Lisa Dolan started as a nuclear engineer in the U.S. Navy before running sales, operations, and product at multiple startups, giving her an operator-first investing style that founders find empathetic. She focuses on AI companies but argues that their real edge isn't the model but orchestration, data, and trust, and she actively shares detailed investment memos that give founders transparent insight into how she evaluates markets and data moats. Lisa Dolan started as a nuclear engineer in the U.S. Navy before running sales, operations, and product at multiple startups, giving her an operator-first investing style that founders find empathetic. She focuses on AI companies but argues that their real edge isn't the model but orchestration, data, and trust, and she actively shares detailed investment memos that give founders transparent insight into how she evaluates markets and data moats.