Zixiao Pan
Venture Advisor at Anthropocene Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
President
2023 - Current
An MIT media lab spin-out, Butlr provides cutting-edge space occupancy and traffic intelligence enabled by its proprietary people-sensing platform. Butlr’s system has been adopted by numerous Fortune 500 corporate occupiers and landlords to accurately and anonymously capture human presence and activity, and to provide valuable insights on space occupancy and utilization. Our users rely on our data and platform to drive real estate decisions, provide for a richer workplace experience, and run buildings more sustainably and efficiently.
Butlr is a physical AI startup that specializes in wireless anonymous people sensing and occupancy detection solutions.
Raised $68,000,000.00 from Ray Stata, Jason Haider, Pacific Alliance Ventures, Yves Behar, The E14 Fund, Pavan Ongole, GS Futures, Union Labs Ventures, Joi Ito and Carrier.
Venture Advisor
2021
We invest in founders that leverage exponential technologies & hard science to make humanity more resilient.
Anthropocene Ventures is a global, early-stage VC firm.
Venture Advisor
2022
Commerce operators investing in the future of commerce. We deploy capital + a growth playbook to support entrepreneurs where our team of ecommerce professionals makes an immediate impact.
Mu Ventures is a venture capital firm located in NY that focuses in commerce enablement investing at the pre-seed and seed stage.
Advisory Board
2022
B2B tech-enabled global sourcing platform BuyHive is changing how small and mid-sized buyers around the world procure goods from international markets, by democratizing the process via expert-assisted sourcing to bring it within easy reach of global buyers.
Chief Revenue Officer
2019 - 2023
A global product development and supply chain company. We manage the product journey from the concept phase to the out-of-box consumer experience, while providing end-to-end visibility, real-time data and sustainability. Serving the world's best brands since 1996.
PCH provides a unique, intelligent, end-to-end product development and supply chain orchestration platform for the world’s best brands.
Raised $77,000,000.00 from LFX Venture Partners, Chris Burch, Northbrooks Investments, Burch Creative Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Cross Creek and Triangle Peak Partners.
Advisor
2022 - 2023
Unlock 95% of Roadways to Autonomy Car manufacturers can unlock 95% of roadways, compress their product development roadmap and reduce operational overhead in production by enabling the vehicles with Hyperspec.ai's next generation vision pipeline.
We are expand navigable roadways for autonomous vehicles from 3% to 95%, today, by equipping each car with our onboard vision hardware.
Raised $1,880,000.00 from StratMinds and Techstars.
Member
2022 - 2022
Chief is a prestigious private network designed for the most powerful women in executive leadership to magnify their influence and pave the way to bring others with them. Chief has been recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2021, and its diverse membership includes 10,000 of the most senior executives in the United States.
Chief is a private membership network focused on connecting and supporting women executive leaders.
Raised $140,000,000.00 from BoxGroup, General Catalyst, Notable Capital, Primary Venture Partners, Inspired Capital Partners, Flybridge and CapitalG.
Advisory Consultant
2018 - 2022
Gyrfalcon Technology (GTI) is a world’s leading developer of low-cost, low-power, high-performance Artificial Intelligence (AI) accelerators. GTI's single chip and multi-chip board solutions cover the full range of Artificial Intelligence applications, and provide several orders of magnitude faster processing power than the competition. Chosen as Samsung’s global AI accelerator chip vendor, GTI started shipping first generation chips in Q1 2018. As part of a strategic partnership agreement, GTI chips will enable LG Electronics’ AI products in 2019.
Vice President Robotics Vertical
2019 - 2020
Leading robotics solutions and revenue strategy. Driving design engineering, strategic supply chain and vertical sales pipeline.
Senior Director Strategic Investments, Partnerships & Biz Dev
2017 - 2019
Responsible for Investment Sourcing and Success. “Connect the dots” with Flex's venture ecosystem (top VCs and cutting edge tech companies) to drive success of the program. Drive China strategic partnership development and business development with Chinese internet giants. Close the first deal for Flex with China's largest e-commerce & cloud computing enterprise.
Director, Senior Director, Product Management Innovation & New Ventures
2014 - 2017
Full product lifecycle management. Lead the cross-functional, international team to develop and deliver new products to generate pull-through revenue for segments and create new, unconventional business opportunities. Drove segment M&A strategy and managed due diligence process across all functions. Ran product management in post-acquisition integration. During my tenure, acquired business turned around from a struggling small start-up into a highly profitable, high-growth segment for Flex.
Senior Manager Corporate Strategy
2012 - 2014
Led high-impact corporate strategy projects for Flex top executives (CEO, CFO, CTO, BU Presidents).
Advisor
2014 - 2016
Yttro Mobile provided a disruptive artificial-intelligence powered mobile content discovery platform. In 2016, Yttro Mobile was acquired by the China ENN Group, one of the largest conglomerates in clean and smart energy sector with $15B+ revenue. • Supported Yttro Mobile’s strategic relationship development out of personal interest in mobile content discovery field • Promoted content discovery to Chinese ecosystems including Baidu app store and Alibaba YunOS app store • Drove competitive analysis and insights to facilitate the successful execution of the exit strategy, helped structure the acquisition, and supported the post-acquisition AI Lab set up