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Investor, Board Observer
Feb 2013
Founded in San Francisco in 2013, we have grown into the #1 producer of single-crystal diamond globally. We are the rare unicorn that has grown fast profitably. Ours is one of the greenest forms of tech manufacturing: converting greenhouse gas into diamond wafers using zero-emission energy.
We are now in the 2nd stage of our 30-year master plan:
2013+: Deliver sustainably created diamond for wherever mined diamond has been able to go. Reform diamond jewelry in the process.
2023+: Put a diamond behind every high-power chip. Solve the thermal limitation at the foundation of todays most exciting tech industries -- AI & cloud compute, electric-car power electronics, and 5G/6G wireless.
We have managed to create the worlds first single-crystal diamond wafers — and created the world’s most compact power electronics with it: 8x smaller than Tesla’s.
2033+: Diamond semiconductors. Transistors with 17,300x the semiconductor merit over silicon.
In 100 years, no-one will remember what Google was but all tech will be based on diamond electronics.
More at www.DF.com
AWARDS
Fast Company Worlds Most Innovative Company
TIME Best Inventions
Business Insider’s 21 Most Innovative Tech Startups
CNBC’s Top 50 Disruptors
Inc’s 25 Most Disruptive Companies
First investor
Dec 2011
Summit is building a mountain town around the spirit of innovation in the heart of Utah's Wasatch Mountains.
Summit Powder Mountain aims to rethink the great American mountain town around a community focused on innovation, entrepreneurship, arts, and altruism. Tucked on the southern side of Powder Mountain, in the town of Eden, Utah, it’s a new kind of neighborhood, where friends, family, and the change makers of today and tomorrow gather in an environment created to catalyze personal and collective growth.
The development project will consist of more than 500 ski accessible homesites connected to a village core of similar scale that includes cultural amenities and miles of walking, biking, and nordic trails.
Perched high between the towns of Eden and Paradise in Utah, Summit Powder Mountain is the permanent home of Summit Series on nearly 10,000 acres in the Wasatch mountain range. For more information on Summit Series, visit: https://www.linkedin.com/company/summit-series
Investor
Oct 2011
We’re the world’s first connected carsharing marketplace, on a mission toward empowering people to carshare everywhere. We developed the world’s first connected device for carsharing, which allows users to rent, find, and unlock Getaround cars using the Getaround app.
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Investor
Sep 2009
At iguama, we believe that members of loyalty programs, should be able to shop online and redeem their points, for what they truly want, without barriers or limitations, regardless of their global location. We are on a mission to help the best Loyalty Programs around the world thrive by enabling their digital platforms to redeem points for products on their member’s favorite Online Stores.
Cross-Border Tools that work
Our tools (Available on mobile and desktop) have helped more than 20,000 customers in Latin America shop from their favorite U.S. Online Stores, with a guaranteed total all-inclusive final price including local and affordable delivery.
Serving the Loyalty and Rewards industry
On 2018 we were selected by Mastercard as part of their StartPath Program, the company’s global initiative to provide startups with the operational support and commercial access needed to scale. During the program, we found an incredible need for our technology across the Loyalty and Rewards industry.
Our investors
- www.peoplefund.com
- www.kiboventures.com
- www.nordiceye.com
Founder, Board Observer, Former CEO
Apr 2006
Founded by industry experts in 2014, Healthcare.com is a data-driven, intelligence-informed marketplace where millions of consumers have explored, shopped for and enrolled in health insurance and Medicare plans. We put care, data, and a decade of experience into helping you choose the right plan. With us you can easily shop health plans for individuals, for families, for seniors. Trusted by 10 million customers a year, Healthcare.com is the data-driven choice that matches you to the right health insurance plan. We use proprietary data and machine learning technology to match consumers with distributors, ensuring each consumer gets enrolled in the right plan for them and their families.
Healthcare.com also operates Pivot Health, an insurance marketing company and healthcare services provider that offers a variety of coverage options to consumers on behalf of top-ranked insurance carriers and healthcare organizations. We develop custom health insurance programs and coverage solutions in partnership with insurance carriers. In addition to our own solutions, we have put together a portfolio of non-proprietary health insurance and healthcare solutions that we believe meet the needs of our individual members. Our products range from short-term medical insurance, dental and vision, supplemental indemnity, and accident and illness products.
