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milemark•capital invests in early stage diverse teams, born of innovation hubs and building scalable businesses, differentiated and defended by proprietary AI systems, models and data

milemark•capital invests in early stage diverse teams, born of innovation hubs and building scalable businesses, differentiated and defended by proprietary AI systems, models and data.

Our team

The diversity of milemark•capital’s founding partners aligns with the diversity of founders

Founding Partners

Startups shape the future, the right partners ensure their success

Sebastian•Barriga

Sebastian is a Private equity and angel investor with nine years in Carlyle South America’s $358M Fund, invested in 6 companies in 3 countries, exited largest investment in 2020 for $400M. Investment Banking with Citigroup in NY and Mexico; 7x Board Member; Angel Investor in 10+ startups with advisory board positions. MIT Assistant Lecturer, MIT Delta V participant, assisted closely in the creation of an MIT HealthTech venture. YPO member.

Sebastian•Barriga

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Adela•Jamal

Adela is a Silicon Valley tech startup operator and DEI and women’s advancement champion; technology consultant with VC experience; Ex-Sony Pictures executive focused on technology and workforce-of-the-future; deep expertise launching and leading global platforms for diverse groups. Passionate mentor and advisor of underrepresented professionals. AllRaise Steering Committee member, angel investor.


Adela•Jamal

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Sinan•Aral

Sinan is an AI Expert & global authority on business analytics; award-winning researcher and entrepreneur. Chaired, tenured Professor at MIT. Co-founder of a Series-A venture fund Manifest Capital. Co-founder of two startups with two successful exits. Widely published and cited having published the second most influential scientific article of 2018 on the cover of Science.

Sinan•Aral

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Michael•Lipton

Mike is a Serial entrepreneur with expertise in commercializing tech; founded, led and scaled three companies; most recent to $35M revenue. Expert in taking companies from zero-to-one including customer discovery, product roadmapping, GTM, and business development. Coveted start-up mentor and advisor, currently serving on 3 boards. Ex-Goldman. Press includes: NY Times, Bloomberg, WSJ, CNBC, BBC.

Michael•Lipton

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Our latest events

Check out where we've been.

The Business Implications of Generative AI @ MIT (BIG.AI@MIT)
Girls Into VC 2024: Isabella Mandis and Cynthia Liao
Atacama Biomaterial Co-Founders Paloma and Jose Tomas
Backstage at BIG.AI@MIT – Innovation Showcase (all videos here)
SF Tech Week 2024
MIT delta v is an educational accelerator program at MIT that helps student entrepreneurs develop and launch their ventures
BIG.AI@MIT Innovation Showcase Intro
Sinan Aral Opening BIG.AI@MIT Conference
Panel on Fundraising for AI startups with Kristen Craft, Fidelity Private Shares
New England Venture Summit 2024 - How To Raise Seed Money
Adela emceed the flagship MIT Women's Conference in the heart of Boston—a truly inspiring summit that brought together international women leaders from across the globe.
milemark•capital sponsored the MIT Female Pitch Competition which showcases brilliant women entrepreneurs from the MIT ecosystem. Adela was also a panelist along with other prominent VC leaders.
Forma Systems #1 Prize at the MIT Climate & Energy Prize Competition 2025 (Seb as mentor)
Endeavor Connect atVentures

Our thesis

milemark•capital invests in early stage diverse teams, born of innovation hubs and building scalable businesses, differentiated and defended by proprietary AI systems, models and data
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We are at a unique point in history where the best ideas are fueled by AI, Diversity, and Innovation Hubs

Applied AI
Diversity
Innovation Hubs

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Applied-AI unlocks immediate solutions to current enterprise and industry pain points when applied to core problems in large & impactful industries; and it is sector agnostic. We favor opportunities where AI is high leverage: productivity, innovation, and new business gains from AI are highest

Exponential growth. First, Agrarian Revolution, then Industrial Revolution and now the AI Revolution.

Diversity

The best opportunities are unlocked when entrepreneurs can relate to their investors. Diverse talent is evenly distributed across all demographics and backgrounds; diverse teams increase innovation and improve financial performance. We support diverse founders with grit and passion that deploy their talent to solve hard problems with their unique worldview.

Innovation Hubs

Our team is embedded in the square mile between MIT and Harvard.

We have a strong integration as professors and researchers as well as coveted and respected experts in entrepreneurship. We have access to dozens of exclusive start-up events and are regularly recruited as mentors for on-campus entrepreneurship programs.

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Applied-AI unlocks immediate solutions to current enterprise and industry pain points when applied to core problems in large & impactful industries; and it is sector agnostic. We favor opportunities where AI is high leverage: productivity, innovation, and new business gains from AI are highest

Diversity

The best opportunities are unlocked when entrepreneurs can relate to their investors. Diverse talent is evenly distributed across all demographics and backgrounds; diverse teams increase innovation and improve financial performance. We support diverse founders with grit and passion that deploy their talent to solve hard problems with their unique worldview.

Innovation Hubs

Our team is embedded in the square mile between MIT and Harvard.

