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
William Drevno
’13
Co-Founder, Twindom
Alexander Beckman
’06
Founder and CEO, GameOn Technology
Pledge fulfilled in 2016
Santiago Tempone
Co-Founder & Director, Skyloom Global Corp
Tim Fiori
Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer, HUMM Corp
Ahmud Auleear
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, HUMM Corp
Chris Norman
Co-Founder & CTO, HUMM Corp
Iain McIntyre
Co-Founder & CEO, HUMM Corp
Lucky Sandhu
’96, M.B.A. ’15
Co-Founder & President, Relfin Inc
Angela Lee
’18
Co-Founder, Bluem Inc
Chema Gonzalez-Garilleti
M.B.A. ’19
Co-Founder, Collaboratorium
Michelle Kim
’11
Co-Founder & CEO, Awaken
Nikhil Arora
’09
Co-Founder, Back to the Roots
Alejandro Velez
’09
Co-Founder, Back to the Roots
Naomi Davidson
’02
Founder and CEO, Trybe
Marcus Lehmann
Co-Founder and CEO
CalWave Power Technologies Inc.
Adnan Asar
’91
Founder, EngineTech.io
Scott Galloway
M.B.A. ’92
Founder and Chairman, L2 Inc (acquired by Gartner)
Pledge fulfilled in 2017
Surbhi Sarna
’07
Founder and CEO, nVision Medical (acquired by Boston Scientific)
Omatsone Felix Amoruwa
’05
Founder, Cloud Surf Inc
Jing Zhu
M.B.A. ’10
Founder, Dashboard Story
Keval Desai
M.B.A. ’99
Partner, InterWest Partners
Sandeep Jain
M.B.A. ’10
Founder and CEO, Leela Labs Inc
Cameron Baradar
’15
Founder, The House
Antonio Vitti
M.B.A ’07
Co-Founder, MezzCap.io
Anup Goel
’03, M.Eng. ’05
Director of Finance, MasterClass
Derek Merrill
’04
COO and Co-founder, LeaseLock
Deepak Goel
M.B.A. ’10
Founder, KarmaCircles
Ajay Bam
Co-Founder and CEO, Vyrill
Victor d’Allant
M.B.A. ’87
Founder and CEO, Dallant Networks LLC
Vivek Ahuja
M.B.A ’15
Merchant Risk Lead, Affirm; Co-Founder, Xendit
Kevin Yen
’91, M.B.A. ’98
Founder, Bampus.com and ChartUps.com
Michelle Kiang
M.S. ’92, Ph.D. ’97
Founder and CEO, Chirp Microsystems (acquired by TDK Group)
Omid Razavi
Ph.D. ’91
Global Head of Product Success, ServiceNow
Siddhant Puri
’15
Software Engineer, Arrcus; Founder, The Referral Network
James Dong
’10
Founder, Last Minute Gear
Federico Zefan Li
’16
Co-Founder, Etch
Vinayak Nagpal
Ph.D. ’12
Co-Founder & CEO, Zendar; Co-Founder, Vernox Labs
Marcelo Wong
’04
Fino
Tejasvi Kachru
M.B.A ’18
Credit Suisse, Investment Banking - Tech Group
Dayo Esho
’05, M.S. ’06
Co-Founder and CEO, TravelJoy; Co-Founder, Shelf.com
Amir Ben-Efraim
’91
Co-Founder and CEO, Menlo Security
Nan Liu
’14
Investment Associate, WestSummit Captial; Co-Founder, Cal Startups
Babak Ehteshami
M.Eng. ’88
Founder and President, eDevelopment Corporation
Adarsh Uppula
’08
Senior Software Engineer, LinkedIn; Co-Founder and CTO, Gogohire
Sthiramathi Malkapur
M.B.A. ’13
Senior Product Manager, Kindle, Amazon Lab 126; Founder, Giving Privilege
Francis Wong
M.B.A. ’14, M.P.H. ’14
Founder, Outcomes, Inc
Nasser Sagheb
’84
Co-Founder & President, ProMost LLC
Lokesh Sikaria
’94
Founding Partner, Moneta Ventures
Michelle Harrison Bacharach
’07
Co-Founder and CEO, FINDMINE
Nader Ghaffari
’97, M.B.A. ’07
Co-Founder and CEO, Venture Scanner
Doreen Bloch
’09
Founder and CEO, Poshly
Kuang Chen
M.S. ’09, Ph.D. ’11
Founder and CEO, Captricity
Nori Michael Castillo
’10
Founder and CFO, Re-Cycle Athletics
Thibault Duchemin
M.Eng. ’14
Founder and CEO, Ava
Matt Watts
M.B.A. ’15
Head of Enterprise Strategy and Business Development, Payoneer
Stephanie Lawrence
M.B.A. ’13
Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Traveling Spoon
Aashi Vel
M.B.A. ’13
Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Traveling Spoon
Cory Levenberg
Founder and CEO, UFP Identity
Deven Soni
’01
Co-Founder, Sprayable Inc; Co-Founder and Partner, Wired Investors
Mitch Gordon
M.B.A. ’12
Co-Founder and CEO, Verto Education; Co-Founder and CEO, Go Overseas
Daniel Lynch
’10, M.S. ’12
Co-Founder, Brandcast
Andy Chou
’99
Co-Founder, Coverity; Angel Investor
Pledge fulfilled in 2014
Vik Thairani
M.B.A. ’13
Co-Founder and CEO, Tine Health
Taylor Smith
’10
Co-Founder and CEO, Blueboard
Amy Sheng
M.B.A .’13
Co-Founder, CellScope
Eric Olden
’95
Founder and Chairman, Brite Content; Founding Partner, Launch Sciences
Joseph McDonough
M.B.A. ’85
Founder, Athentica
Edward Lu
’99
Chief Financial Officer, Outpost
Kern Trembath
’73
Founder and Owner, HelioRoast
Misha Leybovich
’05
Founder and CEO, Meograph
Ajay Kshatriya
’02, M.B.A. ’11
Co-Founder and CEO Biota Technology
Andrew Konwinski
M.S. ’09, Ph.D. ’12
Co-Founder and Vice President, Databricks
Elizabeth Klinger
Co-Founder and CEO, Lioness Health
Prakash Janakiraman
Co-Founder and Chief Architect, Nextdoor.com
Pledge fulfilled in 2015
Dave Gilboa
‘03
Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Warby Parker