Jesse Coors-Blankenship
General Partner at Parkway (Investor)
Jesse Coors-blankenship
General Partner at Parkway (Investor)
New York, New York
Overview
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.