Investing Profile

Avidan Ross

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Founding Partner at Root Ventures

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Current Investing Position

Root Ventures Partner

Investment Range

$500K - $2.0M

Sweet Spot

$1M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$150M

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Avidan Ross's Investments On Record (9)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total 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 (Berkeley Angel Network)
Esper	Series COct 2021$60M Series BMay 2021$30M Series AFeb 2020$8M SeedJun 2018$4M	$110M
Co-investors: Andy Vitus (Scale Venture Partners), Philine Huizing (Insight Partners), Joe Lonsdale (8VC), Tim Porter (Madrona Ventures), Semil Shah (Haystack), Sunil Nagaraj (Ubiquity Ventures), Bobby Yazdani (Cota Capital), Clark Landry
Particle	Series COct 2019$40M Series BJul 2017$20M Series ANov 2016$10M SeedJul 2014$4M	$75M
Co-investors: Duncan Turner (SOSV), Cyril Ebersweiler (SOSV), Bogomil Balkansky (Sequoia Capital), Sameer Reddy (Energy Impact Partners), Anton Simunovic (Alumni Ventures Group), Laura Rippy (Alumni Ventures Group), Carlos Kokron (Qualcomm Ventures), Mark Jacobsen (O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures), Gregory Baker (Bascom Ventures), Robert Bibow (Parkway VC), Richard Ma (Pioneer Fund), Andrew Parker (Spero Ventures), Naveen Jain, Alain Hanover
nTopology	Series BJul 2019$20M	$140M
Co-investors: Joshua Fredberg (Insight Partners), Hrach Simonian (Canaan Partners), James Hardiman (DCVC (Data Collective)), Bob Pasker, Colin Carrier, Greg Schroy
TruckLabs	Series AMay 2019$11M SeedMay 2017$3M	$29M
Co-investors: Doug Renert (Tandem), Jason Schoettler (Calibrate Ventures), Ken Hood (FusionX Ventures), Maurice Gunderson (Autotech Ventures), Stephanie Palmeri (NextView Ventures), Daniel Hoffer
Instrumental	Series AJun 2017$8M SeedDec 2015$3M	$84M
Co-investors: Jamie McGurk (Coatue), Phin Barnes (The General Partnership), Lior Susan (Eclipse Ventures)
Nordsense	SeedMay 2017$2M	$2M
Co-investors: Greg Papadopoulos (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Jim Andelman (Bonfire Ventures), Juha Christensen, Henrik Rosendahl
Shaper	AngelAug 2014 Angel RoundAug 2014	$16M
Co-investors: Cyril Ebersweiler (SOSV), Tim Young (ENIAC Ventures), Hadley Harris (ENIAC Ventures), Nihal Mehta (ENIAC Ventures), Vic Singh (ENIAC Ventures)