Ryan JB Taylor

Principal @ Fusion Fund | AI & Deep Tech

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2026
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Apr 2026
Ineffable Intelligence is making first contact with superintelligence.
Investor
Jan 2026
Zeroport is the first non-IP secure remote access solution provider. Using a patented physical bridge deployed at the gateway of an organization’s network, Zeroport enables only human interactions in and only a stream of pixels out - so no packet (no digital signal) enters or exits the network, all while enabling latency-free work at linear scale. This approach solves the biggest network access pains for both isolated and connected networks - it brings air-gapped networks from 0 to 1 in their remote access journey by enabling secure connectivity from remote locations while keeping their air-gap intact. For connected organizations relying on traditional remote access stacks, Zeroport helps modernize and simplify their cumbersome, costly and vulnerable remote access approach, currently plagued with extreme vendor fatigue and security-patch chaos. With offices in New York, Israel and Singapore, Zeroport serves financial institutions, critical infrastructure, industrial enterprises, and public-sector organizations worldwide.
Board Member
Jan 2026
At AgileRL, we are on a mission to accelerate reinforcement learning for building superhuman artificial intelligence systems. Backed by Fusion Fund, Flying Fish, Octopus Ventures, Counterview Capital and Entrepreneur First. We believe that reinforcement learning will form a part of every sophisticated AI system of the future. It already impacts the world we live in, from its use in creating LLMs with reasoning capabilities, to enabling autonomous vehicles to make decisions. Reinforcement learning enables AI models to plan and achieve objectives, but currently very few companies or individuals have the resources to leverage this powerful machine learning paradigm. AgileRL offers Arena, an enterprise-grade reinforcement learning operations (RLOps) platform and a state-of-the-art open-source framework to eliminate these barriers to entry. Our framework has already achieved 10x faster training and hyperparameter optimisation than leading RL libraries. Arena, built on top of our open-source framework, is focused on four key areas - simulation, training, deployment and monitoring.
Board Observer
Sep 2025
Located in Vancouver, SenseNet stands at the forefront of tech innovation, delivering cutting-edge, data-driven solutions specifically tailored for IoT applications. Our current emphasis? Early wildfire detection. Our unwavering mission: Shield communities from the devastating impacts of wildfires. We achieve this through bespoke hardware and software, harnessing a myriad of gas sensors for in-forest data collection, and utilizing state-of-the-art AI algorithms for cloud-based data processing. What sets SenseNet apart is our strategic fusion of low power wide area networks, advanced 5G communication, and seamless IoT connectivity, ensuring effortless deployment across both remote and urban landscapes. At the heart of SenseNet lies our sophisticated sensor network, bolstered by AI algorithms, expansive data analytics, and intuitive visualization dashboards. We transform raw data into actionable insights, presenting them to wildfire authorities via user-friendly web and mobile interfaces. Our pioneering solutions have birthed two flagship products: Tailored communication hardware and 5G-integrated sensors for expansive wildfire surveillance. A holistic web and mobile platform for data representation, fire risk assessment, and prompt wildfire alerts. Every SenseNet innovation is steeped in environmental stewardship. Were committed to not just mitigating environmental threats but also reducing greenhouse gas emissions, ensuring compliance, championing forest conservation, and elevating overall environmental performance. Gazing into the future, SenseNet envisions broadening its horizons, targeting avant-garde, data-centric solutions encompassing areas like smart homes, pollution control, oil and gas leak detection, dam surveillance, and greenhouse oversight.
Investor
Jul 2025
Introducing the World’s First Large Visual Memory Model — Enabling AI to See and Remember, Just Like Humans. Only Better.
Board Observer
Jan 2025
SAIF are buiding the trust layer for autonomy and physical AI. At SAIF Autonomy we aim to be the global leaders in novel control assurance, pioneering trusted and ethical autonomy for humanity. Our software enables assured, trustworthy deployment of both traditional deterministic autonomy and AI or novel control methods, in any application, for the first time. We do all of this with with no need for data or communications links and we begin the journey by applying our tech to autonomous systems in the aerospace and land domains. Future-focused. Compliance-ready. Built for safety-critical environments.
Board Member
Jul 2024
Starpath designs and manufactures robotic propellant production factories for the Moon and Mars, reducing the cost of deep space transport, and enabling humans to be a multi planet species.
