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This list aims to provide a list of those recently active investors in the Mechanical Design space.
Purpose of this list: Finding and meeting VC’s and investors is no easy task for any founder no matter how well connected they might be. This list is aimed to provide a starting point highlighting some of the most recently active investors.
Great list… now what: If you’re a founder looking to pitch your startup you first need to create a short list of investors you want to pitch to. This list could provide part of that. Pick a few companies in this list, see their past investments, which countries they invest in and craft a personal email or Linkedin message to them if you think they would be interested.
I sent a load of emails, but didn’t get any responses: Welcome to the startup world… But in all seriousness some VC’s will get back to you with feedback if you’re lucky, but most are simply too busy to deal with all the messages they get.
Do not get discouraged, send a follow up email asking for feedback and work on your pitching. Rejection is not a reflection on your company, just how you pitched it. There is countless stories of people getting rejected 100 times before finally getting funding. See the Qwil story.
Data sourced from Crunchbase.
Foxconn Technology Group
Foxconn Technology Group, is a Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturing company, headquartered in Tucheng.
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Founders: Terry Gou
Location: Taipei, T’ai-pei, Taiwan
Number of Employees: 10001
Autodesk
Autodesk develops 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, and media industries.
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Founders: John Walker
Location: San Rafael, California, United States
Number of Employees: 5001-10000
iRobot
iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
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Founders: Colin Angle, Helen Greiner, Rodney Brooks
Location: Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
Number of Employees: 501-1000
Murata Manufacturing
Murata designs and manufactures consumer electronics, automobile-related applications, energy management systems, and healthcare equipment.
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Founders: Akira Murata
Location: Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Number of Employees: 10001
Abiomed
ABIOMED, Inc. is a provider of mechanical circulatory.
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Founders: David Lederman
Location: Danvers, Massachusetts, United States
Number of Employees: 501-1000
Yuval Tal
Yuval Tal has made quite a difference in the world of business online thanks to the creation of various e-commerce companies, many of which …
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Location: New York, New York, United States
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Matt Rogers
Matt Rogers is co-founder and chief product officer at Nest, architect of the thoughtful home. Matt is responsible for product development, …
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
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Elon Musk
Elon co-founded Tesla and continues to oversee the company’s product strategy — including the design, engineering and manufacturing of more…
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
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David B. Kirk
David Kirk is an NVIDIA Fellow and served as NVIDIA’s chief scientist from 1997 to 2009, a role in which he led the development of graphics …
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Darren Bechtel
Darren Bechtel is the founder and Managing Director of Brick & Mortar Ventures, the leading sector-specific venture capital fund focused on …
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
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SYBO Games
SYBO Games is an independent game development studio, co-creators.
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Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Number of Employees: 51-100
Metawater
Metawater designs, construes, repairs, maintains, and manages mechanical and electrical equipment for water purification plants.
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Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Number of Employees: 1001-5000
Googol Technology
Googol Technology provides complete solutions for a wide array of applications in various industries.
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Location: Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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Knowles Electronics
Knowles Electronics is a Supplier of performance audio, intelligent audio, specialty components in the mobile communications.
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Location: Itasca, Illinois, United States
Number of Employees: 10001
Tom Noonan
Tom Noonan is a General Partner at TechOperators. Tom is the former chairman, president and chief executive officer of Internet Security Sy…
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Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Court Lorenzini
Currently serving as CEO of Primus BioVision and CookBrite Inc., Court has a long history of creating and leading successful companies. …
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Chris Evdaimon
Chris is currently working in the Unlisted Equities team at Baillie Gifford, based in the Bay Area. He was a Partner at Sinovation Ventures …
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
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Shashank Deshpande
Shashank has a unique combination of business understanding, technical acumen and creative talent and has crafted customer experience of int…
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Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Lianxing Capital
Lianxing Capital is providing top-level investment banking services
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Founders: Zhang Mingjing
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Shyue Ong, Ph.D.
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of NanoEngineering at the University of California, San Diego. My research and teaching vision…
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Location: San Diego, California, United States
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