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Board Member
Feb 2025
We develop ultra-high bandwidth, low latency optical interconnect transceivers used to reduce the infrastructure cost and energy consumption of generative AI, cellular, and strategic data transfer systems.
VC Investor
Nov 2023
Siamo il più grande gestore di Venture Capital in Italia e tra i più grandi in Europa.
Siamo nati grazie a un approccio di sistema nella gestione di risorse pubbliche e private finalizzato a creare un operatore di mercato in grado di coniugare finalità di ritorno sul capitale investito e sostegno allo sviluppo del mercato.
Operiamo su settori strategici per il futuro investendo direttamente e indirettamente in startup, PMI innovative e in fondi di Venture Capital per la creazione di una infrastruttura di mercato che possa sostenere tutto ciclo di vita delle nuove imprese.
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Vogliamo creare uno spazio rispettoso e sicuro per tutti. Tutti i contenuti saranno moderati e i messaggi che violano queste regole verranno cancellati. I commenti aggressivi, le parolacce, i termini offensivi o qualsiasi forma di comportamento scorretto non saranno tollerati. Gli utenti che persistono in comportamenti inappropriati potranno essere segnalati o bloccati.
Grazie per contribuire a mantenere la nostra community positiva e rispettosa!
Board Observer
Jun 2023
Cambridge GaN Devices Ltd. (CGD), a spin-out of the Cambridge University, is a fabless semiconductor company designing, developing and commercialising energy-efficient GaN-based power devices to make greener electronics possible. As a change maker, CGD introduced ICeGaN™ - an industry-first enhancement-mode (eMode) GaN transistor which can be operated like a Silicon MOSFET without the need for special gate drivers, driving circuitry, or unique gate voltage clamping mechanisms. The company has launched H1 & H2 Series.
Learn more information, please visit at www.camgandevices.com.
Follow Cambridge GaN Devices on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and 剑桥氮化镓器件 on WeChat.
Board Member
Nov 2021
Secondmind exists to help automotive engineers design better cars faster. The company’s cloud-native software, powered by Secondmind Active Learning, addresses the increasing complexity of vehicle design and development by reducing design simulation time and calibration overhead, enabling engineers to reimagine vehicle design and accelerate the transition to carbon-neutral mobility.
Founded in 2016 and supported by investors such as Amadeus Capital, Atlantic Bridge, Cambridge Innovation Capital and Mazda, Secondmind was recently recognized with the Automotive Testing Technology International Alternative Powertrain Test Innovation of the Year Award; selected for the Tech Nation Future Fifty scale-up program, and named by Bloomberg as one of the UK’s 25 startups to watch.
Secondmind®
Secondmind® is a registered trademark of Secondmind Ltd.
Board Member
Sep 2021
Dispelix is leading a technological revolution. We believe in the power of simplicity as the driving force of the next computing paradigm. We are here to realize the future, faster, with the best team possible in the field of extended reality waveguide technology.
We are driven by our vision to create the best possible waveguides for AR glasses. And to make them undistinguishable from ordinary glasses. We help create a world where technology does not look like technology. Where complexity is replaced by simplicity. Where unnecessary physical products, interfaces and advanced technologies become invisible and available for everyone – through our waveguides.
Investor
Jun 2018
Zaphiro is a pioneering Smart Grid company, official spin-off of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Our team has developed a game-changing smart grid solution, called SynchroGuard, which is the first distribution grid monitoring and automation system based on the most advanced monitoring technology currently available: Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs). SynchroGuard provides full grid visibility, efficiently integrates more renewables and EVs, and reduces the impact of blackouts thanks to unique fault location algorithms.
Zaphiro is already recognized as one of the most promising startups in the smart grid sector, thanks to several projects with well-recognized utilities worldwide, as well as multiple awards, including Free Electrons, SET award, and EIC accelerator.
Fueled by a passionate, driven and hard-working team, backed by leading venture capital investors, and supported by a high caliber board of advisors, Zaphiro is looking to continue this growth journey and keep helping power utilities to make the Energy Transition happen.
Experience · 11 entries
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Investments (10)
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2025
Board Member
Feb 2025
We develop ultra-high bandwidth, low latency optical interconnect transceivers used to reduce the infrastructure cost and energy consumption of generative AI, cellular, and strategic data transfer systems.
2023
VC Investor
Nov 2023
Siamo il più grande gestore di Venture Capital in Italia e tra i più grandi in Europa.
Siamo nati grazie a un approccio di sistema nella gestione di risorse pubbliche e private finalizzato a creare un operatore di mercato in grado di coniugare finalità di ritorno sul capitale investito e sostegno allo sviluppo del mercato.
Operiamo su settori strategici per il futuro investendo direttamente e indirettamente in startup, PMI innovative e in fondi di Venture Capital per la creazione di una infrastruttura di mercato che possa sostenere tutto ciclo di vita delle nuove imprese.
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Vogliamo creare uno spazio rispettoso e sicuro per tutti. Tutti i contenuti saranno moderati e i messaggi che violano queste regole verranno cancellati. I commenti aggressivi, le parolacce, i termini offensivi o qualsiasi forma di comportamento scorretto non saranno tollerati. Gli utenti che persistono in comportamenti inappropriati potranno essere segnalati o bloccati.
Grazie per contribuire a mantenere la nostra community positiva e rispettosa!
VC Investor
Jun 2023
Founded in 1984, Foresight is a leading investment manager in real assets and capital for growth, operating across Europe, Australia, and the United States.
With decades of experience, Foresight offers investors access to compelling opportunities at the forefront of change. Foresight actively builds and grows investment solutions to support the energy transition, decarbonise industry, enhance nature recovery and realise the economic potential of ambitious companies.
Board Observer
Jun 2023
Cambridge GaN Devices Ltd. (CGD), a spin-out of the Cambridge University, is a fabless semiconductor company designing, developing and commercialising energy-efficient GaN-based power devices to make greener electronics possible. As a change maker, CGD introduced ICeGaN™ - an industry-first enhancement-mode (eMode) GaN transistor which can be operated like a Silicon MOSFET without the need for special gate drivers, driving circuitry, or unique gate voltage clamping mechanisms. The company has launched H1 & H2 Series.
Learn more information, please visit at www.camgandevices.com.
Follow Cambridge GaN Devices on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and 剑桥氮化镓器件 on WeChat.
2021
Board Member
Nov 2021
Secondmind exists to help automotive engineers design better cars faster. The company’s cloud-native software, powered by Secondmind Active Learning, addresses the increasing complexity of vehicle design and development by reducing design simulation time and calibration overhead, enabling engineers to reimagine vehicle design and accelerate the transition to carbon-neutral mobility.
Founded in 2016 and supported by investors such as Amadeus Capital, Atlantic Bridge, Cambridge Innovation Capital and Mazda, Secondmind was recently recognized with the Automotive Testing Technology International Alternative Powertrain Test Innovation of the Year Award; selected for the Tech Nation Future Fifty scale-up program, and named by Bloomberg as one of the UK’s 25 startups to watch.
Secondmind®
Secondmind® is a registered trademark of Secondmind Ltd.
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