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
Chadwick Strange
M.B.A. ’16
VP Product Management, Skale Labs; Co-Founder, Ubby
Steve Mohebi
’97
Co-Founder and COO, Canopy Space; Founder, Caspian Partners LLC
Carol Chen
’01
Director of Regulatory and Clinical Affairs, Diassess
Jacqueline Yuen Chan
M.B.A. ’10
Co-Founder & President, Joy
Anand Kulkarni
’05, M.S. ’08
Co-Founder, Crowdbotics Corporation and LeadGenius
Andrew Redfern
’05
Co-Founder and CTO, Sutro
Tammie Chen
’14
KKR Growth Equity
Richard Chan
’96, M.B.A. ’04
Managing Partner, Ironfire Ventures
Maryli Cheng
M.B.A. ’19
Product Management Intern for Next-Gen Products, Adobe
Anna O’Leary
Co-Founder and COO, BioXplor
Pedro Moura
M.B.A. ’18
Co-Founder and CEO, Flourish
Ravi Vayuvegula
M.B.A. ’13
Sr Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Lynx Analytics; Founder & CEO, AIStreet
Alejandro Maldonado
M.B.A. ’17
CEO, AVRIA; Co-Founder & CEO, Flow Studio
Tomas Janusas
’13
Partner, Regeneration Development Stratigies; Co-Founder, OppSites
William Wright
M.P.H. ’09, M.B.A. ’09
Co-Founder, Pack Health
Siddharth Singhal
M.I.D.S. ’18
Founder & CEO, CipherBoard
Yuriy Pryadko
M.B.A. ’17
Founder, Fishball and MEXT Software
Steve Lee
’14, MTM ’15
Co-Founder & CEO, Aura Health
Stephen Boogar
M.B.A. ’16
Product Manager, Proofpoint; Co-Founder, FarmX
Saif Ahmed
MIDS ’17
Product Owner, Kinetica DB; Co-Founder, DocHuddle Inc
David Litwak
’10
Co-Founder and CEO, Mozio Group
Richard Falk
’81, M.B.A. ’83
Founder, Water Guru
Rehan Waliany
’08
Product Manager, Uber; Co-Founder, Kitchenbowl
Jessica Fiorillo
M.B.A. ’05
Content Creator, Feed Me Dearly; Founder, Propped
Mariam Amin
’04
Founding Partner, Start It Law; Principal Partner, Graphene Ventures
Matthew Rosendin
’18
Integration Engineer, Ripple; Co-Founder, Polyledger
Adithya Jayachandran
M.B.A. ’11
Product Manager, Lyft; Founder, TeamPost
Robert Freedman
’89, M.B.A. ’96
Vice President, Hardware Development, Accomplio (acquired by Art+Logic)
Sharrifah Al-Salem
M.B.A. ’15
Head of Business Development, Asna; Co-Founder, BrightDay
Todd Wilson
’08
Founder & CEO, Portola Creek Capital
Richard Wilson
M.B.A. ’15
Senior Director, BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc
Brett Wilson
M.B.A. ’07
Vice President and General Manager, Advertising, Adobe Systems Inc; Co-Founder, TubeMogul (acquired by Adobe Systems)
Pledge fulfilled in 2017
Josef Ruef
’93
Founding Partner, September Capital; Co-Founder, Verical.com
Jonathan Hudacko
M.B.A. ’01
Founder and CEO, Just Invest Inc
Katrina Devaney
’14
Software Engineer, RaiseMe
Erica Jayne Walsh
M.B.A. ’16
Head of Growth, WorkStep
Jose-Miguel Urrechaga
M.U.D. ’11
Founder, Activate Inc and Hitmap
Frank Ostroff
’82
Managing Partner, Ostroff Consulting Group; Co-Founder, CloudFace
Alexander Polyansky
M.B.A. ’16
Founder and CEO, Seventh.ai; Co-Founder, Nventi
Aylon Steinhart
’11
Business Innovation Specialist, The Good Food Institute; Co-Founder, BrideBox
Shawn Sheikh
’14
Co-Founder, Solve (acquired by Blacklane); Co-Founder, Dus Inc (acquired by Woo)
Jim Young
’94, M.S. ’97, Ph.D. ’04
Founder, Perceptual Networks
Philip Mitchell
M.B.A. ’84
Co-Founder and CEO, Vision Science Labs
Kenneth Miller
’76
Founder, ZOZ Robotics, Inc.
Torsor Kotee
M.B.A. ’16
Founder, Market Games
Peter Whitmarsh
’94
Co-Founder and CEO, ClearSpace Aero
William Lin
’10
Principal and Founding Investor, ForgePoint Capital
Alan Cremers
M.B.A. ’85
CFO/COO Consultant, AJ Cremers Consulting
Seann Birkelund
M.B.A. ’01
COO and CFO, Stackla
Michael Berolzheimer
M.B.A. ’07
Founder and Managing Partner, Bee Partners
Shilpa Shah
’00, M.B.A. ’12
Co-Founder, Cuyana
Anne Kim
’09
Founder and CEO, Equal Pay Company
John Yen
’93
Co-Founder & CEO, StoryJumper
Terrence Seah
M.Eng. ’03, M.Arch. ’07
Chief Design Officer, Abode
Susan Rockwood
M.B.A. ’89
Co-Founder, Rockwood Pacific
Francesco Rockwood
M.B.A. ’93
Co-Founder and President, Rockwood Pacific
Siamak Sani
’84
Founder and CEO, World Hearing Organization Inc
Samantha Penabad
M.B.A. ’18
Co-Founder, GivingFund
Justin Liu
’02
Co-Founder and COO, Test.ai
Daniel Kent
M.I.D.S. ’19
Co-Founder, COO & CPO, Jobwell.co
Alexander Ashton
’98, M.B.A. ’11
Founder and Principal, Image Design Works
Vincent Tong
’96
Co-Founder and COO, Interactive Play Technologies
Taner Dagdelen
’16
Co-Founder, Unite Genomics, Inc.
John Pujol
M.S. ’12
Founder and CEO, SimpleWater, Inc.
Richard Berwick
’12
Co-Founder, Twindom
Benjamin Brasher
M.B.A. ’17
General Partner, Blacktop Capital
Gregory Henderson
M.Arch. ’03
Founder and CEO, Arx Pax Labs, Inc
Felicity Meu
’01
Director of Partner Success, GiveCampus
Paul Rivera
’04
Co-Founder and CEO, Kalibrr Inc
Rick Holman
M.B.A. ’83
CEO, Bright Lite Structures, LLC
Seth Zimring
M.B.A. ’07
Co-Founder and CEO, Nitrobin
Carl Ludewig
’87
CEO, Ludewig Multimedia, Inc.
Deanna Kosaraju
’06
Founder and CEO, Global Tech Women
Brian Stone
M.B.A. ’98
Co-Founder and CEO, BankSight Systems
Farzad Eskafi
’05
Co-Founder and CEO, SparcIt