ARV - Key Persons


Abe Murray - CEO

Job Titles:
  • General Partner
  • Managing Partner
  • Member of the Core Team
Abe is the General Partner at ARV - AlleyCorp's Robotics Vertical - which he founded after meeting and working with Kevin Ryan of AlleyCorp and Eliot Horowitz of Viam Robotics in late 2021. Brannon is an Associate at ARV where he helps Abe and the team invest in amazing robotics and automation companies and provides post-investment portfolio support.

Aniq Kassam

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Managing Director of GETTYLAB

Brannon Jones

Job Titles:
  • Associate
Brannon is an Associate at ARV where he helps Abe and the team invest in amazing robotics and automation companies and provides post-investment portfolio support.

Emily Yu

Job Titles:
  • Venture Fellow

Joseph Krause

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
Aniq is the Managing Director of GETTYLAB and its early-stage investment arm, FAST. He's been investing in companies founded on engineering-driven insights since 2014, and we at ARV seamlessly collaborate with Aniq when brainstorming what's possible as advances in applied math coalesce with those in electrical, mechanical and embedded software engineering. Joseph focuses on frontier tech companies with an emphasis on materials and robotics. A PhD student at Rice University in NanoEngineering, he has conducted research at the US Army Research Lab building novel neuromorphic chips. An Associate at AlleyCorp, Joseph is also an Advisor at ARV.

Megan Smith

Job Titles:
  • Venture Fellow
Emily is a Venture Fellow at ARV where she helps the team investigate and explore robotics and automation companies, with a particular focus on food / bev / ag. Emily was previously at Amazon Robotics where she led the expansion of Amazon's robotic warehouse footprint to EU and APEC, tripling their capacity in two years. She also founded a Megan is a Venture Fellow at ARV where she helps Abe and the team invest in robotics and automation companies and provides post-investment portfolio support. Megan was previously at Rugged Robotics where she was a lead engineer and software dev. As Rugged's first hire, she designed, built, tested, and launched the startup's MVP.

Susannah Shipton

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • VP of Platform
ARV is lucky to have Wendy as an Advisor! Wendy is a Partner at AlleyCorp focused on consumer investments, incubations, and collaborative foundership. She helped create much of AlleyCorp's culture and helps ARV build its fund up in a similar fashion. ARV is also lucky to have Susannah as an Advisor! Susannah is VP of Platform and an Investor at AlleyCorp who built and lead their Platform Team. At ARV she advises us on how to support our companies, and how to work with other funds such as AlleyCorp.

Wendy Tsu

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Partner at AlleyCorp