Gerta Malaj

• Article: Cautionary Tales of Storytelling - From machine learning to clinical trials, illustrations of the powers and pitfalls of storytelling
• MIT Consulting Project/Master's thesis: Analysis of Inefficiencies in Shipment Data Handling
• Article on Startup Boston: Six Startup Leaders Offer Tips on Growing Intentional Communities
• Job negotiations Q&A with Nancy Chu
• Career Contessa Podcast interview
• Tech career and job negotiations AMA with Elpha, a professional network for women
• Interview with Global Dream Team on how to make better decisions

Entrepreneurship

• Cofounded Inception Studio, an IRL and URL incubator and community of founders and engineers building with generative AI.
• Cofounded Vive, a venture-backed ($450K in pre-seed) consumer social mobile app tackling the loneliness crisis. Led strategy, product, and GTM efforts.
• Cofounded Delfi, a mobile app that uses behavioral science-based frameworks to help users make better decisions.

Mentorship and engagement

• Mentor: Techstars Founder Catalyst
• Judge & Business Mentor: MassChallenge HealthTech
• Health Tech Initiative Lead: Sanofi. Evaluated, selected, and closely managed startups, defining technology and project roadmap and overseeing study execution and analytics.
• Advisor: PillTech, a pharmacy ordering platform based in Phenom Penh, Cambodia
• Mentor: EU for Innovation, a project funded by the European Union that aims to strengthen the ecosystem for innovation and startups in Albania.
• Fellow: On Deck Fellowship, cohort ODF9. On Deck is where top talent comes to accelerate their ideas and careers, surrounded by a world-class community.
• Member: Launch House, cohort LH3-LH4. Launch House is where top founders and creators build together.

Having grown up in Albania, I come from a community-oriented culture and believe that communities are extremely important.

In addition to having been the Operations Partner at South Park Commons (SPC), among other founder communities, I am a lifetime member of Launch House (first US cohort), I am an On Deck Fellow (ODF9), and lead Sandbox's San Francisco chapter.

More recently, I founded Inception Studio, an IRL and URL community and incubator of founders and engineers building with generative AI.

Online communities: founded a Meetup community on impactful mobile apps, and founded and manage two prominent Facebook communities.

I am a board member of The Institute for Public Policy and Good Governance, a think tank based in Tirana, Albania.

I also have a passion for volunteering. Some past volunteering efforts have included Mentor at YearUp, Mentor at Big Sister Association of Greater Boston, Teaching and Counseling Volunteer at Let's Get Ready.

Finally, I speak over 7 languages (fluent in 4), which have allowed me to empathize deeply with various cultures and cultivate a better understanding of diverse communities.