Current Investments

Hippo Harvest

Invested Dec 2023 (A)

Hippo grows leafy greens in controlled greenhouses to produce higher quality greens, affordably.

Monomer Bio

Invested Aug 2022 (Seed)

Monomer’s first solution is an end-to-end platform for cell culture automation and enables massive parallelization of cell culture studies.

Made & Modern

Invested June 2022 (A).
Made and Modern offers personalized furniture products via digital manufacturing & commodity robotics for production.

Treeswift

Invested Jan 2021 (Seed).
Treeswift is building forest monitoring systems for carbon capture estimation, timber value estimation, deforestation monitoring, and forest management.

Elroy Air

Invested Nov 2017 (Seed), Nov 2018 (A), Aug 2021 (AA), Nov 2022 (PreB)
Elroy Air’s air cargo system features rotor-based vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) and transitions to wing-based cruise flight for long range.

Simbe Robotics

Invested January 2016 (Seed) & March 2022 (Pre-B).
Simbe’s first product, Tally, is the world’s first fully autonomous shelf auditing and analytics solution providing visibility and insight into the state of merchandise in stores.

Zipline

Invested June 2015 (A).
Zipline designs, manufactures, and operates drones to deliver vital medical products

Magic Leap

Invested May 2011 (Strategic/Consultancy)
Zipline designs, manufactures, and operates drones to deliver vital medical products.

 

Other Investments

Vijay has also made other investments, co-investing with trusted angels investors & domain experts in their respective focus areas.

  • Hyphen - Invested November 2022 (A) - Hyphen is an automated makeline designed to increase efficiency in the kitchen with less errors and lower costs.

  • Eraser - Invested September 2022 (Seed). - Eraser is centered around a collaborative digital canvas for whiteboarding and note-taking

  • StanPlus - Invested August 2018 (A). Hyderabad, India - StanPlus provides hospitals and enterprises with tech solutions that augment their existing medical response systems to respond faster, and offer the patients better experience throughout the emergency value chain.

  • (Hidden) - Invested May 2019 (A). AI powered technology for recruiting for identifying top candidates in various professional services industries.

  • Ozette - February 2021 (Seed). Ozette is a life sciences data startup company that develops an artificial intelligence-enabled immune monitoring platform. It empowers scientists to quickly extract reliable insights from single-cell data across instruments, experiments, and disease states, with a focus on cancer patients. The data can be used by doctors to diagnose and prescribe medication with greater accuracy.

  • Cabinet Health - March 2021 (Seed). Cabinet Health is a sustainable healthcare company, starting with over-the-counter medicine. Cabinet sells 30+ OTC medicines and dietary supplements with a focus on environmental sustainability, quality, and personalized care.


Previous Investments

Telogis

Invested Aug 2014.
Telogis provides a comprehensive cloud-based Mobile Enterprise Management (MEM) software platform for companies that require dynamic routing, real-time work order management, navigation, telematics and mobile integration services for their mobile workforces.

Acquired by Verizon, Aug 2016.

 

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  • Invested in April 2016 (Seed) / Folded in 2022. A CEA (Controlled Environment Agriculture) company. The high CapEx of their tech solution made scaling hard and unit economics unfavorable.

 

(All investments listed above were made standalone or via S7 Ventures LLC)