Sovereign wealth funds are becoming sovereign development funds in need of moonshot engineers. Deep Science Ventures has built a portfolio of science companies worth 9 figures and backed by Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sam Altman and others. Thane is Founding Dean of The College at Deep Science Ventures, providing a 3-year PhD in invention where science companies are built to tackle global challenges — The Venture Science Doctorate. Partnered with >30 universities, corporates and national labs, Deep Science Ventures already has capacity to train 2,000 Founding PhDs working in tandem with a generative AI co-pilot — Elman— to build the fields and industries of tomorrow. As an International Strategy Forum Fellow, Thane works with The Special Competitive Studies Project. He's passionate about scaling the diversity of career pathways and institutional models for The Era of Moonshots. Thane's work is published by The Federation for American Scientists; Japan's Ministry for Economy, Trade and Industry; The UK Office for Investment; The UK National Innovation Agency for Advanced Digital Technologies and; The Office of The Prime Minister of The Bahamas where he launched the nation's first fully-accredited PhD program. Backed by Shmidt Futures, Innovate UK, Anglo American and Germany's Federal Agency for Breakthroughs — SPRIND, he seeks to train 1,000 moonshot founders, every year. He holds a PhD in AI-powered immunophenotyping completed in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline.
