Andrea Carafa currently serves as Director of the Blackstone Launchpad powered by Techstars, QB3 Entrepreneur in Residence, as well as CIED Entrepreneur in Residence and Lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has been named a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, member of the Fast Company Impact Council, member of the Partnership on AI, MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Ambassador and Judge, member of the UN U4SSC Group on AI in Cities, Berkeley Skydeck mentor, member of the Review Committee for America's Seed Fund of the National Science Foundation, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and Delegate to the UN Science, Technology & Innovation Forum. Through his cross-sector work, Andrea champions a humanistic approach to technology, catalyzes responsible AI and deep tech solutions, and builds bridges between startups, investors, policymakers, academia, and corporations.
Previously, Andrea advised startups and policymakers, conducted research, and lectured on technology innovation, human-centered design, and entrepreneurship at Stanford, the University of Milan Bicocca, CERN, Bocconi, and the European Commission. He also was the Founder & CEO of the consumer tech startup ArtsUp, the food biotech startup Vita, and the innovation studio GYE. Andrea chaired the Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative at President Obama's Global Entrepreneurship Summit and advocated for the creation of the Sustainable Development Goals at the UN. He was an EU Marie Curie Fellow in emerging technology for global impact, and helped shape Future Earth, a global research and innovation initiative announced at the UN Rio+20 Summit. He also co-created an EU Knowledge Alliance aimed at spurring innovation and entrepreneurship in European universities, and inspired and helped CERN build CollSpotting, a data analytics platform that accelerates technology transfer from labs and companies to society. Andrea has been a speaker at summits hosted by organizations such as the World Economic Forum, European Commission, The Economist, and UN, and his work and ideas have been featured by publications such as Reuters, Fortune, Huffington Post, and Fast Company.
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