Grace Gerwe


Hi hi.

My whole personality is building tech that will push the needle of humanity and competing in endurance sport.

I literally do nothing else.

You may as well stop reading now.

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Fine. I guess for context, I make brain computer interfaces to transfer emotion from one person to another.

I got into endurance sport because doctors told me I wouldn't be able to run (I have a congenital heart defect).

In 8 months I went from nothing to earning myself a spot at Ironman World Championships (0.0006% qualification rate) where I will be racing in Kona, Hawaii, on October 14th, 2025. I'm also racing Ironman Lake Placid (July) and running 24h for my 24th birthday (November). What can I say ya girl got a bit obsessed.

In past lives, I grew the Yale Entrepreneurial Society from 30 to 400+ members, expanding its reach to 19,000 people across 3 continents and founding an oversubscribed $60k student startup orientation program. This led me to keynote & direct a 1.3k student entrepreneurship conference in China.

I was also a Partner at Dorm Room Fund, co-founded Crew Dog, did epigenetics research at the Ahuja Lab, worked for Models1 and took care of the chickens on the Yale Farm.

I speak 6 languages, have lived in 7 countries, and love all things adrenaline and sports.

Only dead fish go with the flow.



Projects:



Built focused ultrasound stimulation and neuronavigation systems. Ran acoustic and thermal simulations on k wave (Matlab), used 3D Slicer and NDI 6D Architect for optics.



Developed a 400 element, 12 layer, PZT thin film piezoelectric micromachined ultrasound transducer (pMUT). Reverse engineered KLayout with Python.



Made energy bars made from organ meat by working at a butcher and testing recipes in a shared student kitchen (would literally spend hours dehydrating and pulverizing beef heart & liver to mix with tallow & spices).



Grew mycelium (the root network of fungus) in my room as a sustainable building material, with free leftover coffee grounds from Donut Crazy to use as a substrate.



Launched a campaign signed by 1600+ people petitioning Yale to rebuild the sauna.



I do other crazy things sometimes too. Shaving my head as a social experiment, only listening to hardcore EDM, polar plunges, etc etc.

Just pursuing the extremes of the human experience.

Fair warning, I can be a hermit sometimes...

I promise I will respond if you are interesting though. Hit me up.