Mike Collett
Cobalt Robotics Raises $13M Series A — Orbital Ventures Backstory
San Francisco-based Cobalt Robotics recently announced its $13M Series A round led by Sequoia. Orbital Ventures led Cobalt’s seed round with Bloomberg Beta in early 2016.
Pierre Festal
Partner
Based in Luxembourg
Pierre joined Promus Ventures in 2021 as Partner and has been working in venture capital since 2005.
Pierre has over 15 years of investment experience across early, expansion and late-stage technology companies ACE & Company, Nomura International and Atlas Ventures.
Pierre has been focusing on DeepTech for the past ten years. His past portfolio includes companies such as Zoopla Property Group, Chargepoint, N26, Redaptive, Kitchen United, Eos Energy, MOO, Novinium, Payfazz, Spectra Sensors, and Daily Motion.
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Education
Masters in Corporate Finance: EM Lyon Graduate School of Management, Lyon, France
MSc in Computer Science and Management: ESIEE Management, Noisy, France
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Mike Collett
Orbital Ventures Closes $140M Space Fund
We are excited to announce our fifth venture capital fund, and our first sector specific fund, a new $140M fund specifically focused on backing early-stage space and geospatial teams around the globe. Seven investments into...
Gareth Keane
Moving at startup speed
Since joining the Orbital Ventures team just over a month ago, there have been lots of new experiences that I have been getting used to — the transition from a corporate venture investment role at Qualcomm Ventures...