boisei labs is a ‘tech for good’ venture studio.
We work in small teams with high degrees of autonomy and limited bureaucracy to help inspire and achieve transformative impacts.
Focus areas: Social good and green tech; catalytic investing.
Venture studio
We serially build tech for good companies, targeting spaces in which customers strongly benefit outright from our tech, with major environmental and/or societal benefits typically embedded as automatic byproducts rather than being directly featured as the products themselves.
We are a registered Pennsylvania Benefit Company. Our 2025 report.
The world is moving fast; so are we. At any given time, our active ventures are spread across various stages of the ideation, development, launch, and growth phases.
Our first launch is expected in 2026. Keep track here.
George H. Perry, PhD
President and Founder
Also: Professor of Anthropology and Biology at Penn State University
Past experience includes: Technology Process Management Consultant at Accenture
Email: grgperry (at) boisei (dot) com; LinkedIn: grgperry
W. Ben Towne, PhD
Chief Technology Officer
PhD in Societal Computing from Carnegie Mellon University
Past experience includes: Co-founder of the Tech Serving Society after winning the Pittsburgh Civic Hackathon
Email: ben.towne (at) boisei (dot) com; LinkedIn: bentowne
Jeremy Sutherland, PhD
Technology Strategist
PhD in Bioinformatics & Genomics from Penn State University
Past experience includes: President of the Penn State Science Policy Society
Email: jeremysutherland (at) boisei (dot) com; LinkedIn: sutherlandjeremy
Steven Wainio
Full Stack Software Engineer
BS in Computer Science from Rochester Institute of Technology
Past experience includes: Comcast Business Innovation, Development, Engineering, & Adaptability (IDEA) Team
Email: steven.wainio (at) boisei (dot) com; LinkedIn: steven-wainio
Keeya-Lee Ayre
Board of Ethics Founding Member
Also: Social Resonance Lab Founder & Studio Lead, Masters student in Practical Ethics at University of Oxford
Past experience includes: Leadership roles in tech for good venture building & impact investing organizations (BFA Global, Catalyst Fund, GSMA)
Email: keeyalee.ayre (at) boisei (dot) com; LinkedIn: keeyaleeayre
Matt Herndon
Senior Alliance and Project Director
Also: State College Borough Council Member
Past experience includes: Software Engineer at Voltus, Implementation Engineering Manager at Opower
Email: mherndon (at) boisei (dot) com; LinkedIn: mrhendon
Dominic Savaglio
Junior Software Engineer and AI Adoption Lead
Past experience includes: Founder and Lead Engineer, NuCliq
Email: dosavaglio (at) boisei (dot) com; LinkedIn: dominic-savaglio
Stuart Dum
Forward Deployed Engineer
BS in Computer Information Systems from Grove City College
Past experience includes: Senior roles at logistics and educational companies (ShipSticks, Classical Academic Press)
Email: stuart.dum (at) boisei (dot) com; LinkedIn: stuart-dum
boisei labs hiring
As we grow, we’ll be looking for über-talented engineers, tech strategists, and business development leads. All boisei labs employees will participate in creative processes and must be passionate about our tech for good scope. Startup mentality is an absolute must.
Catalytic investing
Though we focus on internally developing impactful tech companies, we also invest in external revenue-stage private or emergent public companies with approaches aligned with our ethos. We aim to support inspiring tech for good companies that are disrupting or newly creating markets that we intuit as primed for strong growth, thus providing highly favorable risk/reward investment asymmetry.
Our first three investments are in Novele, Electrogenos, and Aeluma.
Visit our boisei investments page to learn about each of these companies and to read our investment theses.