Aidan McCarty
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Nathaniel Simon
Aidan is the most brilliant, hardworking, and inspiring person I've had the chance to work with at Stanford. As a classmate, he processed challenging concepts with ease and completed work to the highest standard. As a teammate in "MS&E 297: Hacking for Defense," he became expert in applying 'lean startup' methods to tough national security problems, initiating a partnership which has deployed product to support federal stakeholders. He returned the next year as an invaluable course assistant, mentoring student teams and ensuring the class ran smoothly. I've watched Aidan transform his ideas to improve the world into a viable startup. He is intelligent, driven, dependable, and of outstanding character. The world needs more Aidans.
Nathaniel Simon
Aidan is the most brilliant, hardworking, and inspiring person I've had the chance to work with at Stanford. As a classmate, he processed challenging concepts with ease and completed work to the highest standard. As a teammate in "MS&E 297: Hacking for Defense," he became expert in applying 'lean startup' methods to tough national security problems, initiating a partnership which has deployed product to support federal stakeholders. He returned the next year as an invaluable course assistant, mentoring student teams and ensuring the class ran smoothly. I've watched Aidan transform his ideas to improve the world into a viable startup. He is intelligent, driven, dependable, and of outstanding character. The world needs more Aidans.
Nathaniel Simon
Aidan is the most brilliant, hardworking, and inspiring person I've had the chance to work with at Stanford. As a classmate, he processed challenging concepts with ease and completed work to the highest standard. As a teammate in "MS&E 297: Hacking for Defense," he became expert in applying 'lean startup' methods to tough national security problems, initiating a partnership which has deployed product to support federal stakeholders. He returned the next year as an invaluable course assistant, mentoring student teams and ensuring the class ran smoothly. I've watched Aidan transform his ideas to improve the world into a viable startup. He is intelligent, driven, dependable, and of outstanding character. The world needs more Aidans.
Nathaniel Simon
Aidan is the most brilliant, hardworking, and inspiring person I've had the chance to work with at Stanford. As a classmate, he processed challenging concepts with ease and completed work to the highest standard. As a teammate in "MS&E 297: Hacking for Defense," he became expert in applying 'lean startup' methods to tough national security problems, initiating a partnership which has deployed product to support federal stakeholders. He returned the next year as an invaluable course assistant, mentoring student teams and ensuring the class ran smoothly. I've watched Aidan transform his ideas to improve the world into a viable startup. He is intelligent, driven, dependable, and of outstanding character. The world needs more Aidans.
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React (Basic)
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Experience
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Oxford Entrepreneurs
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United Kingdom
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Higher Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Board Member
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May 2023 - Present
Helping Oxford entrepreneurs succeed. Helping Oxford entrepreneurs succeed.
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Angel Investor and Advisor
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Jan 2023 - Present
Investing in and advising high growth startups run by incredible founders. Currently active with 5 companies. Investing in and advising high growth startups run by incredible founders. Currently active with 5 companies.
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Verified Inc.
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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CEO, Founder
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Sep 2019 - Present
Formerly Unum ID. The Verified Network. 1-click sign-up everywhere online. Backed by Tim Draper, Samsung NEXT, 1414 Ventures, Outliers Fund, Franklin Templeton, Stanford professors Plug and Play Fintech | EvoNexus | Endless Frontier Labs | FinTech Sandbox TechCrunch Top Pick Privacy and Security Formerly Unum ID. The Verified Network. 1-click sign-up everywhere online. Backed by Tim Draper, Samsung NEXT, 1414 Ventures, Outliers Fund, Franklin Templeton, Stanford professors Plug and Play Fintech | EvoNexus | Endless Frontier Labs | FinTech Sandbox TechCrunch Top Pick Privacy and Security
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Be Heard
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United States
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Civic and Social Organizations
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Founder
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Aug 2016 - Sep 2019
Formerly ePluribus. Rebranded Be Heard. Pivoted into Unum ID. Featured in Pod Save America, Fast Company, Gizmodo, the Skimm, KRON4, TMJ4, Lifehacker, and more. OZY Genius Award 2017. Grand Prize Stanford Idea Competition 2017. Cardinal Ventures Alum. BASES Challenge Finalist 2018. Fraudulent actors outnumber real Americans 19:1 online. Be Heard is the first and only platform that empowers Americans to contact their representatives as verified constituents, cutting through the noise. Show less
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Hacking for Defense Stanford
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United States
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Defense & Space
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Teaching Team
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Sep 2018 - Jun 2019
Highly selective program at Stanford bringing rapid innovation to US warfighters. Advised teams of Stanford students to identify and scale solutions for the DoD. 10-week immersive program leveraging "Lean Startup" for national security. Highly selective program at Stanford bringing rapid innovation to US warfighters. Advised teams of Stanford students to identify and scale solutions for the DoD. 10-week immersive program leveraging "Lean Startup" for national security.
