Evaline Tsai

Evaline graduated from Princeton University with a BSE in Chemical and Biological Engineering. She then went on to earn her PhD in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology from University of Cambridge.

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Evaline is from the Bay Area and after spending almost a decade on the East Coast and the UK now lives in San Francisco. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, watching films, and exploring new parts of the world through travel.

Evaline is a Principal at Gigascale Capital where she brings a deeply scientific and technical point-of-view to building climate solutions. Before Gigascale, she spent two years as an investor at Fine Structure Ventures, where her investments included Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Boston Metal, Debut Biotech, Phytoform, and Hoxton Farms.

Before becoming an investor, Evaline founded a Y-Combinator-backed healthcare company; was the first product manager on machine learning at Samsara; and published multiple journal articles spanning experimental, theoretical, and applied research in climate tech and biotech.