# Ray Stata

> Ray Stata is a Series A investor at Stata Capital (Oxford) backing Software and Robotics. See 34 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Stata Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stata-capital)
- Location: Oxford, United States
- Total investments: 34
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 35%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rstata

Ray Stata is a Series A investor at Stata Capital in Oxford focused on Software and Robotics. Ray Stata is based out of Oxford, Pennsylvania and is the Founder of Stata Capital. Ray previously worked at Analog Devices as a CEO, President and Chairman. Ray Stata attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $710k–$10M |
| Series A | $4M–$25M |
| Series B | $9M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 15% |
| Robotics | 3 | 9% |
| Electronics | 3 | 9% |
| Health Care | 3 | 9% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 9% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 18% |
| Series B | 6 | 18% |
| Seed | 5 | 15% |
| Series C | 4 | 12% |
| Series D | 3 | 9% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 38% |
| China | 1 | 3% |
| Israel | 1 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alcatraz AI | Alcatraz AI replaces badging as an access point identification method by leveraging facial recognition, 3d sensing, and AI. The company builds a facial authentication platform using AI and 3D sensing to enable a highly secure and frictionless entry into physical locations. Alcatraz AI was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in California, USA. | $50M | Series B | Apr 01, 2026 |  |
| Morse Micro | Morse Micro is a fast-growing wireless integrated circuit solutions company that is reinventing Wi-Fi for the Internet of Things (IoT). The company was founded by Wi-Fi pioneers and innovators, Michael De Nil and Andrew Terry, joined by the original Wi-Fi inventor Prof. Neil Weste and wireless industry veterans, whose teams designed Wi-Fi chipsinto billions of smartphones. Headquartered in Australia with offices in China and the U.S., Morse Micro’s strong and diverse system team, portfolio of IP and patents, enables Wi-Fi HaLow connectivity across the complete IoT ecosystem, from surveillance systems and access control to industrial automation and mobile devices, allowing connected devices to reach farther. www.morsemicro.com | $58.1M | Series C | Sep 22, 2025 |  |
| zeroRISC | ZeroRISC operates as a stealth start-up making hardware security foundations transparent and trustworthy. | $10M | Seed | Jun 11, 2025 |  |
| XanderGlasses | Xander is a Boston-based startup using AR to improve interpersonal communication and mitigate the debilitating effects of hearing loss. Our first product is XanderGlasses—smart glasses that provide captions for conversations in real-time. When ambient noise or hearing loss prevents a person from hearing and understanding speech, the glasses displaycaptions to the wearer in real-time, enabling the wearer to look at the people speaking and participate fully in the conversation. Xander is positioned to help the 1.5 billion people with hearing loss who seek alternatives to hearing aids and other assistive devices. After wearing XanderGlasses, people reported feeling more confident and relaxed during conversations and described a decrease in cognitive load and improved mental state. | $1.4M | Seed | Sep 03, 2024 |  |
| Butlr | Butlr is an AI people-sensing platform using body heat to detect occupancy, headcount, body posture, and activity, and generate accurate, real-time, and historical spatial insights for healthcare and sustainable buildings. Their sensor technology detects human presence anonymously using low-resolution thermal data and advanced AI and machinelearning. | $38M | Series B | Aug 26, 2024 |  |
| Humatics | Humatics’ breakthrough microlocation system and analytics software comprise a Spatial Intelligence Platform™ that will revolutionize how people and machines locate, navigate and collaborate. A single Humatics system, using simple, inexpensive radio-frequency technology, can pinpoint multiple, moving transponder targets at ranges up to thirty meterswith millimeter-scale precision, vastly outperforming existing systems at a fraction of the cost. These systems can network together to provide broader, ultra-precise positioning coverage – from factory work cells to entire distribution centers and beyond. With its extensible architecture and application programming interfaces (APIs), the Spatial Intelligence Platform™ will power an ecosystem of new position-based products and services. Humatics was founded in 2015 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor David Mindell and technology industry veteran Gary Cohen. Headquartered in Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Humatics has grown to include a world-class team of radar experts, programmers, roboticists, software engineers, and product development leaders. |  | Series B | Jun 29, 2023 |  |
| BG Networks | BG Networks’ is an Internet of Things (IoT) cybersecurity software company focused on enabling IoT security everywhere. Our mission is to make it easy to do cybersecurity right. Our approach uses low-code automation tools to add customized security for automotive, industrial, consumer, and healthcare applications. BG Networks' award winningSecurity Automation Tool (BGN-SAT) helps engineers quickly improve security, reduce development time, and take advantage of in-silicon security features. With our Security Automation Tools, we aim to remove all obstacles preventing embedded engineers from including robust cybersecurity in their applications. | $4.5M | Seed | Mar 14, 2023 |  |
| XanderGlasses | Xander is a Boston-based startup using AR to improve interpersonal communication and mitigate the debilitating effects of hearing loss. Our first product is XanderGlasses—smart glasses that provide captions for conversations in real-time. When ambient noise or hearing loss prevents a person from hearing and understanding speech, the glasses displaycaptions to the wearer in real-time, enabling the wearer to look at the people speaking and participate fully in the conversation. Xander is positioned to help the 1.5 billion people with hearing loss who seek alternatives to hearing aids and other assistive devices. After wearing XanderGlasses, people reported feeling more confident and relaxed during conversations and described a decrease in cognitive load and improved mental state. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Jan 29, 2023 |  |
| Alcatraz AI | Alcatraz AI replaces badging as an access point identification method by leveraging facial recognition, 3d sensing, and AI. The company builds a facial authentication platform using AI and 3D sensing to enable a highly secure and frictionless entry into physical locations. Alcatraz AI was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in California, USA. | $25M | Series A | Sep 13, 2022 |  |
| Butlr | Butlr is an AI people-sensing platform using body heat to detect occupancy, headcount, body posture, and activity, and generate accurate, real-time, and historical spatial insights for healthcare and sustainable buildings. Their sensor technology detects human presence anonymously using low-resolution thermal data and advanced AI and machinelearning. | $22M | Series A | Jul 26, 2022 |  |

10 of 34 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Blackbird Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackbird-ventures-australia) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Carrier](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carrier-corporation) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Fontinalis Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fontinalis-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [HCVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hardwareclub) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Stata Capital

VC Fund

Stata Capital focuses on investing in high-tech solutions startups from pre-seed to IPO.

1 contacts available at Stata Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ray Stata | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ray-stata |

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## FAQ

### What does Ray Stata invest in?

Ray Stata invests primarily in Software, Robotics and Electronics startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 34 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ray Stata's check size?

Ray Stata typically joins rounds of $710k–$10M at Seed, $4M–$25M at Series A and $9M–$50M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ray Stata participates in.

### When did Ray Stata last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ray Stata closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 34 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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