{ "version": 1, "organization": { "name": "Innovation Endeavors", "url": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com" }, "members": [ { "slug": "samyuktha-ashokkumar", "name": "Samyuktha Ashokkumar", "role": "Portfolio Intelligence Analyst", "tagline": "Data Whisperer. Finds the Story in the Noise.", "bio": "Samyuktha builds the AI-native data infrastructure the Innovation Endeavor’s team relies on to power its decision-making. She turns all of the firm’s data into the kind of clarity that helps the team make better calls.\nShe honed her craft at SF Fire Credit Union, Inlyte Energy, Ford Motor Company, and Honeywell - where she learned that good data work depends on understanding the people using it, not just the numbers. What excites her most is the moment a dataset stops being numbers and starts telling you something interesting.\nSamyuktha holds a Master's in Business Analytics from UC Davis and a Master's in Economics from India, where she's originally from. Outside of work, you'll usually find her cooking, traveling, or picking up a paintbrush.", "companies": [], "links": [ { "platform": "linkedin", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/samyuktha-ashokkumar-73653278/" } ], "profile": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/samyuktha-ashokkumar", "markdown": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/samyuktha-ashokkumar.md" }, { "slug": "kenneth-auchenberg", "name": "Kenneth Auchenberg", "role": "Partner", "tagline": "Platform thinker. Everything is Lego.", "bio": "Kenneth invests in AI, developer tools, and the infrastructure layer making agents actually work. He's spent two decades obsessing over the primitives that builders compose into everything else, which is probably why he sees the world as a giant set of Lego bricks waiting to be snapped together in new ways.\n\nBefore Innovation Endeavors, Kenneth led Stripe's developer platform. Earlier at Microsoft, he helped build VS Code, which became the world's most used code editor and one of the largest open source projects ever built.\n\nKenneth was born and raised in Copenhagen, where he was part of several early-stage startups and acquisitions. He's now based in NYC.", "companies": [ { "name": "Mesa", "website": "https://www.mesa.dev" }, { "name": "Dosu", "website": "https://dosu.dev/" } ], "links": [ { "platform": "linkedin", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/auchenberg/" }, { "platform": "twitter", "url": "https://x.com/auchenberg" }, { "platform": "website", "url": "https://kenneth.io/" } ], "profile": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/kenneth-auchenberg", "markdown": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/kenneth-auchenberg.md" }, { "slug": "josh-berglund", "name": "Josh Berglund", "role": "Venture Partner", "tagline": "Soldier turned investor. Still serving, still building.", "bio": "Josh is a Venture Partner at Innovation Endeavors and a General Partner at Rsquared, an early-stage venture fund focused on national resilience. His path into venture capital started in uniform - serving in a U.S. Army Special Operations Command unit where he worked to build continuity between JSOC and Silicon Valley. He continues to serve today as a reservist with the 19th Special Forces Group.\nBefore venture, Josh ran the West Coast office for Prospect Capital, helping deploy capital from an $11B publicly traded debt and equity fund. Earlier, he founded three small businesses focused on public contracting across construction and national defense - work that meant navigating federal bids, job sites, and the long timelines of government procurement. Today, he’s drawn to founders building technologies that strengthen national resilience and bridge the gap between Silicon Valley and the national security ecosystem.\nJosh holds a BS in Business Administration from Chapman University and dual MBAs from Columbia University and London Business School.", "companies": [], "links": [], "profile": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/josh-berglund", "markdown": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/josh-berglund.md" }, { "slug": "dror-berman", "name": "Dror Berman", "role": "Founding Partner", "tagline": "Curious. Passion for solving impossible problems.", "bio": "Dror Berman grew up in Israel, writing code to build games, and mailing letters to NASA certain he'd make it to space. What he does now is the grown-up version of both.\nHe served in an elite Israeli Special Forces unit, where he learned that small teams of talented people, operating in ambiguity, can do what seems impossible. That became the thesis for the firm he'd build, and a pretty good investing thesis too. He co-founded Innovation Endeavors with Eric Schmidt and built it around what he calls the Super Evolution: sensing, compute, and robotics have been accelerating and converging, allowing founders to finally re-architect industries that were too complex, too physical, or too slow to change.\nDror holds an MBA from Stanford and a BS in Computer Science and Bioinformatics from Ben-Gurion University, where he studied applying computer science to biology back when that was still fringe.