Shivani

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  • Prometheia LLC invests in highly emergent technologies with intrinsic growth properties and long-term value. 
 
  • We work with founders that catalyze new systems of living and being with intelligent machines. 
 
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A & B investments.
 

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  • Nous Research Inc. develops open-source language models and decentralized machine intelligence.
 
  • As co-founder, founding CEO and President, I built the company from the ground up.
 
    • Built a team of engineers, the business vision and brand. Operationalized an unorthodox group of talent. Shipped frontier models and AI tools.
 
  • Raised $70 million from 2023 to 2025, pre-seed to closed Series A.
 
  • The ‘Nous Girl’ logo was designed by John Galt in 2023. She symbolized the rebellion against digital censorship, and the act of finding humanity in the face of inhumanity.
  • The Museum of Crypto Art (M○C△) built a fine art collection of tokenized imagery (Ethereum NFTs), and a community of internet-age digital artists.
 
  • From 2020-2023, I built an infrastructure to empower global digital art using cryptocurrency: open tools, critical thought experiments, art exhibitions in virtual worlds.
 
 
 
  • [2015] Presented a qualia concept for reconstructive facial surgery at Med Uni Graz in Austria. 
 
 
  • [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. 
 
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  • I combine passions for free expression, consciousness, technology as managing partner of Prometheia LLC, an emerging technology investment fund.
 
  • New York & San Francisco based. Previously lived in Bangalore, Cape Town, Boston. Raised by two computer nerds.
 
  • Art History and Biology at Washington University in St. Louis.
 
  • Also into ancient history, alternative medical systems, wildlife conservation, yoga (RYT 200).