Brad Porter
FounderFounder & CEO at Collaborative Robotics
Santa Clara, CA
FoundedCollaborative Robotics
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About
Brad Porter spent thirteen years at Amazon rising to VP of Robotics, where he led an organisation of roughly 10,000 people and deployed more than 250,000 robots across the fulfilment network — then left to build the robot that works beside people rather than behind a fence. He founded Collaborative Robotics in 2022 with Steph Tryphonas and Jane Mooney, raised more than $140 million including a $100 million Series B led by General Catalyst, and shipped Proxie, now working in hospitals, factories and ports for customers including Mayo Clinic, Maersk and Moderna. An MIT computer scientist who was CTO of Scale AI in between, he traces the whole thing to a Radio Shack robot arm his parents gave him as a child.
Beyond investing
- Founded
- Founded Collaborative Robotics in 2022 with Steph Tryphonas and Jane Mooney, both experienced big-tech operators. Cobot's first product, Proxie, launched in 2024; the second generation lifts 200 pounds, moves 1,500-pound carts and swaps its own batteries.
- Communities
- Hosts his own podcast, Top of Mind with Brad Porter.
- Hobbies
- Traces his career to a Radio Shack Armatron robot arm his parents gave him as a child, and spent his childhood building robots.
- More
- At Amazon he led robotics across the entire fulfilment and transportation network — teams that launched more than 50 products and deployed over 250,000 robots. The first-generation Proxie fleet logged 12,627 production operating hours and moved more than 40 million pounds of material in two years.
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Founder & CEO at Collaborative Robotics
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Collaborative Robotics's investors · 11
1984 Ventures Management, LlcSan Francisco · $1M checks · since 2024Bezos ExpeditionsBison VenturesSeattle · since 2024Calibrate VenturesPasadena · $5M checks · since 2024General CatalystSan Francisco · $30M checks · since 2024Industry VenturesSan Francisco · $250K – $50M checks · since 2024Khosla VenturesMenlo Park · $5K – $50M checks · since 2024Lux CapitalNew York · $100K – $100M checks · since 2024MVP VenturesChicago · since 2024Ritual CapitalMenlo Park · $100K – $500K checksSequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checks · since 2024
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Co-founders at Collaborative Robotics
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Jane MooneyCo-founder & VP, Strategy and Finance
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Steph TryphonasCo-founder
Experience
- CobotFounder and CEOcurrent2022 — presentSanta Clara, California, United States
- Scale AIChief Technology Officer2020 — 2022Virtual
- AmazonVice President and Distinguished Engineer, Robotics2017 — 2020Seattle, Washington
- AmazonVice President and Distinguished Engineer2014 — 2020Seattle, WA
- AmazonDirector of eCommerce Platform Architecture & Sr Principal Engineer2008 — 2014
- AmazonDirector of Website Platform Development2007 — 2008
- Tellme NetworksDirector of Engineering1999 — 2007
- NetscapeEngineer1996 — 1999
Skills & more
Artificial Intelligence (AI)4Startups3Technical Leadership16Robotics4Systems Engineering3Software Engineering50Technical Hiring1Distributed Systems77Scalability94Cloud Computing45E-commerce41Agile Methodologies6
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featuring Brad PorterFrequently asked questions
- Who is Brad Porter?
- Brad Porter spent thirteen years at Amazon rising to VP of Robotics, where he led an organisation of roughly 10,000 people and deployed more than 250,000 robots across the fulfilment network — then left to build the robot that works beside people rather than behind a fence. He founded Collaborative Robotics in 2022 with Steph Tryphonas and Jane Mooney, raised more than $140 million including a $100 million Series B led by General Catalyst, and shipped Proxie, now working in hospitals, factories and ports for customers including Mayo Clinic, Maersk and Moderna. An MIT computer scientist who was CTO of Scale AI in between, he traces the whole thing to a Radio Shack robot arm his parents gave him as a child.
- Where does Brad Porter work?
- Brad Porter is Founder & CEO of Collaborative Robotics.
- What companies did Brad Porter found?
- Brad Porter founded Collaborative Robotics.
- Where did Brad Porter go to school?
- Brad Porter studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Masters of Engineering, Computer Science (6-3)); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science (6-3)).
- What podcasts and interviews feature Brad Porter?
- Tracked appearances include "From big tech to robots: the race to robotics", "On Warehouse Automation, Machine Learning, and His First Robot".
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Apoorva MehtaFounder of Instacart; founder of Cloud Health SystemsBinny BansalCo-founder of Flipkart; co-founder of PhonePe and OppDoorJane MooneyCo-founder & VP, Strategy and Finance at Collaborative RoboticsNick FrosstCo-founder of CohereViswa SankaranarayananVenture Partner at Monta Vista CapitalAlessandro De BenedettiAssociate at Northzone
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