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Caleb Appleton
Partner, Bison Ventures
Company

Based in
San Francisco, CA
Invests
Pre-Seed or Seed
Type
Investor
Caleb Appleton is a partner at Bison Ventures, a San Francisco firm investing in physical AI, techbio, and climate technology. Trained as a biomedical engineer at Georgia Tech, he covered surgical robotics and applied AI as an investor at Innovation Endeavors, then spent several years as SVP and general manager at TuneIn before joining Bison. His current bets include Cobot, the collaborative robotics company founded by former Amazon Robotics VP Brad Porter, Grid Aero, which builds autonomous cargo aircraft, and Inner Logic, a simulation platform for autonomous surgical devices.
Relevant Investments
Cobot
Collaborative robots that sense and respond to people working alongside them.
Series A 2023 to Series B 2024
www.co.bot
Grid Aero
Autonomous cargo aircraft that carry heavy payloads over long ranges for defense and commercial logistics.
Seed 2025
grid.aero
Inner Logic
Simulation infrastructure that lets device makers test and validate autonomous surgical systems.
Seed 2026
innerlogic.io
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