# Gary Bradski

> Gary Bradski is a seed investor at Bonsai Robotics (Palo Alto) backing Beauty and Animation. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Bonsai Robotics](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bonsai-robotics)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garybradski
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/grbradsk
- Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Bradski

Gary Bradski is a seed investor at Bonsai Robotics in Palo Alto focused on Beauty and Animation. Silva is based out of San Jose, California and is the Chief Science Officer of Bonsai Robotics.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Beauty | 1 | 33% |
| Animation | 1 | 33% |
| 3D Technology | 1 | 33% |
| Computer Vision | 1 | 33% |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 33% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Angel | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 1 | 33% |
| United States | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Meshcapade | Meshcapade (Germany) is revolutionizing the world of human body modeling, sizing, and animation. Meshcapade employs a state of the art statistical model of body shape that encodes realistic shapes, sizes, and motions. We make animating, simulating, and recognizing human bodies effortless, and to bring realistic virtual humans into simulation and3D environments. | $6M | Seed | Jun 14, 2023 |  |
| Meshcapade | Meshcapade (Germany) is revolutionizing the world of human body modeling, sizing, and animation. Meshcapade employs a state of the art statistical model of body shape that encodes realistic shapes, sizes, and motions. We make animating, simulating, and recognizing human bodies effortless, and to bring realistic virtual humans into simulation and3D environments. |  | Angel | Nov 28, 2021 |  |
| LUUM | LUUM is introducing automation to the beauty-services market, initially focusing on eyelash extensions, a widely popular treatment ($20B global market opportunity). Pioneering a patented combination of robotics, AI, and machine vision, LUUM applies a full set of eyelash extensions in 20 minutes (instead of 2 hours), while eliminating the costsand safety risks associated with human application. | $2M | Seed | Mar 03, 2017 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CLO Virtual Fashion](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clo-virtual-fashion-inc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Matrix](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matrix-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Piedmont Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/piedmont-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Triple Ring Technologies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/triple-ring-technologies) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [XSeed Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xseed-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Bonsai Robotics

VC Fund · San Jose, United States

Bonsai Robotics provides vision-based automation solutions for off-road vehicles, such as agricultural machines. The company also offers analytics and telematics to help growers improve their performance, efficiency, and safety. The company is based in San Jose, California.

2 contacts available at Bonsai Robotics.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gary Bradski | Chief Science Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gary-bradski |
| Robert Morris | Vice President of Finance And Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-morris-4 |

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## FAQ

### What does Gary Bradski invest in?

Gary Bradski invests primarily in Beauty, Animation and 3D Technology startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Gary Bradski's check size?

Gary Bradski typically joins rounds of $2M–$6M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Gary Bradski participates in.

### When did Gary Bradski last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Gary Bradski closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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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