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Paolo Pirjanian

Venture Partner at Calibrate Ventures

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Paolo Pirjanian is the Founder and CEO of Embodied, Inc., a company specializing in artificial intelligence and consumer robotics. With a background as the CTO of iRobot and CEO of Evolution Robotics, Paolo has extensive experience in leading successful technology companies and is actively investing in startups in sectors such as AI, FinTech, and Education. Paolo's career highlights include founding Embodied, Inc., a leading AI and robotics company, and serving as the Chief Technology Officer of iRobot, a prominent player in the robotics industry. His expertise in artificial intelligence, consumer electronics, and entrepreneurship has led to significant contributions in the development and management of innovative products and technologies.

Work Experience 

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Embodied, Inc.

  • Founder and Chief Executive Officer

    2017 - Current

    www.embodied.me

Embodied is an artificial intelligence company that develops companion robots.

Raised $77,382,197.00 from Lakewood & Company and DataPower Ventures.

embodied.com
CV

Calibrate Ventures

  • Venture Partner

    2021

Calibrate Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in start-ups.

calibratevc.com
HB

Happiest Baby, Inc.

  • Board Member

    2017

ET

Exyn Technologies Inc

  • Board Member and investor

    2016 - 2018

IR

Intuition Robotics

  • Advisor and investor

    2015 - 2017

    Advisor to the CEO and co-founders from inception through multiple financing rounds.

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iRobot

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2012 - 2015

    Restructured the R&D team to provide key enabling technologies to fuel the growth of the company. Reshaped the management team and culture of Product Development towards a customer-centric and agile/iterative product development which resulted in major increase in functionality while significantly cutting development cost and time. The latest Roomba 980 with vision-based navigation, WIFI connectivity, and superior cleaning is a result of that. Lead the development of technology roadmap and helped shape the IoT strategy. Worked closely with CEO and peer executives to develop the company strategy as well as iRobot's corporate venture arm.

iRobot is a technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.

Raised $230,000,000.00 from The Carlyle Group.

irobot.com

Evolution Robotics

  • CEO (Acquired by iRobot)

    2005 - 2012

    Startup company in consumer robotics products ranging from robotic floor care to robotic toys. We develop break-through solutions for vision, navigation, and intelligence for low-cost consumer robotic products.

  • CTO

    2001 - 2005

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University of Southern California

  • Lecturer

    1999 - 2003

    Teaching Artificial Intelligence and doing research in Robotics.

Jet Propulsion Lab/NASA

  • Researcher

    1999 - 2001

    Did R&D in Robotics, Vision, Distributed systems

AU

Aalborg University

  • Researcher/Lecturer

    1994 - 1998

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