Aidan Madigan-Curtis: Eclipse Partner on AI & IoT in Essential Industries

Aidan Madigan-Curtis is a Partner at Eclipse. As an investor, board member, public company executive and entrepreneur, Aidan’s career has centered around the innovation and transformation of critical industries. As a Partner at Eclipse, Aidan invests across core, disruptive themes in today's world including geopolitical disruption, supply chain dislocation, energy transition, manufacturing onshoring, and industrial autonomy. She sits on eight corporate boards spanning defense and industrial sectors and a broad array of technologies, including IoT, computer vision and AI, autonomy and robotics. Aidan leverages her previous experience as an executive at Samsara (NYSE “IOT”), as a manufacturing lead of the first AppleWatch, and as an investor at the world’s largest hedge fund, to underwrite, accelerate, and partner with entrepreneurs towards building scalable, high-growth, generational businesses in physical industries. Aidan is one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women of 2023, is a co-teacher of the Stanford Technology Venture Program, and has an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a Master’s Degree from Stanford University. Topics: The intersection of technology and traditional industries The future of industrial autonomy and robotics Lessons learned from scaling hardware products #VentureCapital #TechInnovation #IndustrialAutomation #IoT #AI