Shahin Farshchi, Partner Lux Capital background as VC & entrepreneur

My name is Shaheen. I grew up in the East Bay here. Went to Berkeley undergrad. Built a passion for cars and robots and computers. Given the fact that I graduated in the bus. I don't know how many of you were here during the dot com collapse. It was a pretty sad place. So I decided to go to Detroit thinking that it would be better there. Totally by surprise. Worked for GM for a few months. Wasn't too crazy about having grown up in Silicon Valley Valley. It was not what I was expecting. Came back to California, went to Graduate School UCLA. Did a PhD in management analog circuits. Started a company doing wireless vital sign monitoring. The process of that I was told that I should get to know VCs when I do not need their money. At that time I was jumping and funded and so I reached out to a few VCs. Many of them ignored me. Lux was most embracing said hey, we don't have anybody in California. Let's find a way to work together. Realized that my company which was selling the hospitals was not a great business and decided to join forces with Lux. I was the walking west coast office for a few years. I was thrown into cleantech in those days in the kind of 07 to 2010 time frame thankfully didn't do much there that if we semiconductor investments A few of those companies were acquired. Now I'm looking at robotics, driverless cars, satellites manufacturing, automation, AI and deep learning. So it's great to be here and thank you cattle for doing.