We partner with entrepreneurs to develop products, services and technologies that impact billions of lives across the planet. By investing in a wide range of sectors we help great teams create category-defining companies in a vast array of industries. We prefer to lead a startup’s early fundraising round, or participate as a major investor. We don’t just pick winners; we help make them.
Jiang and Niel have developed remote patient monitoring products used in tens of countries.
Song and Sa have made it possible to charge an electric car in a few minutes.
Vahid and Mojgan have developed many medical devices that saved lives.
Amy is trying to help one billion people hear more clearly.
Leslie and Raphael have made microscopes image in 3D.
co-Founded 3 startups, 2 venture capital firms, and 2 non-profit organizations
Raised / Managed 5 venture capital funds
Invested in 80+ startups
Served on more than 20 boards
Authored 30+ peer-reviewed papers and patents, with ~6000 citations
Advisor of research and innovation for the University of Colorado at Boulder
Chaired the 1st Solar Decathlon in Asia, a Zero-Energy-Consumption-Building competition that had 21 teams from 11 countries (United States, China, Israel, Sweden, Australia, Egypt, Singapore, Belgium, Iran, England, Switzerland, Malaysia). It's a collaboration of U.S. and China, supported by Presidents Obama and Hu.
Managing Partner
Vahid Saadat is a serial medical device entrepreneur with 25 years of experience developing and commercializing medical products. Vahid currently runs Inquis Medical, Inc., a medical device company in Redwood City, California. Previously, Vahid run Arrinex, Inc., a company developing a one time,office based therapy for chronic rhinitis. Arrinex was recently acquired by Stryker, Inc. Prior to Arrinex, Vahid served as the CEO of Voyage Medical, funded by Kleiner perkins, Three Arch , RWI and Abbott Ventures. Mr. Saadat holds a Bachelor's and Master’s degrees in engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He is named an inventor on 200 patents in a variety of medical specialties.
Venture Partner
Tim is a successful serial entrepreneur. He was the Co-Founder/CEO of TiDAL Systems (acquired by Micron), Co-Founder/CEO of HoneycombData, and Founder/Chairman of PETAiO.
Venture Partner
Mark has been an investor in DeepTech startups since 2008 with 35+ investments in Digital Transformation and Sustainability. Exits include A123 (IPO), QD Vision (Acq by Samsung), Device42 (Acq by a PE), SeeClickFix (Acq by CivicPlus), LiveOak (Acq by DocuSign), MoQuality (Acq by Snap).
Venture Partner
Aqtual, Inc., a precision medicine company using its novel cell-free DNA platform to develop products for chronic diseases and oncology, has raised $16 million in Series A financing, co-led by Genoa Ventures, Manta Ray Ventures, and Yu Galaxy.
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