Sector: Disruptive Technology, Aerospace Technology							

Location: Washington, D.C. and Denver, CO							

Company Website: aurorainsight.com 							

Aurora Insights is developing technologies to map radio frequency (RF) from collection platforms in space (satellite), in air (aircraft) and on the ground (vehicles and fixed ground sensors) to provide the most accurate RF mapping commercially available. RF Mapping is used to plan out telecommunications infrastructure deployments such as 5G as well as to model signal propagation and usage to improve radio performance. The company plans to develop an advanced proprietary dataset for next-generation networks as well as using RF patterns to determine industry trends and market opportunities.

I started my investing career at In-Q-Tel in October of 2001 as an investment partner.  While there, I led investments in ArcSight, Language Weaver, GATR, and ThinKom among others.   I then joined Alsop Louie Partners, where I was nicknamed “the mechanic” by colleagues as I am often charged with helping companies when they face difficulties, and regularly manage companies to positive exits. I have specialized in cybersecurity, defense, infrastructure, and enterprise SaaS systems investments.  I was the original investor in Aerospike, and currently leading investments in Crunchy Data, Hidden Level, and Runsafe Security, among others.

I started my career writing systems-level code. Soon after, I moved to more customer-facing roles.  I supported customers and the sales process as a Systems Engineer at Hewlett-Packard.  I enjoyed the being directly responsible for revenue generation and moved to sales.  Having learned the ropes and wanting to make a bigger contribution, I decided to move to a start-up, joining Integrated Systems in 1986.  In a short time, I was managing company revenue both nationally and internationally. My contributions led to the IPO of Integrated Systems (NASDAQ: INTS). I then became CEO of TakeFive Software, a software tools company based in Salzburg, Austria. I returned to INTS, holding a variety of roles including CEO. In 1998, the company merged with Wind River Systems, and I moved to Talarian, which went public in 2000 (NASDAQ:TALR) and was later acquired by Tibco Systems.

Aurora Insight

Disruptive Technology, Aerospace Technology

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