Doug Neal
Co-Founder and Managing Director @ eLab Ventures
Ann Arbor, United States
Doug Neal is a seed investor at eLab Ventures in Ann Arbor focused on Robotics and Software. Doug Neal is Co-Founder and Managing Director of eLab Ventures.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
Last updated:
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Industries Doug Neal invests in
Stages Doug Neal invests in
Countries Doug Neal invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Robotics 1 (14%)
- Software 1 (14%)
- Analytics 1 (14%)
- Logistics 1 (14%)
- Automotive 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (14%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (14%)
- Series A 1 (14%)
- Series B 1 (14%)
- Funding Round 1 (14%)
Investments
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Refraction AI
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Refraction AI is a leading robotics delivery software and services startup. It builds and deploys robotic platforms for providing safe and scalable last-mile goods delivery in urban areas. Refraction picks up goods from places like restaurants, pharmacies, and grocery stores and brings them directly to the door, enabling faster, cheaper, and saferdelivery to meet customer’s growing expectations.Refraction’s robots are completely autonomous using a system of a dozen cameras, radar, and ultrasonic sensors and can also be teleoperated and monitored remotely. They employ an autonomy stack that is designed to perform in all climates, from the harshest of winters of Michigan to the hottest summers of Texas. | $4.2M / Seed / Mar 08, 2021 | |
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Refraction AI
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Refraction AI is a leading robotics delivery software and services startup. It builds and deploys robotic platforms for providing safe and scalable last-mile goods delivery in urban areas. Refraction picks up goods from places like restaurants, pharmacies, and grocery stores and brings them directly to the door, enabling faster, cheaper, and saferdelivery to meet customer’s growing expectations.Refraction’s robots are completely autonomous using a system of a dozen cameras, radar, and ultrasonic sensors and can also be teleoperated and monitored remotely. They employ an autonomy stack that is designed to perform in all climates, from the harshest of winters of Michigan to the hottest summers of Texas. | $5M / Jun 01, 2020 | |
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Refraction AI
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Refraction AI is a leading robotics delivery software and services startup. It builds and deploys robotic platforms for providing safe and scalable last-mile goods delivery in urban areas. Refraction picks up goods from places like restaurants, pharmacies, and grocery stores and brings them directly to the door, enabling faster, cheaper, and saferdelivery to meet customer’s growing expectations.Refraction’s robots are completely autonomous using a system of a dozen cameras, radar, and ultrasonic sensors and can also be teleoperated and monitored remotely. They employ an autonomy stack that is designed to perform in all climates, from the harshest of winters of Michigan to the hottest summers of Texas. | $5M / Seed / Jun 01, 2020 | |
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Refraction AI
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Refraction AI is a leading robotics delivery software and services startup. It builds and deploys robotic platforms for providing safe and scalable last-mile goods delivery in urban areas. Refraction picks up goods from places like restaurants, pharmacies, and grocery stores and brings them directly to the door, enabling faster, cheaper, and saferdelivery to meet customer’s growing expectations.Refraction’s robots are completely autonomous using a system of a dozen cameras, radar, and ultrasonic sensors and can also be teleoperated and monitored remotely. They employ an autonomy stack that is designed to perform in all climates, from the harshest of winters of Michigan to the hottest summers of Texas. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Apr 01, 2019 | |
Bindplane
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Blue Medora’s pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service addresses today’s IT challenges by easily connecting system health and performance data–no matter its source–with the world’s leading monitoring and analytics platforms. Blue Medora helps customers unlock dimensional data across their IT stack, otherwise hidden by traditionalapproaches to metrics collection. | Series B / Oct 23, 2017 | |
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Bindplane
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Blue Medora’s pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service addresses today’s IT challenges by easily connecting system health and performance data–no matter its source–with the world’s leading monitoring and analytics platforms. Blue Medora helps customers unlock dimensional data across their IT stack, otherwise hidden by traditionalapproaches to metrics collection. | Series B / Aug 30, 2016 | |
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Bindplane
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Blue Medora’s pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service addresses today’s IT challenges by easily connecting system health and performance data–no matter its source–with the world’s leading monitoring and analytics platforms. Blue Medora helps customers unlock dimensional data across their IT stack, otherwise hidden by traditionalapproaches to metrics collection. | $4.6M / Series A / Jun 29, 2015 |
Co-Investors
About eLab Ventures
eLab Ventures is an early stage technology venture capital fund created to capitalize on the growth of emerging entrepreneurial markets outside of Silicon Valley and to create bridges to those markets to seek startups with disruptive innovations, exceptional teams, and capital efficient business models that have the potential to serve largemarkets. eLab is strategically based both in Ann Arbor, to leverage innovation and talent in the Midwest, and in Silicon Valley, to leverage customers, business development, funding sources and a strong network of experienced advisors. We are passionate about nurturing world-changing ideas by connecting entrepreneurs to capital and expertise needed to build great, disruptive companies!
eLab Ventures Contacts
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Robert Stefanski
Co-Founder and Managing Director
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Doug Neal
Co-Founder and Managing Director
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Mahendra Vora
Limited Partner
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Paul Brown
Managing Director
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Rick Bolander
Co-Founder and Managing Director
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FAQ
What does Doug Neal invest in?
Doug Neal invests primarily in Robotics, Software and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 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 Doug Neal last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Doug Neal closed in Mar 2021. Shizune tracks 7 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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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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