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Rahul Rana
Senior Associate at Solari Capital
United States
Overview
Rahul Rana is a Venture Capitalist at Solari Capital and Chief of Staff at SALT, with a background in leadership and business. He is also the author of "Making Moonshots," showcasing his expertise in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, particularly focusing on Series A and Seed stage investments in New York City.
Work Experience
Associate
2023 - Current
Frontier Tech & Hard Sciences VC — Investing, Incubating, Fundraising + Ops, Admin. Doing it all. Associate & Chief of Staff to Founder/GP AJ Scaramucci. Deployed Funds I and II. Raising Fund III. Aerospace / Defense / Industrials: Apex Space, Northwood Space, Varda Space, Base Power, General Biological, Irradiant Technologies, Empirium AI: Contextual AI, Third Dimension AI, ViaVia Bio/Healthcare: Tessera Therapeutics, Path Health, Radial Health, MoldCo, Arcadia Medicines, Gameto, Prolific Machines, LincSwitch Therapeutics
Chief of Staff
2023
Chief of Staff to President, Co-Chairman, & Managing Partner AJ Scaramucci. SALT is a capital introduction & thought leadership conference covering finance, science, technology, and geopolitics. We connect LPs (pensions, endowments, family offices, sovereign wealth funds, etc.) to GPs (VC, PE, HF, etc.). We currently host five annual events in NYC, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Jackson Hole, and Davos that attract $15T of investable capital and 7,000+ attendees.
SALT Fund is an investment fund affiliated with the SALT event & media company.
Writer
2022
Writing about frontier tech & hard science sectors (https://www.notboring.co/) for 240,000+ subscribers. Made two scout investments for Not Boring Capital (Circa and Avro Life Science).
Not Boring Capital is an $8 million venture fund that invests in companies with stories to tell, and helps tell them.
Author of "Making Moonshots"
2020
A deep-dive into the mindsets, philosophies, and strategies that are conducive to building moonshot companies. https://www.amazon.com/Making-Moonshots-Rahul-Rana/dp/163676620X
Investment Team
2022 - 2022
B2B Tech & Climate (BeyondNetZero) investment teams for General Atlantic, an $85bn global growth equity firm.
General Atlantic is a private equity firm that provides capital and strategic support for growth companies.
Translational Strategy
2021 - 2022
Arcadia is a frontier biotech lab and startup incubator. Raised $500m to help scientists commercialize their research into startups & build an internal 'moonshot company' factory. Reported to the CEO.
Venture Associate
2020 - 2021
Lux Capital ($5B AUM) invests in emerging science and technology ventures at the outermost edges of what is possible. We partner with iconoclastic inventors challenging the status quo and the laws of nature to bring their futuristic ideas to life. Worked under Managing Partner Josh Wolfe—investing, incubating, and portfolio company support.
Lux Capital is an investment firm that invests in counter-conventional, seed-stage science and technology ventures.
Research and Content Intern
2020 - 2020
Researching, writing, and content creation // accepted into S21 Fellowship class
Contrary is a talent and research-driven investment firm. We back a small number of exceptional people and the companies they build.
Business Operations
2020 - 2020
Business Development & Ops
Knowt centralizes the note writing and study experience into one app by transforming any note into flashcards and questions using AI.
Raised $2,753,381.00 from Mucker Capital and StartersHub.
Research Extern
2018 - 2018
Applied AI R&D projects
Education
Bachelor's degree
2019 - 2022