Yoav ZingherFounder

United States - Los Angeles, California

I'm the CEO of Launchpad.build, based in California, with a mission to build the technology for autonomous manufacturing - so that we can have self-programming robots build the products we need and love. I strongly believe that the world will be a better place when we can innovate faster, have shorter and greener supply chains, and humans no longer need to do hard and dangerous manual labour.

Before Launchpad, I founded KiWi Power in my living room in London and grew it to become the UK's leading smart grid energy company, which I sold in 2018 to Engie, one of the largest utilities in the world. We did some amazing things at KiWi, including building the UK's first commercial battery storage project; adding thousands of commercial and industrial sites to our virtual power station; and inventing our smart metering hardware that took our installation cost down from $10k to $100 for each site.

Prior to this I founded a mobile games company, co-founded a Private Equity fund, and developed ultra deepwater oil rigs worth $1.5 billion. I hold an MBA from the London Business School with a concentration in finance and entrepreneurship. I'm also a fairly prolific angel investor myself and through my family office.

Check out www.launchpad.build.