Patrick Hanlon

Senior IP Sales Executive @ Cadence Design Systems | MBA, Sales

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2018𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Nov 2018
ProGrade Digital provides the highest quality, best performing digital memory cards, card readers and workflow software for professionals who create using DSLR, mirrorless, camcorder and digital cinema cameras. Through our longstanding relationships with vendors Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Sony, Blackmagic and more, are we able to design and deliver superior products that render maximum performance from high-end still and motion capture cameras. Company founders are industry veterans of the storage and digital imaging industries. Each, having spent time at firms including Lexar and SanDisk, brings extensive expertise in the design, development and marketing of digital storage products, plus longstanding relationships with manufacturing and supply chain partners. Each card: • Contains a controller designed to communicate with protocols of high-end still and motion capture cameras • Undergoes a rigorous full test in order to meet a zero percent failure quota • Includes a unique serial number to track controller, memory, firmware and manufacture data • Has built-in error correction to detect and correct data write and data transfer errors • Is X-ray proof, shock-proof • Includes a 3-year warranty Product line as of October 2018: CFast 2.0 VPG-130 (128GB, 256GB, 512GB) microSDXC UHS-II, U3, Class 10, V60 (32GB, 64GB, 128GB) SDXC UHS-II, U3, Class 10, V90 (64GB, 128GB, 256GB) SDXC UHS-II, U3, Class 10, V60 (64GB, 128GB, 256GB) CFast & SD Dual Slot USB 3.1, Gen. 2 Workflow Reader microSDXC x 2 Dual Slot USB 3.1, Gen. 2 Workflow Reader CompactFlash & SD Dual Slot USB 3.1, Gen. 2 Workflow Reader In April 2018 ProGrade Digital demonstrated the CFexpress™ 1.0 technology. Product availability is planned for Q4 2018. ProGrade Digital is a private company (San Jose, California) founded in December 2017 and launched in February 2018. Customers may purchase products on www.progradedigital.com, plus B&H Photo and Video and Amazon websites.
Mentor & Angel Investor (Ongoing)
Feb 2017
The Alchemist Accelerator is a venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage ventures that monetize from enterprises (not consumers). The accelerator’s primary screening criteria is on teams, with primacy placed on having distinctive technical co-founders. The accelerator seeds around 75 enterprise-monetizing ventures / year. Over 50% close institutional rounds within 12 months of their Alchemist Demo Day.
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2018
Board Member
Nov 2018
ProGrade Digital provides the highest quality, best performing digital memory cards, card readers and workflow software for professionals who create using DSLR, mirrorless, camcorder and digital cinema cameras. Through our longstanding relationships with vendors Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Sony, Blackmagic and more, are we able to design and deliver superior products that render maximum performance from high-end still and motion capture cameras. Company founders are industry veterans of the storage and digital imaging industries. Each, having spent time at firms including Lexar and SanDisk, brings extensive expertise in the design, development and marketing of digital storage products, plus longstanding relationships with manufacturing and supply chain partners. Each card: • Contains a controller designed to communicate with protocols of high-end still and motion capture cameras • Undergoes a rigorous full test in order to meet a zero percent failure quota • Includes a unique serial number to track controller, memory, firmware and manufacture data • Has built-in error correction to detect and correct data write and data transfer errors • Is X-ray proof, shock-proof • Includes a 3-year warranty Product line as of October 2018: CFast 2.0 VPG-130 (128GB, 256GB, 512GB) microSDXC UHS-II, U3, Class 10, V60 (32GB, 64GB, 128GB) SDXC UHS-II, U3, Class 10, V90 (64GB, 128GB, 256GB) SDXC UHS-II, U3, Class 10, V60 (64GB, 128GB, 256GB) CFast & SD Dual Slot USB 3.1, Gen. 2 Workflow Reader microSDXC x 2 Dual Slot USB 3.1, Gen. 2 Workflow Reader CompactFlash & SD Dual Slot USB 3.1, Gen. 2 Workflow Reader In April 2018 ProGrade Digital demonstrated the CFexpress™ 1.0 technology. Product availability is planned for Q4 2018. ProGrade Digital is a private company (San Jose, California) founded in December 2017 and launched in February 2018. Customers may purchase products on www.progradedigital.com, plus B&H Photo and Video and Amazon websites.
2017
Mentor & Angel Investor (Ongoing)
Feb 2017
The Alchemist Accelerator is a venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage ventures that monetize from enterprises (not consumers). The accelerator’s primary screening criteria is on teams, with primacy placed on having distinctive technical co-founders. The accelerator seeds around 75 enterprise-monetizing ventures / year. Over 50% close institutional rounds within 12 months of their Alchemist Demo Day.
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2002
Tresca Systems
VP, Marketing & Business Development (Cofounder)
2002