Franziska Bossart

Robotics, AI & Operations Leadership | Head of Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund ($1B) | Corporate Development

📍 Menlo Park, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2020
VC🌍 United States
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Board Observer
Oct 2020
Hailo is developing high-performance AI processors specifically designed to run AI tasks on the edge. Hailo’s processors bring data-class performance to smart devices such as personal computers, cars, security & industrial cameras, autonomous robots, etc. With an innovative architecture, Hailo enables edge devices to run advanced AI models in real-time, with minimal power consumption, size, and cost, transforming a multitude of industries including automotive, security, PC and more.
Board Observer
Oct 2020
Stellapps is a tech-driven, end-to-end, dairy-led food value chain platform. It leverages advanced analytics and artificial intelligence through its full-stack IoT platform to enable dairy ecosystem partnerships with financial & insurance institutions, veterinary services, cattle nutrition providers, agro-input providers, etc. to create significant value for small farmers and all the other stakeholders. Stellapps started in 2011 by building out the foundational parts of its Digital Access Network (DAN) and as an entry strategy, providing end-to-end digitized supply chain solutions. In its journey of the last 11 years, Stellapps has interacted very closely with the farmers and understood their livelihood sources, needs, aspirations, and challenges. Today, Stellapps is leveraging the same to realize an end-to-end food value chain platform, through creating a “string of pearls” approach and providing value-added services such as dairy market linkages, agro-inputs, and financial services to small holder farmers. It's market linkage service vertical mooMark, currently procures 1.5Lacs liters per day from farmers across South, Eastern, and western regions of India, and disseminates scientific advisory through its Farm Improvement Services team. The fintech wing mooPay is creating financial inclusion and economic empowerment of smallholder farmers and more than 65% of its customers are farmers who have never taken a loan from a regulated entity like a finance company or bank. The farm inputs vertical mooGrow is providing hyper-local access to high-quality agro-inputs and farm equipment on the go through smartFarms app and village-level collection centres. Stellapps works with 3.1M+ farmers in India including 68% women farmers and its innovations and processes have resulted in high farmer profitability leading to an increase in farmers' income. Stellapps is the only Agritech company in India, that has been granted a patent for its innovation "Herd Management System".
Board Observer
Sep 2020
Oxipital AI is a leader in AI-enabled machine vision technologies for robotic process automation and product inspection in critical industries such as food processing, agriculture, and consumer goods production. The company’s mission is to deliver actionable insights through deep object understanding, to customers, as they embrace Industry 5.0 and to unlock previously unachievable levels of resiliency, efficiency, and sustainability in their manufacturing operations.
Board Observer
Feb 2020
Everactive helps developers of connected products easily design without the constraints of batteries by providing a hardware toolkit and managed network purpose-built for self-powered devices. That toolkit enables the most sustainable, scalable, and cost-effective Internet of Things solutions. The companys proprietary low-power energy harvesting and wireless technology enables completely batteryless and always-on IoT systems powered entirely from micro-renewable energy. By opening its groundbreaking technology, Everactive is enabling developers to build suites of innovative hyperscale IoT applications that continuously analyze an explosion of new data across a wide range of applications and throughout entire environments. Everactive’s self-powered IoT platform is built upon groundbreaking advances in ultra-low-power circuit design and wireless communication that allow the company to power its Eversensors exclusively from harvested energy. The company also offers a managed data network to seamlessly and reliably deliver developers self-sustaining data streams. Everactive has offices in Santa Clara, CA; Charlottesville, VA; and Ann Arbor, MI.
Board Observer
Jan 2020
InCharge Energy is on the frontlines of large-scale emissions reduction, accelerating the electrification of the transportation industry – one commercial fleet at a time. With end-to-end, turnkey solutions for commercial EV infrastructure projects, InCharge Energy equips fleet managers with the top brands in charging hardware and software; customized hardware and software products; short-, mid- and long-range plans for seamless fleet and facilities transition to EVs; financing; and maintenance and corrective repairs over the life of the charging assets. 🔌 InCharge develops innovative hardware, software and services designed and engineered specifically for fleets, such as service-dispatch-integrated software, fleet-management-integrated software, electricity load management, durable cable management products and high-reliability maintenance, repair and warranty services. Whether a fleet has 200 sedans or 20,000 Class 8 trucks, the team at InCharge serves a diverse clientele throughout North America, including major commercial fleets, truck and bus manufacturers, rideshare operators, EV manufacturers, school districts, municipalities and facilities owners, among many others. 🌎 Headquartered in the world’s first zero-emissions delivery zone in Santa Monica, Calif., InCharge Energy was founded by EV industry veterans Cameron Funk and Terry O’Day. The company has additional operations in San Francisco, Michigan and Virginia. 📞 If you’re looking for an experienced team to support your fleet’s electrification, please call us at 818.697.GOEV
Board Observer
Jan 2020
Element powers digitally-enabled operations for the Industrial Enterprise. Tackling one of the most critical gaps in Industrial IoT –– the fact that 95% of data across the Industrial Enterprise is unusable because it’s fragmented and disconnected –– Element Unify breaks through the data silos by bringing IT and OT data and teams together for the first time on a single solution. With Element Unify, IT and OT teams can collaboratively make data-driven operational and business decisions around rich, contextualized metadata, while ensuring scale, reliability and security. Industrial Enterprises can see up to a 300% increase in time to insight, reduced organizational fragmentation, and a 100% increase in data usability with Element. Element's customers represent over $500 billion in revenue, $300 billion in fixed assets, and 350,000 employees. Element is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
Board Observer
Jan 2020
Everactive helps developers of connected products easily design without the constraints of batteries by providing a hardware toolkit and managed network purpose-built for self-powered devices. That toolkit enables the most sustainable, scalable, and cost-effective Internet of Things solutions. The companys proprietary low-power energy harvesting and wireless technology enables completely batteryless and always-on IoT systems powered entirely from micro-renewable energy. By opening its groundbreaking technology, Everactive is enabling developers to build suites of innovative hyperscale IoT applications that continuously analyze an explosion of new data across a wide range of applications and throughout entire environments. Everactive’s self-powered IoT platform is built upon groundbreaking advances in ultra-low-power circuit design and wireless communication that allow the company to power its Eversensors exclusively from harvested energy. The company also offers a managed data network to seamlessly and reliably deliver developers self-sustaining data streams. Everactive has offices in Santa Clara, CA; Charlottesville, VA; and Ann Arbor, MI.
