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Innovation Showcase

Judges

Author:

Hamid Rategh

Venture Technology Director

Samsung Catalyst Fund

Hamid Rategh is a Venture Technology Director at the Samsung Catalyst Fund, Samsung Electronics’ evergreen multi-stage venture capital fund that invests in deep-tech infrastructure and data-enabled platforms. Investments span across multiple domains including data center and cloud, artificial intelligence, networking and 5G, automotive, sensors, quantum computing and beyond.

Hamid was the co-founder of Tavanza and held executive and leadership roles in a range of startups and public companies developing products in wireless communication, copper and optical interconnects, memory interface, and Biotechnology. Prior to joining Samsung Catalyst Fund, Hamid was Senior Vice President of Engineering at Genapsys, developing a DNA sequencing platform. Before that Hamid held several leadership roles at Inphi. Hamid holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Author:

Madison Faulkner

Partner

NEA

Madison is a Partner at NEA investing in early-stage infrastructure, data, developer tools, and AI and she also leads the data and AI platform internally for improved investment decision-making. Across her investing career, she has worked with startups including World Labs, Factory, Delphina, Ceramic, Metabase, Mindtrip, Fixify, and others. Prior to investing, Madison was Head of Data Science and Machine Learning at startup Thrasio, Head of Data Science at Greycroft, and led a data science team at Facebook focused on the ad auction and deep learning with FAIR. Madison received a BS in Engineering from Stanford and grew up in Colorado performing in rodeos. She spends free time advising entrepreneurship organizations at Columbia, UW and Stanford and working towards a pilot's license.

Author:

Aditi Purandare

Investor

Hitachi Ventures

Aditi is an investor at Hitachi Ventures, covering the entire digital stack from the infrastructure layer to the application layer. A computer engineer by training and a Fulbright alum, she has previously worked in applying AI and data science to various verticals.