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
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
Andrea Bloom
’88
Founder and CEO, ConnectWell Inc
Vaibhav Domkundwar
M.S. ’98
Founder and CEO, Better, Inc.
Jeremy Fiance
’14
Founder and Managing Partner, The House Fund
David Ward
’79
Founder and CEO, Telegraph Hill Software
Spencer Kimball
’96
CEO, Cockroach Labs
Pledge fulfilled in 2017
Glenn Ballard
M.B.A. ’10
Founder, Marpé Finance & Accounting
Michael Sharf
’09
Co-Founder and CEO, BridgeAthletic
Ipsheeta Furtado
’08
Co-Founder, Fluid Financial
Connor Landgraf
’13, M.Eng. ’14
Co-Founder and CEO, Eko Devices
Marissa Louie
’05
Founder and CEO, Portola Plush Co.
Claire Kim
’13
Enterprise Account Manager, BlueVine
David Ngo
’06
Founder, Bay Area Bartenders
Jerry Luk
’04
Co-Founder and COO, Firework
Akash Malhotra
’13
Co-Founder, Eventable (acquired by Rockerbox)
Gregory Wright-Crowe
’91, O.D. ’93
Founder, ioFundit
Vivienne Hsu
’91, M.B.A. ’01
Founder and CEO, LENDonate
Alexander Brutin
M.B.A. ’99
Founder and CEO, Your Remote Assistant
Herve Da Costa
M.S. ’85
Founder and Managing Director, Softlink International
Mark Murphy
M.B.A. ’17
Co-Founder, TokenData.io
Matthew De Soto
’11
Co-Founder and COO, Lionshare Entertainment
Arlo Faria
’04, Ph.D. ’14
Co-Founder, ReMeeting
Laura Parmer-Lohan
M.B.A. ’96
Founder and CEO, Ruckus Partners
Greg Tanaka
’94
Founder and CEO, Percolata
Brett Young
’00
Founder and CEO, Building System Planning, Inc.
Jonathan Beckman
’12
Founder, Elastic Holdings; Founding Board Member, GameOn Technology
Eric Quan
M.B.A. ’14
Co-Founder, Telos Ventures
Sutanto Widjaja
’95
Portfolio Manager, TIAA-CREF; Co-Founder, Sutro Biopharma; Angel Investor
Steven Walker Jr.
’90
Founder and CEO, Cobaltix
Daniel Sokolovsky
’15
Co-Founder and CEO, AxleHire
Brandon Yahn
M.B.A. ’12
Principal, Convivialite Ventures; Founder & CEO, Student Loans Guy
Maya Tobias
M.B.A. ’14
Founder, Partnerhood; Co-Founder, Localwise
Shervin Pishevar
’98
Co-Founder, Sherpa Capital and Virgin Hyperloop One
Matthew Wise
J.D. ’07
Product Lead, Cisco Spark; Co-Founder, FounderLY and Bon Appétech
Kevin Smith
M.A. ’89, C.Phil. ’94
Founder & CEO, Seedchange and The Vault
Orion Parrott
M.B.A. ’14
Founder and CEO, Lendsnap
Victor Szczerba
M.B.A. ’99
Founder and CEO, Yeti Data
Nicholas Hu
’12
Head of Global Operations, Zipline International; Co-Founder, iDoc24
Jae Choi
’13
Co-Founder and CEO, Podo Labs Inc
Randall Reese
M.B.A. ’09
President and Founder, Restructuring Concepts LLC
Nicholas Livingston
M.B.A. ’14
Co-Founder and CEO, HoneIT
Charvi Shetty
’12
Founder & CEO, Aluna; Founder, KNOX Medical Diagnostics
Robert Uomini
’69, Ph.D. ’76
Founder and CEO, ChiaraMail Corp.
Thomas Reilly
’85
CEO, Cloudera
Gary Peck
’03
Principal Architect, Streem Inc; Co-Founder, OnTheGo Platforms (acquired by Atheer)
Lemuel Park
’00
CTO and Co-Founder, BrightEdge
Bhavin Parikh
M.B.A. ’10
Co-Founder and CEO, Magoosh
Stephen Hurst
’78
President and CEO, Savant HWP
Pledge fulfilled in 2017