Overview
Aorna is Co-Founder and CEO of MorphoAI[1], a company building hardware foundation models[2]. Aorna attended Harvard Business School, completing an MBA between August 2022 and May 2024[7], and participated in Y Combinator's X25 cohort[8]. Prior to founding MorphoAI[3], Aorna worked at ZX Ventures as Global Manager of Zxlerator from January 2020 to April 2021[5] and as Global Director from May 2021 to March 2022[4], where Aorna was instrumental in incubating and spinning out Revyve, which reached Series B with over $40 million raised. Aorna's earlier experience included co-founding Banzo & Beyond LLC from September 2017 to April 2019[6] and working in high-volume pastry production[2]. Aorna also completed a Summer School in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at ETH Zürich[9].
Profile introduction
Building hardware foundation models MorphoAI is a YC + venture backed startup. We are also funded through ARIA ( UK’s invention agency) through a grant. Our pre seed round was $6M+, part of which is our ARIA backed grant. Background in investing, strategy, and incubating companies. I started my career in high volume pastry production, which led to my career incubating in the manufacturing tech space. At ZX I was one of the key people incubating and spinning out Revyve (Series B, $40M+ raised) and experienced the pain of selling into manufacturing and getting OEM equipment out in the world…
Career history
- Co-Founder + CEO2024 to presentMorphoAI
- Global DirectorMay 2021 to Mar 2022ZX Ventures
- Global Manager, ZxleratorJan 2020 to Apr 2021ZX Ventures
- Co-FounderSep 2017 to Apr 2019Banzo & Beyond LLC
Education
Master of Business Administration - MBAAug 2022 - May 2024Harvard Business School
X25Y Combinator
- Summer SchoolInnovation and Entrepreneurship at ETH Zürich
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