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Investor/Advisor
Jun 2025
Founded in 2015, BlackFog is a global cybersecurity company that has pioneered on-device anti data exfiltration (ADX) technology to protect companies from global security threats such as ransomware, spyware, malware, phishing, unauthorized data collection and profiling. Its software monitors enterprise compliance with global privacy regulations and prevents cyberattacks across all endpoints. BlackFog uses behavioral analysis to preemptively prevent hackers from exploiting vulnerabilities in enterprise security systems and data structures.
BlackFog’s preventative approach to security recognizes the limitations of existing perimeter defense techniques and neutralizes attacks before they happen at multiple points in their lifecycle. Trusted by corporations all over the world BlackFog is redefining modern cyber security practices.
Investor/Advisor
Jan 2020
Passio is an AI company spun out from the Stanford Research Institute (SRI International). Passios Mobile AI Platform enables developers and companies to rapidly build and deploy mobile AI applications.
Passios easy-to-use Mobile AI SDKs reach millions of users who use Passio every day to transform their health, fitness, homes, businesses and lives. Passio Nutrition-AI SDK is the worlds leading food tracking AI technology powering MyFitnessPal, Sydney Health, Simple Life, Sharecare, Vivante Health and others. Passio Paints-AI is the first AI + Augmented Reality home-remodeling SDK that supports sales of home remodel products for Jazeera Paints and others.
Headquartered in Menlo Park with the team around the globe, Passio’s mission is to enhance human life with the power of AI.
To learn more, visit www.passio.ai
Board Advisor/Investor
Jan 2020
The Cavrnus platform is the ultimate metaverse-builder solution that enables enterprises, brands, and creators to design and share historical and robust metaverse experiences, made possible by a transformative feature-set, backend journaling system, and SDK/API integrations. Cavrnus is built to ingest over 40+ 2D and 3D file types and has flexibility to support both the Unity and Unreal Engine pipelines. For next level interactivity and connecting IoT data in real-time, Cavrnus comes with built-in scripting functionality to develop completely immersive, true-to-life experiences. Cavrnus makes it easy for people to connect through shared multi-person experiences on any device or platform and combines the physical and digital into a unified lived reality.
Board Advisor/Investor
Dec 2019
TetraMem is developing cutting-edge analog computing solutions for AI applications, offering exceptional performance with ultra-low power consumption.
Investor/ Team building
Jan 2017
Bitfusion delivers the industry's first Elastic AI Infrastructure platform.
Advisor/Team building/Investor
Jan 2017
NGCodec, a Xilinx company, is delivering the next generation of video codecs.
Advisor/Team Builder /Investor
May 2016
ThinOptics, the first reading glasses that are ALWAYS WITH YOU.
ThinOptics was formed to fill an important gap in the optics market: having access to your glasses at all times. Our first product is reinventing the $1B reading glasses product segment. ThinOptics weigh less than a nickel, are thinner than 3 credit cards, and are carried in your mobile phone case or on your keychain for constant availability. View the full product line at www.thinoptics.com
Investor
Apr 2015
Frame has merged with Dizzion!
Frame is the markets premier Desktop as a Service solution, distinguished by its browser-first approach and hybrid, multi-cloud capabilities. With Frame, customers have the flexibility to provide Windows and Linux virtual applications and desktops to any user through a web browser. Furthermore, Frame accommodates workloads hosted directly in public cloud services such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure, while also supporting deployments on Nutanix Cloud Platform for customer private clouds, as well as integration with OVHcloud.
BOD/Investor
Oct 2014
Startgrid is a software platform helping companies get optimal results from their external innovation efforts. From capturing internal business needs to finding ideal solutions in the market, Startgrid helps teams share intelligence and respond to changes and opportunities in the market faster. Startgrid is used by some of the world’s largest enterprises in the financial services, telecommunications, automotive and consulting industries to drive their innovation strategy and create competitive advantage.
Investor/Founder
Jun 2013
Comeet was founded in 2013 to bring modern collaboration and workflow tools to help high-growth companies build their global teams. Comeets investors include David Cao VP, former HR, Global Operations at Alibaba Group; David Windley, former Chief People Officer at Yahoo! & current President at IQ Talent Partners, and Ken Goldman, Yahoo!’s CFO.
Initial launch in early 2015 was focused on Israel, where it has become the fastest growing recruiting software solution and the system of choice for Israeli tech companies. More than 100 companies, including Fiverr, Playtika, Playbuzz and AppsFlyer have chosen or switched to Comeet to build their global teams. Today, Comeet is expanding globally also through global strategic partnerships with leading international brands who will introduce and champion Comeet to their networks.
