Andrew Tan was the Founder & CEO of Nova, the leading professional community platform for Gen Z. Nova raised $3.7M in funding and grew to over 250K users before exiting to Handshake. Andrew most recently led generative AI products at Handshake, and is now starting his own AI focused VC fund. He writes an AI newsletter (650,000 subscribers) and Founders newsletter (250,000 subscribers). Prior to Nova, Andrew did a mix of AI research, product management, engineering, data science, and investing at companies like Google AI, Citadel, AQR, Sequoia, Ironfire Ventures, and Branch. Andrew is a prolific angel investor and was early in companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Pika, Mercury, Replit, Alchemy, Uniswap, Runway ML, Varda Space, Pinecone, Coframe, MultiOn, Chroma, Limitless AI, Gumloop, Haize Labs, Mercor, Goodfire AI, Decagon, and more! Andrew did his undergrad at UC Berkeley in Computer Science & Statistics, and grad school at Stanford in AI.

AI, fintech, consumer

Angel investor in Anthropic, OpenAI, Pika, Rippling, Mercury, Replit, Alchemy, Uniswap, Runway ML, Varda Space