Rachel Slaybaugh
Investor at DCVC
Rachel Slaybaugh
Investor at DCVC
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Board Member, People and Culture Committee Chair
2024 - Current
Board Observer
2022 - 2024
Board Member
2023
Partner
2023
Principal
2022 - 2023
I focus on climate tech at DCVC where DCVC backs entrepreneurs solving trillion-dollar global problems to multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its costs. We are a Deep Tech venture fund with over $2 billion under management.
Independent Board Member
2022
Board Observer
2022
Board Member
2020
Founding Board Chair through 01/2023; Board Member 01/2023 through 12/2025 https://www.goodenergycollective.org/
Board Observer
2022 - 2024
Committee Member, Study on Laying the Foundation for New and Advanced Nuclear Reactors in the US
2020 - 2022
Division Director
2021 - 2021
• Source and select ∼10 hard tech innovators per year for a 2-year fellowship program to turn their technology concept into a product with a positive societal impact (∼$6M/year) • Fellows embed at LBNL where we support their technical development and collaborations • Responsible for outcomes, safety, and reporting to Department of Energy and LBNL leadership • Coordinate closely with Activate.org leadership in co-running the program
Associate Professor
2014 - 2021
• Frequent invited speaker on innovation in the nuclear energy sector at clean tech, academic, government, NGO, and international fora • Founded the Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp, which brings diverse students from around the world to learn skills essential to innovation in nuclear energy • Developing numerical methods for neutral particle transport with an emphasis on supercomputing and advanced architectures; applications in reactor design, shielding, and nonproliferation • Also mentored PhDs in optimization, thermal fluids, and cryptography and anomaly detection • Published 25 journal articles, 44 refereed conference proceedings, 3 technical reports, 2 book chapters, 5 open source pieces of software, and 2 policy pieces (http://rachelslaybaugh.github.io/CV/rns_publications.pdf) • Graduated 9 PhD and 4 MS students; research adviser for 1 assistant project scientist, 1 postdoctoral scholar, 1 visiting scholar, and 15 undergraduate students • Won >$2.5M as principal investigator (PI) and >$26M as co-PI for numerical methods research • Created and support a course in which Berkeley students do hands on science experiments at under-served elementary schools in Oakland