Milan Griffes

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Milan Griffes is a Principal at Lionheart Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Portland, Oregon, where he focuses on early-stage investments. He began his career as a Research Analyst at GiveWell (2014-2016), the leading charity evaluator, before pursuing an MHS in Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health — funded in part by an EA grant. He holds a bachelor's degree in History and Music from Michigan State University and studied Classics in Rome. He subsequently co-founded Atman, a psychedelic retreat that reached cash-flow positive status before being acquired by Odyssey in 2024, and served as Head of Risk at Sendwave, a Y Combinator-backed fintech company whose business unit was sold to WorldRemit in 2020 for $500M. Griffes is an advisor to the Qualia Research Institute and has been a prolific contributor to the EA Forum (over 4,500 karma, 100+ posts) writing on topics including AI safety, catastrophic risk, psychedelics as a cause area, effective altruism culture, and mental health. His personal blog, Flight From Perfection, covers ethics, contemplative practice, and social phenomena.

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