John Merrells

CPO/CTO

2023

AI Voice Agent for Quick Service Restaurants.

Advisor

2018 - 2023

Advisor

2023

"Vaire Computing’s near zero-energy chips promise advanced AI at a fraction of the energy cost with an architecture that can scale for decades."

Advisor

2021

ZaiNar (“zye-nar”) is a real-time local positioning technology company. Our proprietary mesh network technology provides a versatile solution for positioning that is far more scalable, cost-effective, and accurate than existing alternatives to GPS/GNSS such as WiFi positioning and enables location tracking for cellular phones (including the latest LTE and 5G standards), radio frequency tags, embedded IoT devices, vehicles and UAVs, and other wireless devices and standards with over 200 meter range and sub-meter accuracy.

Mentor, EIR, Advisor

2014

Advisor

2021 - 2024

"Beat the Street" with advanced investment strategies, based on data-driven algorithmic trading of stocks and crypto.

Advisor

2021 - 2024

Building a global marketplace for software engineers, because talent is everywhere and opportunity is not.

Co-Founder, Board Member

2020 - 2023

Holonic builds product development teams for startups. We meet the resourcing needs of product and engineering leaders with fully cohered and aligned squads of product developers. Our team of experienced engineering, product, and people leaders has codified decades of team-building experience into a repeatable process for forging a group of software engineers into a high-performing product development team.

CPO

2019 - 2020

Sight Machine revolutionizes manufacturing operations to achieve continuous breakthroughs in productivity, profitability, and sustainability. We change the game for people who make things so they can improve people’s lives, their communities, and the environment. Our goal is to unlock the next level of efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability for a large part of the global economy.

Advisor

2015 - 2019

ALICE combines a first-of-its-kind construction planning platform with a powerful AI engine to help you digitize your firm's "way to build" and save big on any construction project.

Advisor

2015 - 2019

Yotascale, a leader in cost management for AWS, provides intelligence and proactive, actionable insights to cloud operations, optimizing the infrastructure to meet business needs. Yotascale software uses AI to optimize cloud operations for reliability, visibility and cost savings. By using proprietary machine learning algorithms to process millions of data signals, Yotascale is providing contextually relevant, cost anomaly detection and recommendations that can be acted upon immediately.