Austin Walne

Board Member

2024 - Current

Activ Surgical's mission is for every surgical imaging system to deliver intelligent information that reduces surgical complication rates, ushering in a new standard of patient care and safety. Their vision is to transform the collective surgical experience by leveraging emerging technologies and data into insights that make world-class surgery accessible for all.

Partner

2015

ARTIS Ventures is $535M early stage deep-tech venture firm investing at the convergence of technology + biology (TechBio) and in the digital transformation of healthcare. The firm has partnered with, funded and supported YouTube, Nimble Storage, Excision Biotherapeutics, Eko Health, Locus Biosciences, StemCentrx, Second Front Systems, Versa Networks, IDbyDNA, Tessera Therapeutics, Modern Meadow, Aruba Wireless Networks, Freenome, and Cohesity among many others, helping them transform major industries. av.co

Board Observer

2024

Aether is a stealth mode startup innovating at the intersection of Machine Learning and Synthetic Biology

Board Observer

2020

Second Front Systems was founded to bring innovative, venture-backed technologies to bear on pressing national security challenges. They are focused on accelerating the cycle of innovation that enables the Department of Defense and USG to access and operationally deploy these emerging technologies.

Board Member

2020

Enklu is a low-code platform that brings the metaverse to life by empowering users to upload, collaborate, and interact with multiplayer 3D experiences for web, mobile, HoloLens and Oculus -in real time.

Board Observer

2017

Locus Biosciences is an emerging biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of a next generation platform for Programmed Cell Death. Our novel approach to precision medicines works by taking advantage of a part of an immune system present in many bacteria called the CRISPR-Cas system. The system protects bacteria from invaders such as viruses by creating small strands of RNA called CRISPR RNAs, which match DNA sequences specific to a given invader. When those CRISPR RNAs find a match, they activate Cas proteins that cut the DNA.

Co-Organizer

2012

SF Agile Marketing is one of the largest communities of technical marketers and growth hackers in the country. It has grown from 42 members in Oct '12 and to 4000 members today. We meet each month to discuss topics like growth thinking, customer segmentation, content marketing, and mobile user acquisition. - http://www.sfagilemarketing.com

Registered Representative

2015

Board Member

2016 - 2017

Stringify was one of the more successful IOT software startups in recent years. Their award-winning service was the #2 "smart home" app on the App Store for most of 2017 and carried a 4-4.5 star rating. Their service allowed users to connect almost anything to anything, allowing them to create unique experiences that matter to them. To support the needs of their heavily connected user base, they had dozens of partnerships that support over 600 products and services including both hardware devices such as Nest, Hue, SmartThings and Fitbit and digital services such as Dropbox, Facebook, Google Traffic and Steam. They were acquired by Comcast in September, 2017 who integrated and evolved the product into their home networking product lines.

Growth Product Manager

2012 - 2015

Managed delivery of all new functionality for global customer facing web properties at Mindjet in US, UK, DE, FR, EU, JP, & AU locales including: corporate website, eCommerce/back-end provisioning system, and marketing tech stack including Lytics, Pardot, Webtrends, etc. Product Owner with two Agile teams; Scrum (engineering) and Kanban (marketing.) Technologies used daily: Common Web Stack (HTML, CSS, Javascript), Apache, Linux, jQuery, Wordpress, Jira, Trello, Optimizely, GA, Lytics.io, Tealium, & Pardot.