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Mar 2022
Pioneering synthetic data and generative AI technology to build more capable and ethical AI.
Board Member
Jan 2022
Garden is a development automation platform for Kubernetes and cloud native applications.
The widespread adoption of cloud native technologies such as containers and Kubernetes has made it easier than ever to operate and scale applications. But important developer workflows have been overlooked or neglected along the way. Many developers find that they’re now less productive than they were before the cloud native era.
Developers working on distributed microservices applications have been left without an efficient way to build, run tests, and iterate in a production-like environment.
Garden makes it easy to spin up production-like environments for development, testing, and CI, and to use the same workflows for every stage of the process. With Garden, developers get fast feedback exactly when they need it, and DevOps teams are no longer bogged down with provisioning and managing ad hoc environments.
We also offer fully supported cloud and enterprise editions: https://garden.io/pricing
Seed Investor
Jan 2022
Building Deeplake: the GPU-native, sandboxed Postgres for AI agents.
Try out Deeplake today via deeplake.ai
Board Member
Nov 2021
ramblr - The Egocentric Data Company - we enable Egocentric AI to understand daily-life activities from a first-person view.
Data captured from a first-person view - or egocentric data - will enable a multitude of future Augmented Reality applications. Collecting, segmenting, annotating as well as processing egocentric data poses unique challenges, including handling of large datasets capturing a wide variety of use-cases. At ramblr we are building a full service egocentric data pipeline with purpose build tools to address the unique challenges of Egocentric AI.
ramblr - Multi-sensory Data for Egocentric AI
We are continually searching for new ramblrs for our offices in San Francisco and Munich or even remotely based. Are you excited to become a ramblr and join us at the intersection of AI and AR? If so, you can apply to the job posting directly or use the open application form.
Board Member
Sep 2021
QuestDB is an open-source database designed to process time-series data, faster. Our approach comes from low-latency trading; QuestDB’s stack is engineered from scratch and dependency-free.
YCombinator S20, InfoWorlds 2020 Best of OSS Award Winner & Accels #Open100.
Board Member
Mar 2021
Imagine energy as a given...CustomCells. We are transforming energy storage technology from todays limitations into an effortlessly available and abundant energy resource.
Built on a foundation of groundbreaking innovation and a profitable core business, we are scaling up rapidly to enable the worlds leading mobility providers to fast-track the transition to sustainable electric mobility.
We innovate and industrialize customer-centric premium battery technology and power the global energy transition for a better future. CustomCells operates at the nexus of groundbreaking innovation and high-performance volume manufacturing, enabling customers to realize their most technologically ambitious projects. We bring premium battery technology to automotive leaders, aviation pioneers, and other industry frontrunners, offering a competitive edge in electrification and decarbonization. Together, we drive impact at scale for both people and the planet.
Board Member
Feb 2021
We build DVC, CML, MLEM, Studio and other developer tools for machine learning. Were a well-funded, remote-first team on a mission to solve the complexity of managing datasets, ML infrastructure & ML models lifecycle management. Iterative brings best engineering practices to data science and machine learning teams.
Investor
Sep 2020
woom is an international manufacturer of bikes for children and teenagers with its headquarters in Klosterneuburg, outside of Vienna. The company was founded in 2013 by Christian Bezdeka and Marcus Ihlenfeld in a garage in Vienna. After a long and fruitless search for the perfect bike for their children, the two bike-loving fathers decided to take matters into their own hands and design a bike themselves: zooming in on a low weight, timeless designs, high-quality components, and child-specific geometry.
In just a few years woom went from little-known brand to market leader, with woom bikes now being sold in 30 countries around the world, including Austria, Germany and Switzerland, the US and Asia. Every third childrens bicycle purchased new in Austria is a woom bike. In 2021 the 500,000th woom bike rolled off the production line.
Alongside the woom ORIGINAL lineup of balance and pedal bikes (woom ORIGINAL 1 to woom ORIGINAL 6), the brand also produces the woom OFF mountain bike with a carbon fork and the woom OFF AIR with front suspension. In 2020, these were joined by the woom UP eMTB with a natural-feeling drive system. There are numerous pieces of woom equipment and accessories that make cycling even more enjoyable. Over the years, woom has received multiple prestigious design awards for its bikes and other products.
In 2020, woom sold almost 230,000 bikes despite all the supply chain shortages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of bikes sold was up by over 60% compared to 2019. In the autumn of 2020, woom took on investors for the first time ever, with venture capital group Bregal and Runtastic founder Florian Gschwandtner amongst those being welcomed on board. Since 2021, the final assembly of woom ORIGINAL bikes for the European market is carried out at a SPRICK CYCLE factory in Poland.
As of May 2022, woom employs more than 200 staff members in Austria and 60+ in the USA, and the team is expected to grow to around 300 employees by early 2023.
Investor
Sep 2020
Worldcoin is building the worlds largest identity and financial network to serve as a public utility, giving ownership to everyone. We aim to create universal access to the global economy regardless of country or background, accelerating the transition to an economic future that welcomes and benefits every person on the planet.
Board Member
May 2020
Bardeen is an AI Agent for your browser. It performs actions across your apps and tabs with a simple prompt to save you time.
Investor
Jan 2020
Planet Wild is a global community of people who care deeply about nature and want to help our planet bounce back. We are on a mission to bring back endangered species, clean up our oceans and rewild entire landscapes with your help.
🤝 Does your business have an interest in rewilding?
Partner with Planet Wild to fund groundbreaking rewilding missions, showcase your environmental leadership and create real impact.
Take a look at our offer here: https://planetwild.com/businesses.
