Mike Collett (@mikecollett) 's Twitter Profile
Mike Collett

@mikecollett

Founder, Managing Partner @PromusVentures. Investing in early-stage deep-tech startups. CHI/SF/LUX promusventures.com

ID: 14678484

linkhttps://medium.com/go-build-something calendar_today06-05-2008 20:21:03

6,6K Tweet

1,1K Followers

219 Following

Mike Collett (@mikecollett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fun to be at Smallsat Symposium 2024 in Mountain View yesterday to talk on "SmallSat Markets Are Maturing; Funding is Disrupted - What's Next?" panel! Another packed event and conference is always well run and attended! SatNews Events spacenews.com/venture-backed…

Mike Collett (@mikecollett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our Winter 2024 Promus Ventures Newsletter is out! Updates on our DeepTech portfolio and platform include: - Chef Robotics' $14.7M raise for AI-enabled food robotics - Jua's $16M Seed round for Weather AI - Arch closes on additional investors on top of $15M Series A and much

Our Winter 2024 <a href="/PromusVentures/">Promus Ventures</a> Newsletter is out! 

Updates on our DeepTech portfolio and platform include:

- Chef Robotics' $14.7M raise for AI-enabled food robotics
- Jua's $16M Seed round for Weather AI
- Arch closes on additional investors on top of $15M Series A

and much
Mike Collett (@mikecollett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Congrats to Roman Holzl and entire Munich-based RobCo team on their new $42.5M Series B led by Lightspeed! Privilege for Promus Ventures to be an early investor and invest again in this round with Sequoia and Kindred. siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/robc…

Mike Collett (@mikecollett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Congratulations to Rafał Modrzewski, Pekka Laurila and the entire @ICEYEfi team on their new $93M growth round led by Solidium! Promus Ventures first invested in ICEYE back in 2018. The company now employs more than 600 people and generated over $100M in revenue in 2023. ICEYE

Mike Collett (@mikecollett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our Promus Ventures Spring Update now out! Global highlights include: - Helsinki-based @ICEYEfi 's $93M growth round - Berlin-based RobCo's $42M Series B - Sacremento-based Rhombus' $26M Series B - India-based SatSure 's strategic investment from TransUnion - Denver-based

Our <a href="/PromusVentures/">Promus Ventures</a> Spring Update now out! Global highlights include:
- Helsinki-based @ICEYEfi 's $93M growth round
- Berlin-based RobCo's $42M Series B 
- Sacremento-based Rhombus' $26M Series B
- India-based <a href="/Sat_Sure/">SatSure</a> 's strategic investment from TransUnion
- Denver-based
Andrea Junker (@strandjunker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND STORY: French caretakers take the sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy and scrub it into the letters to give them the brown/gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil. x.com/DannyDeraney/s…

Rocket Lab (@rocketlab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We're on the cusp of our 50th launch. And we're on track to reach 50 faster than any other commercially developed rocket. So what’s changed since our very first Electron launch in 2017? Time for a stroll down memory lane 🧵

We're on the cusp of our 50th launch. 

And we're on track to reach 50 faster than any other commercially developed rocket. 

So what’s changed since our very first Electron launch in 2017?

Time for a stroll down memory lane 🧵
Mike Collett (@mikecollett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excited to back the terrific @Mytra team led by Chris Walti and Ahmad Baitalmal, who announced today $78M of funding through Series B! Founded by former Tesla and Rivian engineers, Mytra is building a unique 3D robotic + AI platform to dramatically change warehouse and supply

Mike Collett (@mikecollett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Congrats to Sacramento-based Rhombus on their new $45M Series C funding to further scale their cloud-managed physical security platform! The Rhombus team now serves over 3,000 customers with over 100K installed devices and cameras overseeing over 5M alerts per day to

Mike Collett (@mikecollett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Congrats to Alex Mans and the entire FLYR team on its new $295M funding in equity and debt led by WestCap! Now 700 employees strong, FLYR's vision is to rebuild the software infrastructure on which the global travel industry currently rests. Promus Ventures is privileged

Mike Collett (@mikecollett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our Fall Update from Promus Ventures is out! Highlights from our portfolio include: - FLYR's $295M Series D (SF) - Mytra's $78M Funding (SF) - $45M Series C for Rhombus (Sacramento) - Halter (Auckland/SF) Expands Farming Platform to US - The Exploration Company (Munich)

Our Fall Update from <a href="/PromusVentures/">Promus Ventures</a> is out! Highlights from our portfolio include:

- FLYR's $295M Series D (SF)
- Mytra's $78M Funding (SF)
- $45M Series C for Rhombus (Sacramento)
- Halter (Auckland/SF) Expands Farming Platform to US
- The Exploration Company (Munich)
FOX College Football (@cfbonfox) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Vandy goalpost traveled almost 3 miles to get to the Cumberland River 🔥😳 From tearing it down to ending up in the river it only took Vanderbilt Football fans a little over an hour to get the job done 🤯

Mike Collett (@mikecollett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are excited to partner with Founders Niels Jul Jacobsen and Mads Bendt to co-lead Denmark-based Capra Robotics’ new €11.3M Seed round with Supernova Invest! The round will help grow and scale the company’s wide platform of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for numerous

Mike Collett (@mikecollett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our latest Promus Ventures Winter Update is out! Moody's acquires Cape Analytics ICEYE adds $65M to expand SAR satellite constellations EarthAI raises $20M Series B Capra Robotics raises $12M Seed Lunar Outpost raises Series A Uplift360 closes Seed ...and many more articles,

Our latest <a href="/PromusVentures/">Promus Ventures</a> Winter Update is out!

Moody's acquires Cape Analytics
ICEYE adds $65M to expand SAR satellite constellations
EarthAI raises $20M Series B
Capra Robotics raises $12M Seed
Lunar Outpost raises Series A
Uplift360 closes Seed

...and many more articles,
Mike Collett (@mikecollett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fun to see Promus Ventures portfolio companies Rocket Lab (#9) and ICEYE (#20) on FastCompany's World's 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2025 List! Rocket Lab : fastcompany.com/91271123/rocke… ICEYE : fastcompany.com/91271117/iceye… Complete Fast Company List: fastcompany.com/most-innovativ…

Mike Collett (@mikecollett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Congrats to Rajat Bhageria and the entire Chef Robotics team on their new $20M Series A plus $22M of debt funding! It has been a privilege for Promus Ventures to partner with the team and sit on their Board all these years, having led their seed round back in 2021. Chef has

Rocket Lab (@rocketlab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Mission success for 'Symphony In The Stars' caps off a busy month of Electron launches: ✅Fastest launch turnaround from LC-1 ✅Four missions in June ✅Ten launches this year with 100% mission success

Mission success for 'Symphony In The Stars' caps off a busy month of Electron launches: 
✅Fastest launch turnaround from LC-1 
✅Four missions in June
✅Ten launches this year with 100% mission success