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2013
Co-Founder, Board Director
Sep 2013
Kingo provides a distributed renewable electricity service as a scalable response to one of the grandest challenges facing humanity: ENERGY. The Company has created a sustainable system and go-to-market strategy that unlocks worldwide access to clean energy. Kingo’s vision is to reach 100 million homes by 2035, making it the largest utility in HISTORY.
The current focus of Kingo is to bring prepaid electricity services to off-grid communities, as 17% of the world’s population still lacks access to power. Access to energy represents one of the biggest restrictions for progress, as it conforms the base for all productive activity. These 1.2 billion people pay for the most expensive energy substitutes (candles/kerosene/diesel), making solar more affordable here versus in any other market in the economy. Kingo’s first mover advantage in the off-grid market is the initial step towards introducing the “new age” electric utility worldwide.
Kingo has experienced a dramatic growth over the last 2.5 years, going from a 450 home pilot in January 2015, to 60,000 homes as of March 2018. The Company is on a successful path to positively impact 1 million homes by 2020.
The Company is investing heavily in the development of the technology that will allow for sustainable worldwide electrification. Past and current trends in solar energy and battery storage, plus the convergence of other disruptive technologies such as the Blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Wireless Energy, make it 100% probable that the transition to a sustainable green economy will occur.
Kingo’s mission is to turn lives ON. By pulling the curve of innovation, Kingo has set itself as a trailblazer in the evolution of the world’s energy consumption.
Join us, and let’s turn lives ON together!
Investor, Board Observer
Feb 2013
Founded in San Francisco in 2013, we have grown into the #1 producer of single-crystal diamond globally. We are the rare unicorn that has grown fast profitably. Ours is one of the greenest forms of tech manufacturing: converting greenhouse gas into diamond wafers using zero-emission energy.
We are now in the 2nd stage of our 30-year master plan:
2013+: Deliver sustainably created diamond for wherever mined diamond has been able to go. Reform diamond jewelry in the process.
2023+: Put a diamond behind every high-power chip. Solve the thermal limitation at the foundation of todays most exciting tech industries -- AI & cloud compute, electric-car power electronics, and 5G/6G wireless.
We have managed to create the worlds first single-crystal diamond wafers — and created the world’s most compact power electronics with it: 8x smaller than Tesla’s.
2033+: Diamond semiconductors. Transistors with 17,300x the semiconductor merit over silicon.
In 100 years, no-one will remember what Google was but all tech will be based on diamond electronics.
More at www.DF.com
AWARDS
Fast Company Worlds Most Innovative Company
TIME Best Inventions
Business Insider’s 21 Most Innovative Tech Startups
CNBC’s Top 50 Disruptors
Inc’s 25 Most Disruptive Companies
2012
Co-Founder, Board Director
Jan 2012
BlueKite is the ideal complement to traditional cash remittances. By facilitating bill directed cross-border payments, BlueKite allows immigrants to better care for the family members they left behind. BlueKite offers affiliated money service stores a unique, state of the art, web-based platform that allows them to make real-time cross-border bill payments for services around the world. Payments are safe, accurate, reliable and guaranteed.
2011
First investor
Dec 2011
Summit is building a mountain town around the spirit of innovation in the heart of Utah's Wasatch Mountains.
Summit Powder Mountain aims to rethink the great American mountain town around a community focused on innovation, entrepreneurship, arts, and altruism. Tucked on the southern side of Powder Mountain, in the town of Eden, Utah, it’s a new kind of neighborhood, where friends, family, and the change makers of today and tomorrow gather in an environment created to catalyze personal and collective growth.
The development project will consist of more than 500 ski accessible homesites connected to a village core of similar scale that includes cultural amenities and miles of walking, biking, and nordic trails.
Perched high between the towns of Eden and Paradise in Utah, Summit Powder Mountain is the permanent home of Summit Series on nearly 10,000 acres in the Wasatch mountain range. For more information on Summit Series, visit: https://www.linkedin.com/company/summit-series
Investor
Oct 2011
We’re the world’s first connected carsharing marketplace, on a mission toward empowering people to carshare everywhere. We developed the world’s first connected device for carsharing, which allows users to rent, find, and unlock Getaround cars using the Getaround app.
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