Parker Mckee
Partner at Pillar VC
Boston, Massachusetts
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2016 - Current
seed investing
Pillar VC invests in seed-stage companies, supporting unstoppable founders with capital, connections, coaching, and peer support.
Member, Board of Directors
2020
2 sided platform connecting architects <> building products
Acelab is a developer of the architecture based online platform that connects architects and manufacturers.
Raised $8,765,001.00 from PJC, Draper Associates, Transcend Partners, Pillar VC, Ken Lang, Klingenstein, Fields & Co, Erik Jarnryd, Alpaca VC, WestView Capital Partners and Steve Kaufer.
Seed Investor
2019
exoskeletons for labor workers
Verve Motion develops exo-suits to aid workers in physically demanding tasks.
Raised $35,000,000.00 from John McEleney, Construct Capital, Safar Partners, OUP (Osage University Partners), Frederic Kerrest, Pillar VC and Cybernetix Ventures.
Observer, Board of Directors
2024
open source coding agents for developers
Seed Investor
2023
open source RAG infra
Seed Investor & Business Partner
2021
co-invested alongside Sutter Hill in Harvard team making data processing really really fast
Seed Investor & Business Partner
2021
platform enabling secure compute/inference between multiple parties
Pyte (fka CipherMode) is a data collaboration software provider that preserves the confidentiality of data during its entire data lifecycle.
Raised $12,506,000.00 from Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, Pillar VC, Innovation Endeavors and Myriad Venture Partners.
Member, Board of Directors
2023
self-adapting compute
BoolSi is a command line tool for distributed simulations and analysis of synchronous Boolean networks.
Raised $1,350,000.00.
Observer, Board of Directors
2018
enterprise ready vLLM
Neural Magic provides AI inference solutions for deploying open-source LLMs.
Raised $50,000,000.00 from Comcast Ventures, Pillar VC, Andreessen Horowitz, Amdocs, Ridgeline and New Enterprise Associates.
Seed Investor & Business Partner
2020
restoring human vision to perfection
Adaptilens is a developer of an accommodating intraocular lens.
Raised $19,100,000.00 from 380 Cap, Perceptive Advisors, Accanto Partners and Pillar VC.