Jonathan Schwartz
Founder of Ultra
Brooklyn, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2024 - Current
Ultra.tech is creating AI robots automate e-commerce tasks like packaging, boosting efficiency and reducing labor.
Raised $500,000.00 from Y Combinator and Pioneer Fund.
Product Lead, Applied AI
2022 - 2023
Arena applies cutting-edge AI (deep reinforcement learning & simulation) to enterprise-scale problems. We help global organizations operate better by automating frequent, critical path decisions that are the quiet backbone of the world economy—from pricing and inventory management to manufacturing quality assurance - and we’re just scratching the surface of what’s possible. Learn more at www.arena-ai.com.
Arena empowers businesses across industries to make high frequency decisions fully autonomous.
Raised $32,000,000.00 from Peter Thiel, Sean Stenstrom, Jay Srinivasan, Colin Anderson, Brian Rowen, Fifth Down Capital, Founders Fund, Initialized Capital, Qasar Younis and James Richards.
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer
2015 - 2020
Acquired in August 2020. Voodoo Manufacturing built the digital factory of the future that made manufacturing as seamless as software. We operated two high-volume robotic 3D printing factories where we manufactured everything from mechanical components to patient-specific medical devices. Voodoo worked with thousands of customers, from engineers and entrepreneurs to companies including Amazon, R/GA, Autodesk and Intel. Backed by Y-Combinator (W17), General Catalyst, NextView, Fifty Years VC, and more.
Director of Product
2014 - 2015
Acquired by Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) in October, 2017. Body Labs uses AI developed at Brown University and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems to deliver the human body as a digital platform. We make the world's most accurate models of human shape, pose, deformation and motion. These models allow us to accurately predict an individuals shape and movement from images, videos or a wide variety of 3D data.
Product Manager, Special Projects
2014 - 2014
Led effort to develop and deploy various software and web products, including the MakerBot Enterprise Fleet Management Platform, secure print streaming, and MakerBot Mobile and PrintShop.
Co-Founder & CEO
2012 - 2014
Acquired by MakerBot (NASDAQ:SSYS) in February, 2014. Layer By Layer is an online marketplace for 3D printable products that provides a secure DRM solution for sellers and seamless printing app for customers. Backed by Y-Combinator (S13).