Extraordinary - Aliens of Extraordinary Ability

Directory

Read stories of extraordinary individuals who crossed oceans to pursue their dreams, including those who were granted O-1 visas and EB-1A green cards.

Vinod Khosla

Investor, Khosla Ventures

Co-founded Sun Microsystems, revolutionizing computing when most saw computers as niche technology
Built Khosla Ventures to fund radical technologies others were too scared to touch
Invested $1B in clean energy, believing entrepreneurs can solve global challenges

Deedy Das

Principal · Menlo Ventures

Principal @Menlo Ventures
Founding Team @Glean, Google Search, Facebook.
Worked with Pinecone and Anthropic, helped run $100M Anthology Fund.
Advisor to Perplexity, Sana, Aisera
Angel investor in Cartesia, Fulcrum.

Div Garg

CEO · MultiON

Stanford PhD candidate and Cornell Bachelors graduate
Specializing in reinforcement learning and artificial intelligence agents
Dropped out to build Multion
Track record in self-driving car research at companies like Apple and Uber

Aryan Sharma

CEO · Induced

i'm working on induced to accelerate actionable ai. we are a lean team, with amazing backers, and we ship fast. join us!
i've been working in tech since i was 13. after high school, i got a full scholarship from eric schmidt (former google ceo) to attend any university in america, but i decided to continue building products on my own instead. in the time after, i've been fortunate enough to work with and learn from incredible founders/operators/investors around the world - and that's seeded a lot of my work and thinking.

Dhaval Shroff

Autopilot AI · Tesla

One of the Three Musketeers in Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk Biography. Founding team of tesla autopilot

Nikunj Kothari

VP · Khosla Ventures

Venture Partner at Khosla Ventures. Built Meter, Opendoor

Kumar Abhirup

Co-Founder · Merse (YC S24)

I am a 21yo Founder and Engineer, having built many projects in past, I am on a path aiming to solve humanities' most pressing issues, in an iterative fashion, starting from most trivial things imaginable.
Co-founder of Merse.co (YC S24) — Previously building Airchat (acquired) with Naval — Founder itsbeam.com (acquired)

Onkar Singh Batra

Founder · Bifrost Orbital

Ishan Mukherjee

CEO · NewCO

Vishnu Hari

CEO · Ego (YC W24)

building an ai-native simulation engine @ ego (YC W24) | ex facebook ai

Paras Savnani

Founder, CEO · Lunaris AI

building @lunaris_ai for content creators | prev AI research @Samsung_RA, @umdcs (e/acc)

Advait Paliwal

disciple of experience

Founder of Friday, a Y Combinator Company