Investing Profile

Aaron VanDevender

Investor

Chief Executive Officer / Founder at Methid

San Francisco, California

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Networks Aaron is a member of

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Network

625 CONNECTIONS

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Network

188 CONNECTIONS

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Network

112 CONNECTIONS

bolt Network

35 CONNECTIONS

Founders Fund Network

32 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

Methid

Investment Range

$10K - $50K

Sweet Spot

$25K

Investments On Record

Aaron VanDevender is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

San Francisco Bay Area

Aaron VanDevender's Investments On Record (4)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Modumetal	Series UnknownDec 2019 Series UnknownJan 2019$14M Series UnknownAug 2015$34M	$48M
Co-investors: Heather Redman (Flying Fish Partners)
Emulate	Series CJun 2018$36M	$210M
Co-investors: Shuo Mao (Qiming Venture Partners), David Shapiro (Castor Ventures (an Alumni Ventures Fund)), Anton Simunovic (Castor Ventures (an Alumni Ventures Fund)), Sharon Kedar (Northpond Ventures), Eric Moessinger (NanoDimension), Peter Thiel (The Founders Fund)
Indee Labs	SeedMay 2018$3M	$4M
Co-investors: Po Bronson (IndieBio), Jay Zaveri (Social Capital), Jaffray Woodriff (Alex & Thiago), Arvind Gupta (Mayfield Fund), Jude Gomila (Golden (Recursion Inc)), Bill Bartee (Blackbird Ventures), Scott Nolan (The Founders Fund)
Bolt	Series CMay 2016$50M Series BJun 2015$32M	$2.6B
Co-investors: Joey Krug (Pantera Capital), Ullas Naik (Streamlined Ventures), Andrew Reed (Sequoia Capital), Anas Biad (Sequoia Capital), Brad Feld (Foundry Group), Evan Lee (Hustle Fund), Hao Huang (UpHonest Capital), Steve Vassallo (Foundation Capital), Jonathan Weiner (Oak HC/FT), Kingsley Advani (Tribe-V Venture Capital), Steven Sarracino (Activant Capital), Arjun Sethi (Tribe-V Venture Capital), Laurence A. Tosi (WestCap), Anton Levy (General Atlantic), Preetha Parthasarathy (SAP.iO fund), Sam Yu (Long Ventures Partners), Semyon Dukach (One Way Ventures), Bruce Sachs (CRV (Charles River Ventures)), Kyrylo Medvediev (01 Ventures), Marco Valta (Milano Investment Partners - MIP SGR), Khaled Helioui (Plural), Michael Antonov (Formic Ventures), Jake Seid (Ballistic Ventures), Chris Sang (Saltwater Fund), Jeff Fluhr (Craft Ventures), Laurent Drion (E-Merge), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Ryan Duranso (Anthropic), Russell Cook (HC9 Ventures), Brian Bell (Team Ignite Ventures), Sung ho Choi (Self-employed), David Murray-Hundley (Space Tech Ventures), Jim Kim (Builders VC), Indrek Kasela (United Angels VC), Mikko Silventola (SuperAngel.Fund), Märt Kelder (Bolt), Andrus Purde (Little Green Fund), Martin Villig (Textmagic), Benjamin Tsai (Cardinal Mark Investments, LLC), David Heath (Bombas)

Aaron VanDevender's Experience

Physicist National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)Present

Physicist NISTPresent

Physicist Halcyon MolecularPresent

Chief Scientist Founders FundPresent

Board Observer boltPresent

Board Observer Bolt ThreadsPresent

Board Member Applied Molecular TransportPresent

Board Member PsiQuantumPresent

Board Member Emulate, Inc.Present

Board Member MarkforgedPresent

Chief Executive Officer / Founder MethidPresent

Chief Scientist The Founders Fund2012 - 2020

Aaron VanDevender's Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology SB Physics

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PhD Physics

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign PhD Physics

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