Over the centuries, farmers have had to adapt to a variety of challenges, from weather to infestations. Small farmers, about 80% of farmers globally, have shouldered much of the burden. Today’s farmers face a perfect storm of not only climate change, soil erosion, and depleting fresh water reserves, but also…

Grit’s Summer 2021 University Fellows! Genius is evenly distributed by zipcode. Opportunity is not. Grit believes that the most interesting companies in Deep Technology will be founded by AI/Robotics/Energy undergrads, masters, PhD students and faculty from schools around the nation. Grit hub university partners today include Stanford, UT Austin, Carnegie…

Founder and CTO of Canvas Robotics. Jennifer Roberts interviewed her for her new series: Robots in the Wild. Q: Hi Maria! Tell us a little bit about your background and how you got interested in robotics? I grew up in Mexico about 5 hours south of Texas in an industrial…

Interview with Grit Ventures Academic Council Member, Dr. Changliu Liu, Carnegie Mellon University Dr Changliu Liu is an assistant professor at the Robotics Institute at CMU where she leads the Intelligent Control Lab. Dr. Liu is also a member of Grit’s Academic Council. Changliu grew up in Shanghai China. When…

Written by Melanie Landesberg Grit Ventures University Fellow, Yale College Undergraduate Dr. Justin Hart, a member of the Grit Academic Council, became interested in robotics in a manner familiar to many: he started programming computers as soon as he learned to read and write. Eventually, this interest in computers extended…

Grit is thrilled to announce that Christy Cardenas has joined us as a Managing Partner. Christy comes with $12 billion in transaction experience, spread across venture capital, private equity and investment banking. In addition to her investment activity, she has been involved in structuring and fundraising three first-time funds, and…

Grit Ventures: Labs to Launch Program Grit is finding and funding the most powerful minds in AI and Robotics. At the core of our investment thesis is a belief that the next generation of founders in Deep Tech will be graduate students who come from the top AI and Robotics…

Written by Melanie Landesberg Grit Ventures University Associate, Yale College Undergraduate On November 17th, the Mass Robotics Accelerator held a virtual demo day to highlight several of their most interesting startups and provide a tour of their facilities. The tour highlighted several intriguing startups, as well as the extensive resources…

Interview with Bernard Casse, CEO of RIOS Corporation Everyone is all abuzz about Industry 4.0. In recent months we’ve seen acceleration in the deployment of AI, automation and robotics across foundational industries as the US seeks to emerge from the pandemic, increase GDP growth, and offset extreme labor shortages in…