Peter Olcott, Ph.D.

Principal, First Spark Ventures
Peter Olcott, Ph.D., holds 25 patents from transistor-level work to robotic radiotherapy and was Reflexion Medical's first employee who helped take its product into leading hospitals.
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About Peter Olcott, Ph.D.

Peter Olcott holds a Ph.D. and spent over 20 years as an engineer and operator across medical devices, semiconductors, and AI systems, with 25 issued patents ranging from transistor-level work to large robotic radiotherapy machines, and he was the first employee at Reflexion Medical, helping take the product from concept to use in leading hospitals like Stanford, UTSW, City of Hope, and UPMC. He's also known for speaking publicly on frontier technical topics like quantum computing and neuromorphic computing, and he's been invited to moderate panels on quantum technology investment.

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First Spark Ventures grew out of SRI International, where founding partner Manish Kothari incubated more than 25 deep-tech startups, and the firm follows the idea that there's no IP transfer without IQ transfer, meaning they prefer the original inventors to stay involved in building the company. They invest across software, hardware, and biotech (what they call "wetware"), with a team that includes people from national-security and frontier-tech backgrounds, plus Eric Schmidt serving as strategic advisor and founding non-managing partner.

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