Manufacturing
Panel Discussion: Opportunities for startups in Manufacturing sector
About This Talk
What opportunities can startups address in the manufacturing sector
Speakers
Mr. Lior Susan is a Co-Founding Partner & serves as a Managing Partner at Eclipse Ventures. He serves as Chairman & Board Member at Owlet Baby Care. He also is a Co-Founder and serves as President and Board Member at Datorios. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Bright Machines. He serves as Board Member at Augury, Swift Navigation, Toka, and Lucira Health. He served as Advisor at HoneyCo Homes. He served as Board Member at June, InsidePacket, 6 River Systems, Mavrx, Wavelet Health, and Boardwalktech. He founded Eclipse to meet the unique and unmet needs of entrepreneurs building startups integrating hardware with software and data. Prior to launching Eclipse, Lior was Founder and General Partner at LabIX, the hardware investment platform of Flextronics, the world's second-largest electronics manufacturing services and original design manufacturer. LabIX brings together startups, OEMs, and technology partners across the entire hardware ecosystem. At LabIX, he led investments in companies across energy storage, wireless / infrastructure, 3D optics, additive manufacturing, and robotics. He also co-founded Farm 2050, an AgTech Collective, with Innovation Endeavors to address the global food challenge. Prior to LabIX, he was part of the founding team of Elementum, Flextronics' proprietary SaaS platform which was later spun out. Before moving to Silicon Valley, He was a serial entrepreneur in Tel Aviv, where he helped build Intucell which was sold to Cisco in 2012. He also served as Advisor at ClearMetal. He served as Board Member at SwipeSense.
Ms. Gayathri Radhakrishnan serves as Partner at Hitachi Ventures. Ms.Radhakrishnan serves as Senior Director Venture Capital at Micron Ventures. She served as Venture Partner at Impact Venture Capital. Previously, she served as a Partner/ Mentor at Tech Ranch Austin. She also serves as an Executive at Micron Ventures Team. She is broadly focused on areas of IoT, Cloud, and Advanced Analytics. Prior to Dell, she was involved in the startup ecosystem as a Partner and Mentor at TechRanch Austin, a startup accelerator, as a VC at Earlybird Venture Capital, a top-tier European VC firm and in an operating role at an early-stage technology startup. She has an MS in EE from Ohio State University and an MBA from INSEAD. She is a Kauffman Fellow and also serves as a mentor at Techstars Cloud.
Anil is a Managing Partner at Unicorn India Ventures, a SEBI approved venture fund under AIF-I Category. Prior to setting up the Fund, he was heading operations at Mumbai Angels and Bangalore Angels, leading Angel Investment forums in India as President. His experience also includes corporate management functions in medium and large organizations,investment in start-ups, project management, joint ventures and business development. Mentoring startups is his passion and he also advises Governmental and industrial bodies on the same. Anil is a regular speaker at both domestic and International circuit on start-ups and early stage investment
Kevin Chen
Partner & Head, Lam Capital
Lam Research
Lam Research
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Aditya Raghupathy (Moderator)
Investor
Schematic Ventures
Schematic Ventures
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