Aramco Ventures

🎉 We’re thrilled to share that Parallel Carbon has been selected as an Uplink Top Innovator for UpLink’s Carbon Capture and Utilization Challenge, ran in partnership with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Energy and Ministry of Economy and Planning! We can’t wait to collaborate with fellow challenge winners and partners, build new connections, and gain greater visibility to amplify our impact. 🙌 Top Innovators Carbon To Stone D-CRBN Dioxycle eChemicles enaDyne Greenlyte Carbon Technologies ICODOS  Gasgene Oxylus Energy Parallel Carbon UP Catalyst Partners UpLink - World Economic Forum Ministry of Economy and Planning - MEPsaudi Ministry of Energy | وزارة الطاقة @King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) aramco AEON Collective SABIC Global CO2 Initiative Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Learn more about the challenge and discover our profile on UpLink: https://wef.ch/3XWVln4 #NetZero #CarbonCapture #CarbonUtilization #CarbonRecycling #CarbonCircularity #Innovation #StartUp #SGIForum #COP16

We raised $21.5 Million for Wherobots! Our journey began when I, then a computer science professor, met Jia Yu, who was completing his PhD at ASU. We quickly bonded over our shared passion for geospatial data and saw its largely untapped potential. We realized that existing data warehousing and analytics tools were fundamentally built for internet data, not geospatial data. As a result, they underperform, and lack key features for intuitive geospatial analysis. On the other hand, legacy geospatial tools live in a silo, are often closed-source, or built on outdated architectures, making geospatial solutions inaccessible for most organizations. To address this, we created Apache Sedona, an open-source geospatial compute framework that has since achieved over 40 million downloads and is used by companies like Amazon and Land O’ Lakes for planetary-scale workloads. After years of growing Apache Sedona, we saw the need for a more comprehensive enterprise solution and launched Wherobots, a fully managed, scalable cloud platform designed to make geospatial solutions easy to build within the modern data and AI ecosystem. This round is led by Felicis—huge thanks to Aydin Senkut and Gabriella G.! Felicis continues to revolutionize the VC industry with their founder-friendly approach and bold investments. We’re also grateful for the strong support from our existing investors, Wing Venture Capital and Clear Ventures. A big thank you to Peter Wagner from Wing VC  who has a keen eye and the patience to back transformative data and AI infrastructure companies like Snowflake, Pinecone, and now Wherobots.  Our friends at Clear Ventures deserve special recognition—Chris Rust and Noor Kamruddin, your targeted AI platform for identifying promising investments and your early belief in us during the uncertain pre-commercial phase mean so much. Lastly, thank you to P7 (Abhishek Shukla) and JetBlue (Ryan Chou) for your participation in this round. We’re excited for the journey ahead! I want to take a moment to thank and applaud the incredible Wherobots team. Over the past two years, we've experienced an astounding 1000% growth. I'm truly humbled to work alongside such talented individuals who make my job both enjoyable and rewarding. This team's dedication and talent inspire confidence in achieving remarkable outcomes now and in the future. Let’s keep it going, Botsters! In closing, I want to emphasize that this is just the beginning. We understand that bringing our vision to life requires collaboration, which is why we’re proud to partner with leading cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS). If you’re already on AWS, you can start leveraging Wherobots today to power your geospatial workloads. The journey ahead is exciting, and we’re thrilled to have you with us!

The second iteration of our Palo Alto Majlis brought together visionary startup founders, Silicon Valley investors, and thought leaders in technology and entrepreneurship for an inspiring evening. Building on the success of the first Majlis, which inaugurated our Palo Alto office, this gathering served as a platform to explore emerging trends, tackle shared challenges, and explore future opportunities to scale innovation globally. A big thank you to everyone who joined us and enriched the event with their perspectives. Together, we’re driving progress, creating opportunities, and shaping the future of innovation. #Innovation #Entrepreneurship #Collaboration #GlobalImpact #Prosperity7 #Majlis

We’re happy to see that Groq, Cohere, and Insilico Medicine —three of our portfolio companies—have been recognized on Fortune’s AI Innovators 2024 list! This acknowledgment celebrates their groundbreaking contributions to the AI landscape, from reshaping computational architecture and accelerating AI advancements to revolutionizing drug discovery and development. At Prosperity7, we are proud to partner with visionary teams pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Congratulations to Groq, Cohere, and Insilico Medicine for this well-deserved recognition. The future of innovation looks brighter with you leading the way. 👏🏼 Check out the full list here: https://lnkd.in/gx-JDdHV #AIInnovators #Groq #Cohere #InsilicoMedicine #InnovationLeadership #Fortune #Prosperity7