Simon Adar is the co-founder and CEO of Code Ocean, a New York-based platform that packages research code, data, and compute environments into reproducible 'compute capsules' so scientists can rerun each other's work without wrestling with dependencies. A hyperspectral imaging PhD from Tel Aviv University turned Cornell Tech Runway postdoc, he started the company after concluding that too much of his own research time went into trying, and failing, to rerun other people's code.
Karl Ruping is the founder and CEO of Tiba Biotech, a Cambridge, Massachusetts company developing biodegradable nanoparticle delivery systems for RNA vaccines and therapeutics. He also runs incTANK Ventures, a seed fund spun out of MIT and Boston-area research labs, and sits at Harvard's Asia Center as an associate working on international patent policy. Lawyer, computational scientist, financier, and operator wrapped into one resume.