Lutz Kettner
Director, Rendering Software and Material Definition @ NVIDIA
Berlin, Germany
Lutz Kettner is a pre-seed investor at NVIDIA in Berlin focused on CleanTech. Lutz Kettner leads the design and engineering efforts for the material definition language and the Iray renderer from the NVIDIA advanced rendering center. He has been working on leading software products in advanced rendering, language design, API design, and geometry for 20 years. Lutz is known for his influential work on the open sourceComputational Geometry Algorithms Library. Previously, he worked as a researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and led a research group at the Max-Planck-Institute in Germany. He has also served on the International Organization for Standardization and European Computer Manufacturers Association. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
- Total investments:
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Meloon
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Meloon captures and converts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. | $700K / Pre-Seed / Nov 20, 2023 |
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About NVIDIA
NVIDIA is a computing platform company innovating at the intersection of graphics, HPC and AI. The company specialises in the manufacture of graphics processor technologies for workstations, desktop computers, and mobile devices. The company is a major supplier of integrated circuits used for personal computer motherboard chipsets, graphicsprocessing units (GPUs), and game consoles.
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Alison Lowndes
Artificial Intelligence DevRel | EMEA
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Garren Givens
Vice President, Professional Services
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Gerard Andrews
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Robotics
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Greg Estes
VP Marketing
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Jeremy Archuleta
Senior System Safety Engineer
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Lutz Kettner invests primarily in CleanTech startups, most often at Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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