Former E Ink chief executive Russ Wilcox joins board at Harvest Automation, details angel investments
First, Wilcox took his family on a year-long trip around the world, which ended last July.
Now, Wilcox, who helped start E Ink back in 1997, is once again getting plugged in to Boston's startup scene. Harvest Automation is announcing today that Wilcox will join its board; Harvest makes robots that move potted plants around at nurseries. (I last wrote about the company in November, when Harvest raised $7.8 million from investors.) Harvest is "poised for an exciting product launch and sales growth," Wilcox writes via e-mail. "As a director I hope to actively share the operating lessons we learned at E Ink."
Wilcox tells me he's hoping to start a new venture in the energy sector, and he has also been making a string of angel investments. (You can find him on AngelList.) They include:
- PowerInbox, trying to make the inbox more interactive (I wrote about them here recently)
- Calimmune, working to "engineer immunity" to patients with HIV
- DriveFactor, collecting data about how you actually drive.
- Imprint Energy, working on flexible, low-cost, rechargeable "zinc poly" batteries.
- AmberWave, a materials company working on new solar cells, LEDs, and semiconductors.
- Gen9, building the first "fab" for synthetic biology, enabling low-cost production of custom genes.
That last one was co-founded by Joe Jacobson, an MIT Media Lab prof who was also a co-founder of E Ink with Wilcox.
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