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Board Member and Investor
2023
Trunk Tools built the brain behind construction. Now we are automating this $13 trillion construction industry. We’re an exceptional team of serial entrepreneurs, brought together by our shared mission: automating construction. Our founding team (SpaceX, Stanford, MIT, Carta, etc.) has successfully built and deployed software in construction for 140k+ users, millions of users beyond the construction space, and worked on +$2 billion of built-environment projects.
Board Observer and Investor
2022
The only Multifamily Decision Intelligence platform. Next-gen forecasting, operational decision-making, and budgeting solutions. See the difference!
Board Member and Investor
2022
Aro Homes is a new company on a mission to redefine residential construction by building better, more sustainable homes faster and more efficiently. We believe that home construction should be better for the planet and deliver better homes for the people who live in them. When we look at the massive US residential construction industry, we see tremendous opportunities for fundamental improvement around end-product quality, speed, waste, cost, environmental impact and more. We are a team of passionate, capable experts across Engineering, Construction, Design, Product Management, and Manufacturing who believe the time has come to improve this industry so it’s better for people and the planet. We are funded by world class investors who care about transforming industries for the better, including Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors. If you care deeply about doing something good in the world, working with smart, passionate people and tackling hard problems, then you should talk with us.
Board Observer and Investor
2022
Parspec is revolutionizing the materials supply chain for the $15 trillion global construction industry by digitizing and organizing the industrys product data. Our proprietary AI technology maintains a current and comprehensive catalogue of millions of products, enabling our customers to identify products that best meet their needs–instantly. Trusted by top designers, builders, distributors, manufacturers, and sales agents, and backed by leading venture investors, Parspec is paving the way for a more innovative, connected, and sustainable future in construction.
Board Member and Investor
Apr 2020
At Third Wave Automation, weve created the Shared Autonomy Platform; a system that integrates machine learning with shared autonomy. This enables autonomous reach trucks to operate with remote oversight, allowing human operators to intervene only when necessary.
With continuous improvement at the helm, this technology is designed to enhance efficiency and safety in warehouse automation (keeping operators out of harms way), providing intelligent fleet management (ArmadaFMS) and better overall performance.
The TWA Reach, our fully autonomous reach truck, can be deployed onsite within a matter of weeks and not months, thanks to flexibility within environments and no additional infrastructure requirements.
Board Observer and Investor
Sep 2019
Rebellion Defense builds the modern mission stack to detect and deter adversaries at scale.
Today, national security is defined by technological superiority. Rebellion delivers the software advantage to deter threats and drive mission success. Our freedoms depend on outthinking our adversaries, and software will shape who leads.
We bring together groundbreaking talent who have built the world’s most successful consumer technologies and national security leaders who deeply understand the mission. Together, we are creating the products that equip our service members to see ahead, understand, and act first.
Our people are passionate about creating a company where technologists empower the military and our civil servants to solve some of the hardest problems in government.
We are hiring incredible technologists to work on products that defend democracy, humanitarian values, and the rule of law.
Board Member and Investor
2019
Replica is a next-generation urban planning tool that can help cities answer key transportation and land use questions.
Replica offers public agencies, land developers, and the community at large a complete sense of city movement patterns. The result is a higher confidence in critical transportation and land use decisions. Replica has three distinct advantages:
Fresher data
We create a new Replica every three months allowing comparisons of trip patterns over time and showing how people respond to new infrastructure and policies on the ground.
A more detailed picture
We replicate trip data for every street and transit route, every neighborhood and census tract, every moment of the day.
Greater precision
We calibrate our models against ground-truth data from public agencies to ensure accuracy and precision.
Board Member and Investor
2018
We believe in the power of technology to transform the way we build. It is our mission to improve the quality and affordability of the places where we live, work, sleep, and play, while simultaneously improving the working conditions of the people who build these spaces.
We deliver unrivaled quality, speed, and predictability by putting robots in the hands of skilled workers. Through our novel approach, we have reinvented drywall finishing to give your projects better outcomes.
Working at Canvas: Canvas is on a mission to improve the quality and affordability of the places where we live, work, sleep, and play, while simultaneously improving the working conditions of the people who build these spaces. Were looking for extraordinary people who sit at the intersection of high-performing and empathic to make it happen.
