Shawn Dimantha
👋🏾 Hi, I'm Shawn
I focus on AI/ML, biotech & digital health, and web3/crypto. These are the industries I believe will shape our future over the next 25 years.
You can check out some of my writing on these areas here, and some of my other explorations, accomplishments and talks below👇🏾
🤖 Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
- 👷🏾 Product Leader at YouTube focused on ML-driven growth for new types of creators, GenAI & LLM creator tools and exascale data insights at the world's largest creator economy company.
- 🧬 Serial AI/ML & digital health exited startup founder with experience building products leveraging computer vision and ML prediction models
- 👨🏾⚖️ Conference speaker, hackathon judge and mentor: including speaking on Future of AI Panels, judging AI hackathons like HackAIthon organized by Craft Ventures and running LLM workshops (bit.ly/ai-llm-101)
- 🔢 Former data scientist with training in AI/ML at Georgia Tech
- 🧪🏆 Prize-winning competitive AI/ML hacker, including winning 1st place at AGI House's ImageGen hackathon with a novel audio2video AI model and 2nd place at Scale AI's hackthon by building natural language generative protein therapeutics search
- 😇 Angel & fund investing in AI/ML startups. Select investments include Databricks, CSM, Glif, MultiOn, Scenario, Sundial, WOMBO, Woebot Health, Weights & Biases.
🧬 Biotech & Digital Health
- ⚒️ Former biotech and digital health executive with experience building groundbreaking digital health and medical device products at Verily Life Sciences (formerly Google X Life Sciences)
- 🕹️💰Advised venture funds (like SignalFire) on digital health strategy & biotech company founders and management teams, and former digital health venture capitalist at RRE Ventures and Radius Ventures
- 🪄Serial startup founder in the digital health / ML / computer vision space (1 acquired + a couple good learning experiences)
- 🧪Exploring the intersection of biotech, web3, and AI/ML in fields like DeSci (see below for my chat with Molecule/VitaDAO) and computational biology, and unique business models like venture studios in digital health
- 😇 Angel investing in biotech & digital health startups. Select investments include: Octant Bio, Enveda Biosciences, Pheiron, Eight Sleep, Cambrian Biopharma, Woebot Health, Evernow, Molecule
🪙 Web3 / Crypto
- Co-founder of Hydra Ventures, the world's first fund of funds ($10M+ AUM) that invests in and incubates other investment communities / DAOs. We have made investments in investment communities that focus on Biotech / DeSci, Artificial Intelligence, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Spatial Computing, and Urbit / Decentralized Compute.
- 👨🏾⚖️Hackathon judge and mentor: including judging the world's first NFT Finance Hackathon organized by 1kx and MacroDAO
- 🧪 Experimenting and tinkering with novel web3 concepts like venture studio DAOs & NFT podcasts, programming/smart contract languages (Move, Solidity), and research into token communities like NounsDAO (bit.ly/nounsdao-overview)
- 🖼️ NFTs: I also focus on innovation in the NFT space including NFT Financialization and creator tools like AI generative art among other areas.
- 😇 Angel investing in web3 startups. Select investments include Dapper Labs, Animoca Brands, POAP, buildspace, Karma, Ceramic, GoSats, Layer3.
