Dr. Alvelda, is an experienced AI technology innovator, entrepreneur, and investor who has created several industry-defining companies across a storied career. He is the Managing Partner of Brainworks Ventures, a new type of investment and startup incubator designed from the ground-up to offer venture capital for AI innovation. The company leverages the latest AI technologies to create and scale AI-enabled companies that address global challenges.
Prior to Brainworks Ventures, Dr. Alvelda created the Brainworks Foundry which spun out two AI-enabled startups as a model for what became Brainworks Ventures including Medio Labs, a molecular diagnostics company founded to address the COVID pandemic.
Brainworks grew out of Dr. Alvelda鈥檚 stint in the Obama Administration鈥檚 DARPA | Biological Technologies Office where he developed national-scale R&D programs and technologies at the intersection of AI and neuroscience, to catalyze the Brain-Machine Interface Industry.
Prior to Medio Labs, Brainworks, and DARPA, Dr. Alvelda was the founding CEO of MobiTV, which launched the world鈥檚 first live TV service for mobile phones over cellular networks. For this work, Dr. Alvelda was awarded an Emmy and was chosen as a 鈥淲orld Economic Forum Technology Pioneer鈥� in 2007.
Prior to MobiTV, Dr. Alvelda founded The MicroDisplay Corporation the creator of the display device in the Google Glass, and developed ai-enhanced spacecraft sensors (Space Shuttle, Galileo, Magellan and Cassini) and new AI architectures at NASA鈥檚 Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Dr. Alvelda holds over 30 patents and patents-pending on a wide range of technologies, a technical Emmy Award, a Bachelor鈥檚 degree in Physics from Cornell University, and Masters and PhD degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT鈥檚 Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.