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Ajay Madhok
Affiliate, Graduate School of Business - Academic Administration
BioAjay Madhok is a growth architect who has driven innovation from both sides — helping established organisations evolve, and launching startups to challenge the status quo. His expertise lies in translating bold ideas into scalable products and high-growth platforms.
He is the founder and CEO of Celerity Studios, a story-tech venture building AI-native tools and platforms for the next generation of creators. Its first product, MIXXI, enables Gen Z to remix and co-create culturally relevant content using AI. Previously, Ajay served as EVP of Business Strategy at Angel Studios and Managing Partner at the Angel Acceleration Fund.
At Stanford, Ajay is a Distinguished Scholar at mediaX, where he researches corporate innovation and organisational resilience. His current work focuses on building "purpose-built ventures" that combine startup agility with institutional assets, and on decentralised trust and crypto-enabled ecosystems as drivers of next-generation economic models.
Ajay is an advisor to Playground Global and a member of the Technology Advisory Council at Harman International (a Samsung company). He has contributed to foundational digital identity protocols (XRI/XDI) and serves as Vice-Chair of the Communications Committee at Trust over IP, a Linux Foundation initiative advancing digital trust standards.
He earned a B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and an M.S. in Mathematics from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. -
Jules Maltz
Lecturer, Graduate School of Business - Other Faculty
BioJules Maltz joined IVP in August 2008 and has over 19 years of venture experience. He focuses on venture investments in rapidly-growing software and Internet companies. Jules was recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 100 venture capitalists in the world by his inclusion in the 2018, 2019, and 2020 Forbes Midas List. He was also included in the GrowthCap Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investors List in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2019.
Jules led IVP's investments in Buddy Media (CRM), Checkr, Clipboard Health, Dropbox (DBX), Eightfold, G2, Grammarly, Hims & Hers, Hopin, Indiegogo, MuleSoft (MULE), NerdWallet, Nextdoor, Oportun, RetailMeNot (SALE), Roam, Slack, SteelBrick (CRM), Tala, TransferWise, TuneIn, Veriff, Zendesk (ZEN), and Zenefits, and was actively involved in sourcing investments in Marketo (MKTO), Spiceworks, Twitter (TWTR), and Yext (YEXT).
Jules currently serves as an Observer or Director of Clipboard Health, G2, Grammarly, Roam, Tala, and Veriff.
He graduated from Stanford GSB in 2008, where he was a Siebel Scholar and Arjay Miller Scholar and has a B.A. in Economics from Yale University.
