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RIOS: Bringing Manufacturing into the 21st Century with Robotics as a Service
Talks about Venture Capital, Robotics and Startup
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Mike Zimmerman
Founding Partner at Main Sequence
Greater Sydney Area
Overview
Mike Zimmerman is a Founding Partner at Main Sequence Ventures, specializing in turning breakthrough research into category-leading companies in deep tech sectors like EnergyTech and AI. He has successfully invested in and directed companies like Regrow Ag and Lumachain, contributing to their growth and success in Series A funding rounds.
Zimmerman's career highlights include leading investments in innovative companies such as Avarni and RIOS Intelligent Machines, demonstrating a strong track record in identifying and supporting emerging technologies that drive sustainable growth and development in various industries.
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2017 - Current
Main Sequence is a deep tech venture capital firm investing in companies that solve the world's greatest challenges with the help of breakthrough science and engineering from Australia's research sector. Main Sequence funds spinouts, backs founders in existing companies and creates companies collaborating with these institutions. Our team has extensive experience commercialising emerging technologies, both as both founders and investors, so are purpose-built to help you achieve your goals. As of 2024, we are managing just over $1B AUM across 3 funds with 60 amazing portfolio companies.
Investor and Director
2017
Regrow's mission is to make agriculture resilient globally - on every acre and every farm. Regrow's software platform is helping the world's leading food and consumer brands understand and improve the sustainability, reliability and integrity of their supply chains. Hiring in all areas!!
Regrow combines agronomy and scenario planning with monitoring, reporting, and verification.
Raised $63,576,581.00 from Main Sequence Ventures, Rethink Impact, Time Ventures, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Neglected Climate Opportunities, Cargill, Artesian VC, Galvanize Climate Solutions and Ajax Strategies.
Investor and Director
2021
Loam is working to put agriculture at the forefront of addressing climate change.We deliver high quality CO2 removal with environmental co-benefits, by providing growers with unique tools and connecting them to business leaders who are driving our global path to net-zero. We focus on only the most credible approaches while working to ensure maximum efficiency.
Investor
2023
We are Plotlogic, the world’s most innovative mining technology company. We make the mining industry more sustainable and efficient using sensors to scan all the rocks in your mine and tell you what's in them before you mine them, meaning you can efficiently handle and process all your rocks, boosting ESG and safety outcomes while cutting costs and greenhouse emissions.
Investor and Director
2019
Lumachain brings transparency to global supply chains, benefiting producers, enterprises and consumers. Our platform tracks and traces the origin, location and condition of individual items in a supply chain, in real time, from farm to fork. This incentivises farmers and manufacturers to create high-quality, ethically-produced products. It allows enterprises to reduce waste, increase efficiency, and grow revenues and margins. And it allows consumers to know, with absolute certainty, the provenance, condition and quality of what they buy, and that it has been ethically and sustainably sourced.
Investor and Director
2019
Kasada protects websites and web apps against malicious automation. We build security software that people actually want and like to use. Our solution combines cryptography and user-centred design. We turn security on its head. This means our clients boost security, reduce cyber risk and raise the standards on user experience. In 2017, Kasada won the AusCERT Best Security Initiative for its innovation and building trust in online transactions. https://kasada.io
Investor and Director
2018
Sci-Fi with an ROI. The global leader in delivering autonomous data collection and actionable insights for the world's most challenging, high value environments. Hiring top notch hardware and software engineers, BD/customer success and operations team members globally.
Investor and Director
2022
Avarni's AI-powered platform is helping decarbonise the world's supply chains by enabling enterprises to quickly understand and manage their scope 3 emissions.
Investor
2020
Presien makes AI-powered vision systems to improve worksite safety and productivity in heavy industries such as construction, mining, agriculture and asset infrastructure. Presien was incubated inside of international construction and engineering company Laing O'Rourke, and spun out by Main Sequence and other investors in April 2020.
Investor
2022
RIOS pioneered the Robots as a Service (RaaS) business model for robotic workcells — we provide world-class automation packaged with an all-inclusive service at zero upfront capital costs. RIOS is bringing legacy industries into the 21st-century with its end-to-end factory automation solutions.
Robotics, Automation, Logistics
Raised $51,500,000.00 from IAG Capital Partners, Main Sequence Ventures and Yamaha Motor.
Education
Investments
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