Current Affiliates

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  1. Damien Scott

    Astera Resident leading 1cFE

    1. Astera Institute

      Resident, leading 1cFE

      2025-10 – Present

    2. General Motors

      Director, Product Strategy – BrightDrop

      2022-06 – 2023-12

    3. Marain

      CEO and Founder

      2018-09 – 2022-06

  2. Eli Dourado

    Head of Strategic Investments at Astera Institute; angel investor

    1. Astera Institute

      Head of Strategic Investments

      Present

    2. Abundance Institute

      Fellow

      Present

    3. Mercatus Center at George Mason University

      Research and Program Leadership

      2012 – 2017

  3. Prachee Avasthi

    Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Arcadia Science

    1. Arcadia Science

      Co-founder and Chief Science Officer

      2021 – Present

    2. Astera Institute

      Head of Open Science

      Present

    3. University of California, San Francisco

      Postdoctoral Fellow, Biochemistry and Biophysics

      2015

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