Sector: Disruptive Tech, 3D Technology, Automated 3D Modeling							

Lead Partner: Stewart Alsop, Will Jack							

Hover is a mobile platform that lets anyone generate accurate digital 3D  building data by simply taking a few photos with a smartphone. These 3D  models are scaled, accurate, customizable, and are changing the way  that people view and interact with their physical properties across  spaces such as home improvement, property management and insurance.

Stewart is a Partner. He spent the first 20 years of his professional career as a business journalist and commentator. It did not start well: he earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Occidental College in Los Angeles in 1975, but had to stay the summer to complete his credits. Then he couldn’t find a job, so he went to bartending school. But bars weren’t hiring. He persisted and, from 1975 to 1996, had a series of jobs in which he learned how to be a business editor. This included becoming Executive Editor of Inc. Magazine, where he became fascinated by both entrepreneurship and personal computers, and as the third editor of InfoWorld, the job that got him moved from Boston to Silicon Valley in 1983.

In 1985, having been fired from two jobs, he started his own business, a newsletter called P.C. Letter, which became widely read in the executive ranks of the major hardware and software companies that formed and grew the personal computer industry. He also started two conferences, Agenda and Demo, and published the “Social Register to the PC Industry.”

In 1996, Stewart changed careers to become a venture capitalist, joining New Enterprise Associates, a top-tier venture capital firm with a long track record of success in investing in early stage and growth companies. He was a general partner with New Enterprise Associates and led that firm’s investments in companies such as TiVo, Portola Communications (sold to Netscape), Netcentives, Glu Mobile, and Xfire. From 1996 to 2003, he wrote Alsop On InfoTech for Fortune.

Stewart left NEA in 2005 and invited Gilman Louie to become his partner in a new venture capital firm designed to put to use everything the partners had learned about entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation over the prior 25 years. From 2005-2013, Stewart was a member of the board of directors of Sonos, Inc., which has become a thought leader in the world of digital audio and the digital living room.

Stewart Alsop

Partner

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Will Jack is a Venture Partner. He is CEO of Remedy Health, a  telehealth company that amplifies doctors’ abilities with AI, making  primary care more accessible and less expensive for patients.  Prior to  this Will worked on SpaceX’s internet satellite project, and studied  physics and computer science at MIT. He also actively works as an data  analytics consultant, engaging entities ranging from Fortune 500  companies to the Milwaukee Brewers.

Will’s early career was in plasma physics, culminating in working on  the lithium tokamak experiment at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab.  An  Ohio native, Will spent his childhood developing a particle collider in  his basement, using the nuclear reactions it carried out to investigate  novel methods of medical imaging, and speaking about it internationally.  Will’s other experiences include running hackathons at MIT, working  briefly as a high frequency trader, and developing medical devices at  the MIT media lab.

Will’s investment interests include companies developing hard tech,  especially in spaceflight, imaging, neuroscience, as well as companies  applying cutting edge technology to highly outdated industries.

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Disruptive Tech, 3D Technology, Automated 3D Modeling

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