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Founder129Current founder
91st percentile
Investor22Current investor
66th percentile
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MIT Media Lab professor, Lemelson Prize laureate, and AI venture studio co-founder
Credibility
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Domain Expertise · 99th percentile
- Elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2024 cohort) — a Tier 1 elite recognition for prolific inventors.
- Received the ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award in 2017 — a notable Tier 2 recognition from the premier computer graphics professional body.
- Received the 2024 Royal Photographic Society Award for Imaging Science — a notable Tier 2 international recognition for sustained excellence.
- Wikipedia page for Ramesh Raskar — a widely-known public figure with a dedicated article covering his research and inventions.
- Wikidata / Wikipedia entity confirmed for Ramesh Raskar — a notable public figure with a dedicated Wikipedia page.
- DARPA Young Faculty Award (2010) and Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2009) — Tier 3 minor recognitions for early-career research excellence.
- Identified researcher with deep domain expertise: holds 132 patents and leads the Camera Culture group at MIT Media Lab.
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- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize in 2016, widely regarded as the 'Nobel Prize of Engineering' — a Tier 1 elite recognition.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)32,109 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Wikidata / Wikipedia entity confirmed for Ramesh Raskar — a notable public figure with a dedicated Wikipedia page.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Google Knowledge Graph maintains a knowledge panel for Ramesh Raskar as a Professor at MIT.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Current co-founder and Chief Scientist at C10 Labs, an AI-first venture studio fund.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Received the 2024 Royal Photographic Society Award for Imaging Science — a notable Tier 2 international recognition for sustained excellence.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Received the ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award in 2017 — a notable Tier 2 recognition from the premier computer graphics professional body.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Demonstrates personal technical depth: co-invented femto-photography, split-learning (private ML), camera-around-corners, and low-cost eye care devices — deep systems and imaging engineering.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)DARPA Young Faculty Award.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past founder of PathCheck Foundation, an open-source privacy-first public health app spun out of MIT.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Technology Review TR100 Award.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)C10 Labs and PathCheck Foundation had co-founders alongside Raskar.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Identified researcher with deep domain expertise: holds 132 patents and leads the Camera Culture group at MIT Media Lab.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Wikipedia page for Ramesh Raskar — a widely-known public figure with a dedicated article covering his research and inventions.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Exit: Akasha.im was acquired by Intrinsic, an Alphabet spin-off.
Investor score
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Publicly identified as an angel investor and advisor across multiple AI and health-tech startups including EyeNetra, Vayu Robotics, and Glass Imaging.
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Active investor and advisor in at least 7 named portfolio companies including EyeNetra, Photoneo, Ubicept, Glass Imaging, Algoface, S10.ai, and LendBuzz.
What you likely need
You sit at a rare intersection of deep technical invention, academic prestige, and active company-building — your profile is strongest in AI, health-tech, and computer vision. Events that connect you with frontier AI founders and investors who can accelerate C10 Labs' portfolio companies would be highest-leverage right now. You'd also benefit from rooms where your research-to-product translation experience is valued as a differentiator.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- tacticalA roundtable dinner with other AI venture studio founders (e.g., AI2 Incubator, Radical Ventures) to compare portfolio construction and go-to-market playbooks for deep-tech AI startups.
- introsAn MIT spinout founder dinner connecting Camera Culture alumni and other MIT Media Lab entrepreneurs for warm intros to health-tech and computer vision seed investors.
- fundraisingAn office-hours session with top health-tech AI investors (a16z Bio, GV) to position C10 Labs' Dimensional AI thesis and surface co-investment opportunities.
- tacticalA workshop with other agentic AI infrastructure builders (Project NANDA peers, LangChain ecosystem founders) to pressure-test the Internet of AI Agents architecture and identify early adopters.
- positioningA positioning roundtable with deep-tech-to-product founders on translating academic IP into venture-scale companies — directly relevant to C10 Labs' studio model.
- hiringA Lemelson Prize and National Academy of Inventors fellow networking dinner to identify co-founders and advisors for C10 Labs' next cohort of Dimensional AI ventures.
- introsA dinner with founders building health-tech for emerging markets (EyeNetra-adjacent) to explore distribution partnerships and impact-investor introductions for C10 Labs portfolio companies.