Jo Major
CEO, General Partner @ InSite Partners
San Francisco, United States
Jo Major is a seed investor at InSite Partners in San Francisco focused on Energy and RFID. Jo Major is the Founder & CEO at SensThys. He attended University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1986.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 67%
Last updated:
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Industries Jo Major invests in
Stages Jo Major invests in
Countries Jo Major invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 2 (22%)
- RFID 1 (11%)
- Solar 1 (11%)
- Computer 1 (11%)
- Hardware 1 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (44%)
- Series A 2 (22%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (11%)
- Secondary Market 1 (11%)
Country
- United States 4 (44%)
- New Zealand 1 (11%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| SensThys is an InSite Partners company dedicated to developing hardware sensors for the RFID market. It offers functionally integrated fixed RFID reader solution for standalone and networked sensor configuration. Our readers and antennas have the most elegant and beautiful industrial design. They require the lowest cost of deployment along whileensuring robust power and data networking using patented “Bi-POE” and sensor integrated networking technology. | $300K / Seed / Sep 15, 2016 | ||
| SensThys is an InSite Partners company dedicated to developing hardware sensors for the RFID market. It offers functionally integrated fixed RFID reader solution for standalone and networked sensor configuration. Our readers and antennas have the most elegant and beautiful industrial design. They require the lowest cost of deployment along whileensuring robust power and data networking using patented “Bi-POE” and sensor integrated networking technology. | $20K / Seed / Mar 15, 2016 | ||
| VetDC they provide services for animals and their families for dog lymphoma treatments. | $2.1M / Series A / Mar 01, 2015 | ||
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NuvoMed
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$500K / Series A / Feb 01, 2015 | ||
| Times-7 delivers world class radio frequency identification (RFID) products that provide clients with fast, reliable and accurate identification of assets. These products provide their clients with cost-effective solutions to improve business outcomes, reducing risk and lowering operational costs.The company was founded in September 2006,bringing together an experienced team with complementary skills and a culture of passionate dedication to creating an exceptional business.Their highly experienced team have a unique combination of RFID design, system engineering and manufacturing know-how, underpinned by practical, pragmatic, implementation skills. Their engineers have many years' experience developing radio frequency (RF) solutions and hold many patents in this area. These skills, and the resulting products and solutions developed, have made Times-7 a valuable and sought after partner for RFID design, engineering and implementation projects.Times-7 has developed disruptive low-cost passive RFID technology for high-speed identification that is significantly lower cost than any existing RFID system in the market. Through world leading innovative design of passive tags and reader antennas, Times-7 solutions compete successfully with more expensive active tag based systems and open up new market opportunities where RFID has previously been cost prohibitive. | $918K / Seed / Dec 01, 2014 | ||
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Centric
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$696.1K / Seed / Jun 01, 2012 | ||
| BlueScout Technologies , world leader in laser wind sensing systems | $3.5M / Secondary Market / Jun 01, 2011 | ||
| Founded in 2010, D2solar is an independent product development engineering services company specializing in photovoltaic technologies. They help innovative companies around the world design, develop, test, and manufacture solar products. | $350K / Seed / Dec 01, 2010 | ||
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Co-Investors
About InSite Partners
Based in the heart of Silicon Valley, InSite Partners specializes in helping promising technology companies grow and thrive, both through direct investment and hands-on work with the companies. Specifically, our relationships with angel networks, university incubator and accelerator programs provide introductions to many high potentialopportunities. For those few that pass our diligence screen, we provide access to capital, hands on management expertise and the resources of our manufacturing partners to unlock their potential and provide attractive returns for our investors. InSite has demonstrated success taking companies from the prototype stage into full manufacturing with a fully developed sales channel to produce rapid and profitable business growth. The InSite team has deep domain experience in the Telecom, Nanotechnology, MEMS, Battery Technology, Optical, Semiconductor, Biotech, Data Analytics, Software, Solar, Wind, and LifeSciences markets. The InSite team has successfully unlocked shareholder value in technology firms from start-ups to public companies with over $1B per year in revenue. Founded in 2008, the firm is known for its distinctive technical heritage, hands-on approach and relentless focus on execution and results. If your company could accelerate the path to owning your market by leveraging InSite’s resources, please contact us to discuss what we can do for you.
InSite Partners Contacts
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Jo Major
CEO, General Partner
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Marla Sanchez
Co-Founder, General Partner
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Beto Pallares
Partner
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Brad Gaiser
Partner
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Juergen Hoefler
Vice President, Technology and Engineering
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What does Jo Major invest in?
Jo Major invests primarily in Energy, RFID and Solar startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 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 Jo Major last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jo Major closed in Sep 2016. Shizune tracks 9 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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