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Seth DeGroot

Managing Partner at Gravity Fund

St Paul, Minnesota

Overview

Work Experience

  • Managing Partner

    2021 - Current

  • Board Member

    2016

    VRChat offers an immense collection of social VR experiences, allowing users to explore, socialize, and create with other users from around the world. The platform allows users to personalize their own VR experiences, including custom avatars, custom worlds, custom game experiences, and custom private hangouts. In addition, VRChat hosts regular community wide events where users meet, interact and experience VR events together. Learn more about VRChat here: http://www.vrchat.net/

  • Director

    2015

    TruBrain is a next generation food and beverage company, poised to disrupt the $40B energy drink market, with their active nootropic ‘think drinks’. truBrain was designed by top neuroscientists who have been studying cognitive optimization for decades–led by Dr. Andrew Hill and Dr. Aida Attar of UCLA. Learn more about them here: https://trubrain.com/

  • Director

    2014

    Horizon offers comprehensive oilfield waste disposal services, including wastewater disposal and solids disposal in the Bakken, ND. Horizon’s network of disposal facilities are operated by Progress Solutions, a KLJ company; a trusted service provider in the Bakken oil basin for over 75 years.

  • Director

    2011

    House of Talents seeks to empower the talented poor through the sale of high quality handmade artisan products. We are currently working with artisan groups in Ghana, West Africa to promote self-development through economic and social advancement in rural communities and cities. Lean more about House of Talents here: http://houseoftalents.com/

  • Managing Partner

    2012 - 2021

    - Brightstone currently manages a $100 million venture fund focused on early-growth stage investment opportunities. We leverage the deep operating experience and successful investment background of the Fund's partners, primarily focused on investing in the Technology and Biotechnology sectors. - At Brightstone, we fundamentally like large problems that are amenable to technological disruption. We seek out defensible advantages: proprietary and protected technological advances, business model innovations, and unique partnerships. Most importantly, we invest in “A” teams and founders with a demonstrable history of development/traction. We invest more in people than in a specific plan, because plans often change.

  • Board Observer

    2017 - 2021

    StemoniX’ stem cell derived microOrgan technology platform is a new standard for human biologically relevant high throughput pre-clinical drug ccreening. StemoniX is scaling newly discovered methods of plating stem cell derived human tissue for customized drug discovery. We expect this to revolutionize stem cell based research and drug screening, leading to a new era of personalized and regenerative medicine. Learn more here: http://stemonix.com/

  • Strategic Advisor

    2016 - 2021

    RealVision is an immersive media technology company that builds 3D media solutions for the real estate industry. Using computer vision, machine learning, and VR rendering software, the RealVision team has built the first end-to-end media platform that allows users to easily create, modify, navigate, and build on digital representations of real places. Learn more here: http://real.vision/

  • Strategic Advisor

    2015 - 2021

    BiteSquad is an on demand delivery platform that delivers restaurant food, catering services and liquor to consumers through its web and/or mobile online order and logistic system. Give it a try: http://www.bitesquad.com/

  • Co Founder

    2012 - 2013

    Simple Science products bring Hypochlorous into homes for the first time. No longer must you choose between strong chemicals, or germs in your home.The active ingredient is Hypochlorus, the compound used by white blood cells in the human body to fight infections, and able to kill serious organisms like Salmonella, Cold & Flu, Athlete's Foot and E. coli, yet gentle enough to spray anywhere.

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