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Simba Jonga

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Founder and CEO
United States

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  • Various Startups
    Angel Investor
    Various Startups
    Jan 2025 - Current (1 year 10 months)
    I invest in the tech Silicon Valley tends to ignore — the tools that actually power the real economy: manufacturing, energy, construction, defense, healthcare, logistics, and everything in between
  • Laborup
    Founder and CEO
    Laborup
    Jun 2024 - Current (2 years 5 months)
    Powering American industrial productivity.

    Today, Laborup is solving the skilled labor crisis and empowering factories from small machine shops to large Fortune 500 manufacturers across aerospace, defense, nuclear, data centers, automotive, and advanced manufacturing.

    We are building the infrastructure to revitalize America’s industrial base.
  • Zoox
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    Zoox
    Feb 2023 - Sep 2023 (8 months)
    AI on wheels. Reimagined mobility.
  • Stanford Institute for HumanCentered Artificial Intelligence HAI
    Researcher
    Stanford Institute for HumanCentered Artificial Intelligence HAI
    Jan 2023 - Jan 2024 (1 year 1 month)
    Kept up with the pace of AI. Co-author of the 2024 AI Index alongside leading researchers at OpenAI, Google, Stanford, Anthropic etc.
  • Threshold Ventures
    Fellow
    Threshold Ventures
    Jan 2023 - Aug 2023 (8 months)
    Learning from the amazing Heidi Roizen!
  • Stanford University
    Grad Student / Knight-Hennessy Scholar
    Stanford University
    Jan 2022 - Jan 2024 (2 years 1 month)
    Left to start a company.

    1) Knight-Hennessy Scholar and Grad Student focusing on AI. Did research on agentic behavior.
    2)Taught MBA and Executive MBA students what data and AI can do.
    3)Taught a class on national security.
  • SV Icons
    Host
    SV Icons
    Jan 2022 - Jan 2024 (2 years 1 month)
    Learning from people that run Silicon Valley.
  • Various Startups
    Co-Founder
    Various Startups
    Mar 2021 - Nov 2022 (1 year 9 months)
    1) Tried to build a community-first renter platform🚀 but ultimately failed, and learned a ton!
    2) Started a student-focused venture fund
    3) Consulted at a Series A startup applying NLP to predictive maintenance in manufacturing. Axion Ray backed by Bessemer Venture Partners
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Researcher
    Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Jan 2020 - Jan 2022 (2 years 1 month)
    Developed "circular" metal recovery processes from nuclear waste for a metal that's critical to battery technology.
  • Microsoft
    PM
    Microsoft
    Jan 2020 - Jan 2021 (1 year 1 month)
    Bought into Microsoft’s culture and empowered others to do more!
  • Various Companies
    Chemical and Biomolecular Engineer
    Various Companies
    Aug 2018 - Dec 2020 (2 years 5 months)
    Pharma and biotech engineer at Bayer. Chemical engineer at the largest materials manufacturer in the world — Dow. Taught fluid flow and thermodynamics at UT.
  • Various Companies
    Various
    Various Companies
    Oct 2016 - Jul 2019 (2 years 10 months)
    Started a trucking company with my dad ($60K+ MRR), an insurance business ($20K+ MRR), was a lifeguard at a YMCA, and cleaned toilets at a grocery store (Publix)
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  • University of Tennessee Knoxville
    Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Economics
    University of Tennessee Knoxville
  • University of Tennessee Knoxville
    Economics
    University of Tennessee Knoxville
    With a focus on economics of strategy, management economics, behavioral economics and environmental policy
  • Stanford University
    Master of Science - MS, Operations Research snd Computational Science
    Stanford University
    On leave to pursue something meaningful…

    Knight-Hennessy Scholar. Stanford HAI. Spent most of my time pursuing ML and optimization problems.
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    • A
      Alex Daley Award
    • E
      Executive Leadership Council Scholar
    • D
      Dr. Marva Rudolph Scholarship
      Established in 2014, the Marva Rudolph Fund honors the life and legacy of Marva Rudolph, a long-term employee and champion of equity, diversity, and inclusion at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Rudolph was passionate about students and creating respectful and inclusive living, learning, and working environments. The fund was created to assist students in their personal development as it relates to diversity and inclusion and to support their initiatives to build a more accessible, equitable and welcoming campus community
    • C
      Burton Simcox Award
      Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department
    • C
      Prados Scholar
      Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department
    • McKinsey Company
      McKinsey Achievement Award
      McKinsey Company
    • Bayer
      Bayer Customer Focus Recognition
      Bayer
    • E
      Merit Scholar
      Executive Leadership Council
    • Microsoft
      Intern’s Choice Award
      Microsoft
      Selected by Microsoft interns for impact across Microsoft and nurturing collaboration across product lines and functions
    • H
      Sales Competition - 2nd out of 190 students
      Haslam College of Business
    • D
      Dean’s list
      Summa Cum Laude - All semesters so far
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