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Ken Hood

Managing Partner at FusionX Ventures

San Diego, California

Overview 

Ken Hood is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor based in San Diego, California, with a background in leading successful start-ups and advising companies in various sectors like hardware, IoT, and SaaS. He currently serves as the Managing Partner at FusionX Ventures and has made strategic investments in companies like TruckLabs at Series A stage, showcasing his expertise in business development, strategy, and cross-functional team leadership. With an MBA from Stanford University and a successful track record as a Founder/CEO of ClearAccess, Inc. (Acquired by Cisco), Ken Hood's career highlights include serving as a Board Member/Advisor at Bellwether Coffee Co. and NeuraLace Medical, Inc., demonstrating his strong leadership and investment acumen in the tech industry.

Work Experience 

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FusionX Ventures

  • Managing Partner

    2015 - Current

    FusionX Ventures is an early-stage investment fund focused on helping companies build the next generation of cloud-enabled Smart Machines. We focus primarily on recurring revenue B2B opportunities where we can contribute strategic value through design, manufacturing, or go2market strategy. We work in close partnership with the leading product realization company for Smart Machine solutions, D&K Engineering. (dkengineering.com) If you have a vision that involves a combination of hardware, software, & cloud, we can help you build your company with reduced execution risk.

FusionX Ventures is an early-stage investment fund focused on helping companies build the next generation of cloud-enabled Smart Machines.

fusionxventures.com

Bellwether Coffee Co.

  • Board Member / Advisor

    2015

    All coffee will be fresh and locally roasted

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NeuraLace Medical, Inc.

  • Board Member

    2017

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3DEO, Inc.

  • Board Member

    2016

    Additive Manufacturing for Production Metal Parts

3DEO is a 3D metal printing company that focuses on high volume production of small metal parts, assemblies, and subsystems.

Raised $39,889,442.00 from Mizuho Bank, Development Bank of Japan, Seiko Epson, Northeast Venture Fund ( NEVF ) and Alpha Edison.

3deo.co
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YPO - Young Presidents' Organization

  • Member

    2009

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Cisco

  • Director/GM, Prime Home Software as a Service / Internet of Things

    2012 - 2015

    Led the Connected Home cloud-based software team, with more than 20M connected devices as an IoT device management, security, and analytics offer.

  • Founder/CEO -- ClearAccess, Inc (Acquired by Cisco)

    2005 - 2012

    • Led company from inception to exit with Cisco, including spinout of SmartRG, Inc. • Pioneered cloud-based connected device management for service providers • Inc 500 #1 growth company for telecom (2010)

Cisco DevNet is your source for everything developer at Cisco Systems.

developer.cisco.com

Paradyne

  • VP & GM

    2002 - 2005

    • Owned P&L for $120M business and $18M R&D Budget • Grew international segment revenue from $10M to $40M • Integrated multiple acquisitions as well as the sale of Paradyne itself in 2005

Centennial Systems, Inc. (Acquired by Paradyne)

  • CEO

    2002 - 2002

    • Co-Founder of data networking startup which included AT&T and British Telecom as customers • Sold to publicly-traded Paradyne Corporation

Jetstream Communications

  • VP Sales & Business Development

    1999 - 2002

    • Signed and managed partnership agreements accounting for 60% of company revenue

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3Com

  • Director Business Development

    1997 - 1999

    • Led key aspects of business, which grew from $0 to $100M run rate within 2 years

3Com provides network-based intrusion prevention systems that deliver application, infrastructure and performance protection.

Raised $1,100,000.00 from New Enterprise Associates.

3com.com

Education 

Investments 

TruckLabs

Seed

Total funding: $29M

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