Comeet offers a cloud-based collaborative recruiting platform that feels like user-friendly consumer software. It provides structured and streamlined processes to enable companies to make better hires, faster. For this, Comeet was recognized in 2015 for its product design by winning a UX Award (“Uxie”) for user experience excellence.
Comeet requires little to no training. Because it is so easy to use, the system boasts a very high participation rate of non-HR members per recruiter, making the platform not only collaborative in theory but also in practice.
Comeet is an UpWest Labs graduate with offices in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv.
You can read more about Comeet’s collaborative recruiting platform on our website at: www.comeet.co.
Board Member/Founder
Jan 2010
Element Energy is a dynamic and growing strategic energy consultancy. We specialise in the intelligent analysis of low-carbon energy, and help our clients (in the sectors of transport, power generation, energy networks and buildings) to understand low-carbon energy.
Over the past decade we have gathered a team of experts based in offices spanning Cambridge, London, Brussels and Lille, who provide robust technical insights into low-carbon energy markets. What we do is new and exciting and fundamental to the shift to a low-carbon future and the mitigation of climate change. We are hired to answer questions that often no one else can, in short timescales and to a very high quality. We pride ourselves on the robustness of our analysis and the fact that we consistently exceed our clients’ expectations.
Our staff are mainly made up of highly qualified graduates from the physical sciences. We look for a top-class educational background, an interest in the area we work in, and the ability to research, write and present clear reports and analysis.
Investor/Founder
Jun 2006
By joining forces with Contentsquare, we become the definitive market leader in experience analytics.
Follow Contentsquare for the latest news, updates and digital experience insight.
Investor/Advisor
Jun 1995
Nuance Communications is a technology pioneer with market leadership in conversational, ambient, and generative AI. A full-service partner trusted by 77 percent of U.S. hospitals and more than 75 percent of the Fortune 100 companies worldwide, Nuance creates intuitive solutions that amplify peoples ability to help others. Nuance is a Microsoft company.
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Investor/Advisor
Jun 2025
Founded in 2015, BlackFog is a global cybersecurity company that has pioneered on-device anti data exfiltration (ADX) technology to protect companies from global security threats such as ransomware, spyware, malware, phishing, unauthorized data collection and profiling. Its software monitors enterprise compliance with global privacy regulations and prevents cyberattacks across all endpoints. BlackFog uses behavioral analysis to preemptively prevent hackers from exploiting vulnerabilities in enterprise security systems and data structures.
BlackFog’s preventative approach to security recognizes the limitations of existing perimeter defense techniques and neutralizes attacks before they happen at multiple points in their lifecycle. Trusted by corporations all over the world BlackFog is redefining modern cyber security practices.
2020
Investor/Advisor
Jan 2020
Passio is an AI company spun out from the Stanford Research Institute (SRI International). Passios Mobile AI Platform enables developers and companies to rapidly build and deploy mobile AI applications.
Passios easy-to-use Mobile AI SDKs reach millions of users who use Passio every day to transform their health, fitness, homes, businesses and lives. Passio Nutrition-AI SDK is the worlds leading food tracking AI technology powering MyFitnessPal, Sydney Health, Simple Life, Sharecare, Vivante Health and others. Passio Paints-AI is the first AI + Augmented Reality home-remodeling SDK that supports sales of home remodel products for Jazeera Paints and others.
Headquartered in Menlo Park with the team around the globe, Passio’s mission is to enhance human life with the power of AI.
To learn more, visit www.passio.ai
Board Advisor/Investor
Jan 2020
The Cavrnus platform is the ultimate metaverse-builder solution that enables enterprises, brands, and creators to design and share historical and robust metaverse experiences, made possible by a transformative feature-set, backend journaling system, and SDK/API integrations. Cavrnus is built to ingest over 40+ 2D and 3D file types and has flexibility to support both the Unity and Unreal Engine pipelines. For next level interactivity and connecting IoT data in real-time, Cavrnus comes with built-in scripting functionality to develop completely immersive, true-to-life experiences. Cavrnus makes it easy for people to connect through shared multi-person experiences on any device or platform and combines the physical and digital into a unified lived reality.
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Board Advisor/Investor
Dec 2019
Board Advisor/Investor
Dec 2019
TetraMem is developing cutting-edge analog computing solutions for AI applications, offering exceptional performance with ultra-low power consumption.
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