Who’s Done It?
Join over 500 Cal entrepreneurs and faculty who have made the Pledge.
Simon Ru
’03, M.B.A. ’11
Founder and CEO, UpNest (acquired by Realtor.com)
Pledge fulfilled in 2022
Zubin Nagarvala
’02
Founder, Upward.net (acquired by Jobcase)
Pledge fulfilled in 2023
Lisa Guerra
PhD ’96
Partner, SV2; Co-Founder, Victrio (acquired by Verint)
Pledge fulfilled in 2022
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
Hanyang Liu
M. Arch ’23
Co-founder, Flo
Roland Deal
M.B.A. ’05
Co-founder & President, Audyence
Heather Rankow
CEO, Rely - Real Estate Logistics for You
Peter Zhang
’16
Founder, SteadyGrowth.co
Sophia Yen MD
M.P.H. ’04
Founder & CEO, Pandia Health
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
John Cuellar
M.B.A. ’95
Founder, Cascade Clarity
Vivek Jadhav
M.F.E. ’07
Founder & CEO, Precede
Misha Dynin
’03
Founder, Dynin Labs
Cimeran Kapur
’11
Founder & CEO, Potion
Wei Zhu
M.B.A. ’22
Founder, MooZ
Harrison Shaw
’20, M.B.A. ’22
Founder and CEO, Lynx Verification
Cyrell Roberson
M.A. ’16, C.SPI ’17, C.ESP ’18, Ph.D. ’21
Founder & CEO, Jubily
Daniel Tsentsiper
’22
Founder, Veriply
Ashish Shah
M.B.A. ’10
Co-founder, Andromeda Security
Carol MacKinlay
’84
Chief People Officer, Binance.US
Douglas Cole
’78
Exec. Chairman, US Minerals and Metals Corp.
Chris Villegas
’19
Co-founder & CTO, Loak
Nate Singer
’05
Managing Director, Mission Holdings
Kanwarjit Kelley
’04
Founder & CEO, Side Health
Jacob Safar
’20
Co-founder & CEO, Loak
Vincil Crenshaw
’20
Co-founder & COO, Loak
Aakash Prasad
’13
Founder and CEO, Design Everest
Jessica Eting
’06, M.B.A. ’18
Co-founder & COO, Flourish
Peter Imburg
’94
Founder & CEO, Elfster
Kenneth Wong
’77
Co-Founder, energyRe
Kaycee Antosiak
’17
Plug and Play Tech Center
Peter Loukianoff
’87, M.B.A. ’98
Partner, Portal Venture Partners
Avi Gupta
M.S. ‘91
President & CEO, SmartZip Analytics (acquired); Founder and CEO, Bubble
David Jaramillo
Ph.D. ’21
Co-founder & CTO, Verne Inc.
Jarrett Wright
’18, M.B.A.’22
Founder & CEO, Higher Rewards
Pravir Singh
’00
Founder & Managing Partner, Montecito Equity Partners
Thomson Nguyen
’07
Co-Founder, Framed Data (acquired by Square); Founder & CEO, Nearside
Rachel Wolan
M.B.A. ’09
VP & GM, Dropbox; former Founder, YadaZing
Jonathon Mahoney
’17
Co-founder, Eachday
Alex Luce
Ph.D. ’15
General Partner, Creative Ventures
Pranava Adduri
’12, M.S. ’13
Co-founder, Bedrock Labs
Edward Shenderovich
’97
Founder and CEO, Synonym Biotechnologies
Kelly Cure
M.B.A. ’21
Co-founder and Head of Growth, Skillful.ly
Jamie Robertson
M.B.A. ’17
Co-founder, Cragmont Partners LLC
Dan Kanivas
M.B.A. ’12
Founder, Triple Summit Advisors
Yuguang (Brian) Yuan
Founder, Mega Gear Robotics
Jeffrey Zavattero
’88
CEO, Goodfill LLC
Cassi Janakos
’11
Co-founder and COO, Healthy Horizons
Ted Tabacco
M.B.A. ’21
Co-Founder & CEO, SpacePlace
Olaseni Bello
M.B.A.’21
Co-founder, CarpeMed
Yannell Selman
M.B.A. ’21
Founder & CEO, Cultiveit
Asif Mohammad
M.Eng. ’21, M.B.A. ’21
Founder & CEO, SocratiQ
Jay (Zijie) Zhao
’21
Co-founder, College Leap
Justin Duan
’21
VoiceOps
Kevin Hartman
M.I.D.S. ’20
Founder, CarbyAI
Stephen Etter
’83, M.B.A. ’89
Lecturer, Haas School of Business; Founder, Greyrock Capital
Pledge fulfilled in 2019
James Hong
’95, M.B.A. ’99
Co-Founder, HOTorNOT; Angel Investor/Advisor
Pledge fulfilled in 2014
Lawrence Johnson
’72
CEO, InvestorLogic LLC
Pledge fulfilled in 2019
Mitsuru Igarashi
’89
Founder, Simplex, Inc.
Pledge fulfilled in 2020
Marc Bensadoun
Ph.D. ’91
Seed-stage investor and advisor
Pledge fulfilled in 2018
Vigyan Singhal
M.S. ’94, Ph.D. ’96
Founder, Oski Technology
David Hanzel
’78, Ph.D. ’89
Chief Science Officer, Naked Biome (acquired by Symbiome)
Brian Liou
’13
Co-Founder, Ralph Inc.
Augie Rakow
’95
Palo Alto Legal Support
Satish Polisetti
M.I.M.S. ’11
Co-Founder & CEO, Polymorph (acquired by Walmart)
Nicholas Rudder
Founder, ScholarSite
David Kirn
’85
Co-Founder and CEO, 4D Molecular Therapeutics; Co-Founder, IGNITE Immunotherapy
Pledge fulfilled in 2021
Bobby Yazdani
’87
Founder and Managing Partner, Signatures Capital and Cota Capital
Pledge fulfilled in 2020
Zach Merritt
M.I.D.S. ’19
Founder, Kindu
Kal Deutsch
M.B.A. ’93
Co-founder & CEO, DealEngine
Raymond Lee
M.I.D.S. ’19
Founder & CEO, FakeNetAI
Fahed Al Essa
M.B.A.’19, M.P.H. ’19
Co-founder & CEO, Mayv