Who’s Done It?
Join over 490 Cal entrepreneurs and faculty who have made the Pledge.
Bobby Yazdani
’87
Founder and Managing Partner, Signatures Capital and Cota Capital
Pledge fulfilled in 2020
David Kirn
’85
Co-Founder and CEO, 4D Molecular Therapeutics; Co-Founder, IGNITE Immunotherapy
Pledge fulfilled in 2021
Lisa Guerra
PhD ’96
Partner, SV2; Co-Founder, Victrio (acquired by Verint)
Pledge fulfilled in 2020
Aakash Prasad
’13
Founder and CEO, Design Everest
Jessica Eting
’06, M.B.A. ’18
Co-founder & COO, Flourish
Kristy Edwards
Co-Founder & President, PrivacyCode
Peter Imburg
’94
Founder & CEO, Elfster
Kenneth Wong
’77
Co-Founder, energyRe
Kaycee Antosiak
’17
Plug and Play Tech Center
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
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
Claudia Natasia
’15
Director of UX Research, Highspot; Founder, JumpStart UXR
Daniel Tsentsiper
Founder, Veriply
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
Bogdan Cristei
M.Eng. ’21
Founder, Optim Capital
Justin Duan
’21
VoiceOps
Lokilani Hunt
’16
Founding Partner, CliqueXchange
Kevin Hartman
M.I.D.S. ’20
Founder, CarbyAI
Cyrell Roberson
M.A. ’16
Founder & CEO, Jubily
Andrew Harris
Founder & CEO, Amped Emotos Inc.
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
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
Vikram Chandra
Co-founder & CEO, Granthika Co.
Yaw Ofosu Ansong, Jr.
Co-founder & CEO, KovaDx
Emon Motamedi
B.S. ’14, B.A. ’14
Founder, Florian
Lauri Kibby
M.B.A. ’86
Co-Founder and CFO, Kings Garden; Co-Founder and Chairwoman, Endourage
Vikram Sreekanti
’15, Ph.D. ’20
Founder & CEO, Spiral Labs
James Tong
’09
Co-Founder, Nomi
Lizi Feng
’13
Co-Founder, DrVigo and Uni Precision, Inc.
Wei Zhu
Founder, MooZ
Giles Templeman
M.B.A. ’20
Co-Founder, Callisto
Shihui Mao
M.B.A. ’20
Co-Founder, Callisto
Santiago Freyria
M.B.A. ’20
Founder, ExVivoGen
Linda Chow
M.B.A.’19
Co-Founder and CEO, CaringDr
Lindsey Hoell
Co-founder and CEO, Dispatch Goods
Harrison Shaw
’20
Founder and CEO, Lynx Verification
Yao-Chieh “Jeff” Hu
M.Eng ’20
Co-Founder and CEO, Turing Chain
Sol Eun
M.Eng ’20
Founder and CEO, UI Flow
Matthew Cooper
M.B.A. ’10
Founder and CEO, Carmenta Bioscience (acquired by Progenity)
Ryan Chan
’13
Founder and CEO, UpKeep
Farshad Ghaffari
’99
Co-Founder, Entreda (acquired by Smarsh)
Zahid Hussain
Division Deputy, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Erin Mastopietro
’10
Co-Founder, Dope Dog
Michael Olson
’91, M.S. ’92
Co-Founder and CSO, Cloudera
Pledge fulfilled in 2020
Angela Lau
M.B.A. ’16
Co-Founder, Seventh AI