TechCrunch is happy to announce the six corporations pitching in individual and onstage at TC Sessions Mobility 2022. Hailing from across the United States and the globe, founders will pitch at the major degree, for 4 mins, adopted by way of an intense Q&A with our knowledgeable panel of judges.
The judges for this pitch-off shall be Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator) on day one; and Sven Strohband (Khosla Ventures), Victoria Beasley (Prelude Ventures) and John Du (GM Ventures) on day two. You can in finding further main points on each and every of the judges beneath.
Alright, alright. I do know you wish to have to look who made the reduce. Join us on Wednesday, May 18 and Thursday, May 19 to look at those implausible founders take the degree.
Startups pitching at the major degree
Contents
Day 1 — Wednesday May 18: 1:10 p.m.–1:45 p.m. PDT
Koop Technologies (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) — Presenter: Sergey Litvinenko, co-Founder and CEO
“Koop Technologies is an insurance coverage platform for self reliant automobiles and robotics. The Singularity Platform is basically a combo of 3 gear that Koop constructed: Koop API, Portal By Koop, and Insurability Sufficiency Framework (ISF). Koop supplies autonomy insurance coverage via information assortment and proprietary research, wrapped up within the UX/UI supplied by way of the portal.”
Boston Materials (Billerica, MA, USA) — Presenter: Anvesh Gurijala, founder and CEO
“Boston Materials is a high-performance fabrics corporate enabling producers of commercial and client merchandise to damage via their design trade-offs with new fabrics. The corporate’s patented Z-axis Fiber™ era is a light-weight subject material that has an atypical talent to diffuse calories (whether or not from affect, warmth or electric surge, for instance). It is made from 100% reclaimed carbon fiber, enabling new, high-volume, energy-efficient merchandise that experience a low carbon footprint.”
Swyft Cities (Mountain View, CA) — Presenter: Jeral Poskey, CEO
“Swyft is a brand new type of city mobility, the usage of self reliant cabins on light-weight cable infrastructure to resolve transportation issues in densely evolved spaces together with company campuses, airports, universities and tourism districts. Swyft provides a brand new connection, expanding capability to the website with an exquisite selection to cars. This provides capability into a space, permitting upper density and extra winning traits. It additionally reduces prices on parking and site visitors mitigation. In some spaces, offering connections inside the website can power excessive price.”
Day 2 — Thursday May 19: 1:15 p.m.–1:45 p.m. PDT
Beyond Aero (Paris/Toulouse, France) — Presenter: Eloa Guillotin, co-founder and CEO
“Beyond Aero is making lengthy vary electrical airplane conceivable the usage of hydrogen-electric propulsion. The first airplane is a nil emission personal airplane (6-9 seat), designed for hydrogen propulsion, flying 1,000 miles in vary.”
MeterFeeder (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) — Presenter: Jim Gibbs, co-founder and CEO
MeterFeeder powers parking bills, information and control for people, fleets and municipalities. “MeterFeeder permits person customers to pay merely with geolocation, fleets to stay compliant and abruptly pay when wanted. MeterFeeder supplies backend device, enforcement units, and cost platform are cost-effective.”
DIMO (Brooklyn, NY, USA) – Presenter: Andy Chatham, co-founder
“DIMO allows a brand new elegance of mobility packages to be constructed by way of builders on actual international information. DIMO according to a community of drivers and fleets to assemble and percentage their automobile information to be informed extra about their automobile, get monetary savings, and construct higher mobility packages.”
Expert panel of judges
Day 1
Yoon Choi — Muirwoods Ventures
“Yoon has been a Venture Investor and strategic spouse to many Silicon Valley startups/founders for 18 years previous to Muirwoods. Yoon based a seed fund, Forest Ventures focusing in automobile sector and was once an funding director at SAIC capital, one of the crucial leaders in China’s automobile trade. Before SAIC, she led the Corporate Venture Group at Maxim Integrated, the place she led more than one strategic era acquisitions and challenge investments. Earlier in her occupation, Yoon was once one of the crucial founding contributors at Samsung Ventures.”
“Mar Hershenson is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Pear VC, a seed-stage funding company in Palo Alto backing corporations like Guardant Health (NASDAQ: GH), Doordash (NYSE: DASH), Gusto, and Branch. Mar has been identified within the Midas List of Top Tech Investors in 2021.” Mar is a a success serial entrepreneur, with a large number of trade accolades. Mar won her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2000 for her leap forward paintings in circuit design automation.
Gabriel Scheer — Elemental Excelerator
“Gabriel is the Director of Innovation, concerned about mobility and effort, for Elemental Excelerator, a climatetech accelerator based in 2009 in Hawaii. Previously, Gabriel was once at the founding staff at Lime, the place he spent 3 years operating on executive family members, information coverage, and transit partnerships globally. He has additionally labored at and consulted to Chariot, Zipcar, Superpedestrian, and Spin. In addition, he based and ran a big environmental nonprofit and constructed a social innovation consultancy, in addition to making an attempt to construct an organization to lend a hand small companies pursue calories potency retrofits.”
Day 2
Victoria Beasley — Prelude Ventures
“Victoria is General Partner at Prelude Ventures, the place her local weather tech investments span mobility, meals and agriculture, blank calories, sustainable attire and carbon markets. Prior to Prelude Ventures, Victoria labored on local weather exchange technique at BCG and began an agriculture provide chain corporate. Earlier, she led Finance at a big sun producer. Victoria holds an MBA and M.S. in Environment and Resources from Stanford University. She additionally holds a B.S. in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill the place she was once a Copland Scholar. Victoria lives in San Francisco together with her husband and younger son.”
Sven Strohband — Khosla Ventures
“Sven Strohband is a spouse and managing director at Khosla Ventures, and led the company’s early investments in Berkshire Grey, GitLab, Hermeus and Rocket Lab amongst others. An engineer at center, Sven is hooked in to applied sciences that forge new industries and boost up novel consumer stories.
Previously, he spent six years at Mohr Davidow Ventures, the place he led technical diligence for the infrastructure IT and sustainability practices and labored with the portfolio to recruit technical ability, run product-market have compatibility experiments and increase fundraising methods.” Strohband additionally served as PM at Volkswagen, led Stanford racing’s self reliant automotive, Stanley, co-founded Metamind, and sits at the board of more than a few corporations. He holds a B.A. from Purdue University and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.
John Du is a spouse at GM Ventures and the manager technologist for GM China. Prior to this appointment, John was once director of General Motors Research & Development group’s China Science Lab, which he led from its founding in 2009. He was once answerable for development a robust and cutting edge analysis staff and main the analysis and building in clever and hooked up automobiles, battery, complicated fabrics and electrified propulsion programs. Prior to GM, Du held a number of positions at Intel Corp as early as 1993, main the Intel community processor industry enlargement in China in 2001; serving as Director of Intel China Research Center. John won his Ph.D. level in Electrical Engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology in 1989 and an Executive MBA from China Europe International Business School in 2010.
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