Investor
Jul 2023
Koop’s trust management platform helps navigate the complexities of regulatory compliance, security reviews, and liability insurance in a single place 🚀 Founders and operators have to go through stringent procurement before they can land a deal with enterprise or government customers. Growing compliance standards, never-ending security reviews, and high-limit insurance requirements can derail budgets and timelines even for the most ambitious projects ⚠️ Koop liberates tech companies from the procurement burden by combining compliance, security, and insurance in a single platform! Companies can achieve many compliance certifications (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA), do security questionnaires, and purchase required liability insurance (e.g. General Liability, Cyber, Directors & Officers) without leaving the platform 🖥️ Its an easy, affordable, and integrated experience that puts your contractual requirements first 🥇 Koop serves various verticals including Robotics & Autonomous Vehicles, AI, Aerospace, Energy & Climate, Manufacturing, Biotech, and more 📈 Koop has raised venture funding from such renowned investors as AlleyCorp, Ubiquity Ventures, Bee Partners, and Hyundai Motor Group and is backed by global insurance carriers 💵 Dont settle for incomplete and expensive vendors. Start your end-to-end trust management journey with us at koop.ai and secure your next million-dollar contract with ease 🌐 Interested in joining our team? Please check the careers page for the latest positions: koop.ai/careers 👩‍💻
Board Observer
Jul 2023
Scout Spaces mission is to enable our customers to perform complex missions and avoid threats by using on-board sensing, processing, and autonomous decision making. We are building next-generation sensor systems, autonomy software, and data platforms to enable cross-orbit intelligence and dynamic space operations. For more information, visit www.scout.space
Investor
Oct 2022
Fusion Fund invests in promising start-up companies who have technology barriers in their business models. We invest in many industries including connected industries (robotics, mobility), network technologies (connectivity, security), artificial intelligence (computer vision, NLP), and digital health/medical devices. Our sweet spot are the Seed and Pre-A rounds. In addition to the financial support we provide portfolio companies, the entrepreneurial Partners at Fusion Fund provide vision, strategy, product marketing, and guidance drawn from our diverse background.
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2026
Investor
Apr 2026
Ineffable Intelligence is making first contact with superintelligence.
Investor
Jan 2026
Zeroport is the first non-IP secure remote access solution provider. Using a patented physical bridge deployed at the gateway of an organization’s network, Zeroport enables only human interactions in and only a stream of pixels out - so no packet (no digital signal) enters or exits the network, all while enabling latency-free work at linear scale. This approach solves the biggest network access pains for both isolated and connected networks - it brings air-gapped networks from 0 to 1 in their remote access journey by enabling secure connectivity from remote locations while keeping their air-gap intact. For connected organizations relying on traditional remote access stacks, Zeroport helps modernize and simplify their cumbersome, costly and vulnerable remote access approach, currently plagued with extreme vendor fatigue and security-patch chaos. With offices in New York, Israel and Singapore, Zeroport serves financial institutions, critical infrastructure, industrial enterprises, and public-sector organizations worldwide.
Board Member
Jan 2026
At AgileRL, we are on a mission to accelerate reinforcement learning for building superhuman artificial intelligence systems. Backed by Fusion Fund, Flying Fish, Octopus Ventures, Counterview Capital and Entrepreneur First. We believe that reinforcement learning will form a part of every sophisticated AI system of the future. It already impacts the world we live in, from its use in creating LLMs with reasoning capabilities, to enabling autonomous vehicles to make decisions. Reinforcement learning enables AI models to plan and achieve objectives, but currently very few companies or individuals have the resources to leverage this powerful machine learning paradigm. AgileRL offers Arena, an enterprise-grade reinforcement learning operations (RLOps) platform and a state-of-the-art open-source framework to eliminate these barriers to entry. Our framework has already achieved 10x faster training and hyperparameter optimisation than leading RL libraries. Arena, built on top of our open-source framework, is focused on four key areas - simulation, training, deployment and monitoring.
2025
Board Observer
Sep 2025
Located in Vancouver, SenseNet stands at the forefront of tech innovation, delivering cutting-edge, data-driven solutions specifically tailored for IoT applications. Our current emphasis? Early wildfire detection. Our unwavering mission: Shield communities from the devastating impacts of wildfires. We achieve this through bespoke hardware and software, harnessing a myriad of gas sensors for in-forest data collection, and utilizing state-of-the-art AI algorithms for cloud-based data processing. What sets SenseNet apart is our strategic fusion of low power wide area networks, advanced 5G communication, and seamless IoT connectivity, ensuring effortless deployment across both remote and urban landscapes. At the heart of SenseNet lies our sophisticated sensor network, bolstered by AI algorithms, expansive data analytics, and intuitive visualization dashboards. We transform raw data into actionable insights, presenting them to wildfire authorities via user-friendly web and mobile interfaces. Our pioneering solutions have birthed two flagship products: Tailored communication hardware and 5G-integrated sensors for expansive wildfire surveillance. A holistic web and mobile platform for data representation, fire risk assessment, and prompt wildfire alerts. Every SenseNet innovation is steeped in environmental stewardship. Were committed to not just mitigating environmental threats but also reducing greenhouse gas emissions, ensuring compliance, championing forest conservation, and elevating overall environmental performance. Gazing into the future, SenseNet envisions broadening its horizons, targeting avant-garde, data-centric solutions encompassing areas like smart homes, pollution control, oil and gas leak detection, dam surveillance, and greenhouse oversight.
Investor
Jul 2025
Introducing the World’s First Large Visual Memory Model — Enabling AI to See and Remember, Just Like Humans. Only Better.
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