Emily Dinu is the Founding Partner of Numinous Capital. Her career has been defined by building at the frontier.

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Her "operator-first" philosophy is built on a deep institutional foundation. She's served as an Investor, an Operating Partner, and Fund Operations Manager. She has honed skills in investor relations and due diligence from every angle of the ecosystem. This gives her a unique understanding of what it really takes to build an enduring company.

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At 24, Emily was a key early employee and later Chief Operating Executive for one of the world's first crypto hedge funds (BKCM LLC), where she was instrumental in launching a pioneering blockchain-focused ETF.

 

She then served as Director of Business Operations for an advanced manufacturing startup (MueKo Machinery, acq. ASYS Group), having given her  firsthand experience in the industrial tech sectors she now invests in.

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An expert in "the messy middle," she built her first company at 19, a strategic advisory firm (Hypotential) that worked with hundreds of startups and investors. This is where she developed her proprietary frameworks for spotting 'winners' and 'losers,' and learned to identify the mediocrity that Numinous now wages war against.

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Today, Emily has built a unique platform for turning science into scalable businesses. She holds a Master's from Harvard Extension School in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, serves as an NSF I-Corps Mentor at Princeton University, and even wrote a GA Tech-adopted entrepreneurial curriculum for young women. She helps lead Princeton University's Advancing Photonics Technologies Investor Network and works tirelessly to create ecosystems to support deep tech innovators and founders.