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

Current Fund Size

$150M

Avidan Ross is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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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 (Illuminate Ventures)
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), Semil Shah (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Sunil Nagaraj (Ubiquity Ventures), Bobby Yazdani (Cota Capital), Clark Landry (CESPPA)
Particle	Series COct 2019$40M Series BJul 2017$20M Series ANov 2016$10M Series AJul 2014$5M	$110M
Co-investors: Bogomil Balkansky (Sequoia Capital), Cyril Ebersweiler (SOSV), Sameer Reddy (Energy Impact Partners), Duncan Turner (SOSV), Anton Simunovic (Alumni Ventures ), Laura Rippy (Alumni Ventures ), Robert Bibow (Parkway Venture Capital), Carlos Kokron (Qualcomm Ventures), Mark Jacobsen (O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures), Richard Ma (Quantstamp, Inc.), Andrew Parker (Spero Ventures), Gregory Baker (Alumni Ventures Group), Alain Hanover, Naveen Jain
Ntop	Series BJul 2019$20M	$130M
Co-investors: Joshua Fredberg (Insight Partners), John Curtius (Tiger Global Management), Hrach Simonian (Canaan Partners), Colin Carrier, Greg Schroy
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: Jamie McGurk (Coatue), Hrach Simonian (Canaan Partners), Phin Barnes (The General Partnership), Lior Susan (Eclipse Ventures), Jacob Kerzner
Nordsense	SeedMay 2017$2M	$10M
Co-investors: Greg Papadopoulos (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Jim Andelman (Bonfire Ventures), Christian Tang-Jespersen (ACME Capital), Henrik Rosendahl, Juha Christensen
Shaper	AngelAug 2014 Angel RoundAug 2014	$16M
Co-investors: Nihal Mehta (ENIAC Ventures), Vic Singh (ENIAC Ventures), Cyril Ebersweiler (SOSV), Tim Young (ENIAC Ventures), Hadley Harris (ENIAC Ventures)

Avidan Ross's Media (1)

Announcing Root Ventures Fund III: $150M for technical founders

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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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