We have a strong integration as professors and researchers as well as coveted and respected experts in entrepreneurship. We have access to dozens of exclusive start-up events and are regularly recruited as mentors for on-campus entrepreneurship programs.

Companies we support

Talented founders building transformative high growth startups differentiated by AI

Hera Materials (f/k/a Atacama Biomaterials)

Paloma Gonzalez-Rojas, Ph.D.

Co-Founder & CEO

Jose Tomas Dominguez

Co-Founder

Hera Materials creates low-cost, low-carbon, recyclable, compostable, and durable materials using AI and robotics.

Renewable plant-based materials, such as Woodpack, that can outperform and replace paper and plastics. Additionally, create and program next-generation robots to produce biomaterials that enhance the global circular economy.

Woodpack is a semi-translucent to opaque film, manufactured from Atacama's proprietary material formula, derived from wood fibers and plant components widely available, renewable natural resources.

Hera Materials (f/k/a Atacama Biomaterials)

Gaia AI

Peter McHale

Co-Founder and CEO

Matt Carpenter

Head of Product

Gaia AI optimizes forest management using smart data and AI + allow monetization from verified carbon credits + marketplace.

LiDAR and Computer Vision technologies applied to optimize forest management.

Allows forest managers to sell carbon credits with below-the-canopy verified biomass (vs satellite images).

Gaia AI

Adaviv

Ian Seiferling, Ph.D.

Co-Founder & CEO

Julian Ortiz

Co-Founder & COO

Moe Vazifeh, Ph.D.

Co-Founder & CTO

Adaviv Farms Profitability with Plant-level Intelligence (data) and Lean Cultivation.

Automate — the tedious so growers focus on what matters; 3-5x faster scouting, detecting 10x more issues, seeing beyond the human eye.

React Rapidly — to mitigate risks, train quickly & scale expertise, visibility from everywhere.

Optimize Plants & People — for better decisions & recipes, evaluate treatment efficacy.

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Adaviv uses artificial intelligence to help growers and operators make more money, spend less, fail less.

Adaviv

Piction Health

Susan Conover

Co-Founder & CEO

Pranav Kuber

Co-Founder & CTO

Piction Health applies Al to elevate every doctor to have the expertise of a dermatologist; to ultimately create the largest dermatology practice in the world.

Building the industry's first Al-based tool for accurately distinguishing skin diseases. Al and image processing app to quickly, accurately, and affordably diagnose skin diseases. Largest, proprietary, most actionable skin dataset in the world. Why now? - medicine is shifting online, tech has leaped forward, and value-based care is massive and growing.

Piction Health

Stealth-BioTech

Julie Zhang

CEO & Co-Founder

Dr. Isaac Lutz

CSO & Co-Founder

Computational Protein Design

Stealth Mode Biotech

Stealth-BioTech

Empallo

Claire Beskin

Co-Founder & CEO

Ruizhi (Ray) Liao

Co-Founder & CTO

Saving hearts with AI-powered cardiovascular care

Empallo discovers new insights from data and translates them into beneficial action. Empallo’s vision is to make cardiovascular care accessible to all while greatly enhancing patient experience and improving health outcomes.  

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Empallo

Lamarr.AI

Dr. Tarek Rakha

Co-Founder & CEO

Dr. Norhan Bayomi

Co-Founder & COO

Prof. John E. Fernandez

Co-Founder & CSO

Dr. Senem Velipasalar

CTO

Benjamin Rocci

Head of Strategy & Business Development

AI-powered envelope diagnostics to accelerate the transition to Net Zero buildings

Lamarr.AI identifies infrastructure flaws in building envelopes (e.g., façades, roofs) that lead to (a) energy over-consumption from heat leakages and/or (b) damages resulting from water infiltration/exfiltration. Their models have accuracies that range from 87% to 93%. The process is analogous to a brain MRI scan for buildings, with the added feature of recommending actionable repairs.

Lamarr.AI

CLIKA

Nayul Kim

Co-Founder & CEO

Ben Asaf

Co-Founder & CTO

AI to Hardware in Minutes, not Months. Smaller Models. Faster Rollouts. Hardware-Ready.

CLIKA offers an Automated Compression Engine (ACE) that aims to reduce the time and complexity of deploying AI models onto various hardware. The company states that AI engineers typically spend 6-12 months productizing a single AI model for specific hardware, a process CLIKA's solution can compress to minutes.

CLIKA

Diffraqtion

Johannes Galatsanos

Co-founder, CEO

Dr. Christine Yi-Ting Wang

Co-Founder, CTO

Prof. Dr. Saikat Guha

Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Advisor

We are building the next generation of visual AI hardware and software to make satellites and machines see further and think faster.

