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Ivan Chaperot

Operating Partner

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Executive in machine learning/AI with decades of experience in IP and strategic business development. As Chief Business Officer at Farm-ng, computer vision startup building robots for farmers, he led the company growth, forged key partnerships, and licensed Farm-ng's vision navigation technology to enable a spacecraft's precise landing on the Moon. This landmark deal bootstrapped the company and also led to the creation of a space business unit (space-ng.com) working on NASA missions.

Core Competencies:

• Revenue Generation: establishing recurring revenues for deep tech companies.

• Negotiation: Proficient in high-stakes negotiations, including adversarial settings.

• Legal Acumen: Skilled in navigating legal complexities to identify opportunities and mitigate risks.

• Broad Industry Experience: Served tech companies in NLP, autonomous driving, clean tech, robotics and IoT.


Awards:

• Recognized as one the world's top 300 leading Intellectual Property strategists (IAM-300) in 2015, 2016, 2021, 2022, 2023


Credentials:

• European and French Patent Attorney (non-practicing)

• Postgraduate degree in Intellectual Property and Contract Law from CEIPI, Strasbourg University

• M.S. in Optics and Photonics from Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)

• M.S. in Image Processing and Quantum Physics from Institut d'Optique Graduate School


Publications:

• Authored on the use of real-option valuations in complex business negotiations

• Authored a research paper describing a gradient descent computational method to solve a non-linear optics phase-matching problem


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