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Parker Mckee

Partner at Pillar VC

Boston, Massachusetts

Overview 

Parker McKee is a Partner at Pillar VC in Boston, Massachusetts, specializing in venture capital, valuation modeling, and equity funding. With a background in web development and a keen eye for promising start-ups, Parker has made impactful investments in various sectors such as Payments, Robotics, and Data Services throughout his career. Notable highlights of Parker's career include serving on the board of directors for Acelab and Verve Motion, as well as his involvement as a seed investor and business partner in several successful ventures like Pyte and Adaptilens.

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.

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