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Cooper is a partner at Pilot Wave Holdings and co-founder of Neurometric AI. He lives in New York.

Cooper is a partner at Pilot Wave Holdings, where he sources and executes acquisitions of industrial businesses, and co-founder of Neurometric AI. He took his first company from inception to acquisition and a Nasdaq direct listing. He co-founded ArteDeFashion and is a research advisor at the Milken Institute on AI and capital formation. He lives in New York.

Calvin Cooper is a founder and investor in New York. He is a partner at Pilot Wave Holdings, a private equity firm that buys majority control of cash-flowing businesses in the real economy and builds frontier AI inside them, where he sources and executes acquisitions. He is co-founder of Neurometric AI, a venture-backed inference platform for task-specific small models, and an advisor and director at the Carlton Group, a real estate investment bank with more than $200 billion in closed transactions. He co-founded and led Rhove, a consumer fintech, from inception to acquisition by reAlpha and a Nasdaq direct listing under the ticker AIRE, with coverage in Fast Company. He was previously a director at NCT Ventures, an early-stage firm in Columbus, Ohio, and began his career at the Ohio Minority Supplier Development Council, building supplier development programs with Fortune 500 companies. He has taught startup finance and venture capital at Ohio State's Fisher College of Business. He co-founded ArteDeFashion, which stages the Dinner of the Year during Art Basel Miami Beach, is a research advisor at the Milken Institute on AI and capital formation, and executive produced the short film Amateur. He goes by Cooper.