Celestine Schnugg

Celestine "Cee Cee" Schnugg is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and the Founding Managing Partner of Boom Capital, an early stage venture firm financing scientists and engineers. She is the first investor in Mammoth Biosciences, A-Alpha Bio, Fauna Bio, and Diligent Robotics, and early rounds of Swarm Technologies (acquired by SpaceX), Astra (NASDAQ: ASTR), Planet (NYSE: PL) Impulse Space, and Galileo Health. Prior to Boom, she was at Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors. Prior to Innovation Endeavors, she helped build the sustainability program at Apple. She has led global innovation initiatives with NASA and the White House and is the creator of Curiosity Camp and National Day of Civic Hacking. Celestine is on the Investment Committee of the Goldhirsh Foundation and was an Innovation Advisor to British Airways. Driven by the belief that no child should bear the weight of an untreatable disease, Cee Cee founded Project Atlas, a foundation accelerating translational research for cancer interception and rare pediatric conditions. Through Rare Team 6, a multidisciplinary operative, she leads efforts to uncover the biological drivers of undiagnosed conditions and build disease-specific biobanks-harnessing the decade's most powerful technologies to cure the incurable by 2035. At Boom Capital, she not only invests inception capital but convenes a scientific society of the top 200 technologists of the 21st century.