# Cyril Ebersweiler

> Cyril Ebersweiler is a seed investor at AYLIEN (San Francisco) backing Robotics and Hardware. See 254 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [AYLIEN](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aylien)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 254
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cyrilebersweiler
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/cebersweiler
- Website: https://x.com/cebersweiler

Cyril Ebersweiler is a seed investor at AYLIEN in San Francisco focused on Robotics and Hardware. Entrepreneur, venture capitalist. Cyril is a General Partner at SOSV and the founder/MD of HAX. He is a board member/advisor to a few startups including Formlabs, Collaborate (ACQ: CISCO), Hackster (ACQ: AVNET), Adoreme and Breather. He is one of the most experienced investor in the hardware space (260+) and has invested globally. Cyrilwrote dozens of articles and publishes regularly on topics such as technology, robotics, health and crowdfunding, and has been featured in The Economist, Popular Mechanics, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Huffington Post, Wired, BBC and more.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Robotics | 30 | 12% |
| Hardware | 26 | 10% |
| Health Care | 25 | 10% |
| Software | 23 | 9% |
| Consumer Electronics | 20 | 8% |

175 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 85 | 33% |
| Convertible Note | 52 | 20% |
| Series A | 22 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 15 | 6% |
| Series B | 15 | 6% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 63 | 25% |
| Canada | 13 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 10 | 4% |
| Singapore | 8 | 3% |
| France | 7 | 3% |

18 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Flair | Flair makes smart vents and wireless thermostats and advanced software for residential heating and cooling. The company builds smart hardware and software for HVAC controls focused on efficiency, comfort, electrification, and smart grid integration. The company's products are sold through multiple channels including direct to consumer, HVACdistribution, and utilities. | $5.7M | Series B | Mar 31, 2026 |  |
| Looking Glass Factory | Looking Glass Factory is building the holographic future, starting with the Looking Glass, the world’s first desktop holographic display for 3D creators—no VR or AR headset required. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York with a wholly-owned subsidiary in Hong Kong. |  | Convertible Note | Mar 04, 2026 |  |
| ViaBot | ViaBot develops outdoor maintenance robots for commercial properties, including retail spaces, sports arenas, and corporate buildings. Primarily used for outdoor cleaning, the ViaBot One also features vision-based security to capture details like vehicle license platesViaBot was founded in 2016 by Gregg Ratanaphanyarat and Andre Ding and is basedin Santa Clara, California, United States. |  | Series A | Feb 17, 2026 |  |
| Opentrons | OpenTrons is a developer of a pipetting robot technology designed to automate experiments. The company's technology is automated laboratory equipment that automates experiments by using Python language, enabling scientific researchers to make the process faster and less tiresome. | $20.1M | Series D | Dec 05, 2025 |  |
| Sidework Solutions | Backbar Solutions is an automated cocktail dispenser designed to provide stability in bars regardless of fluctuations in business. Designed with a bartender’s workflow in mind, our cocktail dispenser makes your bar more efficient from day one, so client can focus on giving the guests a great experience. It reduces the points of contact betweenbartenders and cocktails, so they can be sure the drinks they are serving are as safe as possible. |  | Convertible Note | Dec 01, 2025 |  |
| Vertiq | Vertiq offers high performance propulsion solutions for aerial vehicles. Its core product design consists of a lightweight, tightly integrated motor and ESC with an embedded position sensor. With position sensing and Vertiq’s sophisticated motor calibration and control software, vehicles experience significant performance advantages, such asincreased flight time, enhanced maneuverability, and high reliability. |  | Series C | Nov 18, 2025 |  |
| Leadoptik | Leadoptik is a California-based company is currently operating in stealth mode. | $4.6M | Series A | Sep 02, 2025 |  |
| Amper Technologies | Amper enables manufacturers to always meet production targets and level-up operations using real-time visibility. With our powerful machine monitoring and analytics tools, teams can easily identify the root causes of issues and systematically unlock hidden capacity and production losses. Born on the shop floor, Amper is simple to use and takes onlyminutes to deploy on any kind of machine. We empower entire manufacturing teams - from operators to plant managers - with actionable data and intuitive software. Amper's vision is to create a FactoryOS to unleash the potential of every manufacturer and create world-class operations. Amper is headquartered in Chicago IL and was founded in 2016 by Akshat Thirani and Philip House. |  | Convertible Note | Aug 27, 2025 |  |
| ZiO Health | ZiO Health is a biotechnology company that has developed proprietary pocket-sized technology, bringing laboratory testing to the point-of-care to improve patient outcomes. Using ZiO Health's proprietary biosensor technology & machine learning algorithms we combine real-time results with the patients unique profile to enhance patient care. |  | Convertible Note | Jun 25, 2025 |  |
| xRobotics | xRobotics has created an affordable pizza-making robot for the pizza restaurant industry. We have solved many of the most complex mechanical challenges and have created unique patented robotic solutions.Our team are professionals in robotics and industry leaders, who have worked for Tesla, General Electric, SpaceX, and Boeing, and who are thewinners of many robotics competitions.Automation and robots right now have a special role in warehouses and manufacturing processes, participating in almost 90% of all processes. Robotics have brought many benefits to these industries, and our mission is to bring the latest technology to the pizza restaurant industry and increase the levels of automation there.We came together to bring the latest unique technologies to the pizza restaurant industry and to make a more delicious, high-quality pizza that we really love. | $2.5M | Seed | Jun 09, 2025 |  |

10 of 254 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SOSV HAX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hax-accelerator) — VC Fund, 146 deals together
- [Entrepreneurs First](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/entrepreneurs-first) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Entrepreneurs First](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/entrepreneur-first) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Lowercarbon Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lowercarbon-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Seaside Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seaside-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

## About AYLIEN

VC Fund · Dublin, Ireland

Aylien is an artificial intelligence startup that focuses on creating technologies that help machines understand human languages better. The firm provides Text Analysis and News API's that allow users to make sense of human-generated content at scale. AYLIEN also provides a range of content analysis solutions to developers, data scientists,marketers and academics. Their core offerings include packages of information retrieval, machine learning, natural language processing and image recognition APIs.

3 contacts available at AYLIEN.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cyril Ebersweiler | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cyril-ebersweiler |
| Parsa Ghaffari | CEO & Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/parsa-ghaffari |
| Shawn Broderick | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shawn-broderick |

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## FAQ

### What does Cyril Ebersweiler invest in?

Cyril Ebersweiler invests primarily in Robotics, Hardware and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Convertible Note stage. Most of the 254 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Cyril Ebersweiler last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Cyril Ebersweiler closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 254 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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