Who’s Done It?
Join over 565 Cal entrepreneurs and faculty who have made the Pledge.
Kenneth Wong
’77
Co-Founder, energyRe
Pledge fulfilled in 2024
Amir Ben-Efraim
’91
Co-Founder and CEO, Menlo Security
Pledge fulfilled in 2025
Lisa Guerra
PhD ’96
Partner, SV2; Co-Founder, Victrio (acquired by Verint)
Pledge fulfilled in 2025
Aditi Khullar
M.I.D.S. ’19
VP, Two Sigma Investments
Jasmine Qi
M.I.D.S. ’16
Co-founder [stealth mode]
Martin Delanghe
Co-founder [stealth mode]
Carly Anderson
Ph.D. ’16
Co-founder, Timescale Ventures
Sandeep Kunwar
’88
Founder, Precision NeuroMed
Purvi Kunwar
’92
Co-founder, Precision NeuroMed
Mehmet Inonu
M.I.D.S. ’25
Founder, Perceive AI
Jiayang Cheng
M.Eng ’22
Co-founder & CEO, Nestify
Ashley Kochans
M.P.H. ’26
Founder, Digital Marketing for Change
Andrew Tan
’19
Founder, TLDR
Tanav Thanjavuru
M.I.D.S. ’26
Founder & CEO, Navington Technologies
Bahram Mohebi
’97
Co-Founder and COO, Canopy Space; Founder, Caspian Partners LLC
Michael Cheng
’93, M.B.A. ’01
Founder & CEO, Kikichat
Clare Lou
’18, Ph.D. ’23
Founder & CEO, Sift Biosciences
Michael Paine
’24
Founding Partner, Iron Star Partners & Rodeo Investments
Ashley Keyes
M.B.A. ’25
Co-founder, Rely
Heather Rankow
M.B.A. ’24
CEO, Rely - Real Estate Logistics for You
Bryce Gilleland
M.B.A. ’20
General Partner, California Innovation Fund
Morgan Hua
’86
Co-founder, Wealthfront
Amy S. Yee
’80
Founder & CEO, Cha Therapeutics
Vanessa He
Founder, The Impact Venture
David Shin
’83
CEO, DK Shin Laboratories
Neal Patel
’21
Co-founder & CEO, ScaleDown
Sam Berston
M.I.C.S. ’25
Co-founder, MindFort AI
Jun Yoon
’99
Co-founder & CFO, Structure Therapeutics
Meenesh Bhimani
’95
Co-founder, Hippocratic AI
Preston Sandbakken
’13
Founder, Breathe With Me LLC
Uma Tantri
M.B.A. ’17
Founder & CEO, Meena's Planet
Will Regan
M.A ’07, Ph.D. ’12
Co-Founder & President, Pacific Fusion
Alina Su
’22
Co-Founder & CEO, Generation Lab
Christopher Yee
M.B.A. ’21
Founder, WeRepresent
Nayomi Kanz
M.P.H. ’24
SafeHold
Sriram Subramanian
M.B.A. ’12
Co-Founder & CTO, Bnext.in; Co-Founder and CEO, LINK
Ali Ansary
’07
Co-founder & CEO, Ozette Technologies
Kenneth W. Tsang
’10
Co-founder, FreshX
Saurabh Nayak
M.B.A. ’22
Founder, Svara AI
Capella Kerst
’13
Founder & CEO, geCKo Materials
Douglas Seo
’22
Co-founder & CEO, Popper
Juhi Saha
’05, M.B.A. ’15
Founder & CEO, Partner1
Dan Fritchman
Ph.D. ’23
Founder, Generation Alpha Transistor
Widya Mulyasasmita
’08
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, BEVC Management
Sri Reddy
M.B.A. ’21
Founder, OCHRE
Mikhail Kryukov
M.B.A. ’21
Venture builder, Endurance Companies
Nate Singer
’05
Managing Director, Mission Holdings
Pledge fulfilled in 2023
Vigyan Singhal
M.S. ’94, Ph.D. ’96
Founder, Oski Technology (acquired by NVIDIA)
Pledge fulfilled in 2023
Bhaven Shah
M.B.A. ’08
Director of Product Growth, Turvo
Marissa Ramirez de Chanlatte
’15, M.S. ’18, Ph.D. ’23
Co-founder & COO, PromptAI
Jiazi Guo
’15
Founder & CEO, ETZ Soft
Kaycee Antosiak
’17
Investor, Plug and Play Tech Center
Anand Shroff
M.B.A. ’04
Founder, Health Fidelity (acquired by Edifecs); President, Verantos
Kevin Chou
’02
Co-Founder, Kabam (acquired); Co-Founder, SuperLayer
Pledge fulfilled in 2015
Mo Zadeh
M.I.M.S. ’16
Co-Founder & CEO, Rumi Technologies
Ankur Nagpal
’09
Founder, Teachable (acquired by Hotmart); Founder, Ocho
Matthew Stotts
’92
General Partner, Cerulean Ventures
Karan Singh
’05
Co-Founder, Ginger; COO & CPO, Headspace
Tony Vontz
’05
Founder, Edgevale (acquired by Lane Brands); Director of Product Mgmt, CamelBak
Jonathan Fan
’02
Co-Founder, Subspace (acquired by Box); CPO, Envoy
Pledge fulfilled in 2016
Gagan Biyani
’08
Co-Founder, Udemy; Co-Founder & CEO, Maven
Laurie Peterson
M.B.A. ’11
Founder, Build & Imagine (acquired); Founder & CEO, Rebel Play Studio
Hanyang Liu
M. Arch ’23
Co-founder & CEO, FLOZ
Raymond Lee
M.I.D.S. ’19
Founder, AI Product Creators
Tete Xiao
Ph.D. ’23
Co-founder & CEO, PromptAI
Peter Cipollone
’94
Co-Founder and CEO, Turazo
Bogdan Cristei
M.Eng. ’21, M.B.A. ’23
Investor, Union Labs Ventures
Andrew Harris
’23
Founder & CEO, Amped Emotos Inc.
Lokilani Hunt
’16, M.B.A. ’22
Founding Partner, CliqueXchange
Claudia Natasia
’15, M.B.A. ’22
Director of UX Research, Highspot; Founder, JumpStart UXR
Kristy Edwards
M.I.C.S ’22
Co-Founder & President, PrivacyCode
Roland Deal
M.B.A. ’05
Co-founder & President, Audyence
Peter Zhang
’16
Founder, SteadyGrowth.co
Sophia Yen MD
M.P.H. ’04
Founder & CEO, Pandia Health
Zubin Nagarvala
’02
Founder, Upward.net (acquired by Jobcase)
Pledge fulfilled in 2023
Michael Wu
’07
Founder, MIKOL
Alexander Kern
’16
Co-Founder, Distributed Systems (acquired by Coinbase); Founder & CEO, Dynaboard
Lea Yanhui Li
M.B.A. ’19
Principal P.M., Meta