Rana El Kaliouby

Rana el Kaliouby is a General Partner at AI Operators Fund and Co-founder of Blue Tulip Ventures, based in Boston, Massachusetts. She previously co-founded and served as the CEO of Affectiva, an MIT spin-out focused on emotion recognition software that was successfully acquired by a global technology corporation in 2021. Through the AI Operators Fund, which she co-founded in 2022, she has directed capital investments into a portfolio of 40 early-stage artificial intelligence companies across various emerging technology sectors. Furthermore, she currently serves as an executive fellow at Harvard Business School and actively advocates for leadership diversity within the broader technology industry. Her current investment strategy focuses on seed and pre-seed stage human-centric AI startups, writing initial checks between $50,000 and $500,000 with a specific emphasis on ethical governance and supporting underrepresented female founders.