Garnet Heraman

Garnet Heraman is a serial entrepreneur and fund manager with over 20 years experience at the intersection of innovation, diversity + technology. Garnet’s family emigrated to the US from Trinidad & Tobago, and he was educated at Columbia University, NYU and The London School of Economics. As an entrepreneur, he built 3 startups, had 2 exits one of which was to a publicly traded company. As an investor, Garnet has helped build 2 investment platforms, the most recent being Aperture Venture Capital, VC For The Multicultural Mainstream™. Garnet’s investment experience with AI goes back to the early 2000’s when his second company – University Ventures – was engaged in the acquisition of patent portfolios related to NLP, OCR, machine vision, machine learning & decision support systems from a network of 40 research universities across North America. Garnet lives in Laguna Beach, CA with his wife and one very spoiled rescue dog.