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Board Observer
2026
With decades of experience in photonics design, our executive and engineering teams are delivering the world’s first open silicon photonics platform with integrated lasers.
You can improve the performance, power efficiency, and reliability of your design using the OpenLight platform for datacom, telecom, LiDAR, healthcare, HPC, AI, and optical computing applications. With over 400 patents and technology adoption by companies across industries, we’re bringing optical solutions to places they’ve never been before, and we’re enabling technologies that weren’t previously possible.
Investor
2026
AI silicon doesnt fail on compute. It fails on the infrastructure around it — power delivery, connectivity, and memory that werent designed for the scale, speed, and packaging requirements of modern AI systems.
TYLsemi builds the chiplet infrastructure layer that solves this. Purpose-built for XPUs and Networking. Standards-based. Designed to integrate directly into your silicon program — not adapted from something else.
Were hiring across the US and India. Come build whats missing.
https://www.tylsemi.ai/company/careers/
Board Member
2024
Path Robotics was founded by brothers Andy and Alex Lonsberry with a desire to help fill workforce gaps in the manufacturing industry.
At Path Robotics, we understand manufacturers are constantly being asked to do more with less; more reshoring, more demand, and more requirements with less time, less talent, and less tolerance. We’re helping guide the Fourth Industrial Revolution in manufacturing by providing robotic support to help keep up with those challenges. Our welding robots absorb high-volume, repetitive tasks by leveraging AI and machine learning. By doing this, we’re putting humans in safe, productive environments that allows manufacturers to increase productivity and grow their business.
Investor
2023
Biostate AIs mission is to develop generative AI that can benefit all of human health. We observe that biological beings are dynamic systems, with each individual slightly different today vs. yesterday or tomorrow.
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Board Observer
2023
Tacta’s breakthrough robotic hand, tactile sensor, skill-capture gloves, and proprietary Dexterous Intelligence model combine to create a new class of technologies that are essential to unlock automation of high-value industrial work.
Board Member
2023
For logistics to meet demand, the world needs infrastructure that doesn’t exist yet. Kargo is building that infrastructure.
Our work advances the farthest edge of logistics technology, aligning freight and data in real time.
With Kargo’s machine vision system, you can optimize shipping and receiving at every loading dock for network effects across supply chains.
👀 VERIFY SHIPMENT ACCURACY WITH COMPUTER VISION
As freight is loaded and unloaded, Kargo Towers capture the action, translating any label or mark into data you can use on the Kargo Platform and your own ERP, WMS, TMS, and YMS.
Towers flag discrepancies right at the loading dock so you can stop exceptions in their tracks. Images and videos give context to any shipment.
🚀 AUTOMATE SHIPPING AND RECEIVING
Extend your capabilities with automated data capture at every step:
- Eliminate hand-scanning
- Sync with partners
- Simplify check-in and out
- Access data instantly
Kargo sees and validates multiple freight attributes as forklifts load and unload trucks. Integrations let you connect shipping and receiving end to end.
📈 UNLOCK NETWORK EFFECTS
As Kargo Towers capture data across facilities, you can surface trends and gain insights into operations and partnerships.
Embrace continuous improvements and discover how Kargo helps build accuracy and efficiency across logistics.
For more, visit mykargo.com
Series A Investor
2023
In an age where human communication is everything, we found a way to take it to the next level enabling super high bandwidth, unprecedented privacy, accessibility, multilingualism and much more.
Biology can only take us so far. Q will do the rest.
If you want to make a dent in the universe, join our world-class team to give everyone an amazing superpower Joinus@q.ai
Speak volumes without saying a word.
Board Observer
Jul 2021
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.
Board Observer
Jul 2020
Density helps companies measure and improve their footprint on the world. Its software unlocks comprehensive insights into how workspace is used through its privacy-first sensors. These insights inform workplace decisions at companies ranging from Fortune 1000 to high growth tech, including Uber, Pinterest, Shopify, Okta and other household names in financial services, e-commerce and social networking.
Today, Density partners with companies that occupy more than 1.25 billion square feet across 32 countries.
Board Observer
Dec 2019
We deliver full-stack robot dexterity solutions for logistics, warehousing, and supply chain operations. Our robots pick, move, pack, and collaborate with human-like skill in existing infrastructure to solve the toughest problems in material handling.
Board Observer
Sep 2019
SpinLaunch has developed a fundamentally new way to reach space. By leveraging a ground based, kinetic launch system, we deliver constellations of small satellites into Low Earth Orbit at dramatically lower cost and higher cadence than any existing space launch company.
SpinLaunch is also the first truly environmentally sustainable launch system – delivering less expensive, more scalable access to space.
