Richard Tapalaga

Director

2008 - Current

Richard serves as a Director for Qualcomm Ventures and leads the firms global early-stage practice. His investment focus is around the augmented / virtual reality, internet-of-things (IoT), robotics, mobile gaming, and connected device ecosystems. Richard joined Qualcomm Ventures in 2008 and serves as a Board Observer for investments in AirSpace Technologies, Realwear, Magic Leap, the Void, Embee Mobile and Playdek. Richard is also a Board Member for San Diego based Brain Corp. He also lead the team’s investment in Owlchemy Labs (acquired by Google), HeyZap (acquired by RNTS Media), Livescribe (acquired by Anoto), Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), Sotera Wireless and ThatGameCompany.

Director

2008

Qualcomm Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Qualcomm with 180+ active investments and many well known exits (Zoom, Fitbit, Waze, Ring, Xiaomi, Cloudflare, 99 and Cruise). QCV invests across all sectors (consumer, enterprise, hardware) and has 20+ investment professionals spread across US, China, UK, Israel, Brazil, and India.

Investor

2018

Airspace Technologies is a technology-enabled logistics service provider

Investor

2022

A Ground-Breaking XR Solution for Mental and Emotional Well-Being.

Investor and Board Member

2012

Investor

2014

thatgamecompany designs and develops artistically crafted, broadly accessible video games that push the boundaries of interactive entertainment.

Investor

2019

The leader in knowledge transfer and training platforms for the connected worker.

Investor

2014

Magic Leap is a spatial computing platform that lets you see an interact with digital content in the world around you.

Investor

2018

The VOID is a whole-body, fully immersive VR experience in location based entertainment.

Investor and Advisor

2019

A container-based distributed computing platform that empowers organizations to maximize all compute resources—from desktop, to server, to cloud.

Investor

2013

Digital tabletop game developer.