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Jesse Coors-blankenship

General Partner at Parkway (Investor)

New York, New York

Overview 

Jesse Coors-Blankenship is the Founder, Manager & General Partner at Parkway Venture Capital in New York, specializing in investing in IoT, SMB Software, AI, SaaS sectors at various stages. He has a background as the Founder & CEO of Frustum, a PTC Technology, and as a Senior Vice President of Technology at PTC, showcasing a strong track record in leadership and innovation in the tech industry.

Work Experience 

  • Founder, Manager & General Partner

    2019 - Current

    Parkway is a venture capital firm that I co-founded. It invests in Deep Tech ventures for high growth returns.

Parkway Venture Capital invests in Technology, Generative Design, Business Intelligence, Health Tech, Metaverse, and B2C.

  • Board Member

    2023

Figure Robotics is an AI robotics company that is building a multi-purpose humanoid form robot.

Raised $854,000,000.00 from Quantum Angels, Bossa Invest, ARK Venture Fund, Aliya Capital Partners, Evolution VC Partners, Bold Capital Partners, NVIDIA, Bezos Expeditions, Boscolo Intervest and Amazon.com.incs Ltd.

  • Board Member

    2020

    Siera optimizes industrial facilities and warehouses through Autonomous Mobile Robotics and AI.

SIERA.AI helps industrial operations increase productivity and safety by harnessing data from IoT sensors.

Raised $6,800,000.00 from Parkway Venture Capital and Ubiquity Ventures.

  • Board Member

    2020

    TestFit automates the design of architectural plans enabling real-estate developers and architects to be more productive with AI and Generative Design.

TestFit builds feasibility software for commodity buildings.

Raised $22,000,000.00 from Prologis Ventures, Perot Jain and Parkway Venture Capital.

  • Board Member

    2022

  • Board Observer

    2023

OXOS Medical develops digital imaging device for efficient and effective treatment of patients.

Raised $41,690,224.00 from Intel Capital and Parkway Venture Capital.

  • Columbia Entrepreneurship Advisory Council

    2019

    The Columbia Entrepreneurship Advisory Council helps foster entrepreneurship in Columbia University by supporting entrepreneurs in their early stages.

  • Board Member

    2021 - 2022

    OnScale brings advanced engineering simulation to the cloud for engineers to easily access super computers to make better products faster.

OnScale is an SaaS-based model for CAE in the Cloud with pay-as-you-go subscription pricing.

Raised $18,000,000.00 from Parkway Venture Capital.

  • Senior Vice President of Technology

    2018 - 2021

    PTC Acquired my company, Frustum Inc. in 2018. PTC makes design, engineering, IOT and augmented reality software solutions for the manufacturing industry.

  • Founder & CEO

    2014 - 2021

    I founded and lead Frustum Inc. through four product launches, a partnership with Siemens PLM and three priced equity rounds totaling 10mm in capital over five years and ultimately acquisition for 70mm by PTC, Inc in 2018. The acquisition of Frustum is said to elevate PTC's CAD product CREO to a leading position in the fields of design and simulation as stated by the company's CEO.

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