Rana el Kaliouby — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Blue Tulip Ventures since 2024.
Co-founded Affectiva out of MIT Media Lab in 2009, pioneering artificial emotional intelligence (Emotion AI).
Co-founded AI Operators Fund in 2021, a pre-seed AI fund that invested in 40 startups.
Author of "Girl Decoded" (Penguin Random House, 2020).
Host of the Pioneers of AI Podcast since 2024.
Holds a Ph.D. in machine learning and computer vision from Cambridge University and completed a postdoc at MIT.
Serves as a Trustee at the Boston Museum of Science and Milton Academy.

Biography

Rana el Kaliouby, Ph.D., is an AI scientist, entrepreneur, and investor dedicated to humanizing technology.

She is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Blue Tulip Ventures, a firm focused on investing in diverse teams building ethical and human-centric AI. Her investment philosophy, which she terms "wholesome AI," targets the intersection of health and wellness, productivity, sustainable living, and ethics.