VC Panel
BIOGRAPHY
Dante Zakhidov is an Investment Analyst at TDK Ventures focused on advanced materials for semiconductor, photonic, quantum, and energy technologies. Prior to joining TDK Ventures, he was an application engineer at Sila Nanotechnologies working on developing and scaling new battery materials. Before Sila, Dante worked in the Office of the CTO at Applied Materials where he helped develop their technical strategy around entering new markets in photonic and quantum technologies. Dante holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Rice University and a Doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University. His academic work has included many material classes from two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides, organic semiconductors, to carbon nanostructures.