James Detweiler is a Deal Partner at Felicis. Prior to joining Felicis, James was an investor at Zetta, a venture capital firm in San Francisco focused exclusively on ML-native startups. At Zetta, James was a Board Observer at Fixie AI. He also led the charge formulating Zetta's investment theses in climate tech, TinyML, data-centric ML, and generative AI. Before Zetta, James was an investor at SVB Capital, the equity arm of Silicon Valley Bank, where he served as a Board Observer at Shield AI, Molekule, Proxy, and Ripcord.
James graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College with a bachelor's degree in Physics and Mathematical Finance.
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