Clayton Conway

VP Research & Development | Amphibious Aircraft Design | AI‑Augmented Discovery & Innovation | Relentlessly Curious Storyteller

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022
Operator-angel🌍 United States
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Portfolio

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Jan 2022
Sparrow empowers individuals to reach their full potential through AI-driven motion analysis and coaching. Our advanced Generative AI solutions redefine personal coaching, starting with golf. Our technology provides real-time, personalized swing analysis, comparing your performance against millions of data points from top athletes. Available on the App Store, Sparrow Golf has already helped over 250k golfers improve their game. But we don’t stop there. Sparrows AI is expanding to offer tailored coaching across various sports and activities, ensuring expert guidance, no matter your passion. Experience the future of training with precise, actionable feedback that helps you excel. Spearheading the next generation of Gen AI, Sparrow develops coaching apps that enable users to interact with their coach through voice and hand gestures, experience motion analysis for a variety of activities, and receive real-time guidance during skill-based training.
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May 2021
We believe that drones can transform our world for the better - saving lives and protecting our environment. Parallel Flight is developing technology to unlock radical new possibilities.
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Jul 2020
Geoship designs and manufactures affordable, zero-carbon, climate-resilient homes and creates a platform for homebuyers to connect and collaborate in building regenerative communities. Driven by exponential climate technology, decentralization, and community-centered development, the company is leading a paradigm shift in housing. Inspired by visionary architect Buckminster Fuller, Geoship employs a "physics-first principles” approach to homebuilding, enabled by a breakthrough in ceramic material science. By optimizing geometry, materials, and manufacturing methods, our ceramic composite homes decrease housing costs by over 60%, reduce energy use by over 80%, and cut embodied CO2 by up to 96%. Additional benefits include healthy natural materials, extended lifespan, 99% less construction waste, and resilience against fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, and mold. We believe geodesic homes will follow the same path as personal computers and electric vehicles - limited niche products that ultimately gain worldwide adoption. Our impact extends beyond affordable, zero-carbon, climate-resilient housing manufactured at incredibly high speed. Geoship builds villages that embody powerful urban design principles like permaculture and placemaking, facilitating collaborative innovation and supporting mission-aligned communities. This approach creates a multiplier effect toward a regenerative future - where human communities positively impact the natural world. Our north star is derived from Buckminster Fuller: "To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone." Learn More: https://www.geoship.is/
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2023
Founder
Jan 2023
Vero Research Ventures applies serendipity maximization to solve complex environmental problems then turning unexpected discoveries into scalable solutions for waste bioremediation and ocean conservation. We believe the most important breakthroughs aren’t planned. They happen at the intersection of rigorous science and prepared curiosity. Our work is built around creating the conditions for those moments then moving fast when they arrive. What we do: + Waste bioremediation research and deployment + Ocean conservation science and strategy + Deep reconnaissance into overlooked environmental problems + Venture development at the frontier of environmental science We are not a traditional research firm. We are a discovery engine that treats serendipity as a methodology, not an accident. Where Serendipity Meets Science.
2022
Investor
Jan 2022
Sparrow empowers individuals to reach their full potential through AI-driven motion analysis and coaching. Our advanced Generative AI solutions redefine personal coaching, starting with golf. Our technology provides real-time, personalized swing analysis, comparing your performance against millions of data points from top athletes. Available on the App Store, Sparrow Golf has already helped over 250k golfers improve their game. But we don’t stop there. Sparrows AI is expanding to offer tailored coaching across various sports and activities, ensuring expert guidance, no matter your passion. Experience the future of training with precise, actionable feedback that helps you excel. Spearheading the next generation of Gen AI, Sparrow develops coaching apps that enable users to interact with their coach through voice and hand gestures, experience motion analysis for a variety of activities, and receive real-time guidance during skill-based training.
2021
Investor
May 2021
We believe that drones can transform our world for the better - saving lives and protecting our environment. Parallel Flight is developing technology to unlock radical new possibilities.
2020
Investor
Jul 2020
Geoship designs and manufactures affordable, zero-carbon, climate-resilient homes and creates a platform for homebuyers to connect and collaborate in building regenerative communities. Driven by exponential climate technology, decentralization, and community-centered development, the company is leading a paradigm shift in housing. Inspired by visionary architect Buckminster Fuller, Geoship employs a "physics-first principles” approach to homebuilding, enabled by a breakthrough in ceramic material science. By optimizing geometry, materials, and manufacturing methods, our ceramic composite homes decrease housing costs by over 60%, reduce energy use by over 80%, and cut embodied CO2 by up to 96%. Additional benefits include healthy natural materials, extended lifespan, 99% less construction waste, and resilience against fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, and mold. We believe geodesic homes will follow the same path as personal computers and electric vehicles - limited niche products that ultimately gain worldwide adoption. Our impact extends beyond affordable, zero-carbon, climate-resilient housing manufactured at incredibly high speed. Geoship builds villages that embody powerful urban design principles like permaculture and placemaking, facilitating collaborative innovation and supporting mission-aligned communities. This approach creates a multiplier effect toward a regenerative future - where human communities positively impact the natural world. Our north star is derived from Buckminster Fuller: "To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone." Learn More: https://www.geoship.is/
2017
Co-Founder
Mar 2017
We are an integrated Web Design, Build, Host, and Management Agency focused on helping businesses and public agencies reach their full potential by building and managing their web and mobile applications with convenient and affordable monthly total care plans. Web Design Graphic Design Logo Design Social Media Marketing Email Marketing Marketing Automation Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Custom Solutions Software Development Mobile Applications Responsive Web Application Scavenger & Treasure Hunt Apps Chamber of Commerce We provide design, marketing, and web services to local businesses, manufacturers, healthcare providers, and government agencies. https://www.yelp.com/biz/puget-tech-camano-island https://www.facebook.com/pugettechagency https://www.linkedin.com/company/pugettech/ https://www.instagram.com/pugettech/ https://twitter.com/puget_tech https://www.pinterest.com/pugettechagency/
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2020–2022 · 3 investments
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