Root Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in early stage robotics, hardware, developer tools, and data science companies. The firm was founded by Avidian Ross in 2012, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Root Ventures is run by engineers with experience working in engineering, development, and business. Helping companies they invest in with both engineering and business strategy. Notable investments made by Root Ventures include: Apolloshield, Cloudastructure, Prynt, Mashgin, and Wild Type.
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Funded Companies
Wild Type is a San Francisco based company producing meat products like salmon using cellular agriculture lab techniques.
A company making clothing with integrated robotics to improve human performance.
Particle.io (formerly Spark.io ) is a technology company that produces low cost Internet of things hardware, software, and connectivity.
Thruwave Inc. is a Seattle-based computer-assisted legal research company founded in 2017.
A company offering an artificial intelligence and internet of things (IoT) software platform for supporting construction managers.
People
Avidan Ross
Founder & Managing Partner
Chrissy Meyer
Partner
Kane Hsieh
Partner
Laelah Reino
Operations Manager
Lee Edwards
Venture Partner
Michael Kim
Investor
Nathaniel Pearson
Founder
Further reading
Root Ventures Raises $30 Million Fund For Investing In Early-Stage Hardware Startups
Aaron Tilley
Web
Root Ventures, a young SF firm focused on 'hard tech,' just closed a much bigger second fund with $76.7 million
Connie Loizos
Web
Xconomy: With $76M Second Fund, Root Ventures Investing in Hardware, Automation
Bernadette Tansey
Web
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Cape
Daily
Dusty Robotics
Instrumental
Loom Vision
Momentum Machines
Nautilus Labs
Nord Sense
nTopology
Particle
Plethora
Preact
RightHook
SeeContract
Seismic
Shaper
Skycatch
Tortuga Agtech
Wallaby Financial
Xstream
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Will Suter
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