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

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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: Alexander Niehenke (Scale Venture Partners), Steve Anderson (Baseline Ventures), Richard Boyle (Canaan Partners)
Esper	Series COct 2021$60M Series BMay 2021$30M Series AFeb 2020$8M SeedJun 2018$4M	$110M
Co-investors: Andy Vitus (Scale Venture Partners), Semil Shah (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Joe Lonsdale (8VC), Philine Huizing (Insight Partners), Tim Porter (Madrona Ventures), Bobby Yazdani (Cota Capital), Clark Landry (CESPPA), Sunil Nagaraj (Ubiquity Ventures)
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), Duncan Turner (SOSV), Anton Simunovic (Alumni Ventures ), Laura Rippy (Alumni Ventures ), Carlos Kokron (Qualcomm Ventures), Mark Jacobsen (O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures), Richard Ma (Quantstamp, Inc.), Andrew Parker (Spero Ventures), Gregory Baker (Bascom Ventures), Alain Hanover, Naveen Jain
nTopology	Series BJul 2019$20M	$140M
Co-investors: Hrach Simonian (Canaan Partners), James Hardiman (DCVC (Data Collective)), John Curtius (Cedar Capital Group), Bob Pasker
TruckLabs	Series AMay 2019$11M SeedMay 2017$3M	$29M
Co-investors: Jeff Clavier (Uncork Capital), Stephanie Palmeri (NextView Ventures), Daniel Hoffer (Autotech Ventures), Maurice Gunderson (Autotech Ventures), Ken Hood (FusionX Ventures), Doug Renert (Tandem Capital)
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	$2M
Co-investors: Greg Papadopoulos (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Jim Andelman (Bonfire Ventures), Henrik Rosendahl, Juha Christensen
Shaper	Angel RoundAug 2014 AngelAug 2014	$16M
Co-investors: Tim Young (ENIAC Ventures), Cyril Ebersweiler (SOSV), Vic Singh (ENIAC Ventures), Nihal Mehta (ENIAC Ventures), Hadley Harris (ENIAC Ventures)