Simon LancasterGeneral Partner at Omni VenturesSpeaker
Profile
Simon Lancaster is Founding General Partner of Omni Ventures, the ManufacturingTech venture firm he co-founded in 2021. Omni writes $700K to $1M first checks into pre-seed founders building software, AI, robotics, automation, and connected industrial systems for the manufacturing economy. Omni's oversubscribed $33M Fund I is anchored by Allocator One, with LPs across 14 countries; its portfolio companies have gone on to raise from Khosla Ventures, Bessemer, Eclipse, and Kleiner Perkins.
Before Omni, Simon spent 11 years at Apple, leading business across advanced manufacturing engineering and product design architecture, and holds more than 50 patents.
He co-authored Unlocking Alpha: The Rise of the Niche VC and speaks regularly at Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, and ETH Zurich.
Agenda Sessions
When AI comes to life: private markets at the nexus of physical intelligence
, 10:20View Session