A select sample of my investments is below.
Dmitry Petrov | Ivan Shcheklein | Emerson Valio | Alison Dale | Ro Valiao | Derrick Cagaanan | Blake Scholl | Joe Wilding | Joshua Krall | Tom Galluzzo | Vladimir Altman | Tom Doyle | Brandon Rumberg | David Graham | Vinod Kulathumani | Tom Logan | Erik Graber | Nimit Sawhney | Simer Sawhney
Aspinity, Boom Supersonic, Cohley, Flipcause, IAM Robotics, Iterative's DVC, Voatz
Aspinity, an Amazon Alexa Fund investment, has created the world's first ultra-low-power analog voice chip incorporating machine learning for edge processing. Founded from Ph.D. research at Georgia Tech. and West Virginia University. 20X reduction in battery usage and 100X reduction in irrelevant sensor data processing.
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Aspinity | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania
Semiconductors | Voice | Machine Learning $11.3 Million Total Funding |
Boom Supersonic is building the world's first independently-developed Mach 2.2 supersonic jet for commercial passenger travel. Team is from Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic with key contributions to over 130 aircrafts and spacecrafts. 76 jets already pre-ordered by five airlines including Japan Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, United Airlines and American Airlines. Test flight announcement to follow.
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Boom Supersonic | Denver | Colorado
Travel & Transportation | Aeronautics | Materials $270 Million Total Funding |
Cohley is a content platform and marketplace connecting top brands and content creators. Cohley allows brands to source highly personalized content at a fractional cost, and allows content creators like social media influencers, professional photographers and videographers to reach a wider client spectrum. Incredibly capital efficient founding team with amazing execution.
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Cohley | New York | New York
Consumer Brands | Content | Influencer Marketing $6.8 Million Total Funding |
Flipcause is the #1 fundraising and community engagement B2B SaaS platform for small and mid-size non-profits. Trusted by 5,000+ non-profits across all 50 U.S. states with over $1 billion raised in donations. Revenue comparable to a Series B startup with only a Seed round raised. Husband-wife team.
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Flipcause | Oakland | California
Non-Profits | SMB | Engagement Platform $3.5 Million Total Funding |
IAM Robotics is the first and only commercially viable Autonomous Mobile Manipulation Robot (AMMR) deployed in some of the world's top retailers. Born out of founders work at Carnegie Mellon's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC).
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IAM Robotics | Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
E-Commerce | Retail | Warehouse $22 Million Total Funding |
Iterative's DVC is an open-source version control system for data science and machine learning projects. Think of it as Git for machine learning. Founding team comprises creator of open-source project DVC and co-founder of The Tweeted Times that was acquired by Internet giant Yandex.
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Iterative | San Francisco | California
Open-Source | Developer Tools | Data Science $25.4 Million Total Funding |
Voatz is a mobile election platform built with military-grade security and biometrics on a blockchain-based infrastructure that supports all types of voting events including national, state, municipal, corporate, university, co-ops and proxy shareholder voting as well as highly accurate opinion polling. Used in 54 elections as of December 2019. Eclectic and passionate group of people tackling the most pressing challenges in civic engagement, computer science and cybersecurity. Democracies around the world need this solution to make voting more inclusive, accessible and safe for all citizens irrespective of their circumstance.
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Voatz | Boston | Massachusetts
Government | Security | Civic Engagement $10.9 Million Total Funding |
Angel Investors
Greg McAdoo | Michael Moritz | Paul Graham | Reid Hoffman | Ron Conway | Sam Altman
Current and Former Founders
Cockroach Labs | D2iQ (formerly Mesosphere) | Duolingo | Firebase (acquired by Google) | Neolinear (acquired by Cadence Design Systems) | NerdWallet | Nowait (acquired by Yelp) | Scale AI
Startup Accelerator Funds
Acceleprise | Founder Institute | Plug and Play Ventures | Techstars Ventures | Y Combinator Continuity Fund
Venture Capital Firms
468 Capital | 8VC | Active Capital | Afore Capital | Anzu Partners | Bessemer Venture Partners | Birchmere Ventures | Caffeinated Capital | Celesta Capital | Fusion Fund | Gaingels | Hustle Fund | Lightbank | M25 | New Stack Ventures | Oakhouse Partners | Palm Drive Ventures | Prime Movers Lab | Right Side Capital Management | Riverfront Ventures | RRE Ventures | SV Angel | True Ventures | Urban Innovation Fund
Corporate Venture Capital Funds
Amazon Alexa Fund | Amex Ventures | Medici Ventures (Overstock.com)
Impact & Philanthropy Funds
Emerson Collective
Strategic Investors
Japan Airlines
Private Investment Firms
KCK Group | Sunstone Management
Greg McAdoo | Michael Moritz | Paul Graham | Reid Hoffman | Ron Conway | Sam Altman
Current and Former Founders
Cockroach Labs | D2iQ (formerly Mesosphere) | Duolingo | Firebase (acquired by Google) | Neolinear (acquired by Cadence Design Systems) | NerdWallet | Nowait (acquired by Yelp) | Scale AI
Startup Accelerator Funds
Acceleprise | Founder Institute | Plug and Play Ventures | Techstars Ventures | Y Combinator Continuity Fund
Venture Capital Firms
468 Capital | 8VC | Active Capital | Afore Capital | Anzu Partners | Bessemer Venture Partners | Birchmere Ventures | Caffeinated Capital | Celesta Capital | Fusion Fund | Gaingels | Hustle Fund | Lightbank | M25 | New Stack Ventures | Oakhouse Partners | Palm Drive Ventures | Prime Movers Lab | Right Side Capital Management | Riverfront Ventures | RRE Ventures | SV Angel | True Ventures | Urban Innovation Fund
Corporate Venture Capital Funds
Amazon Alexa Fund | Amex Ventures | Medici Ventures (Overstock.com)
Impact & Philanthropy Funds
Emerson Collective
Strategic Investors
Japan Airlines
Private Investment Firms
KCK Group | Sunstone Management