Violet Abtahi is an entrepreneur, investor, and systems architect who builds technologies that empower people, enhance collaboration, transcend boundaries, and foster autonomy and growth — always in service of humanity and all life.

She holds a clear conviction that we are on the cusp of a new era in which artificial intelligence and decentralized systems converge to reshape the world — not only in how we live, but in how we think, connect, and unlock our potential. This is more than a technological revolution; it is a transformation of consciousness.

Violet founded Platonic to widen access to core financial needs by engineering decentralized, privacy-preserving rails that let value move like information and are stewarded for the long term. Over the past decade, she has founded or co-founded multiple technology companies, invested in and advised more than 50 startups, and worked from first principles at the intersection of AI, blockchain, and capital markets.

Her vision is that technology should expand human potential and raise collective consciousness. In practice, that means systems where privacy is the ground of freedom, governance is embedded rather than bolted on, and automation strengthens trust and human connection instead of eroding them. She focuses on decentralized finance as the connective tissue that can synchronize today’s fragmented markets, lower the cost of trust, and open dignified access at global scale.

Violet’s north star is constant: use information to harvest wisdom — so institutions, communities, and individuals ask better questions, solve the right problems, and relate more deeply to one another and to the universal field of intelligence we share.

Dr. Julia Mossbridge is an affiliate professor at the University of San Diego in the Department of Physics and Biophysics. She is also a fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and the co-founder and treasurer of TILT: The Institute for Love and Time. TILT is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit she co-founded in 2019. TILT envisions a world where unconditional love and beneficial travel in time are integrated into human and planetary thriving.

As a change-leader aiming to scale hope, unconditional love, future preparedness, and human potential, she did her postdoctoral work on prediction in psychology and physiology at Northwestern University. Her PhD in communication sciences and disorders is also from Northwestern University. She received an MA in neuroscience from the University of California at San Francisco, and received her BA with highest honors in neuroscience from Oberlin College.

She also invented and patented Choice Compass, a physiologically based decision-making app.