Christian Bailey
Founder of Squawk AI
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder and CPO
2024 - Current
Squawk AI leverages GenAI to speed up aircraft problem diagnosis and repair.
Instructor and Mentor Pilot
2022
Instruct and mentor in Citation CJ3+ and Citation Mustang aircraft.
Aero City Group provides aviation services.
Invention and Patents Strategy
2020
Invention and Patents Strategy
2021
ZeroAvia develops hydrogen-electric powertrains for zero-emission aviation solutions.
Raised $293,950,000.00 from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Climate Pledge Fund, Summa Equity, NEOM Investment Fund, Horizons Ventures, Ecosystem Integrity Fund, Scottish National Investment Bank, Airbus, National Wealth Fund and AP Ventures.
Invention and Patents Strategy
2021
Regent develops and manufactures all-electric seagliders for high-speed regional coastal transportation.
Raised $87,000,000.00 from MOL Switch.
Venture Partner
2021
Chief Scientist
2020 - 2021
At UP.Partners, we build and invest in technologies that help move people and goods cleaner, faster, safer, and at lower cost - on the ground, in the air, on the sea, and in space.
UP Partners is an early stage venture capital fund dedicated to supporting companies that are transforming the moving world.
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist
2008
Curated invents with our partners: we span the technology lifecycle, from developing valuable IP portfolios for startups like Venus Aerospace and ZeroAvia, to building prototypes ready for commercialization with multinational companies like theft detection for Walmart and stroke detection for Genentech.
Managing Partner
2008 - 2012
Invested in spinouts from MIT and Harvard through incTANK, a vehicle for the partners' own funds.
Co-founder and CEO
2010 - 2011
Ligon Discovery is a Harvard University and Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT drug discovery startup with a breakthrough small molecule microarray technology which allows researchers to attack “undruggable” disease targets.
Ligon Discovery identifies drugs in the fields of oncology and coagulation disorders using small molecule microarray screening technology.
Raised $1,500,000.00 from incTANK Ventures.
Co-founder and Co-CEO
2005 - 2008
Founded Lincoln Group with Paige Craig in late 2003. Developed advanced technologies to support DOD and the Intelligence Community in Information Operations. Lincoln Group was acquired in 2008.