Who’s Done It?
Join over 540 Cal entrepreneurs and faculty who have made the Pledge.
Vigyan Singhal
M.S. ’94, Ph.D. ’96
Founder, Oski Technology (acquired by NVIDIA)
Pledge fulfilled in 2023
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
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
Michael Paine
Founding Partner, Iron Star Partners & Rodeo Investments
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
Ashley Keyes
Co-founder, Rely
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
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
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
Simon Ru
’03, M.B.A. ’11
Founder and CEO, UpNest (acquired by Realtor.com)
Pledge fulfilled in 2022
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