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Rick Barber

Investor at Stability AI

Champaign, Illinois

Overview 

Rick Barber is a highly accomplished professional with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a background in data mining, machine learning, and bioinformatics. Currently serving as an Angel Investor at Stability AI and a Co-founder at Refactor Capital, he has also held key roles at Addition as Chief Technology Officer and Cofounder, showcasing his expertise in entrepreneurship and venture capital. Barber's career highlights include his contributions as a Data scientist at Andreessen Horowitz and Chief of Staff at Nuna Inc., demonstrating his proficiency in artificial intelligence and distributed systems, as well as his investment focus on AI startups in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

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Stability AI

  • Angel Investor

    2022 - Current

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Addition

  • Chief Technology Officer, Cofounder

    2020

    Generative AI for brands and marketers

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Refactor Capital

  • Cofounder

    2015 - 2018

Refactor Capital is a seed stage VC firm investing $1-2M into hard tech startups from its 4th fund, $50M in size.

refactor.com
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Instructor

    2017 - 2018

    Teaching CS 361 Probability and Statistics for CS

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Nuna Inc.

  • Data science & Chief of Staff

    2014 - 2015

Nuna works with government, employers, and plans to improve how people use healthcare through data.

Raised $90,000,000.00 from Kleiner Perkins.

nuna.com
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Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research

  • Research Assistant

    2014 - 2014

    Automatic detection of cohorts using machine learning on claims, lab, drug, and clinical text data. Did analyses of feature selection algorithms to uncover the relative value of claims, lab, drug, and EHR data. Used complex network analysis to uncover novel subtype clusters of autism and other diseases

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Andreessen Horowitz

  • Data scientist

    2013 - 2013

    Programmed some things that I can't say much about. Got to see the other side of the table, listen to a few pitches, and see how the sausage is made, as well.

Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.

a16z.com
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Groupon

  • Merchant data team intern

    2012 - 2012

    Built a patentable system to scrape the web and used natural language processing to identify restaurants that would be opening in the future. Published a paper with the larger team on the automatic allocation of crowd computing in data cleaning stacks.

Groupon is a deal-of-the-day website that offers discounted gift certificates usable at local or national companies.

Raised $1,387,000,000.00 from MIG Capital, RTP Global and Atairos.

groupon.com
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Stanford University

  • Researcher - InfoLab

    2011 - 2012

    Did research in social and information network analysis under Prof Jure Leskovec. Did work on automatically classifying entities into an ontology

Uo

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Researcher - Data Mining Research Group

    2010 - 2011

    Worked on web structure mining and social/information network analysis under Prof Jiawei Han. Published 4 papers on finding structure in unstructured web data on the individual page level and separately with a system leveraging the site-wide link structure to uncover entities. Published a paper on link formation in networks, specifically predicting which academic researchers would co-author papers together in the future.

  • Research Assistant

    2009 - 2010

    Programming for the Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets. Feature detection and optimization of triangular surface meshes in C++.

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