Zavain Dar has served as a member of our Board since September 2016. Mr. Dar is currently a Founder and Managing Partner of Dimension, a technology and life science investment firm, a position he has held since March 2022. At Dimension, Mr. Dar invests in the union of cutting-edge biotech and software. Prior to founding Dimension, Zavain was a General Partner at Lux Captial, a tech venture firm, from 2014 to 2022, where he invested in companies leveraging machine learning and AI to augment and replace physical-world functions including biology, language, manufacturing, and analysis. Previously, Mr. Dar was a founder and computer scientist. At Discovery Engine (acquired by Twitter) he engineered machine learning and AI systems across a proprietary distributed computing framework to build web-scale ranking algorithms. Mr. Dar has a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and a M.S. in Theoretical Computer Science from Stanford University where he was a researcher in Stanford’s AI Lab and a Lecturer in the Symbolic Systems Department.
