George Ugras
President at Cytegen Corp.
Profile
George brings two decades of experience in venture capital as the Managing Director.
Prior to launching AV8, George ran IBM Ventures globally leading strategic investments in applied AI and cloud enabling start-ups as well as being engaged in fund investment and acquisition activities.
Before IBM, George was a partner at ACM, an early stage venture fund, where he was General Partner, managing investments in big data infrastructure, cloud computing and analytics leading investments in companies such as Datallegro (acq.
Microsoft), nLight (IPO on Nasdaq) and Intrinsity (acq.
Apple).
George started his investment career at Apax Partners, a global venture fund where he invested in early-stage technology companies such as Tessera (IPO Nasdaq), Coretek (Acq Nortel) and Peregrine (IPO Nasdaq).
Prior to Apax, he was with McKinsey & Co. in New York advising Fortune 500 companies on growth strategy.
George has also founded and run start-ups and served as an advisor and director to many venture-backed companies.
He is the founder of life sciences company CyteGen.
George has lectured on entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon, UCLA, and Stanford, as well as advising faculty on technology spin-offs at other universities.
He also provided oversight on the Space Electronics Group at CalTech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Dr. Ugras holds a B.S.
in Engineering Physics from Fairleigh Dickinson, a Ph.D.
in Applied Physics from Yale, and was a research fellow at CalTech in Physics.
George Ugras active positions
| Companies | Position | Start |
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Touchdown Technologies, Inc.
 Touchdown Technologies, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Touchdown Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures and supports MEMS probecards. It products include flash, and dram. The firm offers ACCU-TORQ and GIGA-TORQ probecards for testing full pin count NAND and DRAM wafers. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Baldwin Park, CA. | Director/Board Member | - |
Luminescent Technologies, Inc.
 Luminescent Technologies, Inc. Electronic Equipment/InstrumentsElectronic Technology Luminescent Technologies, Inc. provides computational metrology and inspection solutions to the semiconductor industry. Its computational metrology and inspection is a set of mathematical approaches designed to improve the resolution, throughput, and accuracy of defect inspection, review and repair in mask shops and wafer fabs. The firm's products include computational lithography and defect management and luminescent automated image processing hub. The company was founded by Daniel S. Abrams, Jack J. S. Herrick, Stanley Osher and Eli Yablonovitch in 2002 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. | Director/Board Member | 2009-11-12 |
AV8 Ventures
 AV8 Ventures Investment ManagersFinance AV8 Ventures (AV8 Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | Private Equity Investor | 2018-01-31 |
Cytegen Corp.
 Cytegen Corp. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Cytegen Corp. engages in the development and discovery of therapies that extend health span. The company is headquartered in Shorewood, WI. | President | - |
Global Weather & Climate Solutions, Inc.
 Global Weather & Climate Solutions, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Global Weather & Climate Solutions, Inc. provides radio occultation data for weather forecasting, climate research and space weather monitoring by launching satellites. The company was founded by Chris Charles McCormick and E. Robert Kursinski in 2012 and is headquartered in Golden, CO. | Director/Board Member | - |
Contract Wrangler, Inc.
 Contract Wrangler, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Contract Wrangler, Inc. develops contracts management software. The company was founded by Neil M. Peretz and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA. | Director/Board Member | 2018-05-31 |
Former positions of George Ugras
| Companies | Position | End |
|---|---|---|
National Venture Capital Association
 National Venture Capital Association Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services National Venture Capital Association provides business association services. It facilitates networking opportunities and provides research data to its members. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC. | Director/Board Member | 2018-01-31 |
Mindshare Medical, Inc.
 Mindshare Medical, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Mindshare Medical, Inc. develops clinical decision support technology for clinicians and healthcare organizations. The company was founded by Samir Chowdhury, Ilya Goldberg, Michael Calhoun and Jack Kreindler in 2014 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA. | Consultant / Advisor | 2018-01-31 |
IBM Ventures
 IBM Ventures Investment ManagersFinance IBM Ventures (IBM Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in New York. | Director/Board Member | 2017-12-31 |
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Training of George Ugras
| Fairleigh Dickinson University | Undergraduate Degree |
| Yale University | Doctorate Degree |
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| Private companies | 22 |
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Apax Partners, Inc.
 Apax Partners, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Founded in 1976, Apax Partners, Inc. is a venture capital/private equity firm located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of London-based Apax Partners LLP | Finance |
Adams Capital Management, Inc.
 Adams Capital Management, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Adams Capital Management, Inc. (ACM) is a venture capital firm founded in 1994 by Joel Adams. The firm is headquartered in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. | Finance |
NextIO, Inc.
 NextIO, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology NextIO, Inc. develops chips for computer servers. It provides PCI Express-based I/O solutions for the data center, telecommunication, digital media, and other dense computing environments. The company offers services to the information technology and telecommunication industries. The company was founded by K.C. Murphy and Chris Pettey in 2003 and is headquartered in Austin, TX. | Electronic Technology |
Optellios, Inc.
 Optellios, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Optellios Inc. manufactures fiber-optic based advanced technology solutions. Its products include fence, multi-zone intrusion detection, data links and pipelines. The company was founded by Jay S. Patel in August 2000 and is headquartered in Newtown, PA. | Commercial Services |
Luminescent Technologies, Inc.
Luminescent Technologies, Inc. Electronic Equipment/InstrumentsElectronic Technology Luminescent Technologies, Inc. provides computational metrology and inspection solutions to the semiconductor industry. Its computational metrology and inspection is a set of mathematical approaches designed to improve the resolution, throughput, and accuracy of defect inspection, review and repair in mask shops and wafer fabs. The firm's products include computational lithography and defect management and luminescent automated image processing hub. The company was founded by Daniel S. Abrams, Jack J. S. Herrick, Stanley Osher and Eli Yablonovitch in 2002 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. | Electronic Technology |
Qspeed Semiconductor, Inc.
