Cyril Ebersweiler serves as Managing Director, HAX and General Partner at SOSV. A hardware investor, visionary and serial entrepreneur, Cyril was SOSV's first general partner to run an accelerator, starting Chinaccelerator, the first mentorship-driven seed-funding program in China. He then went on to found HAX - the world's first and largest hardware accelerator - in 2012, along with HAX China and HAX Growth. Cyril is a mentor to Techstars and 500 Startups, and a founding member of the Global Accelerator Network. He is one of the world's most prolific investors in the hardware space, with 80+ investments. Cyril is a frequent speaker at events such as TechCrunch Disrupt, Makercon, Solidcon, Pioneers, The New Context Conference, AdTech, GMIC, and many others. He is an occasional guest writer at Techcrunch, and has been featured in The Economist, Popular Mechanics, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Huffington Post, Wired and more. He served as the Board Member at Nextly. He serves as Board Member in Formlabs.
Ian Rountree
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Ava (Application):
• Mako Aerospace:
$700000 (Pre Seed Round)
• Venus Aerospace:
$20000000 (Series A)
• Venus Aerospace:
(Seed Round)
• Venus Aerospace:
$3200000 (Seed Round)
• Radiant:
$13000000 (Series A)
• Atomos Space:
$5000000 (Venture Round)
• Sixfold Bioscience:
$2200000 (Seed Round)
• Debut:
$23000000 (Series A)
• Debut:
$2600000 (Seed Round)
• Phenomic AI:
$6000000 (Seed Round)
• Phenomic AI:
$2000000 (Seed Round)
• Circularis Biotechnologies:
(Seed Round)
• Character Biosciences:
$6000000 (Seed Round)
• Eridan:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Lively:
$4200000 (Seed Round)
• Rental Beast:
$5000000 (Venture Round)
• EasyPost:
$4000000 (Seed Round)
• EasyPost:
$1200000 (Seed Round)
• Public.com:
$15000000 (Series B)
• Clover Therapeutics:
$3600000 (Seed)
• Astranis:
$40000000 (Series B)
• Debut Biotechnology:
(Seed)
• Eridan Communications, Inc.:
$7500000 (Series A)
Views best described as cosmopolitan-cum-extropian
Most Interested In
Where the intersection of software, hardware, & wetware can create value in over a billion lives this decade––esp. industrial bio, aerospace, industrial robotics, next-gen computing hardware, and drug development.
Not Interested In
CPG, mobile-first, ad/marketing/sales, hiring-tech, anything that could have been built more than 2-3 years ago. Nor cannabis, therapeutics, or medical devices.
Most Interested In
Where the intersection of software, hardware, & wetware can create value in over a billion lives this decade––esp. industrial bio, industrial robotics, next-gen computing hardware, and drug development.
Not Interested In
CPG, mobile-first, ad/marketing/sales, hiring-tech, anything that could have been built more than 2-3 years ago. Nor cannabis, therapeutics, or medical devices.
Ian Rountree is the Founder of Cantos Ventures. He is an Agent and Chief of Staff at Invisible Technologies.
Adrian Whelan
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A. - Canada
Previous Investments
• Nfinite Nanotech:
$3000000 (Pre-Seed)
• Phytoform Labs:
$250000 (Seed)
• Debut Biotechnology:
(Seed)
• Galley Solutions:
(Pre-Seed)
• Galley Solutions:
$680000 (Pre Seed)
• Plantible:
(Pre-Seed)
• Spoiler Alert:
(Seed Round)
• Geltor:
$5000000 (Seed)
Adrian Whelan
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - Canada
General Partner at FTW Ventures, improving the worldwide Food System
Most Interested In
FTW Ventures invests in innovations for the Food System, including Ag, Food, Consumer & Heath Tech.
We look for great teams doing something revolutionary.
Not Interested In
Anything outside our core sectors - Ag, Food & Health
I'm most passionate about energy and environmental stewardship and human health. As a whole, Blackhorn Ventures invests in entrepreneurs who are improving resource efficiency with science and engineering-based solutions.
Jon Callaghan
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
I am a very early stage venture capitalist and a Founder of True Ventures. I have started 3 companies as a Founder, and have been in the venture capital business since 1991. My background is mostly with early stage companies in the internet, media, mobile markets. My personal mission is to empower entrepreneurs because I believe that innovators can change the world. We started True Ventures because we felt as Founders that the traditional venture capital industry had grown too large to best serve the needs of the earliest stage entrepreneurs. At True, we have redesigned venture with the Founder as customer. Everything we do is designed to best help the early stage entrepreneur realize their dreams. We normally invest between $250,000-$2.5mm and are almost always the first investor in a company. Our deals are simple and clean and our funds are large for what we do. This means that although our initial checks are small, we are a powerful financial partner for a growing company, and we plan to invest large dollars with growth and success.I'm passionate about my kids, flying, and essentially anything outdoors. If we're meeting, be careful not to bring up airplanes, because I could spend all day talking about the wonder and beauty of flight, and we might not get much else done :).Specialties: very early stage venture capital, seed stage investing, startup advice, technology innovation, aviation
Investing in technology companies with terminal solutions to important, unsolved problems. Previously, founder or early team member at engineering-driven startups.
Ariel Poler
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Human Augmentation. Exoskeletons, extra senses, enhanced senses, genomics, neuroscience.
Not Interested In
Gaming.
Founder of IPRO & @topica. Director at @strava, Freedom Financial, Kana, @linkexchange, @odeo and @stumbleupon. @mit & @stanford. Into human augmentation.
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