Pieter Abbeel

Investment Partner , Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Investment Partner,Angel
Investor Stage
Seed

Pieter Abbeel joined covariant.ai as Co-Founder, President, Chief Scientist in 2017. Pieter Abbeel is Professor at UC Berkeley [2008- ], Co-Founder covariant.ai [2017- ], Co-Founder Gradescope [2014- ], Research Scientist at OpenAI [2016-2017], Founding Faculty Partner AI@TheHouse, Advisor to many AI/Robotics start-ups. He works in machine learning and robotics, in particular his research focuses on making robots learn from people (apprenticeship learning), how to make robots learn through their own trial and error (reinforcement learning), and how to speed up skill acquisition through learning-to-learn (meta-learning). His robots have learned advanced helicopter aerobatics, knot-tying, basic assembly, organizing laundry, locomotion, and vision-based robotic manipulation. He has won numerous awards, including best paper awards at ICML, NIPS and ICRA, early career awards from NSF, Darpa, ONR, AFOSR, Sloan, TR35, IEEE, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Pieter's work is frequently featured in the popular press, including New York Times, BBC, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Forbes, Tech Review, NPR.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
5
Pieter Abbeel has made 5 investments. Their most recent investment was on Jun 8, 2021, when Waabi raised $100M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Feb 15, 2022 Cohere Series B $159M Artificial Intelligence Detail
Jan 17, 2022 Wayve Series B $200M Artificial Intelligence Detail
Sep 7, 2021 Cohere Series A $40M Artificial Intelligence Detail
Jun 8, 2021 Waabi Series A $100M Artificial Intelligence Detail
Jul 1, 2019 Wayve Series A $20M Artificial Intelligence Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
1
Pieter Abbeel has 1 current jobs including Board Of Advisor at Traptic , .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Traptic Board Of Advisor Detail