Alper Aydemir

CEO @ Volumental | Ex-NASA/JPL AI lead | Investor

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
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Jan 2026
Sunrise is a new kind of robotics company. We don’t just build robots — we shape the future of manufacturing. Our intelligent, autonomous robotic cells transform existing manufacturing processes, effortlessly scale capacity, and empower manufacturers to redeploy their operators to the most valuable tasks.
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May 2022
Rerun is the unified data layer for physical AI. Physical AI teams use Rerun to ingest multi-rate, multimodal data from teleop, fleet logs, human-data rigs, and sim, visualize episodes in realtime, query and curate with dataframes or SQL, and stream dataset mixes directly into training. One columnar store underneath the whole pipeline. No export jobs, no stale copies. SDKs in Python, Rust, and C++. Built in Rust on column-chunk storage purpose-built for multi-rate physical data. Get started: pip install rerun-sdk
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2026
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Jan 2026
Sunrise is a new kind of robotics company. We don’t just build robots — we shape the future of manufacturing. Our intelligent, autonomous robotic cells transform existing manufacturing processes, effortlessly scale capacity, and empower manufacturers to redeploy their operators to the most valuable tasks.
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May 2022
Rerun is the unified data layer for physical AI. Physical AI teams use Rerun to ingest multi-rate, multimodal data from teleop, fleet logs, human-data rigs, and sim, visualize episodes in realtime, query and curate with dataframes or SQL, and stream dataset mixes directly into training. One columnar store underneath the whole pipeline. No export jobs, no stale copies. SDKs in Python, Rust, and C++. Built in Rust on column-chunk storage purpose-built for multi-rate physical data. Get started: pip install rerun-sdk
2012
CTO and co-founder
Oct 2012
Imagine a world where every foot can effortlessly find its perfect-fitting shoe, from anywhere at any time. That’s what we do at Volumental. We dream big and then merge industry-leading computer vision hardware with artificial intelligence software solutions that make those dreams come true for our retail partners and their customers. Volumentals FitTech solutions empower brick & mortar and online retailers to match individual foot scans to point-of-sale purchase data in order to bring their footwear shoppers truly personalized omnichannel buying experiences that are virtually guaranteed to increase conversion rates, retention, and lifetime customer value. Partners using Volumental hardware and software solutions deliver shoppers perfect product recommendations in increasingly frictionless and profitable ways. Launched in 2012, Volumental is now the world’s leading FitTech company and has already helped over 19 million people enjoy a seamless and satisfying footwear buying experience. Today, footwear and retail brands in 52+ countries use Volumental’s products in over 3000 locations, from small specialty retail outlets to global powerhouses such as New Balance, Bauer Hockey, The Athlete’s Foot, Red Wing Shoes, XXL, Stride Rite, Fleet Feet, Road Runner Sports, Hoka One One, Under Armour, and Ecco.