Catapult Ventures

“When I was six years old, my mom dragged me to her barber shop in La Salle, CO every morning that summer to shine shoes. I made $2/pair and earned about $350 (or roughly $850 in today's money) which was a crazy amount of money for a six year old. More importantly, for the first time in my life, I learned the meaning of working for a dollar (or two). I carried that mentality with me in school, on the tennis court, and throughout my career. Not surprisingly, those are some of the most important attributes I look for in founders…grit, scrapiness, and willingness to get their hands dirty, just like I did shining shoes as a six year old.”

“At Catapult, we have successfully backed the next wave of scrappy and practical deep-tech founders while quickly building one of the world's best seed stage deep tech funds, thanks to early exits from Oculii, XNOR.ai, Left Hand Robotics, FlightWave, and Engine ML.”

“It is our mission to first identify innovative companies with horizontal core AI technologies that can be applied to more than one industry. What we're talking about here is things like sensors, AI algorithms, next generation compute architectures, and so on.”