Chris Medina is Managing Partner & Co-founder of Tesserakt Ventures, a venture capital firm and accelerator that specializes in operational support. Through its product engineering, design, fundraising, and customer development services, Tesserakt has helped its portfolio of global companies raise over $80M so far. An alum of UC Merced, Chris is excited to be building a new accelerator program to help students and faculty launch and scale startups. As an undergrad, Chris studied poverty and income inequality, ran a campaign for city council, and advocated for expanding voting access at the California Secretary of State’s office.