Investing Profile

Avidan Ross

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Founding Partner at Root Ventures
root.vcSan Francisco Bay Area
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Current Investing Position
Root Ventures Partner
Investment Range
$500K - $2.0M
Sweet Spot
$1M
Investments On Record
22
Current Fund Size
$150M

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Avidan Ross's Investments On Record (10)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Dusty Robotics
Series BMay 2022$45M
Series AJun 2021$17M
SeedNov 2019$5M
SeedAug 2018$2M
$69M
Co-investors: Steve Anderson (Baseline Ventures), Alexander Niehenke (Scale Venture Partners), Richard Boyle (Canaan Partners), Benjamin Bayat (NextGen Venture Partners)
Esper
Series COct 2021$60M
Series BMay 2021$30M
Series AFeb 2020$8M
SeedJun 2018$4M
$110M
Co-investors: Andy Vitus (Scale Venture Partners), Joe Lonsdale (8VC), Philine Huizing (Insight Partners), Tim Porter (Madrona Ventures), Clark Landry (CESPPA), Bobby Yazdani (Cota Capital), Sunil Nagaraj (Ubiquity Ventures), Semil Shah (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout)
Particle
Series COct 2019$40M
Series BJul 2017$20M
Series ANov 2016$10M
Series AJul 2014$5M
$110M
Co-investors: Cyril Ebersweiler (SOSV), Sameer Reddy (Energy Impact Partners), Duncan Turner (SOSV), Bogomil Balkansky (Sequoia Capital), Laura Rippy (Alumni Ventures ), Gregory Baker (Alumni Ventures Group), Anton Simunovic (Castor Ventures (an Alumni Ventures Fund)), Alain Hanover (Alumni Ventures Group - Investment Committee), Carlos Kokron (Qualcomm Ventures), Andrew Parker (Spero Ventures), Richard Ma (Quantstamp, Inc.), Mark Jacobsen (O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures), Robert Bibow (Parkway Venture Capital), Naveen Jain
Ntop
Series BJul 2019$20M
$140M
Co-investors: Joshua Fredberg (Insight Partners), John Curtius (Tiger Global Management), James Hardiman (DCVC (Data Collective)), Hrach Simonian (Canaan Partners), Colin Carrier (Angel investor), Greg Schroy (Coolhouse Labs), Bob Pasker
TruckLabs
Series AMay 2019$11M
SeedMay 2017$3M
$29M
Co-investors: Jeff Clavier (Uncork Capital), Jason Schoettler (Calibrate Ventures), Ken Hood (FusionX Ventures), Doug Renert (Tandem Capital), Stephanie Palmeri (NextView Ventures), Maurice Gunderson (Autotech Ventures), Daniel Hoffer (Autotech Ventures)
Instrumental
Series AJun 2017$8M
SeedDec 2015$3M
$84M
Co-investors: Hrach Simonian (Canaan Partners), Phin Barnes (The General Partnership), Lior Susan (Eclipse Ventures), Jamie McGurk (BAM Elevate), Jacob Kerzner
Nordsense
SeedMay 2017$2M
$10M
Co-investors: Greg Papadopoulos (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Christian Tang-Jespersen (ACME Capital), Henrik Rosendahl (byFounders), Jim Andelman (Bonfire Ventures), Juha Christensen (Blazar Capital)
Cape
SeedApr 2016
$150M
Co-investors: Somesh Dash (IVP), Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund), Katherine Boyle (Andreessen Horowitz), Semil Shah (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Will Herman (Bolt)

Avidan Ross's Experience

Founding Partner Root Ventures2011 - Present
Chief Technology Officer / Investments The CIM Group2004 - 2012
Director of Technology WHW Capital2002 - 2004
Network / Hardware Engineer Excite@Home2000 - 2000

Avidan Ross's Education

Columbia University in the City of New York Bachelor's degree Computer Science

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