Our team is enabling a new era of AI performance and innovation.
Building the future of AIWe are a diverse team building analog processing units rooted in compute-in-memory architecture. Our work is guided by one simple question: what does it take to run AI reliably and efficiently in the real world?
Meet the team.
The people behind Mythic are some of the most accomplished engineers, scientists, and specialists in their fields, drawn together by a problem worth solving and a platform worth building on.
Taner Ozcelik
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Dr. Taner Ozcelik brings a wealth of experience as a veteran semiconductor executive. He is the founder and former VP & GM of NVIDIA’s automotive division, where he built a multi-hundred-million-dollar business and pioneered the commercialization of autonomous technologies. Dr. Ozcelik also served as SVP & GM of the Intelligent Sensing Group at ON Semiconductor and as EVP & GM for Luminar Technologies. Taner holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and an MBA from The Wharton School.
Steven Pho
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Steven Pho is a seasoned finance and operating executive with experience scaling high-growth technology companies and building and leading finance and operating organizations. Prior to Mythic, Steven served in CFO and executive leadership roles at companies including Favor Delivery, Forager, and Spruce, and previously led corporate development at RetailMeNot. Earlier in his career, Steven spent nine years in technology investment banking in San Francisco.
Laura Fick
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Laura developed Mythic’s Analog Compute technology as part of her PhD thesis at the University of Michigan. Since then, she has led the development of new algorithms, circuits, and silicon testing methodologies for analog compute. Laura is a founding engineer at Mythic.
Ambyr O’Donnell
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Based in Portland, Ambyr brings 25 years of experience guiding high-growth tech companies through major transformational moments — from IPOs to M&A to scaling with private equity and venture-backed boards.
She's worked closely with CEOs, CFOs, and Boards of Directors across founder-led and public companies, and has served as a Board Director and strategic partner in addition to her legal leadership roles.
Jen Bernard
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Jen Bernard previously served as Chief of Staff to the CEO at Matterport, where she helped guide the company from early-stage startup through its IPO and eventual acquisition by CoStar Group. Over the past decade, she has worked as a Chief of Staff and senior operator, partnering with executives to bring structure to complexity — scaling organizations, launching products, and aligning leadership around what matters most. She brings a rare operational range — equally fluent in zero-to-one company building and the rigor of scaling a public company — along with the execution instinct and culture-building experience that comes from navigating an organization through every major stage of growth.
Hung Q Nguyen
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Hung Nguyen joined Mythic in January 2017 and has led the implementation of flash technology for analog compute-in-memory in Mythic products. He’s a proven startup leader, having spearheaded two ventures to multi-hundred-million dollar revenue. Previously, Hung served as VP of Advanced Technology at SST and led Microchip’s design licensing efforts. He holds over 100 patents.
Danny Shapiro
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Danny joins us from NVIDIA, where he served as their Automotive VP of Marketing. He holds a BSE in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
Chris Cubiss
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Chris leads Mythic’s software development team. Chris has more than 25 years of industry experience and previously held positions at ON Semiconductor, Lattice Semiconductor, and LSI Logic.
Vladi Korobov
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Vladi Korobov leads Mythic’s manufacturing and sensing teams. Vladi is a seasoned leader in the semiconductor industry, specializing in sensors and mixed signal devices, with over 35 years of experience. Prior to Mythic, Dr. Korobov served as Chief Technology Officer in the Intelligent Sensing Group at ONSEMI, where he led breakthrough developments in imaging technologies and achieved dominant market positions in automotive and industrial sensor applications.
Manoj Kumar
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Manoj has over 30 years of experience leading semiconductor development teams worldwide. He holds a B.Tech in EE from IIT Kanpur and an M.S. in ECE from Oregon State University. He has led semiconductor design and development teams at organizations such as onsemi, Intel, Maxim, and Cypress Semiconductor. Manoj brings a wealth of industry expertise and currently heads Mythic India.
Yoav Yogev
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Yoav Yogev brings more than 35 years of hardware, software, and systems engineering experience to Mythic. He spent over a decade at Spansion and Cypress Semiconductor, continuing as Distinguished Engineer and CTO at Infineon Technologies after its 2020 acquisition of Cypress. Yoav specializes in secure compute architecture and holds an MBA from Heriot-Watt University along with 20+ patents.
Hans-Joachim Stolberg
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Dr. Hans-Joachim Stolberg co-founded and drove the development of videantis’s unique unified processing platform designed to enable fully homogeneous ADAS/AD SoC integration over 20M vehicles on the road today in both IVI and ADAS solutions built by customers like Bosch, Continental, Valeo, Ficosa, and more. Prior to founding videantis, Hans-Joachim was a Monbukagakusho research fellow at the Tokyo Institute of Technology during his research stay at the NEC Central Research Labs in Kawasaki, Japan. He holds a Ph.D. from Leibniz University of Hannover
Malav Parikh
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Malav joined Mythic as a founding engineer in 2015 and has driven the evolution of its digital dataflow compute architecture across multiple generations of products, pairing it with breakthrough analog compute technology. Previously, Malav developed several massively multicore networking processors at Cisco, delivering industry-leading performance.
