Ariane Tom
Pioneering Neurotech and AI Investments | Founder & Managing Director, Kaleida Capital | Stanford | Milken YLC
- Role
- Investor at Paradromics
- Location
- San Diego, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ariane Tom
Dr. Ariane Tom is the Founder & Managing Director of Kaleida Capital, overseeing capital allocation across neurotechnology, neural data systems, and cognitive AI shaping the future of human performance.Her work in neurotechnology began in 2008, spanning brain mapping, neural interfaces, and bioelectronic systems. Trained at Stanford University, she conducted early interdisciplinary research bridging materials engineering and neuroscience, co-advised by Karl Deisseroth and Zhenan Bao, contributing to foundational advances that predated today’s commercial neurotechnology market. Her research on neural interfaces and bioelectronic materials has been featured in Science, Nature, Scientific American, Time, and TechCrunch.At Kaleida Capital, Ariane partners with family offices and strategic allocators to underwrite neurotechnology as durable infrastructure rather than episodic venture exposure. Her early investments include Manifest Technologies (acquired by a top-five global biopharma) and Anthropic, now a leading applied AI platform. She is a frequent speaker across technology, finance, and public policy forums, contributing perspective on neural data, brain health, and the evolving intersection of intelligence and capital. She is a member of the Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle and the NVIDIA VC Alliance.
Experience
Investor
Jan 2025 — Present
Paradromics is developing Connexus, a brain-computer interface translating neural signals into synthesized speech, text, and cursor control.
Education
Stanford University
Science & Technology Policy Fellowship - Washington, DC, Strategic Analyst at DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
Stanford University
Master of Science (M.S.), Bioengineering
Harvard Business School Online
Certificate, Finance and Financial Management Services
Stanford University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioengineering
Stanford University
B.S., Materials Science & Engineering
Skills
- Biomaterials
- Tissue Engineering
- Neural Interfaces
- Materials Characterization
- Drug Delivery
- Neural Networks
- Nanobiotechnology
- Nanomaterials
- Chemical Engineering
- Polymer Science & Engineering
- Organic Semiconductors
- Microfabrication
- Bioelectronics
- Biosensors
- Soft Materials Synthesis
- Clarity Tissue Clearing
- Chemical Spectroscopy
- Mems
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