Damon Burrow Assistant Director @DukeCapPartners | Co-founder ScholarAI (acquired by Jenni AI) | @DukeU PhD. Investing in AI and Deep Tech — DMs open to founders.
Damon Burrow Assistant Director @DukeCapPartners | Co-founder ScholarAI (acquired by Jenni AI) | @DukeU PhD. Investing in AI and Deep Tech — DMs open to founders.
Career
Damon Burrow holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University.
PMPortfolio Manager at Prediction Market Trading Systems from 2025 to PresentBuilt an end-to-end pipeline: hourly market-data warehouse (Postgres/Supabase), ensemble probability models validated with walk-forward evaluation, and automated execution. Declined multiple acquihire offers.
DCAssistant Director at Duke Capital Partners from 2022 to Present in Durham, NCSelect investments — xAI (acq. by SpaceX), Science Corp, Fluidstack, Icarus, Proto-Town, Cortex AI, Octane, SmartBricks, Apollo Atomics.
Select Co-investors — Sequoia, a16z, Accel, Kleiner Perkins, NEA, General Catalyst, Lightspeed, Tiger Global, NVIDIA, Google, Y Combinator.
SCo-Founder at ScholarAI from 2023 to 2025Sold to Jenni AI for 7-figures. Scaled the platform from 0 to 1M users.
PhD Dissertation at Duke University from 2019 to 2025Led multiple concurrent research projects with defense and global healthcare applications. Managed teams of researchers, engineers, and students.GECo-Founder at Golf EQ from 2020 to 2024Built ML recommendation engine for golf equipment purchasing. Generated $100K+ in lifetime revenue.
WUResearch Technician at Washington University in St. Louis from 2016 to 2019Assisted multiple concurrent research projects. Collaborated with teams of researchers, engineers, and students in the engineering and medial schools.
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Chris KaminskiMechanical Engineering Ph.D. Candidate at Duke University and Senior Associate at Duke Capital Partners
Damon is one of the sharpest VC operators I have come across in my time at Duke Capital Partners. He is forward-looking and truly an original thinker.