Josh Rapperport

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States12 yrs 5 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Expert in investing in AI and vertical market software.
  • Led multiple seed and series investments in innovative startups.
  • Strong background in strategic partnerships and business development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a venture capital expert focused on AI and physical industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

InvestmentsStrategic Partnerships

Other Skills

Business DevelopmentTechnology IntegrationMarket AnalysisStrategyAIConstruction TechnologyMining TechnologyBusiness Intelligence

About

VC at Innovation Endeavors ~ investing in applied AI/ML and vertical market software. Broadly focused on physical industries (energy, construction, architecture, engineering, manufacturing, built environment, proptech, industrials, mobility, robotics). Previously: buy-side Partnerships at Google, LiveRamp, Palantir and energy startups. Reach out at josh[at]innovationendeavors.com

Experience

12 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
4 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Cosmos innovation

Board Member

Sep 2025Present · 8 mos

  • Cosmos is bringing AI-based process optimization to the semiconductor industry

Intuigenceai

Investor, Board Observer

Jul 2025Present · 10 mos

  • Intuigence is the AI System of Action for process manufacturing — augmenting process, chemical, controls and mechanical engineering teams to run refineries and chemical plants more effectively

Lighttable

Investor

Jun 2025Present · 11 mos

  • LightTable is an AI co-pilot for pre-construction, facilitating peer review, coordination and QA/QC

Innovation endeavors

2 roles

Principal

Promoted

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Innovation Endeavors is an early-stage venture capital firm managing $2B+ AUM. We invest in the physical economy, computing infrastructure, intelligent software and engineering health.
  • Firm's investments include: AlphaSense, Astra, Color, Eikon Therapeutics, Formlabs, Freenome, Homelight, Kong, Own, Planet, SoFi, Uber, Vicarious Surgical, and more. Board positions and investments include:
  • Parspec (led Seed)
  • Plotlogic (led Series A)
  • Vizibly (co-led Seed)
  • Trunk Tools (led Seed)
  • Verse (participated in Seed)
  • Optiml (led Pre-Seed)
  • Cosmos Innovation (led Seed)
  • ElectronX (led Seed)
  • Unannounced gridtech company (led Seed)
  • LightTable (co-led Seed)
  • IntuigenceAI (led Seed)
Business DevelopmentTechnology IntegrationStrategic PartnershipsInvestmentsMarket AnalysisStrategy

Senior Associate

Feb 2021Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Electronx

Investor, Board Observer

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • ElectronX is building a modern power exchange, bringing transparency and real-time trading to electricity markets

Revsure ai

Board Member

Jun 2023Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • RevSure let's you understand your sales pipeline, end-to-end, and optimize resources accordingly

Trunk tools, inc.

Investor, Board Observer

May 2023Present · 3 yrs

  • Trunk Tools is the knowledge graph for the construction job site, delivering real-time AI-based insights, workflows and tasks to crews in the field

Optiml

Investor, Board Observer

Apr 2023Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • OPTIML is a commercial real estate decarbonization and capex decision-making platform

Parspec

Investor, Board Member

Apr 2022Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Parspec is using AI to simplify the process of discovering, sourcing and procuring the best available construction products and materials

Plotlogic

Investor, Board Observer

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

  • Plotlogic allows copper, nickel, iron and lithium mines to characterize ore in real-time, in the field, using hyperspectral imaging and AI

Google

Strategic Partner Development Manager

Dec 2018Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos · New York City

  • Global Ads Partnerships | Launched and scaled emerging ad products through buy-side strategic partnerships

Liveramp

2 roles

Business Development Lead

Promoted

Jun 2018Dec 2018 · 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Led strategy and go-to-market for media measurement and offline attribution partners

Product Operations, Platforms

Jul 2017Jun 2018 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Product integration owner and technical partnership growth for strategic platforms

Palantir technologies

Deployment Strategist Intern

May 2016Aug 2016 · 3 mos · New York City

  • Technical implementation of Palantir product for top-tier client, onsite deployment

Siva power

Engineering Team

Jan 2015Jun 2015 · 5 mos · San Jose, CA

  • Designed a blueprint for the glass in & glass out component of a gigawatt Cadmium Telluride thin-film solar manufacturing plant in Fresno, California

C12 energy, llc

Engineering & Data Science Team

Jun 2014Nov 2014 · 5 mos · Berkeley, CA

  • Built a data acquisition system and SQL database for analysis of mature wells in North Dakota and Texas oil fields to prepare for CO2 flood and carbon sequestration

Stanford university

Laboratory Intern in Department of Energy Resources Engineering

Mar 2009Sep 2011 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Stanford, CA

  • Lab of Jen Wilcox | Analyzed and tested the surface chemistry of activated carbon to better understand the chemical bonding of mercury in the exhaust stream of a coal-fired power plant

Education

Harvard University

Bachelor's degree — Environmental Engineering

NOLS

Mountaineering & Ski Touring — Wind River Range

Palo Alto High School

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