Howard Ko

Partner at Morpheus Ventures

📍 Los Angeles, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 14 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2025
VC🌍 United States
14
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4
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12y
Years active

Portfolio

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Board Observer
Jul 2025
xLight is building the world’s most powerful lasers. We’re on a mission to commercialize particle accelerator driven Free Electron Lasers (FEL) for critical US economic and national security applications.
Board Observer
Jul 2022
A fog of space traffic and debris orbits the Earth as a violent and chaotic maelstrom, clouding the future of humanity as a spacefaring species. ​ To face this challenge Morpheus Space is bringing together groundbreaking solutions into a highly integrated ecosystem for in-space mobility while lowering the cost of entry for everyone.​ Morpheus. Making space for everyone.​ Learn more about the technology and solutions being developed by Morpheus Space at www.morpheus-space.com
Board Member
Jul 2021
Rize builds customer-centric financial applications for fintechs, incumbents, and non-financial brands. Our patent-pending Synthetic Account technology seamlessly integrates checking, saving, and individual brokerage with one flexible platform.
Board Member
May 2021
INGENIOUS.BUILD formerly known as IngeniousIO INGENIOUS.BUILD is a cutting-edge technology company specializing in project management software for the Real Estate Development and Construction industry. By leveraging data, automation, and real-time insights, INGENIOUS.BUILD empowers organizations and all stakeholders to manage projects with precision and reduced risk. The platform is an automated cloud-based application comprised of three seamlessly connected modules. These modules have been meticulously crafted to streamline everyday operations spanning project financials, project management, and construction administration. Effortlessly oversee your development projects and maintain real-time connectivity with every project team member, all within a singular, user-friendly interface. Dedicated to innovation, efficiency, and excellence, INGENIOUS.BUILD is committed to building the future within the development and construction industry.
Board Observer
Aug 2020
RapidDeploy was acquired by Motorola Solutions in 2025, and is now part of its ecosystem of safety and security technologies. RapidDeploy’s Next Generation 911 (NG911) product suite accelerates emergency response and enhances decision-making. About Motorola Solutions: Safety and security are at the heart of everything we do at Motorola Solutions. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. Learn more about our commitment to innovating for a safer future for us all at www.motorolasolutions.com
late stagePublic Safety
Board Member
Dec 2019
RIOS Intelligent Machines was founded with a mission to completely transform labor-intensive factories into smart factories of the future powered by robotics and AI. We’re helping enterprises automate their entire factories, warehouses or supply chain operations by deploying end-to-end robotic workcells that integrate within existing workflows, at blazing speed and at scale.
Board Observer
Sep 2019
Rugged Robotics is a modern, solution-oriented company based in Houston Texas. We combine experience and expertise from the construction and robotics industries to build practical solutions to real-world problems faced by construction crews every day. We have designed and built the world’s first fully self-contained robotic system that prints detailed, life-size layouts directly onto concrete floors. We provide a complete layout service, parsing digital design data from the CAD models and deploying with our robotic platform to print detailed interior layouts, ultimately enabling faster, more accurate installation across construction.
early stageConstruction
Investor
May 2018
Sidecar Health is changing the health industry with modern, common-sense health insurance that finally gives consumers control over costs and choices. We are a passionate group of people-people on a mission to make quality healthcare affordable and accessible for everyone.
early stageInsurance
Board Member
Feb 2018
Our mission is to illuminate, automate and orchestrate healthcare quality and efficiency. Our solution empowers staff to focus their time on patient care by facilitating workflow processes for operating rooms, emergency departments, and asset management systems. In addition to increased outcomes, we lower operational costs by providing real-time intelligence to streamline tedious aspects of care delivery.
Board Observer
Jul 2017
Bridg is a data and audience platform built exclusively for brick and mortar retailers and their CPG partners that powers retail media success. The platform solves a longstanding challenge – identifying and targeting in-store customers that arent part of loyalty or rewards programs – using our exclusive offline resolution capabilities and clients point of sale (POS) data. Bridg clients can leverage credit and debit cards to expand their loyalty database, launch targeting measures previously reserved for program members, optimize media spend and accelerate top-line growth. Retailers with media networks can significantly expand their first-party data, gain reporting transparency and unlock new monetization opportunities. CPG brands and advertisers gain access to verified shopper data across all customers, loyalty and non-loyalty, to power advanced insights, precision targeting and closed-loop measurement.
Board Observer
2014
DarkLight, Inc., is the creator of the cybersecurity software Cyio. Our mission is to turn overwhelmed victims into empowered defenders. Cyio, from the Latin word Scio meaning “to know,” is a knowledge-driven AI platform built as an all-sensor fusion solution to automate as much analysis, management, and reporting as possible. DarkLight provides defenders the insights to know, manage, and prioritize risks impacting their organizations. By bringing focus to what’s most important to the business, Cyio improves security while saving time and money.
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2025
Board Observer
Jul 2025
xLight is building the world’s most powerful lasers. We’re on a mission to commercialize particle accelerator driven Free Electron Lasers (FEL) for critical US economic and national security applications.
2022
Board Observer
Jul 2022
A fog of space traffic and debris orbits the Earth as a violent and chaotic maelstrom, clouding the future of humanity as a spacefaring species. ​ To face this challenge Morpheus Space is bringing together groundbreaking solutions into a highly integrated ecosystem for in-space mobility while lowering the cost of entry for everyone.​ Morpheus. Making space for everyone.​ Learn more about the technology and solutions being developed by Morpheus Space at www.morpheus-space.com
2021
Board Member
Jul 2021
Rize builds customer-centric financial applications for fintechs, incumbents, and non-financial brands. Our patent-pending Synthetic Account technology seamlessly integrates checking, saving, and individual brokerage with one flexible platform.
Board Member
May 2021
INGENIOUS.BUILD formerly known as IngeniousIO INGENIOUS.BUILD is a cutting-edge technology company specializing in project management software for the Real Estate Development and Construction industry. By leveraging data, automation, and real-time insights, INGENIOUS.BUILD empowers organizations and all stakeholders to manage projects with precision and reduced risk. The platform is an automated cloud-based application comprised of three seamlessly connected modules. These modules have been meticulously crafted to streamline everyday operations spanning project financials, project management, and construction administration. Effortlessly oversee your development projects and maintain real-time connectivity with every project team member, all within a singular, user-friendly interface. Dedicated to innovation, efficiency, and excellence, INGENIOUS.BUILD is committed to building the future within the development and construction industry.
2020
Board Observer
Aug 2020
RapidDeploy was acquired by Motorola Solutions in 2025, and is now part of its ecosystem of safety and security technologies. RapidDeploy’s Next Generation 911 (NG911) product suite accelerates emergency response and enhances decision-making. About Motorola Solutions: Safety and security are at the heart of everything we do at Motorola Solutions. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. Learn more about our commitment to innovating for a safer future for us all at www.motorolasolutions.com
late stagePublic Safety
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