Sam Smith-Eppsteiner focuses on applying AI, robotics, and advanced engineering to physical economy sectors like transportation, manufacturing, and construction, with a particular emphasis on climate and industrial decarbonization. She embeds herself deeply in unfamiliar domains—from working at a mushroom farm in Rwanda to line-cooking in European restaurants—to build grounded insights before investing, and has authored detailed frameworks on scaling robotics and hardware companies.
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AI, Deeptech / Hardware, Biotech, Robotics, Food & Ag
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Seed - Series A
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Up to $15M
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Founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Innovation Endeavors invests exclusively at the intersection of three converging technical forces they call "the Super Evolution" — ubiquitous sensors, advanced machine learning and cloud systems, and robotics/3D printing/CRISPR — rather than general software or internet businesses. The firm runs an invite-only unconference called Curiosity Camp where physicists, rocket scientists, and computational biologists camp together in the Santa Cruz Mountains to explore frontier problems, and operates a venture creation program that helps form founding teams before ideas exist rather than backing pre-packaged startups.
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