Michal Natora
Industrial Information Technology & Robotics at Emerald Technology Ventures
Zurich
Overview
Work Experience
Investment Director - Industrial Information Technology & Robotics
2020 - Current
Board positions or board support at SecurityMatters (acquired by Forescout Technologies), P97 Networks, Librestream Technologies, Ushr (acquired by Dynamic Map Platform), AlphaICs, Open Mineral, xFarm Technologies, and sewts.
Investment Manager - Industrial Information Technology
2015 - 2020
Deal sourcing, conducting trend & market studies, due diligence (technical, market, financial), support of portfolio companies in the sector of industrial Information Technology.
Open Innovation Manager
2014 - 2015
Developing open innovation services for Emerald's strategic fund investors. Assessing investment opportunities in the industrial IT sector.
Consultant
2011 - 2013
Led projects in quality management of software and data processes in the area of electronic control units.
Researcher
2007 - 2010
Conducted original research and coordinated an applied research project involving two research institutes and a private company.
Entrepreneur
2006 - 2007
Invented and implemented Action Mouse Mover - one of the first programs for automated mouse-clicking at that time.
Teaching Assistant
2005 - 2006
Developed topics and structure of the upcoming mathematics lectures and taught to classes of 25 students.
Intern
2004 - 2004
Optimized chemical reaction times in small-sized automatic reactors which directly impacted the final product design.
Mettler Toledo is a manufacturer of industrial equipment like scales, X-ray machines, instruments and laboratory items.
Education
MBE
2011 - 2014
PhD
2007 - 2011
MSc
2002 - 2007
High School
1997 - 2002