Altair Ventures
490 Post St, San Francisco, California, 94102, US
Overview
Altair Ventures was formed in 2001 as an entery-level high-technology investment and consulting firm. Our approach is to help with financial investments as well as with human capital, strategic consulting, and helping entrepreneur shape their ideas into profitable companies. Our mission is to help bridge the gap between business and entrepreneurs by providing resources for great products to enter markets, creating value for our partners, investors, community, and entrepreneurs. At Altair, we achieve this by utilizing our deep industry knowledge, operational, M&A, and investment experience to leverage our venture activity. Our investment strategy is to utilize our deep industry knowledge with companies and design teams who seek to create new market leading products. We focus on working closely with entrepreneurs and focus on markets where we have direct experience. These markets include Semiconductor, EDA (electronic design automation), consumer electronics, biometric security, networking and Internet infrastructure.
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Participated · Seed · May 2017
Paragon One operates an online career coaching service and mentor marketplace that pairs college students with professionals via a recommendation engine that matches on alma mater, major, interests and personality. The platform focuses on students seeking roles in data analysis, data science, consulting, market research and software engineering, and has a large user segment of Chinese students studying in the U.S. Its marketplace currently lists about 160 mentors with roughly 300 more waiting to join; coaches are paid per session and companies participate for free. Paragon One typically sells three-month subscriptions that cost about $2,000–$3,000. The startup says the recommendation technology is key to scaling its service and plans to use new funding for product development to handle more students. The company was founded in 2015 by CEO Matt Wilkerson and CTO Byron Hsu, who began by running a mentorship organization at MIT.
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