Nir Yeffet
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Nir Yeffet is Sr. Director of Technical Business Development and brings more than 30 years of engineering leadership, including EVP of Adap.tv through its acquisition by AOL. Most recently, he served as Director of Engineering and Director of Information Security at BetterUp. Yeffet is a self-taught engineer and multi-startup founder.
Scott Johnson
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Technology and business executive with more than 25 years of leadership experience across semiconductor innovation, product development, business development, intellectual property commercialization, and global engineering organizations. Proven success building high-performing teams, advancing breakthrough technologies, securing strategic customer engagements, and translating innovation into enterprise value. Recognized for expertise in
CMOS image sensors, AI hardware, semiconductor IP licensing, device engineering, and product strategy, with 50+ issued and pending patents spanning startup and Fortune 500 environments.
Liz Scheffler
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Liz Scheffler joins us as Sr. Director, People, bringing a track record of building people functions from the ground up in fast-paced, high-growth companies. Most recently she led HR at Matterport for eight years, scaling their People org through an IPO, M&A integration, and international expansion. Before that, she helped build out HR at TheRealReal as one of the company's first People hires, supporting its more than 3x employee growth. She holds a Master's in Industrial & Organizational Psychology from Golden Gate University and was selected for the inaugural cohort of UC Berkeley's Transformative CHRO Leadership Program.
Nick Collins
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Nick first worked for Mythic in 2014, and returned to lead the Analog / Mixed-Signal team in 2024. Nick’s previous startup experience includes co-architecting the world’s lowest power commercially available wake-up radio at Everactive. Nick has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he focused on reconfigurable data converters.
What’s new at Mythic.
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Our board.
Bringing together deep expertise across various disciplines including machine learning and AI, low-level device physics, and software, our board provides the strategic guidance to support a company building at the frontier of what's possible.
Taner Ozcelik
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Dr. Taner Ozcelik brings a wealth of experience as a veteran semiconductor executive. He is the founder and former VP & GM of NVIDIA’s automotive division, where he built a multi-hundred-million-dollar business and pioneered the commercialization of autonomous technologies. Dr. Ozcelik also served as SVP & GM of the Intelligent Sensing Group at ON Semiconductor and as EVP & GM for Luminar Technologies. Taner holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and an MBA from The Wharton School.
Matt Ocko
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Matt Ocko, with three decades of experience as a technology entrepreneur and VC, in the US and globally, is co-Managing Partner and co-founder of DCVC (Data Collective). Matt’s current investments on behalf of DCVC span from computational drug discovery and synthetic biology to geospatial and space access platforms, robotics, applied AI, anti-terror systems, and large-scale enterprise platforms including quantum computers. He is a proud member of BENS (Business Executives for National Security), led by Gen. (ret) Joseph Votel, and informally advises a number of US government entities on technology and national security matters.
In addition to large IPO outcomes, many of Matt’s prior investments were acquired to become core capabilities of companies like Illumina, Cisco, Google, IBM, Amazon/AWS, VMware, Salesforce, and Akamai. His venture investments prior to DCVC include Zoom (ZM), Fortinet (FTNT), D-Wave Systems, Uber (UBER), AngelList, Xensource (CTRX), and Facebook (FB). Matt founded and was VP of R&D of Da Vinci Systems, a pioneering e-mail software vendor with over 1 million users world-wide prior to its acquisition.
Matt holds a degree in Physics from Yale University, and he is an inventor on over 50 granted or in-process patents in areas as diverse as computer systems virtualization, fraud detection, and AR. He still writes code and builds robots for fun with his kids, but admits to liking Erlang better than Clojure, and Fischertechnik better than Lego Mindstorms.
Andrew Perlman
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Andrew Perlman joined Atreides Management, LP in July 2021. He was named Head of ECM and a Partner of Atreides Ventures in September 2023. Prior to joining Atreides, Andrew spent 1 year at Allen & Company, advising technology companies on M&A and capital raising activities. Prior to Allen & Company, Andrew began his career at BlackRock in corporate strategy and development, advising management on organic and inorganic growth initiatives. Andrew earned an AB in Public Policy Studies from Duke University and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Steve Jurvetson
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Steve Jurvetson is an early-stage venture capitalist with a focus on founder-led, mission-driven companies at the cutting edge of disruptive technology and new industry formation. Steve led founding investments in several companies that had successful IPOs and others that were billion-dollar acquisitions, representing $1.7 trillion of aggregate value creation. Some of those early VC investments include Planet Labs, SpaceX and Tesla.
Before co-founding Future Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Steve was an R&D Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where seven of his chip designs were fabricated. He also worked in product marketing at Apple and NeXT and management consulting with Bain & Company. He completed his undergraduate Electrical Engineering degree at Stanford in 2.5 years, graduating #1 in his class, and went on to earn a MSEE and MBA from Stanford.
