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Board Observer
Apr 2025
RightHand Robotics (RHR) is a leader in providing end-to-end solutions that reduce the cost of e-commerce order-fulfillment of electronics, apparel, grocery, pharmaceuticals, and countless other industries. Unlike traditional factory robots that can be complex to setup and are singly purposed, RHR solutions are simple to integrate and adaptable to improve the utilization of many different customer workflows, such as sorting batch-picked items, picking items from an ASRS, inducting items to a belt sorter, and order quality assurance.
Investor
Aug 2023
Phoenix Tailings is pioneering the future of clean mining and metals production.
We are dedicated to building the world’s first fully clean mining and refining company, producing the critical metals needed for the next generation of technology and infrastructure. By harvesting valuable materials directly from mining tailings, we eliminate waste streams while creating a sustainable and domestic supply of rare earths and other essential resources.
We are already commercially shipping rare earth metals and alloys to magnet customers today, proving both the scalability and impact of our approach. Our breakthrough refining model provides a clean and reliable supply chain, empowering industries from defense and aerospace to electric vehicles, renewable energy, and medical technologies.
Phoenix Tailings has been commercially shipping rare earth metal products since 2023, demonstrating our leadership in bringing sustainable solutions to market.
Board Member
May 2023
At Z-Polymers, our mission is to identify and solve fundamental problems in mission-critical industries using innovative polymer science. Current industry application areas include 3D Printing and the hydrogen economy.
Board Observer
Oct 2021
Geminus is pioneering real-time intelligence for complex industrial systems. Our platform is the first to seamlessly integrate data, physics, and computation to enable autonomous control of cyber-physical systems. Built to scale across the largest industrial operations, Geminus empowers organizations to solve their most complex challenges in real time - unlocking new levels of productivity, efficiency, and innovation.
Board Member
Apr 2019
AdHawk Microsystems delivers full-stack eye tracking technology - from custom silicon to cloud-based analytics - to unlock the connection between the eyes, the brain and the world around us. The company has developed wearable eye tracking products with unprecedented speed and data quality by replacing cameras and image processing with a highly customized microsystem that delivers game-changing computational and power efficiencies. The AdHawk solution is powering a new generation of “form-factor-first” smart glasses with all-day biometric sensing in Tier 1 OEM products. The technology is also being deployed in XR products, human-computer-interaction PC peripherals, and clinical instruments. Deep-tech breakthroughs at AdHawk have also positioned the company to develop the first fitness tracker for the brain: a consumer wearable device that will soon offer billions of people rich analytics on their cognitive processes, and actionable insights to improve their brain health and wellness.
Board Observer
Nov 2018
Our vision is to enable you to accept money for anything, anywhere from anyone using your phone.
At Mobeewave, we’re interested in what’s at the intersection of where mobile meets money and communication meets commerce: people. That’s why we’re revolutionizing the FinTech space by making it possible for anyone to accept money using their phone.
Mobeewave’s award-winning team is challenging every aspect of the current mobile payment paradigm. We’re digitizing the last sector where cash is still king: the world of in-person peer-to-peer and micro-merchant transactions.
Board Observer
Nov 2018
Ouster acquired Sense Photonics in October, 2021 and established Ouster Automotive, a new functional division of the company.
Ouster Automotive is focused on accelerating the development of assisted and autonomous driving solutions by driving mass-market adoption of its digital lidar technology in consumer and commercial vehicles.
Building on Senses technology and talent, Ouster Automotives new digital flash lidar platform produces rich, dense 3D data, offers unparalleled flexibility for OEMs and was designed to meet the durability, reliability and scalability needs of todays vehicle manufacturers.
Board Observer
May 2018
Tamr, the leader in data products, enables customers to use data product templates to consolidate messy source data into clean, curated, analytics-ready datasets. Organizations benefit from Tamr, the industry’s first suite of data product templates that combine human curation, patented machine learning, mastering rules and enrichment with first- and third-party data to accelerate business outcomes and deliver business-changing insights. Tamr’s cloud-native and SaaS solutions enable industry leaders such as Toyota, Western Union and GSK to get ahead and stay ahead in a rapidly changing competitor environment.