Board Observer
Sep 2019
AEye offers unique software-defined lidar solutions that enable advanced driver-assistance, vehicle autonomy, smart infrastructure, security, and logistics applications that save lives and propel the future of transportation and mobility. AEye’s flagship product, Apollo, has been widely recognized for its small form factor and its ability to detect objects at up to one kilometer. In addition to Apollo as a stand-alone sensor, AEye also offers a full-stack solution through its OPTIS™ platform. OPTIS™ provides a complete system that captures a high-resolution 3D image of the world, interprets it, and provides direction to act upon what it sees in real-time.
Board Observer
Sep 2019
Desktop Metal (NYSE:DM) is driving Additive Manufacturing 2.0, a new era of on-demand, digital mass production of industrial, medical, and consumer products. Our innovative 3D printers, materials, and software deliver the speed, cost, and part quality required for this transformation. We’re the original inventors and world leaders of the 3D printing methods we believe will empower this shift, binder jetting and digital light processing. Today, our systems print metal, polymer, sand, and other ceramics, as well as foam and recycled wood. Manufacturers use our technology worldwide to save time and money, reduce waste, increase flexibility, and produce designs that solve the world’s toughest problems and enable once-impossible innovations. Learn more about Desktop Metal and our #TeamDM brands at www.desktopmetal.com.
Board Observer
Sep 2019
Ambiq® was founded in 2010 on the simple yet powerful notion that extremely low-power semiconductors are the key to the future of electronics. Through the use of pioneering ultra-low power technology, innovative companies around the world are developing differentiated solutions that reduce or eliminate the need for batteries, reduce overall system power and maximize industrial design flexibility.
Our mission is to enable intelligence (artificial intelligence (AI) and beyond) everywhere by delivering the lowest power semiconductor solutions. We enable our customers to deliver artificial intelligence compute at the edge where power consumption challenges are the most profound. Our technology innovations, built on the patented and proprietary subthreshold power optimized technology (SPOT), fundamentally deliver a multi-fold improvement in power consumption over traditional semiconductor designs. We’ve powered over 270 million devices today.
As we see the shift in devices move from “smart” to “AI,” our technology and solutions have evolved to accommodate the power requirements needed to enable feature rich devices that are always on, high performing, secure, accurate, energy efficient, and just as important practical. Our leadership in powering devices made for edge AI has helped technology innovators across wearable, smart home and buildings, industrial, healthcare, and other sectors deliver intelligent devices that can do more while consuming less.
For more information, visit www.ambiq.com.
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2026
Board Observer
2026
With decades of experience in photonics design, our executive and engineering teams are delivering the world’s first open silicon photonics platform with integrated lasers.
You can improve the performance, power efficiency, and reliability of your design using the OpenLight platform for datacom, telecom, LiDAR, healthcare, HPC, AI, and optical computing applications. With over 400 patents and technology adoption by companies across industries, we’re bringing optical solutions to places they’ve never been before, and we’re enabling technologies that weren’t previously possible.
Investor
2026
AI silicon doesnt fail on compute. It fails on the infrastructure around it — power delivery, connectivity, and memory that werent designed for the scale, speed, and packaging requirements of modern AI systems.
TYLsemi builds the chiplet infrastructure layer that solves this. Purpose-built for XPUs and Networking. Standards-based. Designed to integrate directly into your silicon program — not adapted from something else.
Were hiring across the US and India. Come build whats missing.
https://www.tylsemi.ai/company/careers/
2025
2024
Board Member
2024
Path Robotics was founded by brothers Andy and Alex Lonsberry with a desire to help fill workforce gaps in the manufacturing industry.
At Path Robotics, we understand manufacturers are constantly being asked to do more with less; more reshoring, more demand, and more requirements with less time, less talent, and less tolerance. We’re helping guide the Fourth Industrial Revolution in manufacturing by providing robotic support to help keep up with those challenges. Our welding robots absorb high-volume, repetitive tasks by leveraging AI and machine learning. By doing this, we’re putting humans in safe, productive environments that allows manufacturers to increase productivity and grow their business.
2023
Founding Partner
Jan 2023
At Matter, we’re committed to taking the “hard” out of HardTech. Beyond capital and advice, we bring execution heft and strategic leverage. Through years of experience as hands-on investors, founders, and operational executives, we know how to substantially accelerate the process of bringing HardTech innovation to scale. We get customers to our startups early; to shortcut product-market fit. We build business models to scale sustainably from day one. And we’ve built a collection of strategic LPs - the same companies that enabled the fabless model for semiconductors, the rise of cloud computing, and more - to be a diversified manufacturing and technology scale-up supply chain for our startups.
We’ve already been doing this for nearly two decades in our work as founders and as VCs at Kleiner Perkins, where we helped companies create the world’s most efficient fuel cells, the most power-efficient chips, and the most capable drones.
Now, as Matter, we’re solely focused on building the next generation of HardTech startups developing the technologies that matter most, in the world we actually live in.
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