Tao Invest, the direct investment entity affiliated with Tao Capital Partners, invests in technology, alternative energy and transportation, healthcare, education, sustainable food & agriculture, consumer, and real estate businesses. Tao is an active investor with the ability to support companies through various stages of their life-cycle.
Tao Capital Partners is interested in companies that provide online marketplaces for B2B companies, healthcare diagnostics, digital surgery companies, quantum computing development, and hospitality spaces.
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Zymergen, founded in 2013 and located in Emeryville, California, is a technology company providing organisms engineering services. Their biotechnology labs rely on advanced manufacturing technologies, machine learning techniques, and genomics to accelerate the design, build, test cycle of microorganisms.
Just, Inc. (formerly known as Hampton Creek) is a food technology company developing and selling plant based food products around the world.
An industrial biotechnology company using a bioprocessing platform to produce chemical products.
IonQ is a quantum computing company developing ion trap technology based in College Park, Maryland-based company founded by Christopher Monroe.
An electronic manufacturing company with a focus on high-resolution LIDAR sensors. It was founded in 2015 and is located in San Francisco, California.
Soylent is a company that creates nutrition products.
Company that develops treatments to prevent spoilage of fruits and vegetables using molecules naturally found in peels which maintain moisture and keep out oxygen.
An agricultural biotechnology company developing crop design platform to increase intrinsic crop yield
enLighted is a Santa Clara, California-based IoT company founded in 2009 by Jonathan Golding, Tanuj Mohan, and Premal Ashar.
MycoTechnology is a privately owned company that was founded in 2013 and based in Aurora, Colorado.
Revinate is a San Francisco-based company founded by Jay Ashton.
A company that provides serviced and furnished apartments licensed to run as a hotel.
A food company making dairy-free plant-based milk and dairy products.
Proterra, Inc. is a Burlingame, California-based zero-emission and battery-electric bus maker.
Digital surgery pioneer enabling collaborative surgery and empowering surgical systems to see what humans cannot see.
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TemperPack is a developer and provider of recyclable packaging and recyclable thermal packaging solutions for sustainable commerce.
Meati Foods is a Colorado-based company.
Raken is a company founded in 2012.
Aquion Energy is a Lawrenceville-based electronics company.
FoodMaven sells and delivers local, imperfect and oversupplied foods to restaurants and institutions.
Encodia is a company founded in 2015.
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