Michael Palmer

Blendid is transforming the way food is prepared and served to meet the unique health and taste preferences of today’s consumers. Blendid offers autonomous robotics food kiosks that use advanced technology – including robotics, machine vision, and artificial intelligence – to prepare and serve healthy, fresh, and delicious smoothies, known as Blends. Blends are customized and made-to-order based on an individual’s preferences, using only fresh fruit and vegetables. Licensed to food service operators, Blendid requires no full-time staff and can be accessible 24 hours a day, making it perfect for busy cafeterias, supermarkets, gyms, airports, stadiums and offices. Blendid kiosks are currently available in several Northern California locations, but will soon be available nationwide. With an expanding set of locations, Blendid is on a pathway to fulfill its mission to make healthy and delicious eating, at an affordable price, accessible for all.

HiQ Solar is an innovator in solar inverters. Based in the heart of Silicon Valley, California, we are the makers of the award winning TrueString 3-phase inverter family of products aimed at commercial rooftops, carports and ground mount PV plants. Started in 2009 in Palo Alto, we are building a team of entrepreneurs, industry veterans and engineers.

Peloton is a connected and automated vehicle technology company dedicated to improving the safety and efficiency of the $700 billion U.S. trucking industry and other global automotive markets. Peloton creates strong partnerships with customers to provide and manage innovative tools for saving fuel, avoiding accidents, and improving operational insight through the use of connectivity, automation and data analytics. Peloton’s flagship two-truck platooning system, PlatoonPro, wirelessly links the active safety systems of pairs of trucks, allowing them to form an aerodynamic platoon to save fuel. The platooning system connects each truck to a cloud-based Network Operations Center that limits platooning to appropriate roads and conditions while providing safety-critical information to drivers and advanced analytics to fleets. Peloton's platooning system has demonstrated fuel savings of 10% on the follow truck and 4.5% on the lead truck in independent SAE J1321 Type II fuel consumption testing. Based in Silicon Valley, Peloton is supported by investors including Volvo Group, DENSO International America, UPS, Nokia Growth Partners, Intel Capital, Magna, Lockheed Martin, Omnitracs, Castrol InnoVentures, Lytx, Sand Hill Angels, Birchmere Ventures and Band of Angels. For more information, please visit www.peloton-tech.com and follow us on Twitter @pelotontech.

HiQ Solar is an innovator in solar inverters. Based in the heart of Silicon Valley, California, we are the makers of the award winning TrueString 3-phase inverter family of products aimed at commercial rooftops, carports and ground mount PV plants. Started in 2009 in Palo Alto, we are building a team of entrepreneurs, industry veterans and engineers.

Hone Capital is the U.S. arm of CSC Group, one of the largest and most successful private equity and venture capital firms in China. Hone Capital was established in 2015 and has invested over $100MM in early to growth stage startups in the technology sector, using our proprietary data-driven intelligence platform and our network of deep relationships with syndicate leads, sector experts, and VC firms.

Blendid is transforming the way food is prepared and served to meet the unique health and taste preferences of today’s consumers. Blendid offers autonomous robotics food kiosks that use advanced technology – including robotics, machine vision, and artificial intelligence – to prepare and serve healthy, fresh, and delicious smoothies, known as Blends. Blends are customized and made-to-order based on an individual’s preferences, using only fresh fruit and vegetables. Licensed to food service operators, Blendid requires no full-time staff and can be accessible 24 hours a day, making it perfect for busy cafeterias, supermarkets, gyms, airports, stadiums and offices. Blendid kiosks are currently available in several Northern California locations, but will soon be available nationwide. With an expanding set of locations, Blendid is on a pathway to fulfill its mission to make healthy and delicious eating, at an affordable price, accessible for all.

HiQ Solar is an innovator in solar inverters. Based in the heart of Silicon Valley, California, we are the makers of the award winning TrueString 3-phase inverter family of products aimed at commercial rooftops, carports and ground mount PV plants. Started in 2009 in Palo Alto, we are building a team of entrepreneurs, industry veterans and engineers.

Sand Hill Angels is a group of Silicon Valley angel investors passionate about helping entrepreneurs get to the next level. What makes the group unique is the collective experience of its members building and scaling deep technology companies. The group has been around for close to two decades. Sand Hill Angels works openly and collaboratively with venture capital funds, other angel organizations, and the Bay Area ecosystem that fosters the growth of technology startups.