Avidan Ross
Investor @ Prynt
San Francisco, United States
Avidan Ross is a seed investor at Prynt in San Francisco focused on Software and Manufacturing. Avidan Ross is the Founding Partner and Managing Partner of Root Ventures. Before founding the firm in 2013, he designed industrial robotics for the Food Network's kitchens. Before that, Avidan was the CTO of CIM Group, a $15 billion investment firm, where he focused on industrial internet investing. Previous to CIM, Avidan worked as anembedded network application developer at Excite@Home. Away from work, Avidan spends time cooking, glassblowing, and working on his new book about coffee around the world. Avidan has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Columbia University where he focused on networking protocols. Avidan previously worked at Food Network as a TV Pilot Host / Food Robotics. He attended Columbia University in the City of New York.
- Total investments:
- 20
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries Avidan Ross invests in
Stages Avidan Ross invests in
Countries Avidan Ross invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (25%)
- Manufacturing 3 (15%)
- Hardware 2 (10%)
- Robotics 2 (10%)
- Internet of Things 2 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (35%)
- Series A 5 (25%)
- Series B 4 (20%)
- Series C 2 (10%)
- Angel 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 8 (40%)
- Denmark 1 (5%)
Investments
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Dusty Robotics
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Dusty Robotics develops robot-powered tools for the modern construction workforce. Their flagship product, the FieldPrinter, turns digital BIM designs into fully-constructible layouts in the field quickly and accurately. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Mountain View, California, United States. | $45M / Series B / May 10, 2022 | |
Esper
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Esper specializes in android device deployment and application management platforms for enterprises. It was co-founded in the year 2018 by US-based, industry veterans Yadhu Gopalan and Shiv Sundar. In addition to providing a device and application management platform, the company enables device manufacturers and chipset vendors to deliver a leanAndroid solution purpose-built for the smart dedicated device space. It also allows its customers to control every aspect of their device fleet and go as far as real-time debugging of applications on a remote device when required. | $60M / Series C / Oct 04, 2021 | |
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Dusty Robotics
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Dusty Robotics develops robot-powered tools for the modern construction workforce. Their flagship product, the FieldPrinter, turns digital BIM designs into fully-constructible layouts in the field quickly and accurately. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Mountain View, California, United States. | $16.5M / Series A / Jun 15, 2021 | |
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Esper
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Esper specializes in android device deployment and application management platforms for enterprises. It was co-founded in the year 2018 by US-based, industry veterans Yadhu Gopalan and Shiv Sundar. In addition to providing a device and application management platform, the company enables device manufacturers and chipset vendors to deliver a leanAndroid solution purpose-built for the smart dedicated device space. It also allows its customers to control every aspect of their device fleet and go as far as real-time debugging of applications on a remote device when required. | $30M / Series B / May 20, 2021 | |
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Esper
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Esper specializes in android device deployment and application management platforms for enterprises. It was co-founded in the year 2018 by US-based, industry veterans Yadhu Gopalan and Shiv Sundar. In addition to providing a device and application management platform, the company enables device manufacturers and chipset vendors to deliver a leanAndroid solution purpose-built for the smart dedicated device space. It also allows its customers to control every aspect of their device fleet and go as far as real-time debugging of applications on a remote device when required. | $7.6M / Series A / Feb 13, 2020 | |
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Dusty Robotics
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Dusty Robotics develops robot-powered tools for the modern construction workforce. Their flagship product, the FieldPrinter, turns digital BIM designs into fully-constructible layouts in the field quickly and accurately. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Mountain View, California, United States. | $5M / Seed / Nov 26, 2019 | |
Particle
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Particle provides hardware and software tools to help users prototype, scale, and manage IoT products. Particle is an IoT device platform that enables businesses to easily add the power of connectivity to any product. From hardware to connectivity to device management and cloud, Particle provides developers with tools to prototype IoT solutionsquickly as well as a reliable and secure platform for enterprises to scale.Over 150,000 product builders in more than 170 countries and half of the Fortune 500 have deployed connected IoT devices powered by Particle. Listed as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2015 and named as a major player to watch in the IoT Landscape in IDC Marketscape’s 2018 Vendor Assessment, Particle’s customers include NASA, SpaceX, consumer hot tub manufacturer Jacuzzi, and coffee-brewing pioneer Keurig. Venture backed by Root Ventures, Spark Capital, and Qualcomm Ventures. Particle is based in San Francisco, CA and Shenzhen, China.Particle was founded on 2012. | $40M / Series C / Oct 30, 2019 | |
nTopology
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nTopology is an engineering software company that allows engineers to consider design, simulation, and advanced manufacturing in one workflow. The company's breakthrough computational engineering environment seamlessly combines synthesized geometry and simulation results in finely tuned manufacturing models. They building the next generationof engineering design tools for advanced manufacturing.nTopology helps engineers create lightweight and optimized parts with their functional requirements built right in. The company launched nTop platform bringing to market capabilities that would complement existing CAD technologies. It also boasts tools that give the user precise control over spatial variations of shape, allowing for a wider spectrum of designs, and analysis and test results, so this data can be harnessed to design parts.nTopology was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA. | $20M / Series B / Jul 12, 2019 | |
TruckLabs
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TruckLabs is a trucking technology company with a mission to transform the industry through combining a first-hand understanding of trucking with technology. With more than one hundred million miles driven, we are hardware engineers, software developers and data scientists who are serious about trucking. | $10.5M / Series A / May 01, 2019 | |
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Dusty Robotics
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Dusty Robotics develops robot-powered tools for the modern construction workforce. Their flagship product, the FieldPrinter, turns digital BIM designs into fully-constructible layouts in the field quickly and accurately. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Mountain View, California, United States. | Seed / Aug 16, 2018 | |
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Co-Investors
About Prynt
Prynt is the first ever instant camera case for smartphones. Just plug in your device, take a picture, and voila: get a beautiful photo in your hands within seconds. The case is simple — no ink, wifi or bluetooth — and is compatible with iOS and Android phones.Plus, when you take a photo with Prynt, their app embeds a video inside of it, givingyou a creative new way to tell your story. Hold your phone over any printed picture and watch it come to life in augmented reality on screen!
Prynt Contacts
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Avidan Ross
Investor
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Clément Perrot
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What does Avidan Ross invest in?
Avidan Ross invests primarily in Software, Manufacturing and Hardware startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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