OUR TEAM
Interdisciplinarity is at our core
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
OUR TEAM
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ANGEL, ADVISOR
Scott Harris
Co-Founder @ SOLIDWORKS, Onshape
ANGEL, ADVISOR
Alec Nielson
Founder & CEO @ Asimov
PhD @ MIT, BioE
CLIMATE CAPITAL BIO
Jenny Kan
Postdoc @ Caltech in Synbio
PhD @ Cambridge, Chemistry
ANGEL
Sridhar Iyengar
Founder & CEO @ Elemental Machines
PhD @ Cambridge, Biology
ARGON VENTURES
Andy Feinberg
Prev. CEO @ Brightcove (NASDAQ: “BCOV”)
776 FOUNDATION GRANT
Alexis Ohanian
Co-Founder & Prev. Executive Chair @ Reddit
776 FOUNDATION GRANT
Lissie Garvin
Prev. Chief of Staff @ Reddit
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