Sami Kosaraju
Investor. Private pilot. MBA candidate at Yale.
I like to look at the world not just for what it is, but for what it could be. I approach innovation as a science: repeatable, backed by research, and grounded in humanity. That combination of optimism and rigor has worked on everything from startups to the world's biggest brands.
Venture
Screendoor — backing emerging venture managers, from the LP seat
Yale Ventures — commercialization work with faculty spinouts, from quantum computing to phage therapy
TJAngels — early-stage deal flow from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology alumni founders
Writing
Stay Ahead of the Airplane — what AI can learn from aviation
July
A Thousand Elsewheres — a big data problem
June
Patent to Product — tech transfer at NASA and Yale
May
Right Idea, Wrong Clock — hype cycles, old and new
April
The Half-Life of an Insight — on knowledge that doesn’t keep
March
Reading Sideways — the fight against a narrowing world
February
Consulting
KPMG — innovation and applied AI
Material+ — customer-experience strategy
Deloitte — data and analytics
NASA — technology commercialization
Projects
Advising
Off the clock
I've always chosen the window seat: first from the floor of the
Air and Space Museum, where I spent my teens explaining flight
to whoever would listen, and now from the left seat of a Piper Archer. On the ground,
it's books, fifty-some a year, pulled from every section of the library.