Paul Voois
Manager, Cove Fund II @ Cove Fund
Orange, United States
Paul Voois is a seed investor at Cove Fund in Orange focused on AgTech and Energy. Dr. Paul Voois is a Fund Manager with Cove Fund (www.covefund.com), an early-stage venture fund that invests in Southern California startups in both technology and life sciences. He is also a member of Tech Coast Angels, one of the largest and most active angel investment organizations in the country. As an entrepreneur, Dr. Voois established atrack record of building valuable companies with unique, defensible technology in the networking, communications and software industries. In 2002 he co-founded ClariPhy Communications, a venture-backed supplier of optical networking semiconductors that was acquired by Inphi (now Marvell Semiconductor) for $300M in 2016 and now operates as Marvell’s Coherent DSP business unit. He served as ClariPhy’s CEO until 2011 and as Chief Strategy Officer until its acquisition. Prior to founding ClariPhy, he served as CEO of 8x8 (NASDAQ:EGHT), a market leader in voice and video over IP technology. Dr. Voois received an MS and PhD from Stanford and a BS (summa cum laude) from Penn State, all in electrical engineering. He is an inventor on 36 issued United States patents.
- Total investments:
- 2
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Paul Voois invests in
Stages Paul Voois invests in
Countries Paul Voois invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- AgTech 1 (50%)
- Energy 1 (50%)
- Farming 1 (50%)
- Software 1 (50%)
- GreenTech 1 (50%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (50%)
- Series A 1 (50%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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GroGuru
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GroGuru is a privately held company based in San Diego, CA which provides precision soil and irrigation monitoring systems to the commercial agriculture industry. GroGuru enables farmers to increase crop yields while optimally use water, energy and other scarce resources in a sustainable way. GroGuru sells an innovative hardware-enabledsubscription-based solution to farmers that enables optimal irrigation. GroGuru’s patented 100 percent wireless underground system (WUGS) enables a permanent installation of soil sensors, even in annual field crops like corn and soybeans that have a destructive harvest. GroGuru’s patented WUGS-based systems can be buried below the till depth and communicate through several feet of soil wirelessly, thus eliminating the need for the sensors to be annually installed and removed for seeding and harvesting, respectively, for these annual crops. GroGuru is part of EvoNexus, AgLaunch, the Yield Lab, SVG-Thrive and Plug and Play AgTech accelerator programs. | $2.3M / Series A / Aug 03, 2023 | |
VECKTA
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VECKTA is the Energy Transition Market Platform. VECKTA integrates the world’s most advanced energy system engineering tools with an end-to-end marketplace to integrate and accelerate the development of distributed energy systems (DES) and microgrid projects. VECKTA empowers businesses and communities to quickly and easily baseline their energysituation today, customize a solution specific to their needs (cost, reliability and/or emissions) and then seamlessly engage and contract the best equipment, services, and capital providers in the market to finance, deploy and operate it sustainably and profitably. | $3.3M / Seed / Jul 12, 2022 |
Co-Investors
Comeback Capital
1 deal together
Impact Venture Capital
1 deal together
Integral Capital Partners
1 deal together
Nomadic Venture Partners
1 deal together
NutriDrips
1 deal together
Right Side Capital Management
1 deal together
About Cove Fund
Cove Fund is a seed-stage venture capital fund that provides startup funding for promising new ventures. The funds invest in early-stage technology and life science companies that demonstrate the potential to address markets with differentiated products and services, and that can achieve significant value-creating inflection points with their seedfunding.
Cove Fund Contacts
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J.C. Ruffalo
Venture Partner
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Mike Benvenuti
Manager, Cove Fund II
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Paul Voois
Manager, Cove Fund II
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Fred Selby
Manager, Cove Fund I
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Hans Imhof
Manager, Cove Fund I
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What does Paul Voois invest in?
Paul Voois invests primarily in AgTech, Energy and Farming startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.
When did Paul Voois last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Paul Voois closed in Aug 2023. Shizune tracks 2 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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