Alan Cohen

Partner at DCVC

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Angel investor🌍 United States
9
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3
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2
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14y
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Portfolio

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Investor
Mar 2025
Luminos is a platform with tools to help you automate governance, testing and compliance for your AI Systems, models, and AI training data. With AI impact assessment workflows, and built-in data and model testing capabilities, you can automate assessments and verify you are meeting laws and policies with testing. On Luminos, your test results can also be protected under privilege. Our testing tools for AI training data and models, built by Luminos expert lawyers and data scientists together, are great for collaboration across teams. Luminos has been deployed to manage AI risks in everything from generative AI to facial recognition, credit, hiring decisions and more. We apply years of nuanced legal experience to make sure AI governance works—in practice and at scale.
Investor and Board Member
Dec 2023
We are building products aimed at making the lives of IT and Security teams better. We believe that IT and Security teams are strategic assets to their organizations. We are developing products that help them see through technology complexity thereby amplifying their power. Interested in learning more - please reach out.
Investor
May 2023
Smartex is a leading and award-winning hardware-based software company dedicated to developing advanced solutions and building essential tools for the modern textile factory. With a focus on AI-driven technology, Smartex empowers textile manufacturers to optimize operations, enhance quality control, boost sustainability, and streamline supply chain processes. We are revolutionizing the textile industry with our comprehensive suite of tools, including Smartex CORE and Smartex LOOP. These tools enable manufacturers to unlock their full potential and thrive in an increasingly competitive landscape. Smartex CORE, the foundation of the Smartex System, detects all relevant types of defects produced by Circular Knitting Machines (open-width and tubular) using artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms & integrates into existing textile machinery with a seamless set of cameras and sensors. The system pairs with a comprehensive software platform for factory management, article management, digital twins of textile rolls produced, and more. Building upon the success of Smartex CORE, our AI-enabled automated quality control product, Smartex LOOP enables suppliers to take advantage of fabric-roll level data collection and revolutionize supply chain communication, as well as directly address the call from fashion brands for better supply chain data, marking a new era of transparency and collaboration. Smartex is dedicated to digitizing the textile industry by providing technical tools which will allow it to become more efficient, productive, and sustainable.
Investor and Board Member
May 2023
Fulfil has reimagined and reinvented online grocery automation with a completely unique, fully automated fulfillment system that enables customer-centric, sustainable and profitable online grocery at scale. Unlike legacy automation technology being tested for grocery fulfillment, Fulfil’s robots do all the picking and packing across all product categories and temperature zones, unlocking extreme speed, throughput, accuracy, and inventory control with minimal labor in a small footprint.
Investor and Board Member
Oct 2021
Reach is the leader in high-performance wireless power-at-a-distance. Reach’s wireless power solution does for power delivery what Wi-Fi does for data connectivity. The Reach system is built on state-of-the-art, patented technology, including high-efficiency power beaming circuits, network optimization algorithms, and adaptive electromagnetic surfaces, delivering a highly scalable, safe, and easy-to-use power platform. Ideally suited for critical infrastructure, government, energy, logistics, and first responders, the Reach solution provides flexible access to power where and when needed, streamlining device deployment and improving device performance.
Investor and Board Member
Nov 2020
Caption Health has developed the AI platform that enables heart ultrasound access for early disease detection—when there is the highest potential for impact. Our breakthrough Caption AI technology is the first FDA cleared AI-guided medical imaging acquisition software, enabling more healthcare professionals to capture diagnostic-quality ultrasound images in more care settings. Caption AI powers Caption Care, a turnkey echo program that offers health plans and value-based care organizations convenient and cost-effective echocardiograms for their members. Caption Health was acquired by GE HealthCare in 2023 and has been recognized as one of TIME’s “100 Best Inventions” and Fast Company’s “Next Big Things in Tech”. Interested in creating a world where healthcare has no limits? Check out open roles at jobs.gecareers.com/healthcare/.
Investor and Board Member
Jun 2020
