Aaron Elmore
Chief Executive Officer
Raul Castro Fernandez
Chief Research Officer
Daisy Barbanel
Founding Engineer
Michael J. Franklin
Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science, University of ChicagoMike is one of the original creators of Apache Spark, built at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab (which he directed) the open-source engine Databricks was founded on. He led the expansion of computer science at UChicago as department chair and is a founding faculty co-director of the Data Science Institute.
Arnab Nandi
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering,The Ohio State University
Arnab works where data infrastructure meets the people using it: query interfaces, interactive analytics, and human-in-the-loop data systems. He founded and ran Mobikit, a connected-vehicle data analytics company acquired by Azuga, a Bridgestone company, and is an ACM Distinguished Member.
Laude Ventures invests in visionary companies that are built on cutting-edge research. It was founded by Andy Konwinski (co-founder of Databricks and of Perplexity), Pete Sonsini (Midas List and led Databricks, Cursor, and Perplexity investments at NEA), and Andrew Krioukov (co-founder of Antimatter and Comfy).
Harper Court Ventures is a deep tech fund built to commercialize research from the University of Chicago ecosystem. It is managed by MFV Partners and counts the UChicago endowment among its investors.
A research program before it was a company
The ideas behind the Escrow Agent were worked out in the open, in published research on data markets, data discovery, and governed data sharing.