\nHe never made it to space. But one of his earliest investments was Planet Labs, which put hundreds of satellites into orbit. Some childhood obsessions just find a different path.", "companies": [ { "name": "Atom Computing", "website": "https://atom-computing.com/" }, { "name": "Fabric", "website": "https://getfabric.com/" }, { "name": "Weave Bio", "website": "https://www.weave.bio/#section-intro" }, { "name": "ElectronX", "website": "https://www.electronx.com/" }, { "name": "Eikon Therapeutics", "website": "https://www.eikontx.com/" } ], "links": [ { "platform": "linkedin", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/drorberman/" } ], "profile": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/dror-berman", "markdown": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/dror-berman.md" }, { "slug": "scott-brady", "name": "Scott Brady", "role": "Founding Partner", "tagline": "Four-time founder. Perpetual builder.", "bio": "Scott has spent his career chasing what's newly possible - first as a builder, now as a backer of founders doing the same. A four-time entrepreneur who co-founded three publicly traded technology companies, he shows up as a true partner to founders tackling hard technical problems and navigating the messy realities of scaling.\n\nBefore Innovation Endeavors, Scott was CEO and co-founder of Slice; co-founder and CEO of FiberTower; and co-founder and CTO of Clarus Corporation and SQLFinancials. Today, he's drawn to founders applying breakthrough engineering to reshape industries - from satellite connectivity to AI-native workflows to materials science - and knows firsthand what it takes to build through inflection points and into scale.\n\nScott is also deeply committed to teaching and mentorship. He is the MBA Class of 1978 Lecturer in Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches in the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. He has served on the GSB Advisory Council, chaired the MSx Board for more than a decade, and received both the MSx Teaching Excellence Award and the Jack McDonald Military Service Appreciation Award.\n\nHe holds a master's degree in management from Stanford GSB and a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Florida, where he was later recognized with the Distinguished Alumni Entrepreneur Award. He also holds multiple software and technology patents - proof that he still can't resist tinkering.", "companies": [ { "name": "Skylo Technologies", "website": "https://www.skylo.tech/" }, { "name": "Trunk Tools", "website": "https://trunktools.com/" }, { "name": "Afresh", "website": "https://www.afresh.com/" }, { "name": "Citrine", "website": "https://citrine.io/" }, { "name": "Aro Homes", "website": "https://www.aro.homes/" } ], "links": [], "profile": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/scott-brady", "markdown": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/scott-brady.md" }, { "slug": "josh-cohen", "name": "Josh Cohen", "role": "Investment Team", "tagline": "Builder turned investor. More tinkering than tweeting", "bio": "Josh invests in software infrastructure and applied AI, partnering with highly technical founding teams at the earliest stages.\n\nHe previously led an engineering team at Series A startup Raptor Maps, building out the company's solar software platform and deploying it across 42 countries and millions of solar panels. Prior to that, he was a senior software engineer at Instagram, where he worked on Stories, Reels, and Feed. He’s written code everywhere from late-night Instagram war rooms to dune buggy cockpits in rural Texas.\n\nJosh holds an MBA and a BS in Computer Science from Stanford. When he’s away from his machine, you can find him playing electric guitar somewhere in SF or going for a run in the woods.", "companies": [ { "name": "Tetrix", "website": "https://www.tetrix.co/" }, { "name": "Dosu", "website": "https://dosu.dev/" }, { "name": "Mesa", "website": "https://www.mesa.dev" }, { "name": "Earthly", "website": "https://earthly.dev/" } ], "links": [ { "platform": "linkedin", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-cohen-93112a89/" } ], "profile": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/josh-cohen", "markdown": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/josh-cohen.md" }, { "slug": "alexa-dennett", "name": "Alexa Dennett", "role": "VP of Marketing & Communications", "tagline": "Lifelong storyteller. Aficionado of niche facts.", "bio": "Alexa partners with portfolio companies to develop go-to-market strategies that deliver real results. A former corporate attorney from Australia, she realized she was more drawn to understanding what motivated people than parsing legal fine print, she pivoted to go-to-market and never looked back. \n\nSince then, she's spent her career figuring out how to make complex technology feel accessible and compelling. She’s since led efforts at Heirloom, Wing (an Alphabet company), Google X, and Dropbox. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honors) from the University of Sydney.", "companies": [], "links": [ { "platform": "linkedin", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexa-dennett-38841831/" } ], "profile": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/alexa-dennett", "markdown": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/alexa-dennett.md" }, { "slug": "j-rgen-vig-knudstorp", "name": "Jørgen Vig Knudstorp", "role": "Partner and Executive Advisor", "tagline": "Former kindergarten teacher turned CEO. Lifelong learner. Builder of brands and people.", "bio": "Jørgen is best known for leading the LEGO Group as CEO & President (2001-2016) and Executive Chair of the LEGO Brand Group (2017-2023). Under his leadership, LEGO became one of the world's most admired brands. In 2024, he acted as a special partner to the LEGO Brand Owner Family in KIRKBI, their family holding company.