I’m Jahed Momand, founder of an applied AI company (Magalix) and investor in technology companies who are applying AI to natural capital, environmental restoration, energy decarbonization, and sustainable supply chains — all the things that make life on Earth for humans awesome.
- I am co-founder and General Partner at Cerulean Ventures, backing pre-seed and seed stage founders applying AI to build complex solutions to complex problems in the domains of sustainable supply chains, electrification, and decoding nature.
- Before that, I was a product leader in applying AI to enterprise developer operations, healthcare data, NLP, and ad serving. I co-founded Magalix (through the prestigious 500Startups accelerator), and built a multi-million dollar revenue business applying AI (back in 2018, simply tensorflow models) to enterprise developer operations. I led product and then marketing, and exited the company to WeaveWorks (UK) in 2021. I also worked anywhere from a lowly PM up to VP of Product at places like Conversa Health applying conversational AI to chronic care management, and ML in creative ad serving at Vungle ($800M sale to Blackstone).
- A long(er) time ago, I went to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign’s prestigious PhD program, studying Chemical Physics (MS), and completed degrees in biology and chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. Even longer ago I played poker professionally online and in tournament settings (HUPLO 4Rollz).
- I also co-founded and continue to run a podcast and annual summit focused on alternative ownership enterprises, which include cooperatives, ESOPs, DAOs and crypto protocols, and more.
- I used to be an active angel investor in the user- and community-owned Ownership Economy by investing in over 30 companies, but currently focus my investment activity through Cerulean Ventures.
- I am very into complexity science, left-wing market anarchism, the origin of life, and the application of AI to nonequilibrium dynamical systems e.g. everything I look at in my investments across industrial and niche manufacturing, ecosystem services, and the energy grid.