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Paolo Pirjanian

Investor

Venture Partner at Calibrate Ventures

Los Angeles, California

Writes $100K – $5M checks · typically $1.5M

About

Paolo Pirjanian is a former iRobot CTO who helped bring over 20 million Roomba-like robots to market and founded Embodied, creator of Moxie, combining scaled robotics and child-focused social-robotics expertise.

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Invests in

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareHardwareRobotics

Experience

  1. AmazonVice President, Delivery Automation, Last Milecurrent2025 — present
  2. Happiest Baby, Inc.Board Member2017 — 2026Santa Monica, California
  3. Calibrate VenturesVenture Partner2021 — 2025Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
  4. Embodied, Inc.Founder and Chief Executive Officer2017 — 2025Pasadena, CA
  5. Exyn Technologies IncBoard Member and investor2016 — 2018Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  6. Intuition RoboticsAdvisor and investor2015 — 2017Israel
  7. iRobotChief Technology Officer2012 — 2015Pasadena
  8. Evolution RoboticsCEO (Acquired by iRobot)2005 — 2012
  9. Evolution RoboticsCTO2001 — 2005
  10. University of Southern CaliforniaLecturer1999 — 2003
  11. Jet Propulsion Lab/NASAResearcher1999 — 2001
  12. Aalborg UniversityResearcher/Lecturer1994 — 1998

Education

  1. Aalborg UniversityPhD, Robotics, Computer Science, Vision1994 — 1998

Skills & more

Management10Leadership2Strategy16Artificial Intelligence85Research46Consumer Electronics33Computer Vision83Robotics99Entrepreneurship57Start-ups20RobotResearch and Development (R&D)5
+12 moreR&DProduct ManagementAlgorithmsDistributed SystemsProduct DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringSimulationsMachine LearningImage ProcessingSignal ProcessingComputer ScienceC

From Paolo's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended Aalborg University24

Arzu TekirGeneral Partner at Treeo VCLine JacobsenManagement Assistant at Sunstone CapitalBo IlsoeManaging Partner at NGP CapitalJean-Marie FerdegueDirector at Facebook at PICUS CAPITALMads HebbelstrupCorporate Advisory at SuperSeedChristian AguirrePrincipal at Dalus Capital

+ 18 more

Shared employers

Also worked at Calibrate Ventures4

Jason SchoettlerCo-Founder and Managing Partner at Calibrate VenturesKevin DunlapCo-Founder and Managing Partner at Calibrate VenturesDaniel MurrayVenture Partner at Calibrate VenturesAimee (LaFont) LeiferPartner at Calibrate Ventures

Also worked at Embodied, Inc.1

Bruce SteinSenior Strategic Advisor at Juno Capital Partners

Also worked at Intuition Robotics1

Jim AdlerFounder and General Partner at Toyota Ventures

Also worked at University of Southern California54

Alyssa TsenterSenior Associate at Flare Capital PartnersJillian ShawVenture Partner at Magnetic VenturesZach PosnerManaging Partner & Co-Founder at LegalTechAndreas QuandtGeneral Partner at Data TechMatt MichelsonVenture Partner and Head of AI at Wavemaker Three-Sixty HealthJordan NooneGeneral Partner at Embedded Ventures

+ 48 more

Deals · 1

Happiest BabyBoard seat

via Calibrate Ventures · filed Dec 2019 · $40M raise

Attribution from SEC filings, press coverage, and firm rosters.

Colleagues at Calibrate Ventures

Adrien Gaidon
Partner at Calibrate Ventures
Aimee (LaFont) Leifer
Partner at Calibrate Ventures
Carrie Zawistowski
VP of Portfolio Finance at Calibrate Ventures
Daniel Murray
Venture Partner at Calibrate Ventures
Henrik Christensen
Senior Advisor at Calibrate Ventures
Jason Schoettler
Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Calibrate Ventures
John Morrissey
Senior Advisor at Calibrate Ventures
Kate Fry
Finance and Accounting at Calibrate Ventures

Network2

Aimee (LaFont) Leifer
Partner at Calibrate Ventures
Daniel Murray
Venture Partner at Calibrate Ventures

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