Josh Lessing
Managing Partner at Shockwave Ventures
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2024 - Current
Investments: - Lumafield - Impilo Health - Tetsuwan Scientific - Empallo
Member
2022
Venture Partner
2022 - 2024
Capital Strategy Advisor
2023 - 2023
Vibe Bio is a community of patients, scientists, and partners committed to identifying, funding, and developing promising treatments.
Raised $12,000,000.00 from Naval Ravikant, Initialized Capital, Lerer Hippeau, Yvonne Hao, Andy Palmer, Arkitekt Ventures, Enke Bashllari, Andrea (Andy) Coravos, 6th Man Ventures and Undeterred Capital.
CTO
2021 - 2022
AppHarvest is a sustainability company that operates and develops robust, climate-resilient indoor farms.
Raised $792,300,961.00 from Sunset and U.S. Department of Agriculture.
CEO & Co-Founder (acquired by AppHarvest)
2018 - 2021
Root AI is a research company aiming to create intelligent robots that will help growers build the farms of the future.
Raised $10,459,891.00 from The Syndicate.com, LAUNCH, First Round Capital, Schematic Ventures, AgFunder, WestWave Capital, PJC and Outsiders Fund.
Director of Research & Development
2013 - 2018
Postdoctoral Fellow | Materials Science & Robotics
2012 - 2014
Doctoral Research Assistant | Biophysics & Infrared Spectroscopy
2005 - 2012
Postbaccalaureate Research Associate | X-Ray Spectroscopy & Condensed Matter Physics
2004 - 2005