Charles Ruppert

T-Mobile Head of M&A and Venture Capital

📍 United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 5 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2026
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Sep 2025
Figure is an AI Robotics company building the worlds first commercially viable autonomous humanoid robot. We are based in San Jose, CA.
Board Member and Investor
Feb 2023
Movius provides Secure Communications as a Service (SCaaS™), offering a complete work and personal separation solution on any mobile device. MultiLine™ by Movius is the trusted solution for using mobile voice, text, social channels, and Microsoft Teams for business-to-customer communications globally. This mobile communication evolution is what the company calls Phone 3.0™. Leading financial services, healthcare, and other regulated enterprises around the world use the company’s unified, secure communication platform to connect with their customers in more convenient, cost-effective, and compliant ways. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices around the world, Movius works with leading, global service providers including T-Mobile, SingTel, and 3.
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Mar 2022
Getting AI from pilot to production is a widespread problem. Spectro Cloud is the fast lane: we help enterprises, sovereign AI clouds and public sector organizations build, govern and operate AI infrastructure in any environment, from edge to cloud, and from metal to token factory. Were proud that customers like GE HealthCare, Yum! Brands, the U.S. Air Force, and other organizations trust us with their biggest infrastructure challenges, from zero-downtime operations across thousands of sites to standing up production AI in 30 days. Behind those results is PaletteAI, our AI infrastructure management platform built for scale. Its the only platform that manages VMs, containers and AI workloads in one place, with one operating model, and consistent policy, access and cost controls everywhere. It runs wherever you do, including air-gapped, sovereign and regulated environments. Every team starts somewhere, whether thats standing up an AI factory, cutting inferencing costs, moving off VMware, scaling the edge or taming a Kubernetes fleet. Pick the problem in front of you today, start with a single-cluster turnkey appliance, then grow to thousands of clusters at your pace.
Corporate Development, M&A and Venture Investments
Feb 2022
As the supercharged Un-carrier, T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) is powered by an award-winning 5G network that connects more people, in more places, than ever before. With T-Mobile’s unique value proposition of best network, best value, and best experiences, the Un-carrier is redefining connectivity and fueling competition while continuing to drive the next wave of innovation in wireless and beyond. Headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile provides services through its subsidiaries and operates its flagship brands, T-Mobile, Metro by T-Mobile, and Mint Mobile.
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2026
Board Member
Sep 2026
The Technology Alliance is a statewide, non-profit organization of leaders from Washington’s technology-based businesses and research institutions united by our vision of a vibrant innovation economy that benefits all of our states citizens. Through programs, events, data analysis, and policy activities, we advance excellence in education, research, and entrepreneurship to support the growth of our high-impact industries; the creation of high-wage jobs; and economic prosperity for our entire state.
2025
Investor
Sep 2025
Figure is an AI Robotics company building the worlds first commercially viable autonomous humanoid robot. We are based in San Jose, CA.
2023
Board Member and Investor
Feb 2023
Movius provides Secure Communications as a Service (SCaaS™), offering a complete work and personal separation solution on any mobile device. MultiLine™ by Movius is the trusted solution for using mobile voice, text, social channels, and Microsoft Teams for business-to-customer communications globally. This mobile communication evolution is what the company calls Phone 3.0™. Leading financial services, healthcare, and other regulated enterprises around the world use the company’s unified, secure communication platform to connect with their customers in more convenient, cost-effective, and compliant ways. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices around the world, Movius works with leading, global service providers including T-Mobile, SingTel, and 3.
2022
Investor
Mar 2022
Getting AI from pilot to production is a widespread problem. Spectro Cloud is the fast lane: we help enterprises, sovereign AI clouds and public sector organizations build, govern and operate AI infrastructure in any environment, from edge to cloud, and from metal to token factory. Were proud that customers like GE HealthCare, Yum! Brands, the U.S. Air Force, and other organizations trust us with their biggest infrastructure challenges, from zero-downtime operations across thousands of sites to standing up production AI in 30 days. Behind those results is PaletteAI, our AI infrastructure management platform built for scale. Its the only platform that manages VMs, containers and AI workloads in one place, with one operating model, and consistent policy, access and cost controls everywhere. It runs wherever you do, including air-gapped, sovereign and regulated environments. Every team starts somewhere, whether thats standing up an AI factory, cutting inferencing costs, moving off VMware, scaling the edge or taming a Kubernetes fleet. Pick the problem in front of you today, start with a single-cluster turnkey appliance, then grow to thousands of clusters at your pace.
Corporate Development, M&A and Venture Investments
Feb 2022
As the supercharged Un-carrier, T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) is powered by an award-winning 5G network that connects more people, in more places, than ever before. With T-Mobile’s unique value proposition of best network, best value, and best experiences, the Un-carrier is redefining connectivity and fueling competition while continuing to drive the next wave of innovation in wireless and beyond. Headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile provides services through its subsidiaries and operates its flagship brands, T-Mobile, Metro by T-Mobile, and Mint Mobile.
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