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Travis Deyle

Entrepreneur, Technologist, Scientist, Investor, Curiosity Seeker

San Carlos, California

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Board Member & Investor

    2023

    Bridging identity from digital to physical -- SafeTrust delivers a touchless access experience that makes the new workplace secure, healthy and convenient. Using virtual credentials stored in your mobile phone or wearable, SafeTrust enables employees to move seamlessly through secured doors, elevators, turnstiles, parking garages and more. Leveraging your existing infrastructure, SafeTrust eliminates the need to replace your existing readers, providing a fast, cost-effective, and convenient upgrade path to touchless virtual credentials.

  • Board Member & Investor

    2023

    Home healthcare monitoring -- Stel simplifies device connectivity for patients, care teams, and digital health solutions to ease collection of home healthcare data, reduce hospital (re)admissions, and deliver superior care.

2016 - 2024

  • Executive Chairman & Chief Science Officer

    2024 - 2024

    Assisted in the rebrand from Cobalt Robotics to Cobalt AI. Launched a major product expansion to AI-Powered, Human-Verified alarm monitoring in concert with our world-leading robotic solutions. Facilitated the acquisition of Cobalt Robotics / Cobalt AI by Dean Drako - founder & CEO of Barricuda Networks, Eagle Eye & Brivo

  • Founder and CEO - Cobalt Robotics

    2016 - 2024

    Cobalt Robotics is the largest provider of robot-enabled services for safety, physical security and facilities management. Cobalt's mobile robots help companies make their spaces smarter, safer, & more secure through automation of key workflows and enhanced intelligence gathering. Cobalt has raised more than $85M in venture funding from some of the most prestigious firms, including Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management, Bloomberg Beta, Promus Ventures, Founders Fund, and others. When Travis stepped away from the CEO role, Cobalt Robotics had more than 40% market share for commercial security robots, and their new "Omni" platform for AI-powered, Human-verified alarm monitoring went from zero to more than $1M contracted ARR in less than 3 months.

2012 - 2024

  • Board Member

    2012 - 2024

    Oversaw the transition in 2020 from online auctions to an online authentication service. Today, the company serves some of the largest high-end fashion resellers, is profitable, and continues to grow.

  • Founder and CTO

    2012 - 2014

    Online auction site dedicated exclusively to high-end women's designer goods (e.g. apparel & accessories), where every item is authenticated by a team of specialists. Developed systems that help a small team of fashion specialists rapidly & accurately assess the authenticity of goods without requiring physical possession. Solutions are a combination of expert systems & human-in-the-loop interfaces. Lollipuff was part of YCombinator's winter 2013 (W13) class, and has received ample positive press.

  • Google[x] Senior Hardware Engineer

    2014 - 2016

    Early team member at Google[x] Life Sciences (now Verily Life Sciences), where I worked on cutting-edge medical devices such as glucose-sensing contact lenses, sub-dermal sensors, and implantables for neural stimulation & recording. Was an active participant on Rapid Eval team that helped vet early-stage Google[x] projects.

2011 - 2012

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    2011 - 2012

    Built "cyborg dragonflies." Our team created custom chips hooked into the brains of dragonflies to read out their brain signals during flight. The underlying technology was akin to souped-up UHF RFID tags -- i.e. harvesting 10 micro-watts of RF power and then intelligently backscattering radar signals to transfer data at more than 100Mbps. I specifically worked on the basestation transceiver (i.e. reader) for coherent demodulation. Worked out of Matt Reynolds' lab and was supported to a prestigious NSF / CRA "Computing Innovation" (CI) Postdoc Fellowship.

  • Roboticist

    2006 - 2011

    Research and Teaching assistant while pursuing PhD & MS in Electrical Engineering and Robotics.

  • Hardware Engineer

    2003 - 2006

    Worked in the Reliability Group on nuclear "stuff."