Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund

It started with a passion about helping visionary founders make a positive transformational impact in the Supply Chain & Logistics industry. Our vision To make a transformational impact to the Supply Chain and Logistics industry via teaming and supporting visionary founders & exceptional technology businesses. Our mission We seek to partner and actively support visionary founders & exceptional technology businesses to create long-term economic and societal value centered around the Supply Chain & Logistics industry. Our unique blend of domain insights, technology know-how, and investment expertise, enables us to help our portfolio companies succeed in unparalleled ways, as well as optimally balance both industry transformation with Fund returns on investment. Our Values Our Values define us in all our interactions as we journey to grow and transform the Supply Chain and Logistics Technology Industry Landscape. Principle-Centered: Through a principle-centered approach, we create an environment that is underpinned by integrity, respect, and mutual trust. Transformative: We aspire to lead the digital transformation of the Supply Chain and Logistics Industry through positive disruption. Value-Add: At the heart of what we do, we aim to add value to all Start-ups that we interact with. Our Investment Policy We seek to identify industry business innovation and technology trends early, and invest in support of those trends. We will also get to know founders and start-ups early, and in some cases, will also guide select start-ups based on our industry trend insights, even prior to investment. We will only invest when the time is right for both the business and us, practicing the art of assessing the balance of time needed for the businesses to build enough technology depth, while proving needed commercial traction. We invest for the long term, to maximize the potential for the businesses, while actively supporting our portfolio companies through our curated insights and ecosystem of partners, effecting building and transforming industry capabilities.

Cybernetix Ventures is a venture capital firm leading the way for investment into early-stage robotics, automation, and AI startups. Headquartered in Boston, the world’s epicenter for robotics innovation, Cybernetix connects its portfolio to the national and global robotics ecosystems, bringing unparalleled expertise to companies poised to make major impacts in sectors including advanced manufacturing, logistics/warehousing, architecture, engineering and construction and healthcare/medical devices. The fund will also invest in key robotics-enabling software companies in AI/machine learning, cloud robotics, cybersecurity, autonomy, and sensors/edge computing.

We invest in founders disrupting the future of industry . Early-stage investing is our game and we’re here to support founders looking to upend the status quo with a global vision from day one. The Mission Our primary objective is to back diverse, passionate and never-say-die founders to become world-class entrepreneurs who can leverage technology to build global companies and disrupt industries right from the early stages, and support them fully on their journeys. Our fund operates on an effective, but simple four-point mandate: 1. Disruption & Innovation We look for companies who can find and build solutions to problems that address inefficiencies across industries with the potential to create inflection points in the market and pave a new way forward for society. 2. Technology Leverage We believe in the power of technology to make the world as we see fit. This is why we understand that technology enablers play a significant role in shaping the future of industries. Some of the enablers we're interested in include; blockchain, automation, 5G, AR/VR, machine learning, exabyte storage, robotics, IoT, accelerated computing and much more. We fully support founders who can find ingenious ways to use technology to create new markets and open the industry to innovation. 3. Global Vision Our goal is to help bring founders and their companies onto the world stage by collaborating with our key strategic and incredible network across Silicon Valley and beyond towards exponential growth. We’re starting off ANZ and the USA for now, but will soon expand out to South-East Asia 4. Early Stage Backing We're here to help support and nurture founders from the very beginning on their journey. We know it's incredibly tough creating a company, so we are backing those folks who need it the most. For us, it all starts off with just a seed.

The success of ideas, especially in logistics, hinges on industry expertise, physical infrastructure access, and clients. we help build bridges to these critical assets. We advise, not control. We empower founders to be the final decision-makers, controlling the destiny of their companies and taking their entrepreneurial journey into their own hands. Always. We use our network to supercharge growth for startups - helping them navigate the challenges of corporate collaboration, linking them with key industry players, and engaging our deep network of investors.

We are based in Boston and NYC and are inspired by the AlleyCorp venture fund and incubator. We are proud to count Kevin Ryan and Eliot Horowitz as our initial limited partners. Our team members are also advisors at AlleyCorp. We believe automation is the future The future will be automated. As artificial intelligence and machine learning continue to improve and hardware costs continue to drop, the applications for robotics and automation must continue to expand. This wave is cresting with more investment every year and many successful founders showing the world what is possible. Fun times! There is still far more to be done, and we are excited to be part of it! We invest in purposeful businesses Larry Page often says "solving big problems is easier than solving little problems". What he means is that we'll work just as hard on a huge problem as we would on a small problem. So we should choose big problems that matter! At ARV we invest in businesses with purpose, aimed at some of the biggest problems facing our world. This also aligns with Paul Graham's advice to do things that don't scale (at first).

Historically, economies and emissions have grown in lockstep. We invest in companies that break this link, growing the economy while reducing global emissions. We invest in companies driving Green Growth. We work together as a team to find, build and support companies that are modernizing and revolutionizing the traditional industries like transportation, manufacturing, agriculture, energy, supply chain, and logistics, that together make up over half of the global economy. As Investors, We:PRIORITIZE SERVICE TO THE PORTFOLIO We are attentive to entrepreneurs’ needs, are responsive, and are respectful. We see ourselves as service providers to our portfolio and aim to be a “go-to” board member for our portfolio companies. VALUE ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERIENCE All of our partners have founded companies or have actively incubated companies as founding board members. We have empathy and a fundamental respect for the entrepreneurial experience. BRING A POWERFUL NETWORK OF CUSTOMERS AND CO-INVESTORS We cultivate and manage a network of more than 500 executives at major industrial and technology companies to assist our teams with product feedback, partnerships or potential customer relationships. Selling into ‘old-school’ industries takes both novel technology and novel business model approaches, as well as connections to forward-thinking early adopters. We connect our portfolio to a network that accelerates time-to-market and tests new ideas for young companies. OPERATE AS A TEAM We have worked together as a team for over eight years and have developed high-functioning, direct communications and processes to collaborate on investment execution and assist on portfolio work. Importantly, our journey together through both successes and failures provides us with a clear, shared view of what makes businesses successful. VALUE INTEGRITY AND TRANSPARENCY These values inform our behavior with each other, with investors, with portfolio companies, and with other stakeholders. We build value through trusting relationships with entrepreneurs and stakeholders. We hold ourselves to the same standard with every company and person with whom we interact: portfolio companies, competitors, other investors, and ecosystem participants. We are equally open about good and bad news. We don’t use information as currency. We strive to be apolitical. INTEGRATE WORK AND VALUES We back mission-driven teams. Our experience is that mission-driven teams who believe they will change the world for the better build more successful companies than mercenary teams. We are driven to have a positive impact, and we choose to work with companies that share those values. LEVERAGE OUR ROOTS AT KLEINER PERKINS Years of managing the Green Growth Fund at Kleiner Perkins, a partnership with a 45-year track record, have ingrained many of the foundational goals and practices that shaped Kleiner Perkins: a focus on entrepreneurs, active company building, and a willingness to think big. We remain actively involved with Kleiner Perkins as we continue to manage the firm’s Green Growth Fund and its existing portfolio companies. We are also headquartered in Silicon Valley, at the center of California’s technology ecosystem. This presence and network offers visibility into cutting edge technologies that will disrupt large industries in the coming years.