Richard Tapalaga
Director at Qualcomm Ventures
San Diego, California
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Director
2008
Richard serves as a Director for Qualcomm Ventures and leads the firms global early-stage practice. His investment focus is around the augmented / virtual reality, internet-of-things (IoT), robotics, mobile gaming, and connected device ecosystems. Richard joined Qualcomm Ventures in 2008 and serves as a Board Observer for investments in AirSpace Technologies, Realwear, Magic Leap, the Void, Embee Mobile and Playdek. Richard is also a Board Member for San Diego based Brain Corp. He also lead the team’s investment in Owlchemy Labs (acquired by Google), HeyZap (acquired by RNTS Media), Livescribe (acquired by Anoto), Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), Sotera Wireless and ThatGameCompany.
Director
2008
Qualcomm Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Qualcomm with 180+ active investments and many well known exits (Zoom, Fitbit, Waze, Ring, Xiaomi, Cloudflare, 99 and Cruise). QCV invests across all sectors (consumer, enterprise, hardware) and has 20+ investment professionals spread across US, China, UK, Israel, Brazil, and India.
Investor
2018
Airspace Technologies is a technology-enabled logistics service provider
2022
Investor
2022
A Ground-Breaking XR Solution for Mental and Emotional Well-Being.
2012
Investor and Board Member
2012
2014
Investor
2014
thatgamecompany designs and develops artistically crafted, broadly accessible video games that push the boundaries of interactive entertainment.
2019
Investor
2019
The leader in knowledge transfer and training platforms for the connected worker.
2014
Investor
2014
Magic Leap is a spatial computing platform that lets you see an interact with digital content in the world around you.
2018
Investor
2018
The VOID is a whole-body, fully immersive VR experience in location based entertainment.
2019
Investor and Advisor
2019
A container-based distributed computing platform that empowers organizations to maximize all compute resources—from desktop, to server, to cloud.
2013
Investor
2013
Digital tabletop game developer.