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Sebastien De Halleux

COO at Field AI

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Sebastien de Halleux is a technology entrepreneur and investor based in San Francisco, California, known for co-founding Matchday and serving as the company's Chief Gaming Officer. He has also held key roles such as COO at Field AI and Founding General Partner at Graph Ventures, with a notable track record of investing in diverse founders and companies across sectors like games, education, and climate tech. De Halleux's career highlights include co-founding successful companies like Matchday and serving as COO at Saildrone Inc, demonstrating expertise in strategic partnerships, mobile games, and entrepreneurship while investing in impactful ventures like Kosmik and Fakespot.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Founder & Chief Gaming Officer

    2022 - Current

    ⚽ We are building the next generation football/soccer game for 5 billion fans. Backed by Leo Messi. Powered by AI and Blockchain. Get in early at https://matchday.com

Matchday combines video games, sports, and Web3 in order to create an ecosystem of casual football (soccer) games.

Raised $21,000,000.00 from Kyber Knight Capital, A'Z Angels, Greylock, Hack VC, Founders, Inc., Capricorn Investment Group, Courtside Ventures, Moonshots Capital, Play Time Ventures and Horizons Ventures.

  • COO

    2024

    Field AI's mission is to enable useful autonomy for millions of robots in the field, i.e. complex unstructured environments across land/air/sea, pushing the boundaries of what is possible with robotic Al and with unique physically-grounded and uncertainty-aware Field Foundational Models (FFMs). Our vision is to usher in a future where robotic autonomy provides safety, productivity, and helpfulness to the world.

  • Founding General Partner

    2010

    Global seed fund run by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. Our team is focused on helping the leaders of tomorrow launch transformative companies. We are incredibly proud to have invested in and supported over 300 companies since 2010.

Early stage investment group of operators/founders with experience starting and scaling technology companies globally. 200+ investments.

  • Entrepreneur In Residence

    2021 - 2022

    Investment group focused on scaling innovative solutions to persistent global problems. Past key investments include Tesla, SpaceX, Planet Labs, Quantumscape, Saildrone and Joby Aviation

Capricorn Investment Group invests in the public equity, fixed income, private equity, and real assets markets.

  • COO

    2015 - 2020

    Saildrone is a provider of high resolution ocean data collected by a fleet of autonomous uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs), aiming to disrupt weather and climate modeling, sustainable fisheries management and environmental monitoring by creating new insights into planetary systems that impact humanity.

Saildrone manufactures and operates a fleet of the capable and proven unmanned surface vehicles.

Raised $189,500,000.00 from Social Capital, Tribe Capital, Haystack, XN-Ventures, Bond, Standard Investment, Emerson Collective, Capricorn Investment Group, Sand Hill Angels and CCIX Global.

  • Henry Crown Fellow 2016

    2016 - 2018

    The Henry Crown Fellowship seeks to develop the next generation of community-centered and global leaders, ages 30-45, providing them with the tools necessary to meet the challenges of business and civic leadership in the 21st century. The program is a unique mix of seminars designed to broaden the perspectives of the participants and hone their skills in values-centered leadership. It honors the memory of Chicago industrialist Henry Crown (1896-1990), whose legendary career was marked by a lifelong commitment to honor, integrity, industry and philanthropy. Fellows are members of the Aspen Global Leadership Network which is comprised of highly successful entrepreneurial leaders focused on values and on creating a more sustainable society. In being a part of a global network with access to some of the most talented and like-minded individuals around the world and with the support of the Aspen Institute, these leaders help each other to become more deliberate and impactful in their communities, societies, and the world. http://www.aspeninstitute.org/leadership-programs/henry-crown-fellowship-program/lists-fellows/2016-class

Aspen-HP Digital Equity Accelerator is an accelerator that fuels innovation by investing in not-for-profit organizations and NGOs.

  • Board Member

    2010 - 2017

    Younited created and manages TrustedFamily, a secure private social platform used by the world’s most respected family businesses and family offices to organize and manage their most critical information.

  • Trustee

    2011 - 2017

    UWC makes education a force to unite people, nations, and cultures for peace and a sustainable future.

  • Founder & CEO

    2012 - 2016

  • Board Member

    2011 - 2014

    Vittana is a Seattle-based non-profit pioneering micro-loans for students in emerging countries. Vittana has helped 20,000+ young people get access to higher education for the first time thereby helping them secure a better future.

P2P Education Microfinance Lender

Raised $500,000.00 from Peery Foundation, Peery Foundation, Peery Foundation, Peery Foundation and Peery Foundation.

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