Nous Research Inc. develops open-source language models and machine intelligence.
As Co-Founder, Founding CEO and President, I built the company from the ground up: operationalized the business vision and mission, recruited and molded an unorthodox group of researchers, shipped frontier open-source AI tools.
I raised $70 million in venture capital from 2023 to 2025, pre-seed to the closed Series A.
The ‘Nous Girl’ logo was designed by John Galt in July 2023. She symbolized the rebellion of decentralized AI, and the act of finding humanity in the face of internet censorship.
The Museum of Crypto Art (M○C△) built a fine art collection of tokenized imagery (Ethereum NFTs), and a community of digital artists and their patrons.
From 2020-2023, I built an infrastructure to empower global digital art using cryptocurrency: open tools, critical thought experiments, art exhibitions in virtual worlds.
[2018] Created a historical analysis of Leonardo Da Vinci’s deluge drawings at MIT.
[2019] Published qualitative research on interdisciplinary collaborations that improve surgical care in low-resource settings in the British Medical Journal.
[2019] Wrote a commentary on applied AI for systems innovation in The Lancet.
I combine passions for human liberation, embodied cognition, decentralized technologies as managing partner of Prometheia LLC, an emerging technology investment fund.
New York City & San Francisco based. Previously lived in Bangalore, Cape Town, Boston. Raised by two computer nerds.
B.A. Art History, B.A. Biochemistry, Pre-Medical Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Alumni of the Harker School.
Also into ancient western and eastern history, alternative medical systems, wildlife conservation, yoga (RYT 200).