Alex Fielding
FounderCEO & Chairman at Privateer Space · Director & Ripcord Co-Founder at Ripcord
Kihei, Hawaii, United States
FoundedPrivateer SpaceRipcord
About
Alex Fielding is CEO and Chairman of Privateer Space and Orbital Insight, and the founder and director of Ripcord, a company that develops vision-guided industrial robots for digitization and cloud-based access. He previously co-founded the GPS company Wheels of Zeus with Steve Wozniak, sold in 2006, and served as CTO at Power Assure and VP at Vigilent. He holds patents in vision-guided robotics, machine learning, and cloud computing, is an advisor to Astra, and is a founding member of Singularity University.
CEO & Chairman at Privateer Space
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15th RockYokohama · since 2024Baidusince 2023Catapult VenturesSilicon Valley · $250K – $1.5M checksComet LabsSan FranciscoGV (Google Ventures)Mountain View · $250K – $50M checks · since 2024Hemisphere Ventures LLCMckinneyIcon VenturesPalo Alto · $6M – $12M checks · since 2024Kleiner PerkinsMenlo Park · $500K – $15M checks · since 2024Legend Star北京 · $425K – $112M checksLux CapitalNew York · $100K – $100M checks · since 2024MUFGLondon · since 2023Partners for GrowthTiburon · $1M – $50M checksPartners for Growth (PFG)SQN Venture Partners, LLCCharlestonTitanium VenturesSydney Nsw · $5M – $10M checksTyche PartnersLos Altos · $1M – $10M checks · since 2023
Experience
- Orbital InsightCEO & Chairmancurrent2024 — presentMaui, Hawaii
- Privateer SpaceCEO & Chairmancurrent2021 — presentMaui County, Hawaii, United States
- RipcordFounder and Directorcurrent2021 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- RipcordCEO2014 — 2021Hayward, CA
- AstraRobotics Advisor - Advisory Boardcurrent2018 — presentSF Bay Area
- OrangeMentor2018 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
- NASA - National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationAgency Direct Contractor2010 — 2015
- Piston Cloud Computing, Inc.Advisor to the CTO2011 — 2014San Francisco Bay Area
- VigilentVice President Federal & Energy2013 — 2014El Cerrito, CA
- Power Assure, Inc.Chief Technology Officer2009 — 2013Santa Clara, CA
- Wheels of ZeusCo-founder CTO, and Advisor2001 — 2005
- Exodus CommunicationsWest Coast Manager Platinum Network Engineering, Sr. Staff Engineer1999 — 2001
- Apple ComputerSr. Staff Engineer, Engineering Manager1996 — 1999Cupertino, CA
Skills & more
VMware99Cisco35SAS7026Colocation15Production14Brocade14HIPAA11SAP9Energy Efficiency24Transmission10Citrix14Xen11
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Data CenterLoad BalancingHyper-VSOXMergersISOVirtualizationCitrix MetaframeXenServerVDIStorageStorage Area NetworksLanguages C · C++ · HTML/CSS · Objective-C · PHP · Perl · Python · Ruby
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Alex Fielding?
- Alex Fielding is CEO and Chairman of Privateer Space and Orbital Insight, and the founder and director of Ripcord, a company that develops vision-guided industrial robots for digitization and cloud-based access. He previously co-founded the GPS company Wheels of Zeus with Steve Wozniak, sold in 2006, and served as CTO at Power Assure and VP at Vigilent. He holds patents in vision-guided robotics, machine learning, and cloud computing, is an advisor to Astra, and is a founding member of Singularity University.
- Where does Alex Fielding work?
- Alex Fielding is CEO & Chairman of Privateer Space and Director & Ripcord Co-Founder at Ripcord.
- What companies did Alex Fielding found?
- Alex Fielding founded Privateer Space, Ripcord.
- Where did Alex Fielding go to school?
- Alex Fielding studied at Singularity University (Founding Member); Stanford University (Continuing ed. Sharpening the saw. M&A, Business Administration); San José State University.
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