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Lior Susan

CEO & Founding Partner at Eclipse

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Lior Susan is the CEO and Founding Partner at Eclipse Ventures, with a focus on investing in seed and Series A stages in sectors like Manufacturing, EnergyTech, Logistics, and Robotics in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has served as CEO and Co-Founder at Bright Machines, Chairman of the Board at VulcanForms Inc. and Owlet Baby Care, and has invested in numerous successful companies like Augury and Swift Navigation. Lior Susan's career highlights include leading Eclipse Ventures as CEO, co-founding Bright Machines, and investing in a wide range of successful companies such as Augury and Swift Navigation, showcasing his expertise in venture capital, innovation, and strategic leadership in the tech industry.

Work Experience 

  • CEO and Founding Partner

    2015 - Current

    Eclipse is a team of operators and investors building companies that transform physical industries critical to people’s lives

  • CEO and Co-Founder

    2018

    The future of electronics manufacturing...

Bright Machines brings together flexible factory robots with intelligent software, production data and machine learning.

Raised $437,000,000.00 from NVIDIA, BlackRock, Microsoft, Jabil, Shinhan Investment and Eclipse Ventures.

  • Chairman of the Board

    2024

VulcanForms enables critical industries to innovate, grow, and deliver sustainable impact.

Raised $355,000,000.00 from Stata Venture Partners (SVP), Industry Ventures, D1 Capital Partners, Eclipse Ventures, Simkins Family Foundation, Fontinalis Partners, Boston Seed Capital and Atlas Innovate.

  • Chairman Of The Board

    2015

  • Board Member

    2023

Ursa Major provides a propulsion system for space launch, hypersonics, and national security.

Raised $284,329,970.00 from Department of Defense’s Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) and US Navy.

  • Board Member

    2023

Cerebras Systems is an IT firm that develops computing chips with the sole purpose of accelerating AI.

Raised $715,000,000.00 from IPOSharks and Vishal Rao.

  • Board Member

    2015

Augury provides machine health diagnostics designed to help reduce downtime and increase supply chain resilience.

Raised $294,000,000.00 from Munich Re Ventures, Insight Partners, Lerer Hippeau, Baker Hughes, Eclipse Ventures, Qumra Capital, Qualcomm Ventures and SE Ventures.

  • Board Member

    2021

Dutch makes high-quality veterinary care available 24 hours a day. Get pet treatments and prescriptions delivered to you.

Raised $43,000,000.00 from Forerunner, Adapt Ventures and Eclipse Ventures.

  • Co-Founder and board member

    2020

    Data Operations platform

  • Angel Investor

    2014

    Berkeley Lights (NASDAQ: BLI), Hippo, Fyusion (acquired by Cox), Placer.ai, Meter

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