Tectonic Ventures

Together, we can uncover earth-shattering opportunities among the shifts and innovations happening in the business landscape

Together, we can reshape the horizon

CEO and Co-Founder at Xenex Started and managed numerous investments and has been an advisor to many successful startups

Seasoned investment professional with decades of experience Matt teaches entrepreneurship in the Finance department at MIT

Scrappy immigrant with startup, tech and financing experience Believer in the transformative and leveling powers of tech and entrepreneurship as change agents

CURRENT ENTREPRENEURS AND EXPERTS IN RESIDENCE

Marketplace Expert in Residence Chairman, Co-Founder, Catalant Technologies; Executive Fellow, Harvard Business School CEO, Co-Founder, Rendered AI; former CEO, Kymeta Corporation CEO, Founder, Vecna Robotics; Co-Founder, President, Mass Robotics MIT Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and History of Engineering and Manufacturing Chairman and Co-founder, Humatics Corporation

CURRENT AND PAST ADVISORS

Sebastian Ceria is the CEO of Qontigo (the merger of Axioma, DAX and STOXX) and previously the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Axioma, the leading provider of innovative risk-management, portfolio-construction, and risk and regulatory reporting solutions that unify front, middle and back office functions at financial institutions worldwide

David Coats is a founder and Managing Director of Correlation Ventures

Shikhar Ghosh is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School He was selected by BusinessWeek as one of the best Entrepreneurs in the US, Forbes as one of the ‘Masters of the Internet Universe,’ and Fortune as the CEO of one of the 10 most innovative companies in the US

Felda Hardymon is a partner in Bessemer’s Cambridge, Mass office He focuses on investments in the software, communications and storage sectors

Glenn Hubbard is the former Dean of Columbia Business School and former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors He was also the Deputy Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Treasury, and the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers He is also a member of the board of directors of KKR and a Director at MetLife

ARI KUSHNER, ADVISOR EMERITUS (IN MEMORIAM)

Ari Kushner was a General Partner at Kushner Capital Partners, as well as the CFO & Director of Entanglement Technologies, Inc Ari specialized in investment in early stage technology, biotech, financial, and other non-real estate companies

Ernest Mario began his career in the pharmaceutical industry as a research scientist in 1966 He has lead four drug companies as CEO: Glaxo, Alza, Reliant, and Capnia In 2007 he was awarded the Remington Medal, pharmacy’s highest honor, and is namesake of the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers

Frank Moss has had a 40-year career as a high-tech, biotech and health-tech entrepreneur He served as director of the MIT Media Lab from 2006-2011 and is the author of The Sorcerers and their Apprentices: How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform our Lives He currently advises numerous startups and is on the boards of ArtLifting Inc and the Jackson Laboratory

Dr Vinay Nair is a serial entrepremeur (Magnifi, MIO, Positivly, 55ip) and a leading academic , a professor, and an author He is also the Founder and Chairman of the Tifin Group

SUSAN C. SCHNABEL, M.B.A.

Susan C Schnabel is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of aPriori Capital Partners, formerly Ms Schnabel worked at Credit Suisse as a Managing Director in the Asset Management Division and Co-Head of DLJ Merchant Banking Partners

Tom Tinsley is a former Managing Director of General Atlantic LLC Prior to joining GA, he was the CEO of Baan Company, NV and a Director at McKinsey & Company He currently serves on the boards of 55ip, Bridgeway Capital Management and Strattam Capital, along with the boards of Life Flight of Maine and the Island Institute of Maine He specializes in strategy and global expansion