Board Member
Aug 2017
NanoPhotonica provides innovative nano-materials and fabrication techniques that enable electronic displays to have high resolution, pure, vivid colors, and high efficiency at significantly reduced manufacturing cost. NanoPhotonica’s system of light emitting nano-materials, including Quantum Dots (QDs), and method of layering these materials together, form the core technology for a new generation of electronic displays. NanoPhotonica’s award-winning nano-materials, outstanding and motivated team, and effective growth strategy have gained us world-wide recognition and caught the eye of several large display manufacturers who have become our development collaborators. Together, we are bringing “Quantum Dot-Light Emitting Diode (QLED)” displays to this large and important market – from smartphones, to tablets and notebooks, to TVs.
Board Member
Aug 2016
Princeton Identity is biometric identity management that makes security more accurate, reliable and convenient than ever before. Using iris recognition and other biometric technology, PI enables businesses, global organizations and borders to simplify identity management, resulting in improved safety and protection.
Our software and physical hardware provide versatile identity authentication solutions designed to verify and manage individuals’ identities for a wide range of physical security and access applications. With proven installations around the world, Princeton Identity offers system solutions for a diverse range of mainstream applications, including mobile access control, corporate, industrial and secure workplaces, as well as airports, critical infrastructure, public arenas, and border control.
Princeton Identity creates products for organizations seeking new ways to streamline security, increase throughput, optimize operations, and control costs. Our solutions deliver high-accuracy minimal user interaction—ideal for authentication in markets such as security, transportation, airports, finance, healthcare, and others. The company’s unique multimodal biometric solutions employ distinctive iris and facial recognition technologies designed for accuracy and ease of use.
Princeton Identity Inc. was formerly a division of SRI International marketed under the SRI Identity brand. SRI and SRI Identity have had a long and successful history of delivering leading-edge technology, going back to the roots of the company in Stanford University, RCA Labs, and Sarnoff Labs, where many familiar technologies were born. Some of these technologies have become household items, including color television, the computer mouse, and Siri (purchased by Apple). Others have had broader impact, such as ground-scanning satellites, automated check processing, medical devices, and cancer-fighting drugs.
Board Observer
Mar 2016
Noom is the worlds leading behavior change company, disrupting the weight loss and healthcare industries. By combining the power of artificial intelligence, mobile tech, and psychology with the empathy of personal coaches, Noom helps people live healthier lives by changing their long-term habits. More than 50 million people have benefited from Noom’s behavior change courses, including its virtual diabetes prevention program, which was the first of its kind to be recognized by the CDC. The Noom platform is already being used by leading healthcare and pharmaceutical companies to improve treatment outcomes for patients worldwide. The company is headquartered in New York City with employees living and working worldwide. To learn more about careers with Noom, visit https://www.noom.com/careers
**Disclaimer: Noom, Inc. job offers will only come from @noom.com personnel. Do not believe fraudulent Recruiters or similar domain names. @noomteam.com and similar [noomjobname]@gmail are not affiliated whatsoever with Noom, Inc.**
Board Member
Dec 2015
We're making healthcare transformation personal.
Driving down the cost of chronic conditions is going to take all of us. Welldoc is here to help with BlueStar, our in-app digital assistant for type 2 diabetes.
Chronic with ease.
Working together to redefine how engaging and personally transformative technology can be will lead to real change: starting and evolving habits, taking daily responsibility for our well-being, and moving outcomes and costs to a much more manageable place.
Technology and teamwork.
It’s time to make every moment, every action, every healthcare decision count.
Investor
May 2015
Magisto [Powered by Vimeo] is a one-of-a-kind, A.I. powered, video creation tool. Magisto makes it easy to drive growth to your business or blog with stunning, attention-grabbing videos. Whether you’re looking to generate leads and awareness, build relationships, or grow sales Magisto is the fastest and easiest way to get there.
