Ning Ma

Founder, CEO

2023

AI for healthcare & insurance

Founder, CEO

2025

AI to connect breakthrough ideas with the press

Investor

2021

Investing in a better tomorrow. Aalo Atomics – modular nuclear fission General Fusion – commercializing nuclear fusion Tactical Edge Systems – field-deployable hydrogen gen for defense Cerebras – wafer-scale AI processor Neurophos – photonic chips leveraging metamaterials PsiQuantum – photonic quantum computing Machina Labs – AI + robotics for manufacturing Gecko Robotics – AI + robotics for maintaining critical infrastructure Kobold Metals – AI for mineral exploration and discovery Hologen – AI for molecular and drug discovery Shield AI – build the world’s best AI pilot Anthropic – Hi Claude! Remote – global talent mobility infrastructure Conception Bio – eliminating the biological clock for women SpaceX – make humanity multi-planetary ...

Angel Squad

2024

Angel Investor

2023

Mentor

2022

Commissioner

2024

Senior Care Commission evaluates legislation and social issues relating to the needs of individuals over the age of 60 and make recommendations to the Board of Supervisors through the Children, Seniors and Families committee. Member of Legislative Standing Committee Member of Community Care Standing Committee

Artist

2013

Internationally-awarded landscape photographer with footsteps on 30+ countries across 5 continents. Summiter of the tallest peaks in Africa - Kilimanjaro (19,341 ft / 5,895 m), Europe - Elbrus (18,510 ft / 5,642 m), and South America - Aconcagua (22,841 ft / 6,962 m). Followed by ~300,000 fans from around the world. Previous exhibits @ Louvre Museum in Paris, Museum of Flight in Seattle, and Atlanta International Airport. Represented by the TINT Gallery in San Francisco. www.ningmaphoto.com

Head of Data Science

2019 - 2021

Background check unicorn powering the gig economy, backed by $679M from YC, Accel, Coatue, Durable Capital, Bond, Khosla Ventures, IVP, T. Rowe Price, and Fidelity. Founded the Data Science program at Checkr. Led analytics -> AI. Key initiatives: Checkr Pre, Checkr Analytics, Checkr Fairness Framework, Checkr Data University Key partnerships: Checkr Assess/Positive Adjudication Matrix, J-PAL 2020: Checkr Women's History Month, Honoree 2020: Checkr Hack Week, 2nd Place

Head of Data Science

2014 - 2019

Rocket Fuel built AI analogous to those at a low-latency hedge fund, but for programmatic advertising, a market 1000x the number of daily trades executed across NASDAQ and NYSE combined, 125x of Facebook’s daily queries, and 25x of Google’s daily queries. The AI trained over 90 petabytes of data, placed 250 billions of bids per day, and executed with <100 millisecond latency. Data Analyst -> Lead Data Analyst -> Senior Modeler -> Lead Modeler -> Head of Data Science 2017: CEO's "What a Moment" (Impact) Award 4/1000+ employees 2016: Operating at the Edge (Innovation) Award 1/1000+ employees 2016: Spot (Revenue) Award 150/1000+ employees Solo inventor for AI patent on Dynamic Website Content Optimization (Patent #: US 12,354,029), predicting the next webpage to serve instead of the next token.