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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Yue Zhao is a principal at LifeX Ventures.

Yue was the Chief Product & Technology officer at Fuzzy Pet Health, which raised $88M from Greycroft, Matrix Partners, Icon Ventures, and more. She was also the first PM and Head of Professionals at Thumbtack Inc for 5 years, which was valued at $3.2B in 2021 with investment from Sequoia, Tiger Global, Capital G, QIA, and more. Previously, she co-founded a wine e-commerce startup called FirstCrush.

Yue spent 4 years at Meta working on Instagram Feed and Profile, Messenger Web and Desktop, and SMB Advertising.

She started her career as a BA at McKinsey & Company and in Corporate Strategy at Cisco Systems. She is a seasoned career coach and aspiring writer (Her first book is called The Uncommon Executive, due January 2024).

Yue holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.