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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

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

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.

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

Adaviv

Stealth-BioTech

Julie Zhang

CEO & Co-Founder

Dr. Isaac Lutz

CSO & Co-Founder

Computational Protein Design

Stealth Mode Biotech

Stealth-BioTech

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

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

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

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

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

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
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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