Current Investments
Hyphen
Invested Nov 2022 (A)
Hyphen is an automated makeline designed to increase efficiency in the kitchen with less errors and lower costs. Build perfectly portioned bowls and plates according to custom recipes. Hyphen is built to help busy kitchens stay one step ahead and spend more time on what matters most.
Monomer Bio
Invested Aug 2022 (Seed)
Monomer’s first solution is an end-to-end platform for cell culture automation. Monomer enables massive parallelization of cell culture studies by providing the automation expertise and intelligent software required to build fully-automated workcells that can handle complex cell culture processes from start to finish.
Made & Modern
Invested June 2022 (A).
Made and Modern offers personalized furniture products. It blends AR with digital manufacturing and uses its proprietary software utilizing commodity robotics for production, providing customers with novel and innovative furniture alternatives.
Treeswift
Invested Jan 2021 (Seed).
Treeswift is building the next generation of forest monitoring systems. They provide forest stakeholders with precision data and analyses that are easily accessible and flexible. Their services are used in carbon capture estimation, timber value estimation, deforestation monitoring, advanced growth forecasting, and forest management.
Elroy Air
Invested Nov 2017 (Seed), Nov 2018 (A), Aug 2021 (AA), Nov 2022 (PreB)
Elroy Air’s mission is to improve quality of life around the planet by expanding the reach of expedited logistics via air cargo - safely, efficiently and autonomously. Their air cargo system features rotor-based vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) and transitions to wing-based cruise flight for long range.
IronOx
Invested April 2016 (Seed).
Iron Ox is a robotics manufacturing company. The company develops a set of robots that can run a greenhouse automatically and form farm labor.
Simbe Robotics
Invested January 2016 (Seed) & March 2022 (Pre-B).
Simbe Robotics builds automation solutions for the retail industry. Simbe’s first product, Tally, is the world’s first fully autonomous shelf auditing and analytics solution; one that provides retailers unprecedented visibility and insight into the state of merchandise in their stores.
Zipline
Invested June 2015 (A).
Zipline builds products that improve access to healthcare and saves lives. Zipline created Zip, a small robot airplane designed for a high level of safety, using many of the same approaches as commercial airliners. It can carry vaccines, medicine, or blood.
Magic Leap
Invested May 2011 (Strategic/Consultancy)
Magic Leap is innovating in the AR space to create new hardware and software that will give its users a never-before-seen AR experience and redefine how we access screens and visualize data.
Other Investments
Vijay has also made other investments, co-investing with trusted angels investors & domain experts in their respective focus areas.
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.
(All investments listed above were made standalone or via S7 Ventures LLC)