Alexander Smith

Venture Investing at Rockwell Automation

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2026
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Board Observer
May 2026
Infinitum is helping the world’s most power-intensive industries enter a new age of energy — where they can do more with less. Engineered with patented air-core technology, Infinitum’s next-generation motor and fan solutions achieve the lowest real-world energy consumption by using fewer kilowatt hours and requiring less electrical infrastructure. The result is technology that helps companies strengthen the bottom line while easing strain on the grid and the environment. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Infinitum is led by a team of industry experts and pioneers shaping the future of efficient power. Learn more at goinfinitum.com.
late stageManufacturing
Board Observer
Aug 2025
ZEDEDA unlocks the value of AI where it matters most, enabling enterprises to create, secure and operate edge AI at scale. ZEDEDA’s Edge Intelligence products and solutions are used by global distributed enterprises to rapidly realize and deploy autonomous intelligence wherever they operate, turning real-time data into real and tangible business outcomes and decisions. Trusted by the world’s largest organizations, ZEDEDA is backed by world-class investors, with teams in the United States, Germany, India, and the United Arab Emirates. For more information, visit www.ZEDEDA.ai.
Lead Investor - Venture Portfolio & Investments
Mar 2025
At Rockwell Automation, we connect the imaginations of people with the potential of technology to expand what is humanly possible, making the world more intelligent, more connected and more productive. Throughout the world, our flagship Allen-Bradley® and Rockwell Software® product brands are recognized for innovation and excellence.
Board Observer
Mar 2025
RightHand Robotics (RHR) is a leader in providing end-to-end solutions that reduce the cost of e-commerce order-fulfillment of electronics, apparel, grocery, pharmaceuticals, and countless other industries. Unlike traditional factory robots that can be complex to setup and are singly purposed, RHR solutions are simple to integrate and adaptable to improve the utilization of many different customer workflows, such as sorting batch-picked items, picking items from an ASRS, inducting items to a belt sorter, and order quality assurance.
Board Observer
May 2024
Bioprocesses are hard to develop and optimize. With so much complexity, such little room for error, and a constant strain on resources, it can be challenging to make significant improvements with the generic tools available today. To address this, we developed our own digital bioprocess specialists. Embedded with our extensive bioprocess expertise and cutting-edge technologies, our software solutions tackle the specific challenges of bioprocesses - supporting you through data pre-processing, process model development, and the generation of rich process insights to support in-depth process understanding. With structured workflows and a cloud-based infrastructure, generating and sharing process insights across your organization has never been easier. We have already transformed bioprocess development for some of the largest biopharma companies in the world and are committed to help delivering industry 4.0 in biopharma. Do you have any questions about our software or are you interested in a general exchange? Feel free to drop us a message here on LinkedIn. You can also find more information about our services and products on our website. 🌎 https://www.datahow.ch
Board Observer
May 2024
Elementary helps Fortune 500 manufacturers automate inspection, increase production yield, and achieve measurable ROI in less than 6 months. Our industrial-grade inspection stations and QA platform deliver high-speed inspection, advanced defect detection, and real-time root cause analysis—empowering manufacturers to reduce downtime and drive digital transformation on the factory floor.
Board Observer
Jun 2022
HMX.ai captures and augments human expertise with the power of machine learning using explainable AI. Our platform is goal-driven, low-code, and self-service for fast, easy implementations.
Board Observer
Jun 2022
Strengthening the partnership between human experts and AI, HMX Cognitive Agents empower enterprises to achieve operational excellence, mitigate risk, and unlock new value by combining human-like reasoning with advanced AI for transparent, explainable, and reliable outcomes.
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2026
Board Observer
May 2026
Infinitum is helping the world’s most power-intensive industries enter a new age of energy — where they can do more with less. Engineered with patented air-core technology, Infinitum’s next-generation motor and fan solutions achieve the lowest real-world energy consumption by using fewer kilowatt hours and requiring less electrical infrastructure. The result is technology that helps companies strengthen the bottom line while easing strain on the grid and the environment. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Infinitum is led by a team of industry experts and pioneers shaping the future of efficient power. Learn more at goinfinitum.com.
late stageManufacturing
2025
Board Observer
Aug 2025
ZEDEDA unlocks the value of AI where it matters most, enabling enterprises to create, secure and operate edge AI at scale. ZEDEDA’s Edge Intelligence products and solutions are used by global distributed enterprises to rapidly realize and deploy autonomous intelligence wherever they operate, turning real-time data into real and tangible business outcomes and decisions. Trusted by the world’s largest organizations, ZEDEDA is backed by world-class investors, with teams in the United States, Germany, India, and the United Arab Emirates. For more information, visit www.ZEDEDA.ai.
Board Observer
May 2025
Everactive helps developers of connected products easily design without the constraints of batteries by providing a hardware toolkit and managed network purpose-built for self-powered devices. That toolkit enables the most sustainable, scalable, and cost-effective Internet of Things solutions. The companys proprietary low-power energy harvesting and wireless technology enables completely batteryless and always-on IoT systems powered entirely from micro-renewable energy. By opening its groundbreaking technology, Everactive is enabling developers to build suites of innovative hyperscale IoT applications that continuously analyze an explosion of new data across a wide range of applications and throughout entire environments. Everactive’s self-powered IoT platform is built upon groundbreaking advances in ultra-low-power circuit design and wireless communication that allow the company to power its Eversensors exclusively from harvested energy. The company also offers a managed data network to seamlessly and reliably deliver developers self-sustaining data streams. Everactive has offices in Santa Clara, CA; Charlottesville, VA; and Ann Arbor, MI.
Lead Investor - Venture Portfolio & Investments
Mar 2025
At Rockwell Automation, we connect the imaginations of people with the potential of technology to expand what is humanly possible, making the world more intelligent, more connected and more productive. Throughout the world, our flagship Allen-Bradley® and Rockwell Software® product brands are recognized for innovation and excellence.
Board Observer
Mar 2025
RightHand Robotics (RHR) is a leader in providing end-to-end solutions that reduce the cost of e-commerce order-fulfillment of electronics, apparel, grocery, pharmaceuticals, and countless other industries. Unlike traditional factory robots that can be complex to setup and are singly purposed, RHR solutions are simple to integrate and adaptable to improve the utilization of many different customer workflows, such as sorting batch-picked items, picking items from an ASRS, inducting items to a belt sorter, and order quality assurance.
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