Unparalleled advisory in frontier tech.
Thursday Group is led by a unique partnership having strong scientific, engineering, and software backgrounds, including deep experience in AI/ML and in scaling world-class companies. Our expertise ranges from seed stage through Fortune 500 companies.
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Our Team
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Matt Sweeney
has participated in more than 100 deals as an angel investor, specializing in robotics and AI.
He led Uber’s Applied Mathematics team in the company’s early days and co-founded its self-driving vehicles group. At Uber and in his subsequent role at Neuralink, Matt tackled novel scientific problems and built world-class technical organizations.
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Jared Furtado
is Founder and Managing Partner of Thursday Ventures.
He founded and operated Towerhill Associates, a boutique talent firm that has placed executives at the top tech companies in the world for 15 years. He is one of the most sought-after advisors for organizational scaling in the Valley, with experience advising both first-time founders and experienced leaders.
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Ryan McKillen
is an experienced angel investor who has participated in more than 80 deals.
After joining Uber in 2010 as its third employee, he moved into a director role and helped scale the engineering team to 5,000. His team’s work on Uber’s open-source M3DB project became the foundation for Chronosphere, a startup and Thursday portfolio company, that achieved unicorn status in just over 2 years.
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Rich-Henry Schabowsky
PhD, JD, is a leading IP and patent strategist. He has a doctorate in Microbiology & Immunology, a background in economics, and previously worked on novel vaccine delivery systems.
Prior to joining Thursday Ventures, Rich-Henry was the Scientific and IP director at EpiVax, a computational immunology company, and a partner at Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, a national law firm with a leading patent practice.