Jonah Probell
Managing Partner at Lexi Ventures
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & Managing Partner
2023 - Current
Investing in US, seed and pre-seed, gene tech startups addressing the scariest and most expensive diseases, healthier and safer food and consumer products, sustainable materials and mining, and related tools and software by reading, writing, or designing DNA, RNA, or protein sequences.
Angel Investor
2023 - 2024
A great group for new investors. Old ones, too.
Sand Hill Angels is a group of Silicon Valley angel investors passionate about helping entrepreneurs get to the next level.
IP Strategist
2016 - 2023
Crafted most of the company's IP portfolio. As 120 diverse inventors and 20 attorneys in 5 countries, we created 400 patent assets. https://patents.google.com/?assignee=SoundHound&sort=new&dups=language
Patent Portfolio Manager
2010 - 2016
Drafted about 45 patent families, including most of a portfolio that was acquired by Qualcomm, tested the product, developed training curricula, and supported field application engineers
Arteris provides System IP for on-chip connectiviy, which improve performance, power consumption and die size of semiconductors.
Raised $52,004,247.00 from 10x Group and Ventech.
Co-Founder and CEO
2008 - 2010
Led a team developing a competitive processor IP, disbanding after finding no investor
Mobile Multimedia Marketing Manager
2007 - 2008
Managed to master the marketing of a machine for mobile multimedia; namely the 388VDO video codec processor
Tensilica is a fabless semiconductor company developing customizable dataplane processor IP cores.
Raised $54,621,998.00 from Altera and Meritech Capital Partners.
Director of Multimedia Solutions Architecture
2006 - 2007
I was the customer-facing video expert for sales of the ARC Video processing solutions.
Co-Founder and CTO
2003 - 2006
We developed the first programmable processor architecture capable of 1080p HD decode of H.264 (AVC) and other video standards. I did architecture analysis and Verilog design, applied for two patents, wrote papers, gave talks, and evangelized our technology. The company was acquired by Micronas.
Design Engineer
1999 - 2003
Designed a multiply-accumulator for DSP extensions to a hardware-multithreading MIPS32 processor and did FPGA prototyping, verification, and technical writing
Lexra is a semiconductor intellectual property company.
Test Development Engineer
1998 - 1999
Developed processes for testing testers
Teradyne is a supplier of automatic test equipment used to test complex electronics used in consumer electronics.