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Ron Garret is an angel investor based in Los Angeles, California, who specializes in early-stage technology ventures. He previously served as the Chief Scientist at Red Octane, the company behind the Guitar Hero franchise, and began his technical career working on artificial intelligence at NASA. Garret holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and co-founded multiple startups, including the acquired machine learning firm Lexical Scope. As an active angel investor, he has backed over 20 early-stage companies, recently participating in seed funding rounds for artificial intelligence startups like Harmonic.ai in 2024. Beyond his investment activities, he is a technical author who published "Lisp in Summer School" and frequently writes about software engineering. His current focus remains on funding and advising emerging technical founders within the artificial intelligence, machine learning, and developer tools sectors.