# Gary Rieschel

> Gary Rieschel is a Series B investor at Qiming Venture Partners backing Software. See 18 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Qiming Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qiming-venture-partners)
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 44%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- X (Twitter): https://x.com/GaryRieschel/

Gary Rieschel is a Series B investor at Qiming Venture Partners in Seattle focused on Software and Robotics. Gary Rieschel is based out of Seattle, Washington and is the Founding Managing Partner of Qiming Venture Partners. Gary Rieschel attended the Harvard Business School.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 22% |
| Robotics | 2 | 11% |
| Clean Energy | 2 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 11% |
| Apps | 1 | 6% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 6 | 33% |
| Series A | 2 | 11% |
| Series C | 2 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 11% |
| Seed | 1 | 6% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 50% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Circuit | Circuit offers a platform for feature extraction to streamline data preparation for AI and machine learning. | $30M | Series A | Jun 17, 2026 | http://www.circuit.ai |
| RoboForce | RoboForce is an AI Robotics startup building the world's most advanced Robo-Labor system, with the world's first and only 1mm precision AI expert model. The company's AI robotic workforce provides significant labor cost savings to customers impacted by growing labor shortages, starting with utility-scale solar and space, withadditional applications in manufacturing, mining and beyond. RoboForce was founded in 2023 by Leo Ma, previously a co-founder from startup to IPO of the Nasdaq-listed company Cyngn. The RoboForce team is comprised of top tech leaders from CMU Robotics, Michigan Robotics, Amazon Robotics, Tesla Robotics, Google, Waymo, Apple and Microsoft and is backed by world-class investors including Nobel Laureate Myron Scholes, Gary Rieschel (co-founder of Softbank VC), and Carnegie Mellon University. To learn more about RoboForce, visit https://www.roboforce.ai/. | $52M | Seed | Mar 16, 2026 | https://www.roboforce.ai/ |
| Circuit | Circuit offers a platform for feature extraction to streamline data preparation for AI and machine learning. | $30M |  | Feb 17, 2026 | http://www.circuit.ai |
| RoboForce | RoboForce is an AI Robotics startup building the world's most advanced Robo-Labor system, with the world's first and only 1mm precision AI expert model. The company's AI robotic workforce provides significant labor cost savings to customers impacted by growing labor shortages, starting with utility-scale solar and space, withadditional applications in manufacturing, mining and beyond. RoboForce was founded in 2023 by Leo Ma, previously a co-founder from startup to IPO of the Nasdaq-listed company Cyngn. The RoboForce team is comprised of top tech leaders from CMU Robotics, Michigan Robotics, Amazon Robotics, Tesla Robotics, Google, Waymo, Apple and Microsoft and is backed by world-class investors including Nobel Laureate Myron Scholes, Gary Rieschel (co-founder of Softbank VC), and Carnegie Mellon University. To learn more about RoboForce, visit https://www.roboforce.ai/. | $10M | Seed | Jan 06, 2025 | https://www.roboforce.ai/ |
| Special Project | Special is a platform for independent video creators to launch their own direct-to-fan subscription streaming service. It independently turns content into profit while keeping full ownership and control of the brand, catalog, and data. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Mar 06, 2020 | https://special.tv |
| Madaket | Madaket is a SaaS-based solutions provider that connects healthcare providers and payers. It automates the healthcare enrollment process and sends the right information to each applicable payer.Madaket has exclusive partnerships with TriZetto Provider Solutions and HealthStream. Through its channel partners, the company has more than 300,000providers in its system and over 325,000 additional providers under contract on their way into the service.Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Madaket was launched by Mads Kvalsvik, Scott Soderstrom, Jim Dougherty, Benedict Dsilva and Ted Achtem in 2012. | $10M | Series B | Jul 23, 2018 | http://www.madakethealth.com/ |
| Madaket Health | Madaket Health develops a data management platform for controlling healthcare administrative operations. It collaborates with Amazon Web Services to deliver its automated PDM solutions for enterprise payer and provider AWS customers who want to reenvision their healthcare admin ops with one platform. | $10M | Series B | Jul 23, 2018 | https://www.madakethealth.com |
| LanzaTech | LanzaTech is turning our global carbon crisis into a feedstock opportunity with the potential to displace 30% of crude oil use today and reduce global CO2 emissions by 10%. By recycling carbon from industrial off-gases; syngas generated from any biomass resource (e.g. municipal solid waste (MSW), organic industrial waste, agricultural waste); andreformed biogas, LanzaTech can reduce emissions and make new products for a circular carbon economy.LanzaTech’s carbon recycling technology is like retrofitting a brewery onto an emission source like a steel mill or a landfill site, but instead of using sugars and yeast to make beer, pollution is converted by bacteria to fuels and chemicals! Imagine a day when your plane is powered by recycled GHG emissions, when your yoga pants started life as pollution from a steel mill. This future is possible using LanzaTech technology. | $112M | Series D | Dec 08, 2014 | http://www.lanzatech.com |
| MailTime | As seen on TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2014 Startup Battlefield. MailTime incorporates the smooth experience of instant messaging and the universality of emails. They re-format and summarize your mails into a messaging conversation view. They redesign the way you assign tasks by mentioning and help you to track information easier. | $450K | Angel | Jan 10, 2014 | http://mailtime.com |
| LanzaTech | LanzaTech is turning our global carbon crisis into a feedstock opportunity with the potential to displace 30% of crude oil use today and reduce global CO2 emissions by 10%. By recycling carbon from industrial off-gases; syngas generated from any biomass resource (e.g. municipal solid waste (MSW), organic industrial waste, agricultural waste); andreformed biogas, LanzaTech can reduce emissions and make new products for a circular carbon economy.LanzaTech’s carbon recycling technology is like retrofitting a brewery onto an emission source like a steel mill or a landfill site, but instead of using sugars and yeast to make beer, pollution is converted by bacteria to fuels and chemicals! Imagine a day when your plane is powered by recycled GHG emissions, when your yoga pants started life as pollution from a steel mill. This future is possible using LanzaTech technology. | $55.8M | Series C | Nov 24, 2013 | http://www.lanzatech.com |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Carnegie Mellon University](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carnegie-mellon-university) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Experian Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/experian-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hao Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hao-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [K1W1](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k1w1) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Malaysian Life Sciences Capital Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/malaysian-life-sciences-capital-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Qiming Venture Partners

VC Fund · Shanghai, China

Founded in 2006, Qiming Venture Partners is a leading China venture capital firm with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Hong Kong in China, and Singapore.Currently, Qiming Venture Partners manages eleven US Dollar funds and seven RMB funds with $9.5 billion in capital raised. Since our establishment, we have invested in outstanding companiesin the Technology and Consumer (T&C) and Healthcare industries at the early and growth stages.Since our debut, we have backed over 530 fast-growing and innovative companies. Over 200 of our portfolio companies have achieved exits through IPOs at the NYSE, NASDAQ, HKEX, Shanghai Stock Exchange, or Shenzhen Stock Exchange, or through M&A or other means. There are also over 70 portfolio companies that have achieved unicorn or super unicorn status.

5 contacts available at Qiming Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grace Lee | Partner & CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grace-lee-4 |
| Jinda Gao | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jinda-gao |
| Oscar Zhang | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oscar-zhang-2 |
| Shiyu Wang | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shiyu-wang |
| Alexander Sinclair-Wilson | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-sinclair-wilson-99ee |

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## FAQ

### What does Gary Rieschel invest in?

Gary Rieschel invests primarily in Software, Robotics and Clean Energy startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 18 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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### When did Gary Rieschel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Gary Rieschel closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 18 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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