Who’s Done It?
Join over 475 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

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

Jarrett Wright
’18
Founder & CEO, Higher Rewards

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

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