Who’s Done It?
Join over 465 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
Satish Polisetti
M.I.M.S. ’11
Co-Founder & CEO, Polymorph (acquired by Walmart)
Nicholas Rudder
Founder, ScholarSite
Ted Tabacco
Co-Founder & CEO, SpacePlace
Cyrell Roberson
M.A. ’16
Founder & CEO, Jubily
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
Mitsuru Igarashi
’89
Founder, Simplex, Inc.
Olaseni Bello
Co-founder, CarpeMed
Yannell Selman
Founder & CEO, Cultiveit
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
Jarrett Wright
’18
Founder & CEO, Higher Rewards
Vikram Sreekanti
’15, Ph.D. ’20
Founder & CEO, Spiral Labs
James Tong
’09
Co-Founder, Nomi
Asif Mohammad
Founder & CEO, SocratiQ
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
Jay (Zijie) Zhao
Co-founder, College Leap
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
Thomson Nguyen
’07
Co-Founder, Framed Data (acquired by Square); Founder & CEO, Hatch
Angela Lau
M.B.A. ’16
Co-Founder, Seventh AI
Ludwig Schoenack
M.B.A. ’19
Co-Founder, Drivekyte
Wesley Jackson
’00, M.S. ’05, Ph.D. ’06
Founder and CEO, Valitor Inc
Atanas Bakalov
M.B.A. ’19
Founder and CEO, Knowdeon
Rahul Deedwania
’10
Co-Founder, BreakoutIQ
Amy Fan
M.B.A. ’19, M.P.H. ’19
Co-Founder, Twentyeight Health
Ankur Nagpal
’09
Founder & CEO, Teachable
Jessica Green
M.S. ’94, Ph.D. ’01
Co-Founder and CEO of Phylagen Inc
Venkat Venkatasubramanian
M.B.A. ’16
Founder, SwiftMotion
Will Huang
’17, M.Eng. ’18
Co-Founder and CEO, Pengram
Andy Yang
’00
CEO, Indiegogo
Art Amador
M.B.A. ’16
Founder and COO, EquBot
Jeremy Hammer
’19
Founder, CatalistX
Justin Duan
VoiceOps
Kaycee Antosiak
’17
SurveyMonkey
Emily Walling
M.B.A. ’08
Head of Marketing, Portfolia
Saswat Mishra
E.M.B.A. ’19
Founder and CEO, California Memory Technologies Inc
David Pastewka
’12
CEO, Drapr; Co-Founder, Twindom
John McMahon
M.S. ’72, M.B.A. ’73
Chief Marketing Officer, Allium Vitalis
Benjamin Chang
’88
Glint, Head of Information Security & Compliance
Jason Bellet
’14
Co-Founder, Eko
Bogdan Cristei
Founder, Optim Capital
Peter Wysinski
’14
Co-Founder, AxleHire; Co-Founder & CEO, kSense
Kevin Ubilla
’16
Founder, Omni Astrobiotics
Matthew Sinks
’15
Program China, UnBank Ventures
Shawn Tsao
’11
Co-Founder, Caviar (acquired by Square)
Pledge fulfilled in 2019
Joyce Arellano-Bravo
’98
Co-Founder, WeSolve
Dinesh Kumar
M.B.A. ’17
COO, Promaxo
Dave Alpert
’78, M.Arch. ’86
CEO and Co-Founder, Geopogo
Jason Wang
’09
Co-Founder, Caviar (acquired by Square); Venture Partner, Beluga Capital
Laurie Peterson
M.B.A. ’11
Founder, Build & Imagine (acquired); Founder and CEO, Inkbrite
Dhawal Mujumdar
M.I.M.S. ’11
Co-Founder, Polymorph (acquired by Walmart)
Charles Huang
’93
Co-Founder, RedOctane (acquired by Activision); Co-Founder, Indigo 7
Pledge fulfilled in 2014
Juan Pablo Ferrer
’01
Co-founder, Mevoked (acquired by WellBrain)
Richard Din
’08
Co-Founder, Caviar (acquired by Square)
Pledge fulfilled in 2019
James Brear
’89
President & CEO, Veriflow (acquired by VMware)
Kevin Blake
M.B.A. ’17
Founder and Managing Partner, Sierra Verde Capital
Paul Yeh
’01
Partner, Conductive Ventures