Alvin Salehi

[3] In 2019, Salehi launched a venture aimed toward creating meaningful economic opportunities for immigrants and refugees by enabling them to cook and sell food from home.

[4][2][5] Since launch, Shef has served millions of meals across the United States and helped immigrants and refugees support their families by selling homemade food to their communities.

[9][10][11] As of March 2023, the company has raised more than $100 million in funding from influential investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Jeff Jordan, Padma Lakshmi, Tiffany Haddish, Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, Tony Robbins, Andre Iguodala, Odell Beckham Jr., and Russell Westbrook.

[26][27] Since then, Code.gov has become the nation's primary platform for sharing and improving government code, boasting a large collection of reusable software projects from dozens of federal agencies and organizations.

[21][28][34][35] On July 13, 2017, Salehi was appointed by Harvard University to serve as a research affiliate at the law school's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

[43] Additionally, he has taken an active role in determining how technology can be used most effectively to resolve humanitarian crises, calling for increased cross-country collaboration and global crowdsourcing as a means to identifying solutions quickly.