Our mission is to be the leading investor in robotics, automation and AI listed stocks
Robocap Team
Our Values
Passion
We are passionate about robotics investments​
Conviction
Our investment advice is founded on conviction
Challenge
We constantly challenge our decisions and try to anticipate changes
Focus
We focus on performance, not size
Investors
We align our interests with our investors
Integrity
​Integrity is at our core; we advise against investments associated with the military-industrial complex.
Clarity
We must have a clarity of thinking: "If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough." (Einstein)
Advisory Board
Dr. Bianca Braun
Bianca Braun holds a Masters and a PhD from the University of St Gallen (HSG) with a specialization in technology management and internal audit. She wrote her PhD thesis by Prof Fredmund Malik on successful private companies and later worked in consulting at the Malik Management Center in St Gallen.
Bianca joined her family business Maxon Motor AG as part of the Board of Directors and as Head of Internal Audit. Maxon Motor was founded in 1961 in Switzerland and is one of the world’s leaders in drive technology. The family owned company employs more than 2,500 employees and generated revenues of over USD 423mm in 2016. The company is well known for the high quality of its electric motors that are used around the world and beyond with NASA’s Mars rover. Bianca Braun brings with her the expertise of being a leading member of a manufacturer of key components in robotics and automation.
She has been shortlisted by the magazine Women In Business as part of the top 40 under 40. She loves traveling and is a keen sportswoman who participated to a large number of marathons and was a top-ranked skier in Switzerland.
Dr. Adrian Keppler
Creating sustainable profitable growth - that is what Adrian always drives - the last 11 years as managing director at EOS GmbH, one of the world's leading companies in the field of industrial 3D printing. With this experience, Adrian is one of the few experts in the 3D printing industry worldwide. His global network in the rapidly changing high-tech industry combined with his extensive leadership and management skills as well as his broad experience in topics such as strategy, go-to-market, value selling, customer service and the digitization of various business areas are what distinguish Adrian.
Before joining EOS, Adrian held several management positions within Siemens AG.
Today, Adrian is acting as a Senior advisor for “Digital Manufacturing” at h&z Management Consulting, Munich. In addition, he is active in several Advisory Board Positions and is invested in a 3D Printing Startup.
Adrian holds a Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich. He loves traveling and is a keen mountaineer as well as a passionate race- and mountain-biker.
Prof. Mirko Kovac
Prof. Mirko Kovac is Director of the Aerial Robotics Laboratory at Imperial College London and the Head of the Materials and Technology Centre of Robotics at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology (EMPA) in Switzerland. His research focuses on the development of novel flying robots for distributed sensing and autonomous robotic construction for digital infrastructure systems. Prof. Kovac's particular specialisation is in Physical Artificial Intelligence, hardware design and multi-modal robot mobility.
Before his appointment in London, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory as part of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University in Cambridge, USA. He obtained his PhD with the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). He received his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) in 2005. During his studies, he was a research associate with the University of California in Berkeley USA, RIETER Automotive Switzerland, the WARTSILA Diesel Technology Division in Switzerland, and CISERV in Singapore.
Since 2006, he has presented his work at numerous international conferences and in journals and has won several best papers and best presentation awards. Also, he is an invited member of the scientific advisory board of the Lifeboat Foundation, has been an invited lecturer at more than 20 research institutions worldwide and has been a representative speaker on education and innovation at the World Knowledge Dialogue Symposium 2008 and the EPFL Didactic Days Conference 2008.
Dr. Rich Mahoney
Rich Mahoney, Ph.D., is the CEO and Founder of Seismic Inc, a spin-off venture from SRI International (Stanford Research Institute). Seismic is developing cutting-edge wearable robotics to enhance the human musculoskeletal system for a wide range of applications. Rich was the Executive Director of the robotics program at SRI International for more than seven years. He has more than 26 years of experience in research, development, and commercialization of robotics technology, with an emphasis on healthcare solutions for assistive devices and physical therapy. At SRI, Mahoney led a team delivering cutting-edge robotics innovations to DARPA, other government, and commercial customers, including advanced component technologies and telemanipulation, for healthcare, security, and consumer applications. In addition to Seismic, Rich also led the commercialization of multiple ventures from SRI Robotics, including Redwood Robotics, Grabit, Verb Surgical, Abundant Robotics, and others not yet announced.
Prior to joining SRI, Rich was General Manager of the U.S. operations of Motorika, Inc., an early-stage medical device company specializing in technology for neuro-rehabilitation. Previously, he was the director of business development for Applied Resources Corp., and co-director of the Robotics Laboratory of the Applied Science and Engineering Labs at the University of Delaware and A.I. DuPont Institute.
He received his B.S. and M.S. from Drexel University in Pennsylvania. He earned a Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Cambridge, England, while attending on a Fulbright Scholarship.
Rich Mahoney was also the founding President of the association Silicon Valley Robotics (SVR) which supports the innovation and commercialization of robotics technologies.
Prof. Paul Newman
Paul Newman FREng, FIET, FIEEE is a creator, pioneer and innovator of autonomous vehicle (AV) technology.
He is Founder & CTO at Oxbotica, BP Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Oxford, and Founder & Director of Oxford Robotics Institute.
His pioneering approach to AV technology is being successfully harnessed for real-world application at Oxbotica - on roads in four continents, down mines, across warehouses and around airports. He makes and leads teams that use bits to move atoms.
In 1999, Paul set out the fundamentals of the large-scale navigation problem SLAM (simultaneous localisation and mapping) which underpins the driverless vehicle revolution. After three years at MIT 2000-2003, working on subsea and land autonomy, he returned to the UK and built the UK’s first AV stack. He continues to lead the way in AV innovation, having authored 200 papers, garnered 16,000 citations and registered 22 patents.
Beyond his responsibilities at Oxbotica and the academic world, Paul is a strategic advisor to businesses and organisations at Government level. He currently serves on the UK Government’s Department for Transport Science Advisory Council and is on the BSI Standards Committee for AV technology. In 2015, he was elected a Fellow of the IEEE, the IET and the Royal Academy of Engineering.