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Stanford University
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Assistant: Tessier-Lavigne Lab
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Feb 2017 - Jun 2018
I worked closely with Postdoc Jianjin Shi in the Tessier-Lavigne lab investigating molecular mechanisms of Wallerian axon degeneration. Specifically, I worked to create a Bax/Apaf-1 KO HEK293T cell line and to characterize the role of Sarm1 in this canonical form of degeneration.
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Researcher
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Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
I took part in a three-week seminar and did coral reef research in Palau, characterizing anoxic waters in Nikko Bay. Similar conditions have only been characterized twice before in coral reef atolls, and have major implications for creating effective conservation policy.
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Stanford Social Entrepreneurial Students' Association
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United States
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Non-profit Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director: Labs Incubator
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Sep 2016 - Jun 2018
SENSA Labs is the premier social entrepreneurship incubator at Stanford. In my time leading Labs, we helped companies like DoNotPay and ArtsUp scale quickly while maximizing social benefit. The program is run over 10 weeks each spring and provides teams with mentorship from top entrepreneurs and investors in Silicon Valley. I led the incubator in 2017 and 2018, including everything from designing the curriculum to recruiting startups, mentors, and investors. SENSA Labs is the premier social entrepreneurship incubator at Stanford. In my time leading Labs, we helped companies like DoNotPay and ArtsUp scale quickly while maximizing social benefit. The program is run over 10 weeks each spring and provides teams with mentorship from top entrepreneurs and investors in Silicon Valley. I led the incubator in 2017 and 2018, including everything from designing the curriculum to recruiting startups, mentors, and investors.
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Stanford University Department of Chemistry
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United States
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Higher Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Research Assistant: Zare Lab
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Apr 2016 - Aug 2016
I work at the Zarelab (under Richard N. Zare) to develop a novel drug delivery system that utilizes electroresponsive polypyrrole nanoparticles for sustained, controlled release of a given medication. The particles are synthesized in the lab and inundated with any number of drugs (methotrexate, insulin, or others). A small implantable chip has also been developed in collaboration with an Electrical Engineering group on campus that allows for wireless stimulation of the particles using an electric field. Drug-loaded particles are placed under a hydrogel on the chip that keeps the nanoparticles localized to the site of implantation but allows released drug to diffuse into the body. This project could have an invaluable impact on diseases as disparate as cancer and diabetes, and electroresponsive nanoparticles have been implicated in a broad range of other disciplines. I co-authored a paper in Nanoscale in 2018 based on this research. Show less
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Stanford University
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Assistant: Gordon Lab
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Sep 2015 - Jun 2016
From this research, I co-authored a paper in PLoS in 2018 and helped in the shooting of a KQED "Deep Look" segment on our research. See below. I did ecology research for credit under Professor Deborah Gordon, investigating the invasive Argentine ant. This involved designing research studies, tracking ants and mapping trails in their native environment, and a good deal of data analysis. I helped look at the Circadian rhythm of Argentine ants in a 24-hour study, created thorough maps depicting the evolution of a "supercolony" through time, and analyzed winter ant secretion using mass spectrometry. Show less
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Education
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2015 - 2019
Stanford University
Bachelor of Science (BS), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology -
2017 - 2017
University of Oxford
Magdalen College, Computational Neuroscience -
2011 - 2015
Brookfield Academy
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