Pablos Holman
Implementing Science Fiction at Deep Future
United States
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2021 - Current
Inventor Capitalist backing founders building actual tech.
Deep Future invest in entrepreneurs building actual tech.
Advisor
2015
Glowforge is creating a new class of 3D printers that are more useful and delightful than anything you've seen. We ran the most successful crowdfunding campaign in history, raising $28MM in 30 days.
Glowforge is a manufacturer of 3D laser printers intended to offer printing services on a wide range of materials and many more.
Raised $133,165,000.00 from DFJ Growth, True Ventures, Revolution Growth, Foundry Group, Foundry Group, Revolution Growth, True Ventures and DFJ Growth.
Advisor
2017
To advance the world into making better decisions based on data, we need to get good at sharing data and improving its quality. I'm so thrilled with what the data.world team has build already and have been working to help shape the vision for their future.
Data.world is the cloud-native data catalog platform.
Raised $132,300,000.00 from Shasta Ventures, Dave Liu, Vopak, Paul Albright, Scott Stephenson, Sandbox Insurtech Ventures, Richard Braddock, Alumni Ventures, Prologis Ventures and Zachary Karabell.
Member
1999
Notorious group of hackers and computer security professionals.
Board Member
2014 - 2020
I was on the board of this extraordinary school.
Faculty Member
2016 - 2019
There are a lot of things we've learned to do differently than the rest of the world in Silicon Valley. Some of this has worked out really well for bringing new technology into the world. Singularity University is doing the important work of helping share these lessons with people from all over the world.
Singularity Group is an educational organization that provides research development and executive programs.
Founder
2013 - 2019
Bombsheller pioneered the on-demand apparel manufacturing and retail model. We made the one good thing you need, not the ten shitty things you don't.
Inventor
2007 - 2019
Worked for Nathan Myhrvold at the Intellectual Ventures Laboratory where a wide variety of futuristic invention projects are under way including a fission reactor powered by nuclear waste; a machine to suppress hurricanes; a system to reverse global warming; and a device that can shoot mosquitoes out of the sky with lasers to help eradicate malaria.
Intellectual Ventures is an invention and investment business firm.
Advisor
2010 - 2014
Makerbot is probably the reason you've heard of 3D printers. I'm so proud to have been able to help out with its origin.
Director of Software
2004 - 2005
Built the world’s smallest PC. The first "Ultra Personal Computer" that will fit in your pocket, but have all the power of your laptop. These technologies are ultimately what made smartphones and tablets possible. Brilliant engineering team. Too ambitious too early.
OQO makes ultra-mobile, Windows-operation personal computers.
Raised $39,800,000.00 from Azure Capital Partners, Motorola Solutions, Paladin Capital Group and AsiaTech Management.