Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$50,000,000.00Target Investment:
$25,000,000.00
Skills
Education
- Uo
- II
Lists including Rajesh
Investments
Work Experience
2020
Partner
2020
Assisting entrepreneurs and managing investments across EV batteries, hydrogen, solar, grid storage, sustainable plastics, carbon capture, industrial chemicals, foodtech, healthcare – focusing on materials science driven innovations that have a large societal impact.
2009 - 2020
Head of Applied Ventures
2018 - 2020
Managed a portfolio of deeptech startups across 13 countries in over 85 companies. Invested in deep-tech/ hardware startups across Climatech (solar, batteries, windows ..), Semiconductors, AI, Life Sciences. Applied Ventures, LLC, is the venture capital arm of Applied Materials.
Investment Director
2015 - 2018
Investment Manager
2009 - 2015
2008 - 2009
Sr Associate
2008 - 2009
Investment focus in Cleantech and Semis. Key Investments: EnPhase energy, R2 Semiconductor
2007 - 2008
Consultant
2007 - 2008
2007 - 2007
Investment Banking
2007 - 2007
IPO on Renesola, a solar wafer materials Co. M&A transactions in Cleantech
2001 - 2006
Lead - Emerging Technologies
2001 - 2006
Drove the technical assessment of several Optical, MEMS, RF device startups and established successful partnerships with many. Led the design for reliability program for Lucent’s 10Gb/s and 40Gb/s telecommunication systems and supported the successful deployment of these systems globally.