One of the best parts about being a startup is getting to create the company we want to work for. To that end, we think it’s important to have a deliberate and ongoing dialogue about how to create a workplace where we can thrive and do our best work. We don’t just talk about values in the abstract but rather how to build a culture that reflects them.
We also believe that great employee benefits empower great work. We offer:
Competitive Pay & Equity: Delivered through a transparent and fair system.
Health Coverage: Excellent medical, dental, and vision options for you and the ones you love.
Culture: Company fun days, crawfish boils, cooking challenges, and potluck lunches.
Diversity & Inclusion: Different views & unique backgrounds are a competitive advantage.
Board Member and Investor
2018
Afresh is on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. Our first A.I.-powered solution optimizes ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments in brick-and-mortar grocers. With our Fresh Operating System, regional and national grocery retailers have placed $1.6 billion in produce orders across the US and weve helped our partners prevent 34 million pounds of food from going to waste. Working at Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by leveraging uncommonly impactful software!
Board Member and Investor
2017
Ukko is improving the lives of millions that suffer from food allergies and disorders.
We are using cutting edge technologies in immunology, computational biology, and plant science to develop a new approach.
We have offices in Tel Aviv, Israel and Palo Alto, California.
Board Member and Investor
2017
skyTran is a patented, high-speed, low-cost, elevated Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system. The skyTran network of computer-controlled, 2-person “jet-like” vehicles employs state-of-the-art passive Magnetic Levitation (Maglev) technology. The system transports passengers in a fast, safe, green, and economical manner. skyTran intends to revolutionize public transportation and, with it, urban and suburban commuting.
skyTran is a NASA Space Act company, headquartered at the NASA Ames Research Center near Mountain View, California. NASA uses Space Act Agreements as the primary means for partnering with the community. skyTran greatly benefits from such an arrangement by having access to a wide range of NASA technologies and capabilities and being able to combine NASA expertise, assets, and information with its own core competencies.
Board Member and Investor
2017
ClearMetal is now project44! Acquired by project44 in May, 2021 our solutions are now available within the project44 product suite. Follow project44 for updates on this exciting next chapter.
ClearMetal is the market leader in international ocean freight visibility, dynamic planning and customer experience. The ClearMetal Platform applies proprietary machine learning analytics to improve the accuracy and quality of ocean freight data. ClearMetal consolidates, cleans and processes data from multiple sources to give shippers real-time insights into the status of their shipments, door-to-door. By offering granular container and line-item milestone visibility, shippers gain predictive insights on estimated times of arrival, cargo status and delays, allowing for highly efficient exception management and a superior customer experience. ClearMetal was founded by top software engineers, data scientists and operations researchers from Stanford University, Google and Silicon Valley, and is funded by Eclipse Ventures, Prelude Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, NEA, SAP.io, Prologis Ventures, PSA Unboxed, DCLI and the founders of GT Nexus, Navis and Uber Freight. ClearMetal is based in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit www.clearmetal.com.
Also, we're hiring! View vacancies and apply here: https://www.clearmetal.com/careers
Board Member and Investor
2017
Skylo Technologies is a global Non-Terrestrial Network service provider based in Mountain View, CA, offering a service that allows smartphones and IoT cellular devices to connect directly over existing satellites. Devices connected over satellite are managed and served by Skylos commercial NTN vRAN, featuring a 3GPP standards-based cloud-native base station and core. Skylo works with existing satellite operators, network operators, and device makers to provide subscribers an anywhere, anytime connectivity solution between terrestrial and satellite networks. Skylos focus is on enabling connected services for people outdoors and connected workflows for machines at work across critical industries such as agriculture, maritime, logistics, mining, and others, in addition to mass-market consumer devices.
We’re a global, fast-growing team, with offices in California, India and Finland. For more information, visit www.skylo.tech.
Board Member and Investor
2016
Citrine empowers product experts with vanguard AI technologies. With no background in data science, product experts apply Citrine to deliver next generation products faster than any other time in history.
Citrine’s software learns easily from the knowledge of its users and their idiosyncratic data to enhance all aspects of the product lifecycle across all industries with a physical product. Citrine’s users increase supply chain efficiency, rapidly improve product quality, enhance customer experience, expand product reach and increase the velocity of product delivery.
