Magnus Ryde
Co-Founder Partner
Magnus Ryde has more than 25 years experience in semiconductors and building high tech startups. Magnus previously held positions as VP, Field operations and Sales at KLA-Tencor and President North America at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC). Magnus also was the CEO of FlexICs (a flexible screen spin-out from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California), Intematix (a provider of phosphor LEDs for solid state lighting), and Daystar Technologies (a CIGS thin film PV solar energy company in Silicon Valley). Magnus was also Advisor, and subsequently General Partner, at Quan Ventures for several years. Magnus has served on several boards in several high-tech companies with a focus on the semiconductor industry in Sweden, USA , Israel and Asia. Magnus holds an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Linköping University and Stanford University and an Executive MBA from Stanford University.
Gerard de Bourbon
Co-Founder Partner
Mr de Bourbon is an executive with more than 28 plus years of significant international management, sales, marketing, consulting, strategy, business development, digital transformation, IoT, Nano IoT, Security, AI, blockchain, cognitive and neural networking, contextual learning, finance, operations, mergers and acquisitions background gained at several blue-chip, companies in the IT /Telecom industry, Finance, such as Verizon, CA, IBM, HP, Lucent, EHPT / Ericsson-Hewlett-Packard Telecommunications, and Chrysler Capital. Active in ESG sustainability venture incubation and co-creator with leading R&D labs in Europe. Mr. de Bourbon is a Math and Physics Graduate. He completed an MBA at the Stockholm School of Economics and also attended INSEAD / France, Darden University & Harvard University / USA, where he completed non-degreed corporate-sponsored executive programs. Mr de Bourbon has taken companies public and exited a successful venture pioneering M2M connectivity, IoT, and mobility functionality in the healthcare sector.