 Qspeed Semiconductor, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Qspeed Semiconductor provides the industry's highest performance silicon power devices to help reduce worldwide energy consumption. Based on proprietary technologies, the company's portfolio includes highly efficient and cost-effective 300V and 600V power diodes for AC-to-DC power supplies, inverters, motor controls and other power applications greater than 150W. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., Qspeed has a global sales and distribution network across Asia, North America and Europe. | Electronic Technology |
DATAllegro, Inc.
 DATAllegro, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services DATAllegro, Inc. provides data warehouse appliances for financial, telecommunications, and retail industries. It offers data warehouse appliances, including RAIDW, which maximizes data input/output speed; DIRECT DATA STREAMING that enables customer queries to access data using sequential disk input/output tuning; and ULTRA-SHARED NOTHING, which reduces network traffic. The company also provides DATAllegro v3, which allows customers to scale up or scale out data warehouse as needed. DATAllegro was founded in June, 2003 by Stuart Frost and Mark Thacker and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA. | Technology Services |
Twelvefold Media, Inc.
 Twelvefold Media, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Twelvefold Media, Inc. operates as a data company and provides online advertising services. The company was founded by Jeffrey Glover, Todd Parsons, and Mitch Ratcliffe on November 29, 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Commercial Services |
First Insight, Inc.
 First Insight, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services First Insight, Inc. provides predictive analytic platform that retailers use to select the most profitable new products for improved sales, margins, and inventory turnover. The firm's predictive analytics solution gives retailers guidance for product design, buying, assortment planning, pricing, and marketing decisions. The company was founded by Gregory J. Petro in 2007 and is headquartered in Warrendale, PA. | Technology Services |
Fotomoto, Inc.
 Fotomoto, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Fotomoto is an e-commerce system that gives everyone the power to offer print-on-demand for their images on their own site, from independent photographers to graphic designers and illustrators to large enterprises. It doesn't claims to be the 'leading' e-commerce system for website owners, nor is it on the 'bleeding edge' of 'Web 3.0' technology. And it is certainly not trying to 'start a technical revolution'. It just thinks it makes more sense to bring a Buy Button to the place your images are, not the other way around. They love making things simple, both for you and your customers. This is not rocket science-it's not even science. It's just e-commerce done right. Its simple and robust one-line script brings e-commerce to all of your images, no matter if you have a few images, or an archive with millions of photos. You just add a Buy Button, and let it take care of the rest; billing, printing, packaging, shipping, and even customer support. Founded at the end of 2008 and funded by respected Venture Capital firms, it is here to help you focus on what you do the best: generating high quality images. | Commercial Services |
Hazelcast, Inc.
 Hazelcast, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Hazelcast, Inc. develops, distributes and supports open source in-memory data grid. It provides commercially licensed hazelcast enterprise, management center and professional open source training, development support, and deployment support services. The company was founded by Talip Ozturk, Enes Akar and Fuad Malikov in 2008 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA. | Technology Services |
McKinsey & Co., Inc.
 McKinsey & Co., Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Commercial Services |
Touchdown Technologies, Inc.
Touchdown Technologies, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Touchdown Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures and supports MEMS probecards. It products include flash, and dram. The firm offers ACCU-TORQ and GIGA-TORQ probecards for testing full pin count NAND and DRAM wafers. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Baldwin Park, CA. | Electronic Technology |
Intrinsity, Inc.
 Intrinsity, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Intrinsity, Inc. provides electronic design automation software and services. Its design automation platform provides Sim14, a custom simulator for NDL logic verification; Plan14 that manages the floor planning and integration of blocks designed using NDL; Finish14, a design for manufacturability flow that modifies LVS and DRC clean layouts; and Build14, a block build tool. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Austin, TX. | Electronic Technology |
National Venture Capital Association
National Venture Capital Association Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services National Venture Capital Association provides business association services. It facilitates networking opportunities and provides research data to its members. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC. | Commercial Services |
Rafter, Inc.
 Rafter, Inc. Commercial Printing/FormsCommercial Services Rafter, Inc. provides online course materials management solutions. The firm is helping campuses make course materials and higher education as a whole more affordable for students. It creates a technology platform designed to manage all kinds of content, digital and physical. The company was founded by Colin Barceloux in 2006 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA. | Commercial Services |
Mindshare Medical, Inc.
Mindshare Medical, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Mindshare Medical, Inc. develops clinical decision support technology for clinicians and healthcare organizations. The company was founded by Samir Chowdhury, Ilya Goldberg, Michael Calhoun and Jack Kreindler in 2014 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA. | Technology Services |
IBM Ventures
IBM Ventures Investment ManagersFinance IBM Ventures (IBM Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in New York. | Finance |
Cytegen Corp.
Cytegen Corp. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Cytegen Corp. engages in the development and discovery of therapies that extend health span. The company is headquartered in Shorewood, WI. | Commercial Services |
Contract Wrangler, Inc.
Contract Wrangler, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Contract Wrangler, Inc. develops contracts management software. The company was founded by Neil M. Peretz and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA. | Technology Services |
AV8 Ventures
AV8 Ventures Investment ManagersFinance AV8 Ventures (AV8 Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | Finance |
Global Weather & Climate Solutions, Inc.
Global Weather & Climate Solutions, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Global Weather & Climate Solutions, Inc. provides radio occultation data for weather forecasting, climate research and space weather monitoring by launching satellites. The company was founded by Chris Charles McCormick and E. Robert Kursinski in 2012 and is headquartered in Golden, CO. | Commercial Services |
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