![]() ![]() Outside of robotics, I care a lot about creating better access to education for individuals from all backgrounds I spent the past summer at Acceptitas, an early-stage education technology startup! I am also very passionate about robotics and spent two summers at General Electric’s Research and Development Robotics Group creating crawler robots and drones for the inspection and maintenance industry in the aviation and energy sectors. During my freshman year, I started the HUCP Innovation Fund to support early-stage entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds by providing equity-free grants of up to $10K and thousands of dollars in partnership credits to any Harvard-affiliated founder. I am also the Vice President of Harvard Undergraduate Capital Partners, an organization that partners with VC clients totaling $27B AUM on sourcing and due diligence projects. I am a Junior at Harvard University majoring in Economics with a secondary in Computer Science and am a Coca-Cola Scholar and Blankfein Family Goldman Sachs Scholar. I’m excited to join Rough Draft because I believe that successful startups are built on the backs of successful founders, and we’re uniquely positioned to identify and cultivate those people. ![]() I’ve worked as a software engineer at both a cybersecurity startup and litigation finance fund I’ve also been a PM at Microsoft and a founder in the entertainment analytics space. In the past, I’ve served on a corporate philanthropic board, been elected to local public office, and developed an original TV pilot. I’m currently interested in consumer social, new media and user-generated content, and enterprise productivity SaaS (plus the metaverse). As a self-identified humanities person, I see artistic creativity and technology as two sides of the same coin, and I spend a lot of time reading books and newsletters about pretty much everything. Although I studied computer science in undergrad and grad school, I actually wrote my first line of code as a college sophomore. I’m a first-year MBA student at Harvard Business School with a professional background in product management. I am thrilled to be an RDV Fellow this year and working with a stellar team equally passionate about supporting student founders. I am excited to dive into sectors like consumer and sports technology, especially as a former competitive rock climber. RDV attracted me as a way to gain hands on experience and autonomy as an investor beyond even what a traditional internship can provide. I am passionate about leveraging everything I learned in the Navy from being scrappy enough to locate the information critical to key operational assessments to managing and assessing team dynamics in tense, chaotic environments – not too different from the startup experience. It was the adventure of a lifetime and included a round-the-world deployment. I joined the Navy after graduating from Harvard College in 2016 with a degree in Applied Mathematics. How is RDV connected to General Catalyst?As a second year MBA student at MIT Sloan, I have emphasized re-shaping analytical skills honed as a naval intelligence officer into ones that can be applied to venture capital. RDV represents General Catalyst’s continued commitment to responsible innovation across tech - in other words, tech with the potential for massive growth but also immense good. GC’s longstanding support of Rough Draft Ventures underscores its commitment to finding and backing outstanding founders from all walks and stages of life–to help build the next generation of market-leading and life-enhancing companies. With offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York City, London, and Boston, the firm has helped support the growth of businesses such as: Airbnb, Deliveroo, Guild, Gusto, Hubspot, Illumio, Lemonade, Livongo, Oscar, Samsara, Snap, Stripe, and Warby Parker. We support founders with a long-term view who challenge the status quo, partnering with them from seed to growth stage and beyond to build companies that withstand the test of time. General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that invests in powerful, positive change that endures - for our entrepreneurs, our investors, our people, and society. ![]()
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