With Citrine, product experts unlock the capability to solve our society’s greatest environmental and productivity challenges.
Citrines customers include Eastman, Panasonic, Grace, LyondellBasell, LANXESS, Morrow Batteries and some of the biggest and most respected names in the materials and chemicals and CPG industries in Asia, North America, and Europe. For more information visit our website at https://citrine.io.
Board Member and Investor
2016
Plenty is a new kind of farm for a new kind of world. We’re on a mission to bring healthy food to the world while protecting the environment. Our pesticide-free, non-GMO leafy greens taste fresh-picked from the garden because they were. We grow and deliver locally, cutting transportation miles and reducing emissions. Plenty’s indoor farms mean fresh produce is always in season.
We are a team of growers, plant scientists, engineers, artists, foodies and plant romantics working to improve the lives of plants, people, and the planet. We currently operate in South San Francisco, CA, and Laramie, WY. Our new Compton, CA site set to open in 2021 will be the world’s first, high-capacity indoor vertical farm.
Plenty believes food justice is social justice. Equal access to healthy, nutritious food is fundamental to a quality life. We build farms in communities that need better access to food and jobs. Plenty provides living-wage, year-round jobs along with flavorful, nutrient-rich food to the communities we serve. We use automation and robotics so machines do the backbreaking labor while people perform new kinds of skilled agricultural, science and high-tech jobs.
Now is the time to help Plenty achieve its mission to feed the world healthy food in a sustainable way. We are a start-up with expanding career growth opportunities.
We are actively seeking those who embody our core values: find a way, down to earth, & grow together. These values guide how we work together as teammates, approach innovation and engage with customers. Does this sound like you? Join the mission as we improve human and planetary health by increasing access to craveable fruits and vegetables.
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Board Member and Investor
2023
Trunk Tools built the brain behind construction. Now we are automating this $13 trillion construction industry. We’re an exceptional team of serial entrepreneurs, brought together by our shared mission: automating construction. Our founding team (SpaceX, Stanford, MIT, Carta, etc.) has successfully built and deployed software in construction for 140k+ users, millions of users beyond the construction space, and worked on +$2 billion of built-environment projects.
2022
Board Observer and Investor
2022
The only Multifamily Decision Intelligence platform. Next-gen forecasting, operational decision-making, and budgeting solutions. See the difference!
Board Member and Investor
2022
Aro Homes is a new company on a mission to redefine residential construction by building better, more sustainable homes faster and more efficiently. We believe that home construction should be better for the planet and deliver better homes for the people who live in them. When we look at the massive US residential construction industry, we see tremendous opportunities for fundamental improvement around end-product quality, speed, waste, cost, environmental impact and more. We are a team of passionate, capable experts across Engineering, Construction, Design, Product Management, and Manufacturing who believe the time has come to improve this industry so it’s better for people and the planet. We are funded by world class investors who care about transforming industries for the better, including Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors. If you care deeply about doing something good in the world, working with smart, passionate people and tackling hard problems, then you should talk with us.
Board Observer and Investor
2022
Parspec is revolutionizing the materials supply chain for the $15 trillion global construction industry by digitizing and organizing the industrys product data. Our proprietary AI technology maintains a current and comprehensive catalogue of millions of products, enabling our customers to identify products that best meet their needs–instantly. Trusted by top designers, builders, distributors, manufacturers, and sales agents, and backed by leading venture investors, Parspec is paving the way for a more innovative, connected, and sustainable future in construction.
2020
Board Member and Investor
Apr 2020
At Third Wave Automation, weve created the Shared Autonomy Platform; a system that integrates machine learning with shared autonomy. This enables autonomous reach trucks to operate with remote oversight, allowing human operators to intervene only when necessary.
With continuous improvement at the helm, this technology is designed to enhance efficiency and safety in warehouse automation (keeping operators out of harms way), providing intelligent fleet management (ArmadaFMS) and better overall performance.
The TWA Reach, our fully autonomous reach truck, can be deployed onsite within a matter of weeks and not months, thanks to flexibility within environments and no additional infrastructure requirements.
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