Proprio is a medical technology company based in Seattle, Washington. We create the new way of seeing™ in surgery through a proprietary platform of artificial intelligence, computer vision, and augmented/virtual reality. Our goal is to significantly improve patient outcomes and surgeon wellbeing through the collaboration of physician expertise and immersive, intelligent technology. We work closely with industry-leading medical and technical advisors and reputable research institutions specializing in neurosurgery, medical devices, AI, computer vision, and robotics to dimensionalize and digitize surgical vision in groundbreaking, real-time applications. A quickly-growing, award-winning company, our team consists of creative, diverse, multi-disciplinary thinkers and innovators who value designing technology for positive and unprecedented social and industry impact.
Advisor, Investor
2014
Arkin is transforming security and operations for the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC).  Enterprises today face tremendous challenges in migrating from a legacy, perimeter based security model to more modern, distributed, application-centric approaches.  Additionally, technologies such as converged infrastructure and software-defined architectures are introducing additional layers of complexity. With a Google Search-like experience, the Arkin platform is an industry first converged visibility and security operations platform, purpose-built for SDDC. Several F500/G2000 organizations have deployed the Arkin solution to get deep visibility across virtual and physical, implement newer security models such as micro-segmentation, and ensure application uptime, while collaborating better. Visit www.arkin.net or follow us @arkinnet
Experience · 10 entries
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Investments (9)
Board (5)
2025
Investor
Mar 2025
Luminos is a platform with tools to help you automate governance, testing and compliance for your AI Systems, models, and AI training data. With AI impact assessment workflows, and built-in data and model testing capabilities, you can automate assessments and verify you are meeting laws and policies with testing. On Luminos, your test results can also be protected under privilege. Our testing tools for AI training data and models, built by Luminos expert lawyers and data scientists together, are great for collaboration across teams. Luminos has been deployed to manage AI risks in everything from generative AI to facial recognition, credit, hiring decisions and more. We apply years of nuanced legal experience to make sure AI governance works—in practice and at scale.
2023
Investor and Board Member
Dec 2023
We are building products aimed at making the lives of IT and Security teams better. We believe that IT and Security teams are strategic assets to their organizations. We are developing products that help them see through technology complexity thereby amplifying their power. Interested in learning more - please reach out.
Investor
May 2023
Smartex is a leading and award-winning hardware-based software company dedicated to developing advanced solutions and building essential tools for the modern textile factory. With a focus on AI-driven technology, Smartex empowers textile manufacturers to optimize operations, enhance quality control, boost sustainability, and streamline supply chain processes. We are revolutionizing the textile industry with our comprehensive suite of tools, including Smartex CORE and Smartex LOOP. These tools enable manufacturers to unlock their full potential and thrive in an increasingly competitive landscape. Smartex CORE, the foundation of the Smartex System, detects all relevant types of defects produced by Circular Knitting Machines (open-width and tubular) using artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms & integrates into existing textile machinery with a seamless set of cameras and sensors. The system pairs with a comprehensive software platform for factory management, article management, digital twins of textile rolls produced, and more. Building upon the success of Smartex CORE, our AI-enabled automated quality control product, Smartex LOOP enables suppliers to take advantage of fabric-roll level data collection and revolutionize supply chain communication, as well as directly address the call from fashion brands for better supply chain data, marking a new era of transparency and collaboration. Smartex is dedicated to digitizing the textile industry by providing technical tools which will allow it to become more efficient, productive, and sustainable.
Investor and Board Member
May 2023
Fulfil has reimagined and reinvented online grocery automation with a completely unique, fully automated fulfillment system that enables customer-centric, sustainable and profitable online grocery at scale. Unlike legacy automation technology being tested for grocery fulfillment, Fulfil’s robots do all the picking and packing across all product categories and temperature zones, unlocking extreme speed, throughput, accuracy, and inventory control with minimal labor in a small footprint.
2021
Investor and Board Member
Oct 2021
Reach is the leader in high-performance wireless power-at-a-distance. Reach’s wireless power solution does for power delivery what Wi-Fi does for data connectivity. The Reach system is built on state-of-the-art, patented technology, including high-efficiency power beaming circuits, network optimization algorithms, and adaptive electromagnetic surfaces, delivering a highly scalable, safe, and easy-to-use power platform. Ideally suited for critical infrastructure, government, energy, logistics, and first responders, the Reach solution provides flexible access to power where and when needed, streamlining device deployment and improving device performance.
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