Managing Director
CurrentDolby Family Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. The fund formalizes the Dolby family’s ongoing, multi-generational commitment to Ray Dolby’s legacy of discovering and supporting visionary entrepreneurs. Dolby Family Ventures focuses on early stage investments across a range of emerging sectors including Robotics and Automation, IT Software and Infrastructure, Digital Media (AR/VR), Aerospace, Energy Transformation, and Biotechnologies accelerating drug discovery and research. We typically make 10-12 investments per year, with total capital at risk of approximately $2-8 million per company. The fund is not affiliated with Dolby Laboratories, Inc.Realized investments include IPOs for EarGo, Cortexyme, Athira, & Yumanity. M&A transactions for goBalto (acquired by Oracle), EyeFluence (acquired by Google), Wickr (acquired by Amazon Web Services), Discover Echo (acquired by Cellink) August Home (acquired by Assa Abloy), Chirp Microsystem (acquired by TDK), Tetra Therapeutics (acquired by Shinogi.)