Our Venture Lab partners with founders to bring ideas to life.

Andrew Powell
Cofounder of Ethos

Ted Mauze, Parker Walls & Will Coomber
Cofounders of Chalkboard

Ellie Buckingham & Miri Buckland
Cofounders of Zeen
Your cofounding team
We form a team of engineers, designers, and experienced advisors to take your idea from prototype to product.
I've been consistently impressed with their passion for building product and their commitment to understand the "why's" and not just the "what's". It's a rare trait to find and even more impactful coupled with their deep technical talent.

Julian Tempelsman
Cofounder & CTO of Octave
Tidepool has helped us chart our path through product development and weather the storms of early startup life. The success of Chalkboard is their success too, and we cannot recommend them highly enough.

Ted Mauze
Cofounder & CEO of Chalkboard
Companies we've partnered with
To think like a founder, it helps to have been one.
George is an internet, technology and media executive and investor with a 20-year track record of building disruptive companies. Prior to Tidepool Labs, George helped build MDsave to be the Amazon of Healthcare, giving people medical choice and cost transparency. He was CEO of GoodGuide (NEA, DFJ), the largest information source of green, healthy consumer products. George was President of the social publishing platform Scribd (Redpoint, CRV), and was COO of Bebo, which AOL bought in an all-cash sale for $850 million. Before Bebo, George was managing director at Organic, one of the first agencies to bring digital advertising to the internet. He started his career in the film industry, working at Lucasfilm and Colossal Pictures and founding 3D animation studio Media Concrete. George holds a MA degree in Sociocultural Anthropology at Columbia University and serves on the board of UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture. Outside work he is a global surfer, art enthusiast, and dual citizen of US and Italy.
Thaisan is an entrepreneur, engineer, and investor with a background in software, biology, and recruiting. Thaisan co-founded Foundry Hiring (Harrison Metal, TriplePoint), a recruiting software company. Foundry was acquired by Dropbox and Thaisan spent nearly four years on the engineering and design teams at Dropbox, where his team was responsible for building tools to help the company scale from 200 to 1500+. Prior to Foundry, Thaisan worked at Aviir, a biotech startup developing a test for cardiovascular disease, and was a computational biology researcher at the Stanford School of Medicine in the lab of Nobel laureate Dr. Andrew Fire. Thaisan is a graduate of Stanford University where he studied Human Biology and Computer Science. Beyond work, Thaisan enjoys motorcycle road trips, camping, and spending time with his family.
Vahagn is a technology executive, entrepreneur, and engineer with 15+ years of experience building digital products and leading technology teams. As Co-Founder of Tidepool Labs, he helps founders turn ideas into successful, scalable products. With a strong background in mathematics, Vahagn competed in national mathematics Olympiads before earning a Master's degree in Applied Mathematics and Programming, where his thesis explored early applications of artificial intelligence (AI). Early in his career, he worked as a senior engineer on large-scale and critical technology systems. He later became a founding engineer and co-founder of an award-winning startup recognized by the Government and Microsoft Innovation Center. Outside work, Vahagn enjoys swimming, exploring emerging technology trends, and reflecting on how to build for the future.
Harut is a Chief Software Architect and startup builder who specializes in turning zero-to-one ideas into high-throughput, production-grade platforms. He bridges technical system design with product strategy, designing scalable cloud architectures, high-performance mobile apps, and autonomous AI-assisted workflows. With a sharp focus on leverage and developer velocity, Harut builds resilient technical foundations that allow early-stage teams to iterate rapidly, outmaneuver complexity, and scale efficiently.
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