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Investment Team. Previously, Zoe served on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence and at Google AI. Prior she focused on national security, working in Mosul Iraq during the counter-ISIL operation in 2017. She was an investor at the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank and at Goldman Sachs.

Her work on national security has been published in the New York Times and Foreign Affairs and she co-hosts the podcast Next in Foreign Policy. Zoe received her JD from Yale Law School, MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and BA from Harvard College. 

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Investment Team. Michael co-founded Arktouros, a legal boutique dedicated to emergent technology and civil society. He has twice been the first in-house counsel at tech companies: Espresso Systems, building configurable private computation and decentralized sequencing, and Chainalysis, developing blockchain analytics.

In public service, Michael served as Acting Director (Deputy Director & Digital Innovation Officer) of the U.S. Treasury’s FinCEN, driving initiatives on privacy and digital identity to improve the resilience and opportunity of the financial system. He also was Counselor (cybersecurity & emerging technology) to the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, a Deputy Chief in the Department of Justice, a Director at the White House National Security Council, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center.

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Investment Team. Farhan brings operational excellence to agentic technology ventures, drawing from his decade of building and scaling products at the intersection of technical complexity and human needs.

Previously, Farhan led Public Health initiatives at Meta, developing systems that helped 50M people access COVID-19 vaccines while restructuring recommendation algorithms to prioritize information quality over engagement.

As an early engineer and later product leader at Pure Storage (0→IPO), he built secure distributed systems and scaled ML/AI products from concept to market leadership, with over 20 patents. His expertise spans technical architecture, team building, and 0→1 product strategy to turn deep technology like P2P systems, privacy preserving AI, or local-first databases into successful products. He also advises non-profits through Agency Fund, deploying AI resources for healthcare and critical services in low and middle-income countries.

Ecosystem. Anastasia is a leading voice in AI security, digital privacy, and agentic technology. As a Specialist Leader at Deloitte, she advises on securing AI systems and navigating AI governance and risk. She is the founder of Tethics & Chill, a community of founders, investors, and operators dedicated to building technology that enhances human agency, and host of The Privacy Podcast.

Her graduate thesis on human agency in technology introduced the concept of "agentic tech" and defined the privacy-preserving framework that safeguards sovereignty, consent, and agency in digital spaces. She is a former Charles G. Koch fellow and currently a John Stuart Mill fellow at the Mercatus Center.

Previously, Anastasia has worked at NBC, NPR, the Cato Institute, the U.S. Senate, and in Rwanda, Burundi, and Kenya, bridging technical depth with cultural fluency and storytelling. She holds an M.S. in Information Security and Privacy from UT Austin and a B.A. in Government and International Relations from Cornell University.