\n\nHe is currently the deputy chair of the LEGO Foundation, chair of KIRKBI Education, and chair of BrainPOP. He also serves on the supervisory board of IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the board of Starbucks Coffee and Nike.\n\nBefore LEGO, Jørgen worked at McKinsey and pursued an academic career, earning a PhD in business and economics. His first job was as a kindergarten teacher - an experience that shaped his lifelong passion for learning and seeing people grow through education.", "companies": [], "links": [], "profile": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/j-rgen-vig-knudstorp", "markdown": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/j-rgen-vig-knudstorp.md" }, { "slug": "rebecca-lucia", "name": "Rebecca Lucia", "role": "CFO and Operating Partner", "tagline": "Numbers person. Hails proudly from the land of poutine and hockey.", "bio": "Rebecca is IE's financial backbone - the person making sure the firm’s operations run with rigor and care. She spent years as CFO and COO at 5AM Ventures and as CFO at Prospect Venture Partners and Asset Management Ventures, with earlier roots in publicly traded biotechs and Deloitte. \n\nRebecca has provided longtime leadership within the venture capital CFO community, having served on the board of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and VCBC, the 600-member VC CFO affiliation organization.\n\nOriginally from Alberta, Canada, she is a Chartered Accountant (inactive), a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and has an MBA from Kellogg, credentials that matter far less than having seen a few cycles up close.", "companies": [], "links": [ { "platform": "linkedin", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccalucia/" } ], "profile": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/rebecca-lucia", "markdown": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/rebecca-lucia.md" }, { "slug": "sofia-ochoa", "name": "Sofia Ochoa", "role": "Strategic Program Lead and Administrative Team Member", "tagline": "Forever curious maker of things, and fixer of everything else", "bio": "Sofia gets it done. She helps run the firm's flagship events, manages key strategic relationships, and doubles as the resident graphic designer. Wired for both creative and operational work, that range shows up every day, including in her ongoing mission to keep Scott on schedule (someone has to). Sofia is most comfortable rolling up her sleeves and getting to work. She's not done until it works.\n\nNot your typical path to venture. Sofia came up as an industrial designer in the trade show world, followed by corporate account operations at HP Inc.\n\nBorn in Mexico, Sofia makes things outside the office too: pottery, jewelry, and a plant collection that has quietly taken over every available surface. Give her something new to figure out and she'll have a plan before you've finished explaining the problem.", "companies": [], "links": [ { "platform": "linkedin", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sofia-ochoa/" } ], "profile": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/sofia-ochoa", "markdown": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/sofia-ochoa.md" }, { "slug": "nick-olsen", "name": "Nick Olsen", "role": "Partner", "tagline": "Biotech optimist. Midwesterner at heart.", "bio": "Nick invests at the intersection of advanced engineering, computer science, and human health. He's particularly interested in leveraging technology to enable precision medicine at scale, from therapeutics and diagnostics to tools and software that accelerate discovery and development, and ultimately improve patient outcomes.\n\nBefore Innovation Endeavors, Nick worked in strategy and operations at Tempus, a pioneer in AI-enabled precision medicine. Earlier, he was a strategy consultant at Bain & Company largely focused on biopharma, and spent time at Spark Therapeutics supporting the launch of LUXTURNA, the first FDA-approved gene therapy in the US.\n\nNick studied bioengineering and business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and grew up in the Chicagoland area.", "companies": [ { "name": "Character Biosciences", "website": "https://www.characterbio.com/" }, { "name": "Think Bioscience", "website": "https://thinkbioscience.com/" }, { "name": "Averna Therapeutics", "website": "https://avernatx.com/" }, { "name": "Weave Bio", "website": "https://www.weave.bio/#section-intro" }, { "name": "Syrna Therapeutics", "website": "https://www.syrnatx.com/" } ], "links": [ { "platform": "linkedin", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nolsen--/" } ], "profile": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/nick-olsen", "markdown": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/nick-olsen.md" }, { "slug": "christian-ong", "name": "Christian Ong", "role": "Operations Associate", "tagline": "Mega-organizer. D&D fanatic.", "bio": "Christian keeps Innovation Endeavors running smoothly. He supports the firm's internal operations, portfolio relations, and strategic initiatives - making sure the day-to-day works so the team can focus on founders.