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Bogdan Cristei
Venture Partner, SHACK15 Ventures
Company

Based in
San Francisco, CA
Invests
Pre-Seed or Seed
Type
Investor
Bogdan Cristei is a venture partner and co-founder of SHACK15 Ventures in San Francisco, where he backs pre-seed and seed startups in automation, robotics and AI infrastructure. He came up as a systems engineer at Emerson before earning an MBA at UC Berkeley Haas and moving into venture at Evergy Ventures and Union Labs Ventures. He is an investor and board observer at Raise Robotics and Urban Machine, and writes The OPTIM Update, a newsletter covering physical AI and robotics.
Relevant Investments
Raise Robotics
Builds an autonomous mobile robot platform for precision drilling, layout and fabrication on construction sites.
Pre-seed 2023
raiserobotics.ai
Urban Machine
Uses robotic arms and computer vision to strip metal fasteners from waste construction wood so it can be reused as lumber.
Seed 2022
urbanmachine.build
Positron AI
Designs purpose built inference hardware and chips meant to cut the cost and power draw of running large AI models.
Seed 2023
positron.ai
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