Tom Chi

Founding Partner

2020

Board Member

2023

Investor board member at Inevitable Technologies, a business-to-business platform that uses artificial intelligence, plant science and automation to boost farmer profitability and food quality. Inevitable invents and builds advanced growing systems so farmers can better manage their crops. The company's first product is a "Clean Propagation" system to ensure healthy seeds and robust seedling growth. Inevitable's hardware and software can be used on any type of farm – from indoor hydroponic farms and other "controlled environment agriculture" to open-field farming. Inevitable investors include Breakthrough Energy Ventures, At One Ventures, Zero Carbon Partners, R7 Partners, Amplify Partners, Pathbreaker Ventures and Eniac Ventures, among others.

Board Member

2022

Lab Director

2017

Finding and accelerating the work of scientists and engineers developing breakthroughs that can be applied to scalable planetary restoration.

Partner

2017

Founder

2016

Dedicated to bringing the tools of hyper-learning to purpose-driven leaders worldwide. We have an intense focus on deepening the tools of human and team potential. This is part of an effort to help humanity become a net positive to nature.

EIR

2016 - 2020

Specializing in technical diligence and founder mentorship and support.

Advisor, Former CPO (Factory) & CEO (Factory X)

2014 - 2016

An experiment to change how work works. Worked on radically accelerating the pace at which products could be built and companies could be formed. Conducted numerous experiments on alternative legal and operating structures to better serve the creation of value and the extension of purpose at work.

Co-Founder

2012 - 2013

* Mentoring social entrepreneurs around the globe Working with Unreasonable, Rework, Factory 0, Ashoka * Served as VP of Product/Experience of Gigwalk On-demand mobile workforce * Founded Voltaic Labs We create tools that redefine the pace and possibility of entrepreneurship in our era. * Angel Investor & Advisor Mosaic, Edom, Quetsol, Unreasonable Adventures, Scott Street, et al

Head of Experience - Google X

2010 - 2012

Lead experience team defining new strategic opportunities for Google via rapid experimentation and productization. Specialized in rapid prototyping, product development and strategy, contributing to several projects and filing 41 patents. Hired several dozen folks to staff UX/ME/ID for the division.