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
Perspectives
Infrastructure That Lasts — why it pays off twice
August
lessons on tools from a fund-of-funds · in progress
Stay Ahead of the Airplane — checklists and black boxes
July
what AI can learn from aviation
A Thousand Elsewheres — a big data problem
June
dashboards, departments, and decisions
Patent to Product — why good science stalls
May
what I learned doing tech transfer at NASA and at Yale
Right Idea, Wrong Clock — hype cycles, old and new
April
the metaverse, the AI boom, and the trouble with timing
The Half-Life of an Insight — on knowledge that doesn’t keep
March
notes on speed from a two-week trip to China
Reading Sideways — seeing across fields
February
the fight against a narrowing world
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. I also read
about fifty books a year, on as many different subjects as I can find.