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.
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.
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.
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.
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
We are at a unique point in history where the best ideas are fueled by AI, Diversity, and 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
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
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
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.
Empallo
Atacama Biomaterials
Paloma Gonzalez-Rojas, Ph.D.
Co-Founder & CEO
Jose Tomas Dominguez
Co-Founder
Atacama Biomaterials 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.
Atacama Biomaterials
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
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
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
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.
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
Advisory Board
Access to domain experts to successfully execute our investment thesis
We are building a firm not a fund…
to cover national innovation and startup hubs