AI experts and entrepreneurs turned investors
Team
ellipsis is run by its two General Partners, who make the investment decisions and work with every portfolio company, supported by four Venture Partners who bring domain depth (robotics, data, research) and geographic reach (Switzerland, Sweden, London). All of them have built AI products or companies before investing in them.
Yariv Adan
Founding General Partner
Sr. Director PM at Google, co-founder of Google Assistant and Google Lens, PM lead for applied GenAI and ConvAI at Google Cloud.
Matthias Dantone
Founding General Partner
Co-founder and CEO of Fashwell (sold to Apple), ML lead at Apple, Sr. Director PM at Scandit, PhD in ML from ETH.
Juergen Galler
Venture Partner
Co-founder and CEO at 1plusX, SVP Data at Triplelift, Chief Strategy Officer at Swisscom, PM Director at Google, various board memberships.
Thomas Hofmann
Venture Partner
Professor of AI at ETH, Co-founder and Chief Scientist at 1plusX, Eng Director at Google, Angel investor.
Robert MacKenzie
Venture Partner
Former CPTO at ANYbotics, two decades building and scaling deep-tech companies (ANYbotics, Labster, Hocoma), leads our robotics investing.
Nicholas Heller
Venture Partner
Former head of New Business Development at Google, co-founder and CEO of tomato pay, board director with an exit to Apple, our Venture Partner in the UK.
Founders: send us your deck. Everyone else: message a General Partner on LinkedIn.