Sector: IoT, Consumer Tech, Personal Health							

Lead Partner: Gilman Louie, Jason Preston							

3D Body Scanning Scale & Fitness Tracker that visualizes fat loss and muscle gains

Shape Labs Inc. develops a scale that allows clients to scan, track,  measure, and compare their body shape in photorealistic 3D. It also  offers an online dashboard and a mobile app with an overview of the body  shape, weight, body fat, and regional muscle growth and fat loss by  color-grading your 3D avatar.

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Gilman Louie has over 30 years of national security and investment experience. He served as an early CEO of In-Q-Tel—the pioneering technology investment firm funded by the CIA—from 1999-2006, as an expert to the Defense Innovation Board from 2016-2020, and as a Commissioner on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence from 2018-2021.

In addition to being a co-founder and partner at Alsop Louie Partners, he is also a co-founder and CEO of the America’s Frontier Fund.   Gilman is currently the Chairman of the National Intelligence University, Chairman of the Federation of American Scientists, a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, and of the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. He serves on numerous commercial and advisory boards, including Maxar Technologies, Niantic, and Aerospike. He has also served on the Diversity Senior Advisory Panel for the Intelligence Community and as a member of the Technology Advisory Group to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Gilman is the recipient of the CIA Agency Seal Medallion (2004), CIA Director’s Award (2006), Agency Seal Medallion (2006), and Director of National Intelligence Medallion (2008). Gilman received his B.S. in Business Administration from San Francisco State University where he graduated magna cum laude.

Gilman Louie

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Jason Preston is a Partner. He is the  co-founder of a conference and community called Dent, and for a time  ran a consultancy that helped companies build great teams. Like most who  find themselves doing interesting things, it is difficult for Jason to  explain how he wound up doing them. 

Jason was born in Texas but grew up  in Bellevue, Washington. After attending Occidental College in Los  Angeles, Jason moved to Seattle and began working on one of the first  conferences about business blogging. From there, he followed his nose:  he met Matt Mullenweg and learned the ins and outs of WordPress (when  MovableType was the thing), he worked with the early team at Twitter to  build the world’s first Twitter conference, and helped connect Hollywood  to Silicon Valley through a series of hospitality suites.  

Throughout this process, Jason  started to wonder at the difference between leaders that saw  extraordinary success and those that merely did OK. Why did some people  and some teams “dent the universe” — as Steve Jobs once said? 

This question led Jason to co-found  the Dent Conference with Steve Broback. The conference finds actionable  lessons from success and creates an environment for people to meet each  other and build friendships. Dent draws a remarkable set of  participants: astronauts, artists whose medium is genetically engineered  plants, technology CEOs, magicians, young entrepreneurs, world champion  free divers, and consulting detectives. OK — just one consulting  detective. 

Members of the Dent community began  asking Jason for advice, so he decided to share the lessons from years  of interviews, pattern-matching, and practice. As a consultant, he  helped companies and teams make foundational decisions about their  culture and smart strategic decisions about their products and their  stories. 

Jason is also a part-time lecturer in  the Human Centered Design and Engineering department at the University  of Washington. He reads a lot of books, is a fan of esports, and is the  dungeon master in his local D&D game.

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