Michael Smith
Assistant Vice President, Corporate Development @ USAA
San Antonio, United States
Michael Smith is a Series A investor at USAA in San Antonio focused on Drones and Sensor. Michael Smith is the Assistant Vice President, Corporate Development at USAA. He attended London Business School and The University of Texas at Austin.
- Total investments:
- 2
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Michael Smith invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Drones 1 (50%)
- Sensor 1 (50%)
- Robotics 1 (50%)
- Electronics 1 (50%)
- Autonomous Vehicles 1 (50%)
Stage
- Series A 1 (50%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (50%)
Investments
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Lumotive
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Lumotive is a Seattle-based startup company developing high performance, solid-state lidar for autonomous systems in the automotive, UAV, robotics and related industries. The company's revolutionary beam-steering technology leverages Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces (or LCMs) implemented in mature semiconductor manufacturing processes to deliversmall, inexpensive 3D perception systems with unprecedented performance and reliability. For more information, visit us at www.lumotive.com. | $13M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 03, 2023 | |
Hosta a.i.
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Hosta a.i. leverages Artificial Intelligence to detect 1,2, and 3-dimensional measurements. | $11.5M / Series A / Sep 29, 2021 |
Co-Investors
About USAA
USAA provides banking, insurance, and investment services to the military community. The mission of the association is to facilitate the financial security of its members, associates, and their families through provision of a range of highly competitive financial products and services in so doing, USAA seeks to be the provider of choice for themilitary community.
USAA Contacts
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Michael Smith
Assistant Vice President, Corporate Development
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Nathan McKinley
VP, Head of Corporate Development & Interim Head of Enterprise Strategy
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Amala Duggirala
EVP & Enterprise Chief Information Officer
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Brad Wells
Head of Insurance Sales & Service- Contact Center Operations
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Gerald Paulino
Director -Compliance & Operational Risk Testing
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What does Michael Smith invest in?
Michael Smith invests primarily in Drones, Sensor and Robotics startups, most often at Series A and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 2 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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