Steve Shwartz, Angel Investor

Author of “Evil Robots, Killer Computers, and Other Myths: The Truth About AI and the Future of Humanity”. I started my career as a postdoc in the Yale University Computer Science Dept Artificial Intelligence program. I’ve been a founder or co-founder of three companies in the AI area including Esperant which became one of the leading business intelligence tools of the 1990’s, co-founded Device42 which is one of the fastest-growing software companies in the country, and have been fortunate enough to participate in two IPOs and multiple M&A exits. I’m also an active angel investor and do some AI consulting work on topics of interest to me. Active early stage investments include Cake, Stride Conductor, Lucky Robots, 1LogTech, Aim Medical Robotics, Reach Neuro, Aline, Perplexity, CultureHQ, TestRigor, Elm.ai, Blind Insight, Nuvio, Procurement Sciences, Fixe, Measure Studio, Terecircuits, Monitaur, Torigen, Keys, Polls, YData, NeuroEM, US Integrity, Cloudbees, Content Raven, and Vizpin and early stage funds AIF Fund I, NYA ECF, NYA Fund 2020, NYA Fund 2021, NYA Fund 2024, Edison Fund IX, and Edison Fund X. Exits include Tangoe (107x), Biorez (22x), Codeship, Jamhub, and Hadapt.