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Board Observer
Oct 2020
Hailo is developing high-performance AI processors specifically designed to run AI tasks on the edge. Hailo’s processors bring data-class performance to smart devices such as personal computers, cars, security & industrial cameras, autonomous robots, etc. With an innovative architecture, Hailo enables edge devices to run advanced AI models in real-time, with minimal power consumption, size, and cost, transforming a multitude of industries including automotive, security, PC and more.
Board Observer
Oct 2020
Stellapps is a tech-driven, end-to-end, dairy-led food value chain platform. It leverages advanced analytics and artificial intelligence through its full-stack IoT platform to enable dairy ecosystem partnerships with financial & insurance institutions, veterinary services, cattle nutrition providers, agro-input providers, etc. to create significant value for small farmers and all the other stakeholders. Stellapps started in 2011 by building out the foundational parts of its Digital Access Network (DAN) and as an entry strategy, providing end-to-end digitized supply chain solutions. In its journey of the last 11 years, Stellapps has interacted very closely with the farmers and understood their livelihood sources, needs, aspirations, and challenges. Today, Stellapps is leveraging the same to realize an end-to-end food value chain platform, through creating a “string of pearls” approach and providing value-added services such as dairy market linkages, agro-inputs, and financial services to small holder farmers. It's market linkage service vertical mooMark, currently procures 1.5Lacs liters per day from farmers across South, Eastern, and western regions of India, and disseminates scientific advisory through its Farm Improvement Services team. The fintech wing mooPay is creating financial inclusion and economic empowerment of smallholder farmers and more than 65% of its customers are farmers who have never taken a loan from a regulated entity like a finance company or bank. The farm inputs vertical mooGrow is providing hyper-local access to high-quality agro-inputs and farm equipment on the go through smartFarms app and village-level collection centres. Stellapps works with 3.1M+ farmers in India including 68% women farmers and its innovations and processes have resulted in high farmer profitability leading to an increase in farmers' income. Stellapps is the only Agritech company in India, that has been granted a patent for its innovation "Herd Management System".
Board Observer
Sep 2020
Oxipital AI is a leader in AI-enabled machine vision technologies for robotic process automation and product inspection in critical industries such as food processing, agriculture, and consumer goods production. The company’s mission is to deliver actionable insights through deep object understanding, to customers, as they embrace Industry 5.0 and to unlock previously unachievable levels of resiliency, efficiency, and sustainability in their manufacturing operations.
Board Observer
Feb 2020
Everactive helps developers of connected products easily design without the constraints of batteries by providing a hardware toolkit and managed network purpose-built for self-powered devices. That toolkit enables the most sustainable, scalable, and cost-effective Internet of Things solutions. The companys proprietary low-power energy harvesting and wireless technology enables completely batteryless and always-on IoT systems powered entirely from micro-renewable energy. By opening its groundbreaking technology, Everactive is enabling developers to build suites of innovative hyperscale IoT applications that continuously analyze an explosion of new data across a wide range of applications and throughout entire environments. Everactive’s self-powered IoT platform is built upon groundbreaking advances in ultra-low-power circuit design and wireless communication that allow the company to power its Eversensors exclusively from harvested energy. The company also offers a managed data network to seamlessly and reliably deliver developers self-sustaining data streams. Everactive has offices in Santa Clara, CA; Charlottesville, VA; and Ann Arbor, MI.
Board Observer
Jan 2020
InCharge Energy is on the frontlines of large-scale emissions reduction, accelerating the electrification of the transportation industry – one commercial fleet at a time. With end-to-end, turnkey solutions for commercial EV infrastructure projects, InCharge Energy equips fleet managers with the top brands in charging hardware and software; customized hardware and software products; short-, mid- and long-range plans for seamless fleet and facilities transition to EVs; financing; and maintenance and corrective repairs over the life of the charging assets. 🔌 InCharge develops innovative hardware, software and services designed and engineered specifically for fleets, such as service-dispatch-integrated software, fleet-management-integrated software, electricity load management, durable cable management products and high-reliability maintenance, repair and warranty services. Whether a fleet has 200 sedans or 20,000 Class 8 trucks, the team at InCharge serves a diverse clientele throughout North America, including major commercial fleets, truck and bus manufacturers, rideshare operators, EV manufacturers, school districts, municipalities and facilities owners, among many others. 🌎 Headquartered in the world’s first zero-emissions delivery zone in Santa Monica, Calif., InCharge Energy was founded by EV industry veterans Cameron Funk and Terry O’Day. The company has additional operations in San Francisco, Michigan and Virginia. 📞 If you’re looking for an experienced team to support your fleet’s electrification, please call us at 818.697.GOEV
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