Judd Olanoff is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s GeoTech Center. He is a founding partner of K. Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in breakthrough technology for American families, with a focus on health care, learning, and the future of work.
Olanoff’s work frames artificial intelligence as an instrument of US competitiveness on two fronts: as a tool of statecraft abroad and at home, where he argues that America’s advantage depends not just on frontier and infrastructure capability, but also on whether the median family experiences AI’s benefits in health care, education, and work. He writes on AI diffusion as a measure of national competitiveness.
He is also a founding partner of the Lion Forum, an annual invitation-only event at the Kennedy Compound that brings together members of Congress, senior administration officials, the leadership of the top AI labs, and founders and investors to examine technology’s role in strengthening the pillars of life for American families.
Before founding K. Ventures, Olanoff spent his career in finance and politics. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and Barron’s.
Olanoff holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a BA from Amherst College.