Sidney McLaurin
Sidney is the founder of Gobo Robotics a company he started while working for Materail Impact. Prior to Material Impact, Sidney was a general manager at Lime. Shortly after joining the company (then known as Limebike) in 2017, he launched its first-ever operational market. Joining Material Impact as a Partner in 2020, Sidney McLaurin brings […]
Julian Warhurst
Julian Warhurst is a multidisciplinary engineer, entrepreneur, and technology leader with extensive experience developing complex automation and robotic systems. His career has spanned industrial robotics, pharmaceutical automation, automated storage, refrigeration, and large-scale retail automation. Julian studied Industrial Engineering and Computer Science at Northeastern University, establishing a multidisciplinary foundation that would become a defining characteristic of […]
James Bellingham
James Bellingham is a pioneer in autonomous marine robotics whose career has spanned the creation of new robotic capabilities through their transition to sustained operational use in the ocean. Beginning at MIT, he founded and led the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Laboratory, where his team developed the Odyssey family of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Odyssey was […]
Carmichael Roberts
Carmichael S. Roberts is a successful entrepreneur‐investor with experience building companies and commercializing university‐based technology. He is a founding partner of Material Impact, a Boston‐based fund that builds resilient technology companies developing products to solve real‐world problems using innovative materials. He is also a Managing Partner and the Chief Investment Officer at Breakthrough Energy, a top-tier […]
Frank van Mierlo
CEOGobo Robotics Inc Frank van Mierlo is an accomplished engineer, entrepreneur, and the CEO of Gobo Robotics, a marine and infrastructure robotics startup pioneering autonomous hull-grooming and asset inspection using a breakthrough adhesion technology developed at Harvard. Frank brings decades of executive leadership and deep expertise in the marine technology sector to his role at […]
Bill Fosnight
Bill Fosnight is an accomplished technology executive, entrepreneur, and inventor with over 35 years of experience spanning semiconductor manufacturing, industrial automation, robotics, and advanced technology development. He previously served as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Walmart Advanced Systems & Robotics and co-founded Alert Innovation, acquired by Walmart in 2022. His leadership experience includes […]
Why Massachusetts is still one of the best places in the world to build a startup right now
For well over 150 years, Massachusetts has been known as a hub of innovation. The state is the birthplace of inventions as wide-reaching as anesthesia, the internet, modern public schools, the telephone and the chocolate chip cookie.
