# Russ Wilcox

> Russ Wilcox is a seed investor at Trellis Air backing Software. See 31 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Trellis Air
- Location: Cambridge, United States
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/russ-wilcox-2005
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/russ_wilcox
- Website: http://www.pillar.vc

Russ Wilcox is a seed investor at Trellis Air in Cambridge focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Russ Wilcox is the Co-Founder and Partner at Pillar. Prior to VC, he has 20 years of start-up operating experience and has founded three companies. At Pillar, he is a general partner investing ~$500K to $2 million in seed-stage companies coming out of the Boston-area innovation ecosystem. Pillar typically leads and plays an active role in helpingfounders to create new companies and scale them to success.As Co-Founder and CEO at E Ink Corporation, he commercialized electronic paper invented at the MIT Media Lab. E Ink conducted materials research, filed patents, scaled a factory, and shipped tens of millions of displays for the Amazon Kindle and other devices. To date consumers have purchased more than $10 billion of E Ink-related devices and content.Following E Ink, Russ co-founded Transatomic Power, advancing a source of clean energy; and Piper Therapeutics, conducting pre-clinical studies for an immuno-oncology drug.Russ actively supports the Boston entrepreneurial community. Since 2012 he has volunteered as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the Harvard Business School Rock Center and counseled hundreds of students on achieving their start-up goals. He sits on the Harvard Physical Sciences Accelerator Review Board and was a Board Director for Harvest Automation, a venture-backed developer of agricultural robots. He has been an angel investor in several start-ups, including Disruptor Beam, PowerInbox, Calimmune, Gen9, DriveFactor, and Camino Financial. Russ began his startup career as a product manager at PureSpeech, a speech recognition company co-founded by Jamie Goldstein.Russ graduated with honors in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College and worked in Boston and Paris as a management consultant for Oliver Wyman. He was a Baker Scholar at the Harvard Business School. He is an Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur of the Year and a Mass High Tech All-Star. He holds thirty-three issued U.S. patents.Russ enjoys foreign cultures and traveled around the world with his family during 2010-2011. He also supports enrichment education and has coached middle school teams for Destination Imagination, FIRST Lego League, and Model United Nations.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 13% |
| Internet | 3 | 10% |
| Agriculture | 3 | 10% |
| B2B | 2 | 6% |

50 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 45% |
| Series A | 6 | 19% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 10% |
| Series B | 2 | 6% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LightSource | LightSource develops a supply chain management platform to help professionals collaborate with their suppliers. It also allows collaborating with teammates on strategic sourcing projects, sending RFQs to suppliers and collecting quotes, and comparing bids using insights automatically extracted from the normal day-to-day work.The company wasfounded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $33M | Series A | Mar 31, 2025 |  |
| Higharc | Higharc is the all-in-one web platform that simplifies, connects, and improves each step of design, construction, and sales for home building. It enables builders to design, sell in 3D, and get permit-ready construction documents — all in a single platform. Higharc is on a mission to help builders create better homes and communities, moreaffordably. | $53M | Series B | Feb 15, 2024 |  |
| Verve Motion | Verve Motion focuses on lightweight wearables that protect and power workers for a safer work experience and restful nights. | $20M | Series B | Dec 13, 2023 |  |
| Burn Ghost Games | Burn Ghost is a play-to-win Web3 casual gaming platform that allows users to win prizes including crypto, USD, NFTS, and game assets by playing games of skill. The games featured on the platform are fun, competitive, and challenging. | $3.1M | Seed | Apr 28, 2022 |  |
| Worldspark Studios | Workdspark Studios is focused on making the world a little brighter through immersive experiences that fill our audiences with optimism and empower everyone to find and utilize the unique spark inside themOur team of AAA vets played major roles in creating titles like Destiny 2, Halo, League of Legends, Legends of Runeterra, Valorant, Heroes ofthe Storm, and many others! We’re dedicated to creating fun, gripping gameplay experiences backed by a deep, player-owned economy and a mind-bending story to sustain engagement. Fun. Strategy. Fantasy. From hour 1 to hour 10,000, WorldSpark aims to ignite wonder. | $3M | Seed | Feb 24, 2022 |  |
| Everyrealm | Everyrealm is a digital asset investment and development company with a portfolio of 40+ crypto and community-driven projects. The firm invests across chains, protocols, and platforms, building alongside the ecosystems it backs. | $60M | Series A | Feb 10, 2022 |  |
| Kula Bio | Kula Bio specializes in sustainable, biological solutions for modern agriculture. It energizes nitrogen-fixing microbes to produce organic fertilizer. By rewiring the energy flow from the sun to soil, they are disrupting synthetic fertilizer to eliminate the division between affordable practices and stewardship of our land, sea, and air.Thecompany was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts. | $50M | Series A | Jan 03, 2022 |  |
| Cake | Cake offers a library of resources and interactive tools that use AI and data science to help consumers honor the entire cycle of life. | $3.7M | Seed | Jul 21, 2021 |  |
| Verve Motion | Verve Motion focuses on lightweight wearables that protect and power workers for a safer work experience and restful nights. | $15M | Series A | Jul 15, 2021 |  |
| Kula Bio | Kula Bio specializes in sustainable, biological solutions for modern agriculture. It energizes nitrogen-fixing microbes to produce organic fertilizer. By rewiring the energy flow from the sun to soil, they are disrupting synthetic fertilizer to eliminate the division between affordable practices and stewardship of our land, sea, and air.Thecompany was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts. | $10M | Seed | May 25, 2021 |  |

10 of 31 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Founder Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founder-collective) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Javelin Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/javelin-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Lux Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lux-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Safar Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/safar-partners-7ab4) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BASF Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/basf-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Trellis Air

VC Fund · Somerville, United States

Trellis Air is making commercially viable membrane-based dehumidifiers.

1 contacts available at Trellis Air.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Russ Wilcox | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/russ-wilcox |

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## FAQ

### What does Russ Wilcox invest in?

Russ Wilcox invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 31 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 Russ Wilcox last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Russ Wilcox closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 31 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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