Paolo Pirjanian
Venture Partner at Calibrate Ventures
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
PhD
1994 - 1998