Kasia Gora
Dr. Kasia Gora is a scientist and startup executive with 15 years of experience across biotech, food tech, and AI. She holds degrees from Caltech and MIT. Kasia was an early employee at Zymergen and co-founder/CTO of SCiFi Foods, a cultivated meat company backed by Andreessen Horowitz (A16z) that raised over $40M. She later co-founded and served as CEO of Aurora Bio, developing novel decaffeination technology using synthetic biology. Today, she is the COO of Veritus Agent, a Y Combinator-backed AI-first customer service startup.