Jyoti Das is the Co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer at Vest Life, a Sacramento-based angel-funded startup providing a SaaS platform helping special-needs organizations, families, and individuals. After two decades as a senior executive at Intel, Jyoti left the corporate world to become a startup founder, advisor, and investor, both as an individual angel and a Limited Partner at Moneta Ventures.Prior to co-founding Vest Life, Jyoti was the founding Executive Director at the Carlsen Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at CSUS, and currently serves as a member of its Advisory Board. Jyoti is also the Founder & Chairman of Avantaze, a marketing firm specializing in growth-hacking for early stage companies. They have refined a lower-cost model for startups at the seed stage and later to achieve 80% of the value of traditional digital marketing at < 20% of the cost by maximizing organic marketing and applying analytics to optimize customer acquisition.He is also an advisor and member of the executive team at Bekonix, a no-code platform for creating smart high-tech products, that is transforming the way businesses build smart devices and IoT products.