Elizabeth Barton

Infiniscape Incorporated

Betsy Barton began her career as an academic astrophysicist, studying the evolution of galaxies, as a Hubble Fellow in Arizona and then as an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at U.C. Irvine. She served on the Gemini Board and was instrumental in the early development of large, ground-based telescopes. In 2011, she moved to Renaissance Technologies, a quantitative hedge fund, where she modeled equity and futures markets using data-intensive techniques. In 2019 she joined Walmart In-Home Delivery as a senior director and led the data science team. In 2020 she founded a tech company, Infiniscape. In 2022, its flagship app Kyndr was launched to spark a revolution of kindness and authenticity in social media.