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Paolo Pirjanian

Venture Partner at Calibrate Ventures

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Overview

Work Experience

  • Founder and Chief Executive Officer

    2017 - Current

    www.embodied.me

  • Venture Partner

    2021

  • Board Member

    2017

  • Board Member and investor

    2016 - 2018

  • Advisor and investor

    2015 - 2017

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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Lecturer

    1999 - 2003

    Teaching Artificial Intelligence and doing research in Robotics.

  • Researcher

    1999 - 2001

    Did R&D in Robotics, Vision, Distributed systems

  • Researcher/Lecturer

    1994 - 1998

Education

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