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Ryan Gembala
Ryan Gembala
Managing Partner, Pathbreaker
Company
Pathbreaker
Based in
San Francisco, CA
Invests
Pre-Seed or Seed
Type
Investor
Ryan Gembala is founder and managing partner of Pathbreaker Ventures, a pre-seed and seed firm he started in San Francisco in 2015. He previously led corporate development deals at Meta, including the acquisitions of Oculus and NimbleVR, and invested at Azure Capital before that. Pathbreaker backs technical teams building in robotics, aerospace, and hardware, with a portfolio that includes K2 Space, Reliable Robotics, and Antares. Business Insider named him a top seed investor in both 2023 and 2024.
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