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Peter Dolch

Founder of AEON Foundry

New York, New York

Overview 

Peter Dolch is a highly accomplished technologist and entrepreneur, known for founding AEON Foundry and biospectal, as well as serving as a strategic advisor for various innovative companies. He is also recognized for his leadership roles at MIT, including founding the MIT Female Founders Pitch Competition and chairing the MIT Sloan Club of NY. Peter Dolch's career highlights include founding successful companies, such as AEON Foundry and biospectal, and his influential roles at MIT, where he founded the MIT Female Founders Pitch Competition and serves as Chairman of the MIT Sloan Club of NY.

Work Experience 

  • Founder

    2018 - Current

    • Advised founders and startup teams on strategy, technology, operations, product roadmap, go-to-market and fundraising. • Partnered with entrepreneurs to found promising startups and managed a seed fund for early stage investments. • Advocated for founders and supported them on their entrepreneurial journey. • Mentored founders in trategic planning, fundraising, and startup operations.

  • CTO & Co-founder

    2017

    Founding CTO (2017-2019). • Launched a breakthrough SaMD startup in diagnostic biosensing using optical technologies in IoT and edge computing. • Developed SaMD app, technical architecture and managed development teams in India, Switzerland, NY and California. • Assisted with initial funding round and helped design a clinical trial that was published in Nature.com. We won Gold at MassChallenge, won a prestigious Gates Foundation grant, and launched a first-of-its-kind collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO).

  • Founder & President

    1995

    Founder & President (1995-2020) • Led operations, finance, and technology projects for Thaumaturgix, growing the company to over 120 employees. • Successfully delivered technology solutions for marquis clients like HP and Pfizer, selling over $120M in consulting projects. • Spearheaded the launch of the 1st US Stock Exchange onto the Web, showcasing expertise in cutting-edge technology solutions. • Built a global information warehouse for HP, a global pricing portal for Pfizer, and worked with both Fortune-level clients and startups, from idea to IPO. Thaumaturgix ("Tgix" for short) was started as a boutique software development and technology infrastructure company that rapidly grew to be a premier technology service provider to companies including Pfizer, Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, Hearst Publishing, B&H Photo/Video, Viacom, AMEX, Condé Nast, Christian Dior, College Humor, Penguin Random House, and many others. Projects ranged from enterprise software development to global cloud migrations to fully-outsourced technology support for both enterprise and startups. I put the first US stock exchange on the web in 1996, built and supported several generations of the largest e-commerce infrastructures, designed and deployed global content management systems, built hundreds of custom software applications, and helped launch dozens of startups.

  • Mentor & Board Member

    2019

    Mentor and coach student entrepreneurs and startups in MIT's DeltaV Accelerator and StartMIT Programs. Served as Mock Board Member.

delta v is MIT’s premier venture accelerator, that prepares entrepreneurs to hit escape velocity and launch into the real world.

  • Strategic Advisor

    2021

    Founding Strategic Advisor collaborating on all stages of company strategy and growth, including: fundraising strategy, regulatory strategy, financial projections, product design, IP strategy and go-to-market planning.

DRSLINQ is developing a mobile EKG device platform to appropriately triage chest pain patients to the ER.

Raised $100,000.00 from XLerateHealth.

  • Strategic Advisor

    2021

Gentle Beast is a canine behavior and wellness platform that provides personalized, on demand dog training and behavior consultations

Raised $700,000.00.

  • Strategic Advisor

    2020

Legislata develops a SaaS platform for elected officials, helping them run their offices in a more efficient manner.

Raised $168,000.00.

  • CTO & Co-founder

    2022 - 2024

    Using AI to reinvent personal safety, making cities and college campuses safer for women, LGBTQ+ and vulnerable persons everywhere. Our AI-powered app offers a comprehensive suite of safety services, including SafetyPin, PartyGuard, VenueVibes, SoberSentry, SafeStrut and SOS2.0. As one of our beta users (University of Texas, Austin Senior & Sorority President) said: "MySideKick is like eight apps in one. Students are going to choose this app over others because everything needed is on this one app."

  • Founding Advisor

    2022 - 2024

    Founding advisor to an innovative, AI-enabled Comics Creation platform, utilizing advanced 3D and Generative AI to enable storytellers and creators of all skill levels to tell their stories. In under one year we went from an oversubscribed fundraise, to an amazing spring cohort at YC, followed by a 2nd successful fundraise and product launch. I am privileged to advise and coach this amazing team.

  • Strategic Advisor & Interim CTO

    2021 - 2024

Boundless Impact Research & Analytics is a market intelligence and impact analytics company that provides investors, companies, and funds.

Raised $100,000.00 from Meliorate Partners.

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