# Luke Heine

> Personal site of Luke Heine — angel investor, startup founder, and builder from Cloquet, Minnesota. Forbes 30 Under 30, Y Combinator W18, founding team of Microsoft 365 Copilot (100M+ MAU), co-founder of Fair Opportunity Project, LP/Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund.

## Bio

Luke Heine is a Finnish-American cross-functional exec, exited founder, full stack engineer, ML patent holder, YC & Harvard alum, and occasional angel investor from Cloquet, Minnesota. He created and led the biggest social network for TikTok celebs at time of acquisition (SwipeHouse, YC W18), along with leading a team building 25+ consumer-facing products. He won Forbes 30 Under 30, is a mentor at Harvard Business School, and runs a nonprofit sending free college application advice to almost every public high school in the US (63,000 public educators). He was former chair of Harvard's Lab for Entrepreneurship and Development, an author with Emerald Publishing, and presently volunteers with the State of Minnesota. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, New America, CrunchBase, and TechCrunch.

After SwipeHouse, Luke joined Microsoft where he helped commercialize DALL-E and Stable Diffusion into Microsoft Designer, then was part of the founding team that built Microsoft 365 Copilot from 0 to 100M+ MAU. He was promoted within 6 months and hired as a VP exception during a company-wide freeze. He finished his Harvard degree remotely from Colombia during COVID. Luke is now an LP/Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund, focused on healthcare, robotics, compliance, and pain-solver startups.

## Key Facts

- Forbes 30 Under 30 (2017)
- Harvard University — Sociology & Computer Science
- Y Combinator W18 — SwipeHouse (exited)
- Microsoft — Founding team of M365 Copilot (100M+ MAU)
- Microsoft — Shipped DALL-E into Microsoft Designer (two Super Bowl commercials)
- Pioneer Fund — LP & Venture Partner
- Fair Opportunity Project — Co-founder, 10+ years, $5M+ in scholarships (2024)
- Featured in Forbes, NYT, CNN, CNBC, TechCrunch, Kiplinger, Harvard Gazette
- 2 US patents (1 granted, 1 pending). ~1M likes on TikTok.
- Ran 180 miles from Cloquet, MN to Canada
- Korea Foundation US Youth Ambassador
- Has built 50+ projects across consumer, fintech, SaaS, climate, and community

## Site Map

- [About](https://lukeheine.com/about): Full background, education, and experience
- [Projects](https://lukeheine.com/projects): 50+ shipped projects across consumer, fintech, SaaS, climate, community, and more
- [Press](https://lukeheine.com/press): Media coverage in Forbes, NYT, CNN, CNBC, TechCrunch, Harvard Gazette, and others
- [Press Archive](https://lukeheine.com/press-archive): 17 PDF copies of press coverage by topic — Summer Playbook, Swipehouse acquisition, Fair Opportunity Project, Northland Hackathon, Personal
- [Research](https://lukeheine.com/research): 2 US patents, venture capital mapping, cybersecurity markets, comparative advantage economics
- [Writing](https://lukeheine.com/writing): Books on college admissions, social entrepreneurship, and academic publications
- [Advising](https://lukeheine.com/advising): Seed-stage startup advising, nonprofit board work, and angel investing

## Social & Contact

- Website: https://lukeheine.com
- X/Twitter: https://x.com/lukeheine
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lukeheine
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/heine.luke

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- [llms-full.txt](https://lukeheine.com/llms-full.txt): Full expanded context including all projects, press, research, and external references
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