Investing Profile

Arunas Chesonis

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Managing Partner at Safar Partners
safar.partnersRochester, New York
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Network
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Current Investing Position
Safar Partners Managing Partner
Investment Range
$100K - $5.0M
Sweet Spot
$1.5M
Investments On Record
13

Arunas Chesonis is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Arunas Chesonis's Investments On Record (9)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Quaise Energy
Series BJul 2026$130M
Series ADec 2023$21M
Series AJun 2022$12M
Series AFeb 2022$40M
$210M
Co-investors: Mark Cupta (Breakthrough Energy Ventures), Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures), Ann DeWitt (The Engine), David Hendrickson (Helium-3 Ventures), Rayyan Islam (8090 Industries), John Dauer (Helium-3 Ventures)
DMAT
SeedOct 2025$4M
$4.1M
Co-investors: Chiara Castelli (Moonstone Venture Capital), Pablos Holman (Deep Future)
Finwave Semiconductor
Series UnknownMay 2025$8M
$8M
Co-investors: Reed Sturtevant (The Engine), Chris Sklarin (Castor Ventures)
Verve Motion
Series BDec 2023$20M
$55M
Co-investors: Eric Paley (Founder Collective), Russ Wilcox (Pillar VC), Dayna Grayson (Construct Capital), Frederic Kerrest
Liquid AI
SeedDec 2023$38M
SeedMay 2023$6M
$290M
Co-investors: Stephen Pagliuca (Bain Capital), Teymour Boutros-Gali (Bold Capital Partners), Peter Diamandis (Bold Capital Partners), Raymond Liao (Samsung NEXT Ventures), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Tom Preston-Werner (Preston-Werner Ventures), Nader Motamedy (Safar Partners), Matt Mullenweg (Audrey Capital), Kurt Schmidt (7BC Venture Capital), Bob Young, Tobias Lutke
Veo Robotics
Series BApr 2023$14M
$26M
Co-investors: Andrew Wheeler (GV (Google Ventures)), Bilal Zuberi (Lux Capital)
Venti Technologies
Series AMar 2023$29M
$37M
Co-investors: Chandra Tjan (Alpha JWC Ventures), Lake Dai (Sancus Ventures)
RightHand Robotics
Series CFeb 2022$66M
$89M
Co-investors: Andrew Wheeler (GV (Google Ventures)), Mark Siegel (Menlo Ventures), Stan Reiss (Matrix)

Arunas Chesonis's Experience

Chairman and CEO PAETECPresent
Managing Partner Cranberry CapitalPresent
Chairman & CEO Sweetwater EnergyPresent
Managing Partner Safar PartnersPresent

Arunas Chesonis's Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology B.S. Civil Engineering
University of Rochester Masters Business Administration

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