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AFF
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Overview
As a non-profit investment fund, AFF aims to commercialize and scale deep-tech companies that have the potential to generate strong financial returns, broad-based prosperity for the American people, and strategic advantage for the United States and its allies. This innovative structure enables AFF to raise and deploy long-term private capital, as well as work with government and other non-profit investors to mature deep technologies, and then reinvest its returns into new technologies for the national interest. The Fund's initial areas of focus will include microelectronics, artificial intelligence, new materials, quantum sciences, next generation networks (5G/6G), advanced manufacturing, and synthetic biology.
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A key feature of AFF's approach is to leverage deep scientific insight to inform its investment strategy. AFF's team has developed a methodology called Frontiercast™, which integrates science and investment expertise in a continuous process to systematically identify transformative technology opportunities aligned with national strategic interests. The approach leverages backcasting and multi-dimensional analyses to examine promising technologies from scientific, market demand, geopolitics, and economic perspectives. Using Frontiercast™, AFF can determine what technology breakthroughs are possible, whether new technologies are both strategically valuable and economically attractive, and where to allocate capital to drive financial success and U.S. economic competitiveness.
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Team
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| Jordan Blashek (founder) | |||
| Edlyn Levine (founder) | |||
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Gilman Louie (founder) | ||
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Nicholas Beim | Member of the Board
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| Eric Braverman | Member of the Board
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| Leslie Brun | Member of the Board
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| Ash Carter | Member of the Board
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| Mignon Clyburn | Member of the Board
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| Michèle Flournoy | Member of the Board
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| John Hurley | Member of the Board
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| Joanne Isham | Member of the Board
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| Suzanne Nora Johnson | Member of the Board
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| Richard Kang | Member of the Board
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| H.R. McMaster | Member of the Board
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| J. Michael McQuade | Member of the Board
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| Jennifer Pahlka | Member of the Board
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| Samuel Palmisano | Member of the Board
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| Cliff Sobel | Member of the Board
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