President Barack Obama appointed Steve as a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship. Steve has also been honored as one of "Tech's Best Venture Investors" by Forbes, and as the “Venture Capitalist of the Year” by Deloitte.
Aaron Jacobson
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Aaron Jacobson partners with founders building generational companies in AI, cybersecurity, developer tools, and robotics. He currently works with Databricks, Horizon3, Factory, Mythic, Firestorm Labs, Second Front, Granica, Martian, Pulumi, Flox, Datafold, CoreStory, Embrace, Deltastream, Built Robotics, Outrider, and Tigera. Previous investments include Veza (acq. By ServiceNow), Box (NYSE:BOX), NGINX (acq. by F5), Streamsets (acq. by Software AG), Illusive Networks (acq. by Proofpoint), and Mayhem (acq. by Bugcrowd). In 2016 he was named to Forbes Magazine’s “30 Under 30” in Venture Capital and the Silicon Valley Business Journal's "40 Under 40".
Aaron graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Economics and Electrical Engineering, and carried a minor in Math.
Aaron Perman
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With $1.1B under management, S3 Ventures leads Seed, Series A, and Series B investments in Business Technology, Digital Experiences, and Healthcare Technology. Backed by a single limited partner — a highly philanthropic family with a multi-billion-dollar foundation — S3 Ventures empowers visionary founders with the patient capital and true resources required to grow extraordinary, high-impact companies.
JP Lee
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Tech investor, CEO@SBVA
I look for dreamers, underdogs, and true believers who want to make this world a better place.
Our board observers.
Willie Mannheims
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Willi is a serial entrepreneur in the field of data security. He graduated as an aerospace engineer from RWTH Aachen und Queens College UK and holds an MBA degree from Henley Management College UK and the University of Houston. During his career, he held various management positions at Daimler Chrysler and VC fund DASA. Moreover, he was head of business development at CUBIS AG, founder & CEO of Secunet AG, escrypt GmbH, CEO at ISITS AG and held equity stakes as CEO in Eracom AG. Since 2016 he is Managing Partner of eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS AG. Beyond that, he has accompanied four IPOs, 2 SPACS and holds numerous supervisory board positions at high-growth companies.
Chris Moran
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J. Christopher “Chris” Moran is Executive Director and General Manager of Lockheed Martin Ventures; the venture capital investment arm of Lockheed Martin Corporation. In this capacity, he is responsible for leading the Corporation’s investments in small technology companies which support Lockheed Martin’s strategic business objectives. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, Mr. Moran served in a variety of increasingly responsible positions at Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA. He served most recently as the head of the Business Systems and Analytics group in the Applied Global Services Organization. Mr. Moran was with Applied for over 32 years. Prior to his most recent role, Mr. Moran was head of Corporate Strategy and General Manager of Applied Ventures LLC; the strategic investing arm of Applied Materials. Mr. Moran is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he obtained both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering.
Rouz Jazayeri
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Rouz Jazayeri is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Catapult Ventures, an early-stage deep-tech fund in Silicon Valley. Catapult invests in the next generation of technical founders challenging the status quo across a broad set of industries through innovations in AI, Physical AI, Automation, and AI Infrastructure. Rouz's passion for semiconductors started at Purdue University where his Master's Thesis focused on energy efficient multiplier architectures.
Raymond Zheng
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Raymond Zheng is Senior Managing Director at Honda Xcelerator Ventures, where he leads strategic partnerships and ecosystem engagement in support of Honda’s 2050 vision for zero traffic fatalities and sustainable mobility. Under his leadership, the team has built a portfolio spanning energy, robotics, AI, resource circulation, carbon neutrality, and other deep-tech sectors critical to the future of mobility. Previously, Raymond held senior leadership roles at Cisco, where he led global innovation initiatives and executed numerous M&A and strategic investment transactions. He also managed a worldwide network of Innovation Centers, driving commercialization of emerging technologies. Raymond holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and is an alumnus of Cornell University, UC Berkeley Executive Education, and Stony Brook University
Michael Linse
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Michael Linse is the founder and Managing Director of Linse Capital, a venture capital firm focused on deep tech companies in sectors such as energy, mobility, space, robotics, and AI. Prior to founding Linse Capital, Michael was a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and worked at Goldman Sachs for over a decade. He holds a BA in economics from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Tim Westcott
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Tim Westcott is a Managing Director of One Madison Group, a New York based investment firm, where he leads technology investments across private and public markets. Prior to One Madison Group, Tim was an associate of Irving Place Capital, a New York based private equity firm focused on industrial and consumer investments. Prior to Irving Place Capital, Tim worked in the financial sponsors investment banking group at Credit Suisse in New York. Tim earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from Yale University.
Our investors.
Our investors include some of the world's most respected deep-tech venture firms and strategic partners, united by the conviction that the next era of AI demands a fundamentally different architecture.
