OUR TEAM
Interdisciplinarity is at our core
Roya Amini-Naieni
CEO & CO-FOUNDER
Roya Amini-Naieni
Studied Math/Comp/Bio at Harvey Mudd College (HMC) where she founded a SynBio lab with grant funding from HMC’s president, conducted SynBio at UW, HMC, & Asimov, & founded the first non-collegiate iGEM team in WA state. 776 Fellow | Forbes 30 Under 30.
Maximilian Schommer
HEAD OF ROBOTICS & CO-FOUNDER
Maximilian Schommer
Studied Mechatronics at Olin, built 50+ novel personal projects - phone-case robots to robotic swarms - Onshape features garnering 21k+ users, critical mechatronics & software for Relativity Space & Machina, & led a NASA research team. Forbes 30 Under 30.
Scott Mackinlay
SENIOR ROBOTICS ENGINEER
Scott Mackinlay
Studied MechE at Olin, led computational geometry at Machina, built gaze tracking & agtech robots at Synapse, kinetic art exhibited around the world, & mind-blowing personal projects from a polar printing press to a bike he rode 4k miles across the U.S.
Connor Novak
SENIOR ROBOTICS SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Connor Novak
Studied Robotics at Olin, architected path planning & controls at Machina as the first Software Engineer, developed path planning at Relativity Space, led an Unmanned Ground Vehicles research team, & co-founded the 1st FIRST Robotics team in his city. Test
Nathaniel Yee
SENIOR MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER
Nathaniel Yee
Graduated college at 18 as valedictorian (A.S.), went on to study Engineering with Computing & teach Algorithms at Olin (B.S.), built ML & NLP models for drug discovery for PercayAI & WashU, & built models for deep sea imagery at the MBAR Institute.
Becky Miller
MECHATRONICS INTERN
Becky Miller
Is graduating Stanford & joining Trilobio full-time, improved the reliability & assembly of the Trilobot gripper & built its colony picker, developed climbing robots at Stanford’s Biomimetics & Dexterous Manipulation Lab, & taught 100s of students robotics.
Clayson Briggs
MECHATRONICS INTERN
Clayson Briggs
Is graduating Harvey Mudd (HMC) with a B.S. in Engineering, built the Trilobot’s force sensor for 5x faster autocalibration, built a 3D bioprinter head & modeled mixing in HMC’s Biomaterials & Microfluidics Lab, & is building an electric guitar from scratch.
Bob Mason
BOARD MEMBER
Bob Mason
Serves as the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Argon Ventures, a fund leading investments in Intelligent Industry Solutions, & is the Co-Founder & former CTO of Brightcove (NASDAQ: BCOV), the market-leading online video platform for enterprise & premium media.
Kristin Ellis
BOARD OBSERVER
Kristin Ellis
Serves as a Partner at Lowercarbon Capital, a climate-tech VC fund founded by Chris & Crystal Sacca, served as the Director of Strategic Initiatives & Scientific Development at Opentrons, & conducted clinical oncology research at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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Scott Harris
ANGEL, ADVISOR
Scott Harris
Co-Founder @ SOLIDWORKS, Onshape
Alec Nielson
ANGEL, ADVISOR
Alec Nielson
Founder & CEO @ Asimov
PhD @ MIT, BioE
Jenny Kan
CLIMATE CAPITAL BIO
Jenny Kan
Postdoc @ Caltech in Synbio
PhD @ Cambridge, Chemistry
Sridhar Iyengar
ANGEL
Sridhar Iyengar
Founder & CEO @ Elemental Machines
PhD @ Cambridge, Biology
Andy Feinberg
ARGON VENTURES
Andy Feinberg
Prev. CEO @ Brightcove (NASDAQ: “BCOV”)
Alexis Ohanian
776 FOUNDATION GRANT
Alexis Ohanian
Co-Founder & Prev. Executive Chair @ Reddit
Lissie Garvin
776 FOUNDATION GRANT
Lissie Garvin
Prev. Chief of Staff @ Reddit
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