\n\nBefore IE, Christian worked in early-stage biotech and technology startups, where he learned firsthand how teams build, adapt, and scale through the messy realities of growth.\n\nBorn and raised in the Bay Area, Christian spends his free time deep in D&D campaigns, where he’s learned that the dice don’t always land your way - and that the best stories come from the party figuring it out together.", "companies": [], "links": [ { "platform": "linkedin", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianmong/" } ], "profile": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/christian-ong", "markdown": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/christian-ong.md" }, { "slug": "kieran-phillips", "name": "Kieran Phillips", "role": "Administrative team", "tagline": "Organized chaos wrangler. Fueled by trails and to-do lists.", "bio": "Kieran is the executive assistant who makes the firm's wheels turn - scheduling, logistics, and all the behind-the-scenes work that keeps partners focused on what matters. She came to this role by way of a high school history classroom, which gave her a deep appreciation for context, timing, and knowing when to let things play out.\nShe's genuinely energized by the pace of venture - no two days look alike, and she wouldn't have it any other way. What excites her most is finding the system inside the scramble: turning a packed week into something that actually makes sense.\nOutside the office, you'll find her on a hiking trail, mid-craft project, or making a new best friend out of someone else's dog.", "companies": [], "links": [ { "platform": "linkedin", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kieran-phillips-01949b116/" } ], "profile": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/kieran-phillips", "markdown": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/kieran-phillips.md" }, { "slug": "josh-rapperport", "name": "Josh Rapperport", "role": "Principal", "tagline": "Technology for the real world. Maximalist.", "bio": "Josh invests in frontier technology accelerating reindustrialization and the AI infrastructure buildout. He focuses on physical industries like energy, construction, manufacturing, engineering, and robotics. He brings both technical and operating experience to these domains, and especially resonates with bold founders who are commercializing deep industry insights.\n\nBefore Innovation Endeavors, Josh worked on engineering teams at two energy startups, Siva Power and C12 Energy, business development at LiveRamp, and buy-side partnerships in Google’s ads business.\n\nJosh holds a degree in Environmental Engineering from Harvard College, where he focused on power systems and atmospheric chemistry, and worked in Jen Wilcox’s lab at Stanford’s Energy Resources Engineering Department. He loves wilderness, design, photography and authenticity.", "companies": [ { "name": "GridAstra", "website": "https://www.gridastra.com/" }, { "name": "Parspec", "website": "https://parspec.io/" }, { "name": "ElectronX", "website": "https://www.electronx.com/" }, { "name": "Trunk Tools", "website": "https://trunktools.com/" }, { "name": "Intuigence", "website": "https://www.intuigence.ai/" }, { "name": "LightTable", "website": "https://www.lighttable.ai/" } ], "links": [ { "platform": "linkedin", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuarapperport/" } ], "profile": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/josh-rapperport", "markdown": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/josh-rapperport.md" }, { "slug": "rick-scanlon", "name": "Rick Scanlon", "role": "Founding Partner", "tagline": "Pattern-finder. Designer of living structures that defy gravity.", "bio": "Rick is a Founding Partner at Innovation Endeavors and the Founder and Managing Partner of Marker LLC, a New York-based venture capital and growth equity firm focused on the US and Israel.\nRick is equally ruled by his left and right brains and loves uncovering hidden patterns that lead to outsized opportunities.\nHis first big discovery was AirAsia in 2002. Living in Singapore and about to launch an Asian venture firm, Rick noticed the convergence of three trends - the rise of Asian economies, a growing consumer market, and increased connectivity. He jumped at the opportunity to help create a new airline model that made long-distance travel affordable and accessible across Asia.\nAfter sixteen years, Rick moved back to the US and launched Marker, where he invested in high-growth technology companies including Yext (2017 IPO), Datorama, Taboola, and Team8. Earlier, he was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse.\nRick earned a BA cum laude from Middlebury College. In his spare time, Rick designs modern living structures for his family that push the edges of minimalism, materials, and gravity.", "companies": [], "links": [], "profile": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/rick-scanlon", "markdown": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/rick-scanlon.md" }, { "slug": "eric-schmidt", "name": "Eric Schmidt", "role": "Founding Partner", "tagline": "Lifelong technologist.", "bio": "Eric Schmidt, KBE, is a Founding Partner and General Partner in Innovation Endeavors and Chair and CEO of Relativity Space. He is best known for his pivotal role in the growth of Google, where, as CEO and Chairman, he oversaw the company’s transformation from a small startup to one of the world’s most influential companies from 2001 to 2011. Under his leadership, alongside Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the company dramatically scaled its infrastructure and diversified its products, while maintaining a strong culture of innovation. \n\nEric founded the Special Competitive Studies Project in 2021, a non-profit initiative focused on strengthening America’s long-term AI and technological competitiveness in national security, the economy, and society. Most recently in 2024, Eric and his wife Wendy co-founded Schmidt Sciences, a nonprofit organization working to advance science and technology that deepens human understanding of the natural world and develops solutions to global issues. \n\nHe has written several acclaimed books and is among the most prominent voices on technology, AI, business, and philanthropy.", "companies": [], "links": [], "profile": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/eric-schmidt", "markdown": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/eric-schmidt.md" }, { "slug": "harpinder-harpi-singh", "name": "Harpinder (Harpi) Singh", "role": "General Partner", "tagline": "Two-time founder. Now in the next founders' corner.", "bio": "Harpi invests in applied AI and software infrastructure. He spent nearly two decades building products for emerging industries at the intersection of data, mobile and deep tech. He's founded two technology companies that were successfully acquired - both co-founded with Innovation Endeavors Partner Scott Brady.\nBefore becoming a partner at Innovation Endeavors, Harpi was co-founder and CEO of Slice Technologies (acquired by Rakuten), a data and analytics company selling to the world's largest consumer brands. He previously co-founded FiberTower (acquired by First Avenue Networks), the largest independent provider of backhaul to wireless carriers, where he led product. Today, he's drawn to founders applying AI to security, logistics, and data infrastructure.\nHarpi grew up in Chandigarh, India, earned a bachelor’s in computer science at IIT-BHU, then immigrated to the US for an MS in computer science at Indiana University Bloomington and later an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He's also a lecturer in management at Stanford GSB where he teaches about entrepreneurship.", "companies": [ { "name": "Tetrix", "website": "https://www.tetrix.co/" }, { "name": "Panther", "website": "https://panther.com/" }, { "name": "Conduit", "website": "https://www.helloconduit.com/" }, { "name": "Gatik", "website": "https://gatik.ai/" }, { "name": "Responsive", "website": "https://www.responsive.dev/" } ], "links": [ { "platform": "linkedin", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/harpi/" } ], "profile": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/harpinder-harpi-singh", "markdown": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/harpinder-harpi-singh.md" }, { "slug": "davis-treybig", "name": "Davis Treybig", "role": "General Partner", "tagline": "Product thinker. Topo Chico fanatic.", "bio": "Davis primarily invests in computing infrastructure & tools for builders (e.g. developers, designers, and engineers). He spends most of his time following engineering and research trends in computer science - areas like virtualization, databases, machine learning, computer graphics, and distributed systems - and invests in companies drafting on technical advances in these areas. \nDavis likes to work with teams going after hard, ambitious problems that require significant early R&D, in many cases building on significant research work. At the same time, he is drawn to teams with world class product & design thinking. He believes that design & user experience are severely underrated in technically complex categories. \nBefore Innovation Endeavors, Davis was a product manager at Google, working on the Pixel phone and the developer platform for Google Assistant - the latter sparking his interest in developer tooling and software infrastructure.\nDavis double-majored in computer science and electrical engineering at Duke University, where he graduated valedictorian of the engineering school. He grew up in Austin, Texas, where his family owns 20 cows. He misses the BBQ, country music, and hill country vibes.", "companies": [ { "name": "Extend", "website": "https://www.extend.ai/" }, { "name": "Inception Labs", "website": "https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/" }, { "name": "Augment", "website": "https://www.augmentcode.com/" }, { "name": "Mesa", "website": "https://www.mesa.dev" }, { "name": "Capsule", "website": "https://capsule.video/" }, { "name": "Dosu", "website": "https://dosu.dev/" }, { "name": "Bauplan", "website": "https://www.bauplanlabs.com/" }, { "name": "Sequence", "website": "https://sequence.film/" }, { "name": "Earthly", "website": "https://earthly.dev/" }, { "name": "Continual", "website": "https://continual.ai/" } ], "links": [ { "platform": "linkedin", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/davistreybig/" }, { "platform": "website", "url": "https://davistreybig.substack.com/" } ], "profile": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/davis-treybig", "markdown": "https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/davis-treybig.md" } ] }