Ventures and is based in the Bay Area.

She has a long history of successful investments in technology, digital health, and sustainability. Prior to LifeX, Tiffany was an associate at Northpond Ventures, a life sciences venture capital firm with $2B in AUM, where her primary focus was investments from seed through series B. She also worked as an associate at Fisher Lynch Capital, where she was involved in investments in NuBank (NYSE:NU), Bytedance (parent of TikTok), Armis, and Trulioo, amongst others. She began her career in strategy consulting at L.E.K. Consulting. Prior to her roles in finance, she was an academic researcher at UC San Diego where her work was published in Nature.

Tiffany has a BA in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley. She is also bilingual in Mandarin and can speak basic French and Japanese.