FOUNDER

20-year startup company veteran; former CEO of Y Combinator-backed Earbits; raised $1.7M, served over 15,000 musical artists, and led Earbits to acquisition; co-architect of two accelerator programs.

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CO-FOUNDER, PARTNER

20 years as arts educator, writer, critic and editor. Founding Director of the Center for Business & Management of the Arts at Claremont Graduate University and of Sotheby’s Institute of Art – Los Angeles; Contributing Editor, ArtReview; Board Member, Defy Ventures

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ADVISOR

Storm Ascher is the founder of Superposition Gallery, a nomadic exhibition platform that has worked with more than 100 artists mounting shows across museums, auction houses, international art fairs, and public sites. She is a Forbes 30 Under 30 Art & Style Honoree and was named by Artsy as one of a New Generation of Black Women Gallerists.

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Author, educator, and curator with over 20 years in leadership positions in the art world; founder of the Interaction program at Artangel, London; founding director of the MA Program in Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York; Editor in Chief of the Benezit Dictionary of Art for Oxford University Press; faculty at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and an Ensemble member of the New School of the Anthropocene.

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Director of Sterling Ruby Studio since 2007.

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Cuban-born artist and author; Provost Professor of Arts & Humanities at University of Southern California; Represented in over 50 public collections internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, and the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College, Fellow of the Huntington Library Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, Fellow of Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, and Fellow of the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation; Governor on the Board of Otis College of Art and Design; Artist advisor to the Anderson Ranch Arts Center; Member of the International Advisory Council of the Hispanic Society of America.

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Partner, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles; Art Basel Miami Beach selection committee member

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Founder, Ilèkùn Wa, New York; Founder, Creative Milieu LLC, New York; MA in Art Business, Center for Business and Management of the Arts, Claremont Graduate University, and Sotheby's Institute of Art - Los Angeles; Board Member, Black Art Futures Fund

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Iranian-born artist and filmmaker living in New York; Director of three feature-length films: Women Without Men (2009; received Silver Lion Award for Best Director, 66th Venice International Film Festival); Looking For Oum Kulthum (2017), and Land of Dreams (2021); Recent solo museum exhibitions include Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2022), Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2021), and The Broad, Los Angeles (2020); Winner of the Golden Lion Award, the First International Prize at the 48th Biennale di Venezia (1999), the Hiroshima Freedom Prize (2005), the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2006), and the Praemium Imperiale award for Painting (2017).

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Curator of the Ovitz Family Collection in Los Angeles since 2007.

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Founder and President of Schwartzman&; Former Chairman of the Global Fine Art Division of Sotheby’s; Co-founder of Art Agency, Partners; Former curator, New Museum of Contemporary Art; Board Member, Artists Space

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MAGIC Fund is a global collective of founders that backs other founders solving daunting challenges.

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Co-founder and CEO of GOAT Group; Y Combinator alumni; Top 30 YC Portfolio Company

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Head of Innovation, AppLovin; Co-founder & Creative Director of Machine Zone (acq. AppLovin); Y Combinator alumni; Top 200 YC Portfolio Company

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Founder, Chisos Capital; Venture Partner, Republic

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Founder, Long Term Impact; Founder, Goalbook; Kauffman Education Ventures Fellow; Y Combinator alumni

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Founder, Flaviar; Venture Partner, Pioneer Fund; Y Combinator alumni