Diffraqtion is a quantum startup that develops advanced visual AI hardware and software. Their technology is focused on creating the next generation of sensing for satellites and machines. Key features of the company's technology:

  • Breaking the Diffraction Limit: They use quantum sensors to achieve ultra-high magnification, claiming their cameras can see 20x further than conventional cameras by capturing 100% of the information from photons, a vast improvement over the 5% captured by current cameras. The name "Diffraqtion" is a play on words, referring to the "diffraction limit" (a physical boundary on optical resolution) that their technology aims to surpass.
  • Light-Speed Imaging AI: By processing light directly with their quantum cameras instead of a low-resolution electronic image, their AI can run up to 1000x faster than conventional GPU/VPU systems.
  • Ultra-Low Energy Consumption: Their sensors are powered by the light they capture, resulting in >1000x less energy consumption than a classical CMOS sensor and GPU combination.

The technology was developed in partnership with organizations like DARPA and NASA for high-precision space applications, such as space situational awareness and finding exoplanets.

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Diffraqtion

Vertical Semiconductors

Cynthia Liao

CEO and Co-Founder

Josh Perozek

CTO and Co-Founder

Tomas Palacios

Advisor and Co-Founder

Vertical Semiconductors powers the future of AI with its patented technology (Vertical GaN) to the power hungry AI chips unlocking unparalleled efficiency (energy and thermal; i.e., cooling not required) to allow for significant OpEx and CapEx savings to the Data Center industry

Current power supply solutions can't meet the growing power density in data centers, causing higher energy costs, space issues, and more CO2 emissions. Vertical Horizons provided a highly efficient, dense, and low-heat alternative to traditional Power Supply Units. Cut energy loss by 33%, save 50% of rack space, and reduce CO2 emissions.

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Vertical Semiconductors

Otomo Health

Mike Sanchez

Co-Founder & CEO

Kiyofumi (Kiyo) Takanishi

Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer

Kevin Yang, MD

Co-founder & COO

Otomo Health defines the next-generation AI-native CRM and end-to-end solution that combines cutting-edge AI agents with workflow automation to solve healthcare clinic front and back office pain points simultaneously

Otomo Health provides an AI platform to increase operational efficiencies (more revenue from reduction of no-shows and less costs given fewer FTEs) to levels unattainable before, as well as capturing data/insights from client behavioral data (from  interactions) that were impossible to capture before at scale

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Otomo Health

Absentia Labs

Farhan Khodaee

Co-Founder & CEO

Rohola Zandie

Co-Founder & CTO

Robert Betancort

Co-Founder & COO

Accelerating Early-stage Drug Testing

AI models that learn from human trial data to predict drug outcomes (toxicity/efficacy) to accelerate the drug discovery pipeline (from 10-12 years to  months)

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Absentia Labs

Lumif.ai

Anoothi Kumar

CEO

Aditya Raisinghani

CTO

Sharan JM

CPO

Develop powerful AI agents on any framework and list them on Lumif marketplace. Use their SDK to easily connect agents, regardless of how or where they're built.

Lumif is the open infrastructure & marketplace to build, use and capitalize fully autonomous AI professionals. It combines extensive developer infrastructure for agent developers with easy discoverability and UI for users.

Lumif.ai

Bitpart AI

Jeff Orkin, Ph.D.

Co-Founder & CEO

Sarah Rudzki

Co-Founder & CPO

Bitpart AI (formerly Central Casting AI) provides & hosts pre-trained character models, utilizing a differentiated technology applying Al- generated (LLM) models for the gaming industry, that can be customized into any game world.

Currently, characters are the most expensive element of game creation, it takes 3-5 years with 100+ people to develop. Bitpart AI provides a fast (3 months), lean and low cost (3+ teams), AI- powered, solution to character development.

Bitpart AI

Catalan AI

Ishaan Grover, Ph.D.

Co-Founder

Andres Garza Villarreal

Co-Founder

Catalan AI exists to ensure powerful B2B pricing tech is accessible to SMBS.

The B2B dynamic pricing-as-a-service for small and medium size e-commerce businesses. Leveraging data and machine learning models, catalan.ai maximizes profit by determining and setting the right price for each product at any given moment in time.

Catalan AI

Advisory Board

Access to domain experts to successfully execute our investment thesis

Jason•Thomas
Investment Strategy & Global Research
Chris•Finn
Experienced Investor, IC Chairman, former COO at Carlyle
Rickard Brüel Gabrielsson
Advisory Board Member
Norma•Kuntz
CEO Gordon Brothers | COO & CFO of Global PE at Carlyle
Brian•Trelstad
Investor at Bridges & Acumen | HBS Senior Lecturer
Peter•Kellner
Founder Richmond Global & Endeavor
John•Harthorne
Investor & Founder 2LVC | MassChallenge CoFounder
Marco•Peschiera
CEO Grupo Romero | Fund Head Carlyle Peru
Walter•Bayly
Chairman Credicorp | CEO BCP
Erin•Scott
Entrepreneurial Strategy | MIT Lecturer
Jim•Baum
Growth & GTM Expert | Experienced Tech Growth CEO
Daniela•Ruiz-Massieu
Entrepreneurship at ITAM and MIT
Monty•Sharma
Entrepreneur | MassDigi MD at WPI
Miguel•Paredes
Applied AI Expert | VP Data Science Albertons
Alexis•Montecinos
Applied AI Expert | MIT Lecturer
Luis•Lamb
Neurosymbolic AI Expert, PhD in CS

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