Tobias Egle
Mentor at Endless Frontier Labs
Boston, Massachusetts
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Associate
2025 - Current
► Fine Structure Ventures (FSV) invests in exceptional startups and entrepreneurs commercializing 'disruptive science' in the areas of advanced materials/manufacturing, aerospace, biology, climate tech, and next gen computing. We primarily lead investments at Seed, Series A, and Series B and occasionally participate in later stage rounds. ►FSV is an F-Prime Capital Fund ($4.5B+ AUM). ►Investments from Fund I include Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Boston Metal, and Mainspring Energy. Learn more about us and our portfolio companies at https://finestructure.vc/
Senior Associate
2025
F-Prime Capital is a venture capital firm investing in healthcare and technology.
Mentor
2024
EFL has 183 alumni startups, 83% of which have successfully raised at least one funding round during or after the program, outpacing other accelerators like YCombinator (77% successful funding rounds) and Techstars (73%). EFL accelerates the success of early-stage science and technology based startups through a goals-oriented mentorship program.
Member Board of Directors
2025 - 2025
► Led Seed financing round ► NovoLINC is a breakthrough nanotechnology company that enables best-in-class thermal interface materials for semiconductors and AI data centers.
Board Observer
2023 - 2025
► Joined Seed financing round ► Quintessent develops optical connectivity solutions to scale computing and AI.
Quintessent is a Santa Barbara start-up that commercializes quantum dot-based lasers and photonic integrated circuits.
Raised $13,895,996.00 from Foothill Ventures, Entrada Ventures, 11.2 Capital, OUP (Osage University Partners), Sierra Ventures and M Ventures.
Board Observer
2023 - 2025
► Led Pre-seed financing round ► Polaris Electro-Optics enables the highest speed, most energy efficient integrated photonics products through their breakthrough electro-optic modulator technology.
Polaris Electro-Optics empowers integrated photonics for communications and computation.
Raised $3,000,000.00 from M Ventures, Buff Gold Ventures and Rhapsody Venture Partners.
Investment Associate
2022 - 2025
► Strategic, corporate venture capital fund of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, investing in Biotechnology and Technology. EUR 650M AUM with about 100 investments. ► Focused on early stage investments in semiconductors and AI data center infrastructure (compute + interconnects + next-gen materials + energy). ► Co-Lead for the Startups for Sustainable Semiconductors program The Startups for Sustainable Semiconductors (S3) initiative is a mentorship program + pitch event organized by Corporate Venture Capitalists of major industry players within the semiconductor ecosystem. More: https://semi.org/en/industry-groups/startups ► Past mentoring and judging engagements: Intel Ignite, NATO DIANA, MassChallenge and many other informal engagements.
Fellow at Yard Ventures
2021 - 2022
► Due diligence, deal sourcing Yard is a Venture Capital firm and community of Harvard alumni investors, executives, entrepreneurs, and innovation enthusiasts. We raise capital from Harvard alumni and invest in alumni-led startups. We are private, for-profit, and not part of (but friendly with) Harvard. Learn more here: https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/19/alumni-ventures-group-is-the-most-active-venture-fund-youve-never-heard-of/
Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital investment firm that manages fund families that invest in a portfolio of companies.
Raised $500,000.00 from Michael Bunning.
CEO and Co-Founder
2020 - 2022
► Incubated at the Harvard Innovation Labs, MIT iCorps customer discovery for entrepreneurs, The Engine Blueprint: tough tech mentorship program ► Did not find product-market fit
Co-President | Harvard SEAS Graduate Council
2017 - 2019
Conference Coordinator for the IVY+ Summit 2017 at Harvard University
2017 - 2017