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Santa Clara, CA-based Brendan Richardson as Chief Executive Officer
About the Company
Redefined Ultra-Low-Power, Full System-on-Chip Solutions PsiKick develops next generation ultra-low-power wireless sensing systems with the lowest-power sensing devices in the world. Fully integrated and silicon-proven, the system-on-chip solutions operate at up to 1/1,000th the power of existing best-in-class "low power" solutions. Their extreme energy efficiency enables them to be powered without a battery from a variety of harvested energy modalities including vibration, thermal gradients, solar, RF, or piezo actuation.
About the Person
Brendan Richardson is the Chief Executive Officer and a co-founder of PsiKick. He has more than 17 years of experience as an early stage investor, advisor and entrepreneur. Prior to co-founding PsiKick, Brendan was a Partner at Vision Capital based in Silicon Valley where he made early-stage investments into semiconductor and optical component start-ups in the Valley and across Europe. During his time at Vision Capital, he managed investments in and served on the Boards of Massana, ChipIdea and Altitun – highly successful fabless start-ups in the IC / Optical industry. Since 2007 he has resided in Charlottesville, VA where he mentors early stage companies and teaches courses in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital investing at the McIntire School of Commerce at UVA. He is also the Chairman of HackCville, a start-up incubator / idea-foundry with an insurrectionist streak. He received his B.S. in Finance and Management from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.
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