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
Anurag Mairal
M.B.A. ’05
Founder & EVP, Orbees Medical; Director Global Outreach Program, Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign
Gregory Patterson
M.B.A. ’00
CEO, The Advisory Group & WealthStep.com
Patrick Lee
’04
Co-Founder, Rotten Tomatoes
Adnan Iqbal
’05
Co-Founder & CEO, Luma Health
Brandon Curran
’13
Founder & CEO, Socialchair
Abhijit Sawant
M.B.A. ’10
VP Engineering, Okta
Arjun Arora
’06
In Residence at Expa, Founder of ReTargeter (acquired by SellPoints)
Brandon Simmons
’04
Chief Operating Officer, Tachyus
Pledge fulfilled in 2015
Jeremiha Douglas
’11
Product Manager, Dolby Laboratories
Sara Sutton
’96
Founder and CEO, FlexJobs
Angie Chang
’04
CEO & Founder, Girl Geek X; Early Employee, Hackbright (acquired by Capella)
Pledge fulfilled in 2016
Vivek Sodera
’06
Co-Founder, Rapleaf/LiveRamp (acquired by Acxiom); Co-Founder, Superhuman
Taz Patel
’05
Co-Founder, Captiv8
JD Margulici
M.S. ’99, M.B.A. ’10
Co-Founder and CEO, Infinite Uptime
Bradley Peters
’92, M.S. ’94
SVP, Infor; Co-founder, Birst (acquired by Infor)
Usman Raza
M.I.M.S. ’18
Product Manager, HealthTap
Don McGraw
M.B.A. ’05
Partner, Grizzly Peak Capital; Founder and CEO, Crowdadvance.com
Michael Harper
’67
Co-Founder, OPSPIDER
Wendy Yang
’91
Founder, HoursMap
Bharath Rangarajan
M.B.A. ’01
CEO, Motivo Inc; Co-Founder and Director, ANS Inc; Managing Partner, Bull Ventures LLC
Victor Ho
’08
Co-Founder and CEO, FiveStars
Tetyana Troshyna
M.B.A. ’10
Founder and CEO, Fable Inc; Co-Founder, Curbsidr
Rahul Jauhari
M.B.A. ’10
Co-Founder and CEO, LogTera Inc.
Austin Light
’12
Hospital Account Manager, Mead Johnson Nutrition
AJ Shankar
Ph.D. ’09
Founder and CEO, Everlaw
Neil Sharma
’11
Software Engineer, United States Digital Service; Co-Founder, Soragora
Shuo Zhang
M.B.A. ’16
Managing Partner, AuGC Partners LLC; Co-Founder, Realiteer Corp
Chak Ng
’97
Partner, PreAngel Partners
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