Startups
My goal is to help exceptional founders build generational companies in autonomous systems, drone delivery, and healthtech. These are some of the hardest markets to build in: margins are thin, R&D cycles are long, progress is nonlinear and regulation is unforgiving. Standing up vertically integrated companies operating in the physical world, demands deep conviction and strong belief in people and technology.
I work alongside founders from the earliest stages, drawing on the experience I gained in scaling autonomous logistics at Zipline — helping them turn ideas into companies, build engineering teams that scale, navigate regulation and certification, and ship pilots and EV pilots into safety-critical environments.
I'm most drawn to entrepreneurs who can articulate not just what they're building but why the world needs it, and who pair that vision with the resilience to keep going when the work is still quiet and the path is still long.
Advising
- Founders Mirko Franzoni, Niccolò FratamicoMission Autonomous eVTOL drones for emergency medical delivery across Europe, with a mission to lift sudden-cardiac-arrest survival from ~8% to 60% by cutting response times.Engagement Scope
- Regulatory Strategy & Certification — EU certification path for medical drone operations.
- Medical-Grade Engineering — design and operational rigor for high-precision medical delivery payloads.
- Next-Market Expansion — sequencing entry into adjacent European markets.
- Fundraising Access — investor introductions and round positioning.
Partners KC4, ABZero, BeamflightWins Selected for the Rubik Garage HealthTech Edition accelerator program (Rubik Hub). - Founders Raphael Kaiser, Carlos MenkeMission AI infrastructure for hospital finance — automating the regulatory and billing workflows that sit between hospitals and payors.Engagement Scope
- Engineering Organization Growth — scaling the engineering team for a platform shipping into heavily regulated healthcare-finance buyers.
- Technical Vision and Leadership — defining the organizational values and technical direction
- Founder Jan KrycaMission Scalable drone delivery for enterprise last-mile logistics, operated from a smartphone or tablet — with an early focus on underserved markets.Engagement Scope
- EU Market Expansion — entry strategy for European drone-delivery markets.
- Regulatory Certification — guidance on the drone-operations certification path in the EU.
- Stealth 2026 — presentFounder Nabeel AlamgirBackers CoatueEngagement Scope
- Engineering Organization Growth — scaling the engineering org from research toward shipping product.
- Research-to-Pilot Roadmap — path from research to first end-to-end autonomous pilots.
- Leadership Cadence — weekly advisor sessions with the leadership team.
Wins Backed by Coatue; sold to 10+ customers, including fortune 100 companies. - Stealth 2025Head of Engineering Rushil BatraEngagement Scope
- Market Entry, PMF — advising on next-market entry, platform delivery, customer needs.
- Operational Scaling — scaling light-package, high-precision home delivery for urban areas.
- Stealth 2025Founder Dr. Suzanne O'ConnellEngagement Scope
- Product Strategy — consumer weight-loss and tracking apps.
- Middle East Expansion — go-to-market sequencing for new geographies.
Building
- Engagement Scope
- Routing Engine — built core pieces of the routing engine powering Zipline's autonomous flights.
- Airspace Expansion & Operationability — major contributor across new countries and US sites.
- Multi-Platform Operations — covering both Platform 1 (long-range fixed-wing medical delivery) and Platform 2 (precision home delivery).
Wins Helped scale to 2M+ commercial autonomous deliveries; first operator authorized under the FAA BEYOND program for long-range BVLOS Part 135 deliveries (fixed-wing); instantaneous deliveries on Platform 1 and Platform 2.