Home to over 100+ million users globally
Apples Best of 2019: Discover The Storyteller Within
Gartner ‘Cool Vendor’ 2018
Consumer Reports 2017 #1 Video Editing app
No video skills required. 24 languages. Available on the web, or download the Magisto app for iPhone or Android and start creating!
Investor
Jan 2015
Jibo, Inc., creator of the world’s first Social Robot for the home, is a character-driven company dedicated to creating unforgettable experiences through advanced social robotics technology. Jibo, Inc. was founded by Cynthia Breazeal, a pioneer of social robotics and human robot interaction from the MIT Media Lab, and is staffed by robotics and consumer electronics leaders in both the Boston and San Francisco areas.
Board Observer
Dec 2012
Fixmo Inc. is the mobile risk management (MRM) company that helps organizations identify, mitigate and manage the risks associated with mobile devices in the workplace. The company’s MRM solutions enable protected and compliant mobile computing, helping organizations embrace a wide range of mobile devices and applications while maintaining system integrity, protecting confidential data and proving regulatory compliance. Fixmo’s MRM technology has been developed as part of a Co-operative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
Fixmo is headquartered in Sterling, Virginia and Toronto, Canada.
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Board Observer
Apr 2025
RightHand Robotics (RHR) is a leader in providing end-to-end solutions that reduce the cost of e-commerce order-fulfillment of electronics, apparel, grocery, pharmaceuticals, and countless other industries. Unlike traditional factory robots that can be complex to setup and are singly purposed, RHR solutions are simple to integrate and adaptable to improve the utilization of many different customer workflows, such as sorting batch-picked items, picking items from an ASRS, inducting items to a belt sorter, and order quality assurance.
2024
Co-Founder
Jan 2024
A group of venture capital firms has launched venx (ven^x), a hub in downtown Boston for venture capital firms to collaborate, share knowledge, and build synergies to become a force multiplier for the deep tech ecosystem.
The founding venture firms include Anzu Partners, Hitachi Ventures, Myriad Venture Partners, SkyRiver Ventures, along with the real estate consulting firm The Steele Group. Each firm has a strong connection to Boston’s deep tech heritage and well-regarded universities that regularly spin out innovative deep tech startups, companies built upon scientific or engineering breakthroughs.
venx firms will have access to a shared office where they can collaborate day-to-day, host events for the local startup community, and bring other local firms into the fold.
2023
Investor
Aug 2023
Phoenix Tailings is pioneering the future of clean mining and metals production.
We are dedicated to building the world’s first fully clean mining and refining company, producing the critical metals needed for the next generation of technology and infrastructure. By harvesting valuable materials directly from mining tailings, we eliminate waste streams while creating a sustainable and domestic supply of rare earths and other essential resources.
We are already commercially shipping rare earth metals and alloys to magnet customers today, proving both the scalability and impact of our approach. Our breakthrough refining model provides a clean and reliable supply chain, empowering industries from defense and aerospace to electric vehicles, renewable energy, and medical technologies.
Phoenix Tailings has been commercially shipping rare earth metal products since 2023, demonstrating our leadership in bringing sustainable solutions to market.
Board Member
May 2023
At Z-Polymers, our mission is to identify and solve fundamental problems in mission-critical industries using innovative polymer science. Current industry application areas include 3D Printing and the hydrogen economy.
2022
Mentor
May 2022
The Endless Frontier Labs (EFL) is a nine-month, goal-oriented mentorship program at NYU Stern School of Business designed for early-stage science and technology startups worldwide (no NYU affiliation required). EFL helps transform breakthrough scientific and technological innovations into high-impact businesses. Participating startups receive mentorship from an elite network of successful entrepreneurs, business leaders, investors, and scientists, drawn from New York and beyond. EFL is a unique, “founders first” program and does not charge fees or take equity in startups, and participating startups are drawn from all over the world.
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