EVERY MONTH, we work with wildlife pioneers worldwide to
🦁 bring back endangered species
🌊 protect oceans and aquatic life
🌳 revive forests and rewild landscapes.
EVERY MEMBER can vote on how we spend the money.
EVERY MISSION is documented in videos. 100% transparency.
EVERYONE can join. The bigger the community grows, the bigger these missions will get!
Investor
Nov 2019
Rapid’s mission is to provide manufacturers a robotic solution that can be deployed against simple tasks in hours rather than weeks, and at a fraction of the cost of other automation solutions that require extensive manual programming. Our product is a fully integrated robotic arm work cell that is trained to perform tasks out of the box, and learns new tasks via our cloud infrastructure, AI, and Computer Vision.
Rapid’s software provides our customers with an intuitive interface that gives them the tools to deploy and redeploy Rapid’s automated work cells on their manufacturing lines without having to be a robotics expert. To enable accessible and simple user-facing controls requires an extensive and specialized technology stack. Rapid’s platform is powered by AI and Computer Vision that drastically reduces the complexity, cost, and time typically required to set up a robotic arm. In short, we are automating the process for deploying manufacturing automation.
Rapid’s solution is already deployed with customers, and is proven to deliver increased profits and decreased costs, making our solution indispensable for the future of manufacturing.
Investor & Board Member
Apr 2019
Linearity, is designed to help you bring your ideas to life. Whether youre a marketing pro or a design enthusiast, you can now create sleek marketing assets with Linearity Curve and then transform them into professional marketing motion graphics with Linearity Move. It all started in 2017 when we introduced Linearity Curve (formally Vectornator) to the world with the goal of making professional digital design accessible to everyone. Over the years our features expanded and our functionalities multiplied, transforming what started as a simple solution into a versatile software that now caters to design teams of all levels. Today, with a focus on offering AI-powered and collaborative tools for creating marketing visual assets and the imminent launch of Linearity Move, a groundbreaking motion graphics software that allows anyone to create animated content quickly and easily, Linearity aims to empower marketing professionals, graphic designers, illustrators, and animators to unlock their creative potential. Recognizing the lack of modern collaboration features in traditional marketing design tools, Linearity Curves platform empowers marketing teams to work seamlessly together. Real-time collaboration, commenting, proprietary cloud storage and advanced design features will be coming soon and enable marketers to breathe life into their creative ideas, fostering efficient workflows and unleashing their storytelling potential. The company has also just launched its game-changing motion graphics software, Linearity Move, in a completely new take on the way motion marketing assets are created. With its user-friendly interface, Linearity Move enables marketing teams to effortlessly transform their designs into animations within seconds.
Investor
Nov 2018
Blueland is revolutionizing conventional cleaning and personal care products to eliminate the need for single-use plastic packaging, with our reusable, refillable products. We believe that we should be able to have a clean home without sacrificing a clean planet and that sustainable choices can be convenient, effective and affordable. We are a science-driven company with a pipeline of proprietary products that started with our cleaning sprays and hand soap. To date, we’ve already helped divert more than 1 billion single-use plastic bottles from landfills and waterways.
We were the 2nd fastest growing direct-to-consumer in 2020, and have over 350K Instagram followers. We’re proud to be B Corporation Certified, recognized for meeting the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. Blueland was featured on the Season 11 premiere of Shark Tank, securing an investment by Kevin O’Leary. Blueland is well-funded by top tier venture capital firms as well as notable investors including Gwyneth Paltrow, Justin Timberlake and founders of Sweetgreen, Thrive Market, Honest Company, Rent the Runway, and Bonobos. We’ve been featured across top tier outlets such as the New York Times, Fast Company, TechCrunch, VOGUE, Wall Street Journal, Inc., and more.
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Board Member
Mar 2022
Pioneering synthetic data and generative AI technology to build more capable and ethical AI.
Board Member
Jan 2022
Garden is a development automation platform for Kubernetes and cloud native applications.
The widespread adoption of cloud native technologies such as containers and Kubernetes has made it easier than ever to operate and scale applications. But important developer workflows have been overlooked or neglected along the way. Many developers find that they’re now less productive than they were before the cloud native era.
Developers working on distributed microservices applications have been left without an efficient way to build, run tests, and iterate in a production-like environment.
Garden makes it easy to spin up production-like environments for development, testing, and CI, and to use the same workflows for every stage of the process. With Garden, developers get fast feedback exactly when they need it, and DevOps teams are no longer bogged down with provisioning and managing ad hoc environments.
We also offer fully supported cloud and enterprise editions: https://garden.io/pricing
Seed Investor
Jan 2022
Building Deeplake: the GPU-native, sandboxed Postgres for AI agents.
Try out Deeplake today via deeplake.ai
2021
Board Member
Nov 2021
ramblr - The Egocentric Data Company - we enable Egocentric AI to understand daily-life activities from a first-person view.
Data captured from a first-person view - or egocentric data - will enable a multitude of future Augmented Reality applications. Collecting, segmenting, annotating as well as processing egocentric data poses unique challenges, including handling of large datasets capturing a wide variety of use-cases. At ramblr we are building a full service egocentric data pipeline with purpose build tools to address the unique challenges of Egocentric AI.
ramblr - Multi-sensory Data for Egocentric AI
We are continually searching for new ramblrs for our offices in San Francisco and Munich or even remotely based. Are you excited to become a ramblr and join us at the intersection of AI and AR? If so, you can apply to the job posting directly or use the open application form.
Board Member
Sep 2021
QuestDB is an open-source database designed to process time-series data, faster. Our approach comes from low-latency trading; QuestDB’s stack is engineered from scratch and dependency-free.
YCombinator S20, InfoWorlds 2020 Best of OSS Award Winner & Accels #Open100.
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