Our Mission

Democratizing AI through defensive acceleration—building safe, transparent systems that empower creators and accelerate innovation responsibly.

Our Team

The I³ team is a collective of world-class builders, researchers, and strategists from elite institutions like Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, Berkeley, Duke, and Cornell. Our deep expertise in AI, blockchain, venture capital, and product design is backed by experience from Y Combinator, top tech firms like TikTok, and leading research labs. United in purpose, we are building the future of decentralized AI infrastructure.

Fernando

CEO

Tianqin

Chief Scientist

Florence

CTO

Jade

CPO

Rebekah

Head of BD

Quentin

Head of Finance

Fellows

Our innovation is guided by an elite group of fellows including researchers from premier institutions. This powerful blend of academic rigor and industry savvy pushes the boundaries of what's possible.

This esteemed group includes Xuandong Zhao (Postdoc, UC Berkeley RDI, supervised by Prof. Dawn Song), Yuejiang Liu (Postdoc, Stanford AI Lab), Yaqi Xie (Postdoc, CMU Robotics Institute), Jason Dou (Postdoc, Harvard), and Peter Wang (Postdoc, Caltech), Shiyi Du (Ph.D., CMU, Computational Biology), Jiayuan Liu (Ph.D., CMU, Computer Science), Yitong Li (Ph.D., Stanford, Computational Science), Chengfeng Mao (Ph.D., MIT, Computer Science), and Shi Feng (Ph.D., Harvard, Computer Science), Xueying Ding (Ph.D., CMU, Machine Learning), , Shang Gao (Ph.D., Caltech, Computational Science)