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Peter Dolch
MIT Sloan Club — Board Chair Martin Trust Center — MIT Entrepreneurship MIT SOLVE Champion grIP Venture Studio MIT Harvard

Peter Dolch

Builder, advisor, investor. Peter has been launching technology companies since before most of today’s founders were born. He founded Thaumaturgix (Tgix), a web development and infrastructure company twice ranked in the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies, where he led international teams, delivered over $120 million in projects, and grew the firm to 120+ people.

His work as a founder, advisor, and board member across 30+ startups has led to exits including the sale of CheetahMail to Experian ($36M acquisition, founding board member for six years) and the MediaMetrix IPO. He put the first U.S. Stock Exchange online (AMEX) and built enterprise systems for Hewlett Packard, Pfizer, AT&T Research Labs, Merriam Webster, and Harper Collins.

An MIT graduate (Management Science) with additional work at Harvard in the Biological Sciences, Peter co-founded Biospectal, a Swiss MedTech startup building optical blood pressure technology — winning Gold at MassChallenge, a Gates Foundation grant, and a first-of-its-kind collaboration with the WHO. He’s a Senior Advisor at grIP Venture Studio, a MIT SOLVE Champion, a lecturer at Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs, and serves as Board Chair of the MIT Sloan Club of New York, where he created and runs the annual MIT Women’s Venture Challenge.

He actively advises mHeart and CryoGeneus.

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Ella Drory
Columbia MPA | Pace MBA Paris & Tel Aviv Ecosystem & Growth

Ella Drory

Venture Partner

Ecosystem builder and partnerships operator with a track record of unlocking commercial pathways. Research and diligence expertise across legal, financial, and technical domains. Cross-cultural fluency shaped by working across U.S., European, and Israeli business environments. Early-stage venture-building experience at VIAM Robotics, PollyLabs, and numerous founder collaborations.

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Supporting due diligence, deal flow, and portfolio company support.

Karen Tilli
Karen Tilli
Healthtech & Insurtech
Product and Operations leader with 3 exits in startups across Healthcare, Energy and Agriculture. Deep knowledge of health tech for insurance and provider markets.
MIT | Sloan MBA
Sadat Chowdhury
Sadat Chowdhury
Software & AI
AI Professor and VP Software Engineering at JP Morgan. Published multiple papers in AI journals and presented at conferences.
PhD in AI & ML
Alex Reinhart
Alex Reinhart
Deeptech, AI & Venture
AI Founder. MIT Mechanical Engineer, Computer Scientist and Media Lab researcher. Engineer for Apple Watch. Deeptech investor with Pillar VC.
MIT ME & CS | Media Lab
Barak Cohen
Barak Cohen
Product & Entrepreneurship
Product leader and entrepreneur with expertise in deeptech (agtech, healthtech and climate tech). 15 years in military innovation, deep ties to the Israeli tech ecosystem.
Cornell MBA
Track Record
From Idea-on-a-Napkin to IPO

Selected moments from 30 years of building and advising.

68% Portfolio Active
68% of Fund I investments still active with follow-on rounds or exited.
Fund I
MySideKick — US Olympic Committee
Women's safety app. Official safety app for US athletes at the 2024 Summer Games.
Co-Founded
Top Investment → $175M+ ARR
Invested at $4.5M pre-money. Company now generating $175M+ annual recurring revenue.
Fund I
Biospectal — Co-Founder & CTO
Swiss MedTech SaMD startup. Gold at MassChallenge, Gates Foundation grant, WHO collaboration, published in Nature.com.
Co-Founded
500+ Startups Reviewed
Four years with New York Angels. Deal sourcing, due diligence, and negotiation across 50+ deep dives.
Investor
40+ Startups Incubated
NYC incubator profiled on the front page of the New York Times.
Incubated
CheetahMail → Experian
Founding board member. Incubated from idea to $36M acquisition.
Exit
MediaMetrix → IPO
From an idea on a napkin to public offering in internet audience measurement.
Exit
Thaumaturgix — 2× Inc. 500
120+ employees, $120M+ in projects. Twice among America's fastest-growing companies.
Founded
AMEX — First Exchange Online
Put the first U.S. stock exchange on the web. Direct mandate from Exchange Chairman.
Pioneer