Abe Murray is a venture capital investor at Alley Robotics Ventures who frames his work as turning sci-fi into sci-fact, focusing on robotics and automation that solve physical-world problems in industries like manufacturing, construction, and logistics. Beyond investing, he builds community through his Deep Tech newsletter and events while maintaining unusual transparency with founders through a personal user manual that explains how he works.
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Alley Robotics Ventures
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Health, Enterprise, Consumer, Fintech, Robotics
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Alley Robotics Ventures is an anchor-LP, operator-led fund with only two founding LPs—Kevin Ryan (founder of AlleyCorp) and Eliot Horowitz (founder of Viam Robotics)—that operates as a hybrid investor-incubator specifically for robotics, both investing in and creating new robotics companies rather than just providing capital. Led by GP Abe Murray, who previously led product and engineering at Android, Google Research, and Verily Life Sciences, ARV makes relatively large early checks (~$7M average) from a concentrated $30M fund to back fewer robotics companies with more hands-on support across diverse applications from robotic massage to autonomous surveying.
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