One of the top sales & marketing startup advisors in the world. One of the few who has personally both sold $30M+ for startups and managed even more in marketing budgets hands-on. De facto sales ops manager for HubSpot and Salesforce, Google Analytics/Google Tag Manager expert, outbound automation guru. I have both inbound and outbound GTM covered for you.

Formerly Head of Sales for MightyHive, helping it scale from 10 to 150 employees and a $150M acquisition by S4 Capital, personally contributing $20M in sales closing over 300 customers including 12 Fortune 500 firms such as Goldman Sachs, Symantec, US Bank, Nationwide, and Caterpillar. 

Early employee at TalentBin, acquired by Monster.com, and founder of Omnihours, a graduate of Alchemist Accelerator.

Advisor for 7 of the world's top startup accelerators such as Stanford's StartX, Berkeley's SkyDeck, TechStars, and Alchemist Accelerator.

Investor in 30+ & advisor in 15+ startups such as SecurityPal AI, Pareto AI, QuSecure & Amber Bio. 

CEO at Stackmatix where we have scaled over 200 startups via Ads and SEO, including 5 now unicorns (Figma, Kalshi, Spring Health, Invisible Technologies and Eve).

2 startup exits as early employee (MightyHive and TalentBin). 2nd time Founder. Featured on Forbes Next1000.

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Dr. Ariane Tom is the Founder & Managing Director of Kaleida Capital, overseeing capital allocation across neurotechnology, neural data systems, and cognitive AI shaping the future of human performance.

Her work in neurotechnology began in 2008, spanning brain mapping, neural interfaces, and bioelectronic systems. Trained at Stanford University, she conducted early interdisciplinary research bridging materials engineering and neuroscience, co-advised by Karl Deisseroth and Zhenan Bao, contributing to foundational advances that predated today’s commercial neurotechnology market. Her research on neural interfaces and bioelectronic materials has been featured in Science, Nature, Scientific American, Time, and TechCrunch.

At Kaleida Capital, Ariane partners with family offices and strategic allocators to underwrite neurotechnology as durable infrastructure rather than episodic venture exposure. Her early investments include Manifest Technologies (acquired by a top-five global biopharma) and Anthropic, now a leading applied AI platform. She is a frequent speaker across technology, finance, and public policy forums, contributing perspective on neural data, brain health, and the evolving intersection of intelligence and capital. She is a member of the Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle and the NVIDIA VC Alliance.

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