Prior to joining Hitachi Ventures, Toby worked for Credit Suisse in Switzerland, across private, corporate, and investment banking, focusing on entrepreneurs and executives across the life cycle of their journey, finding solutions for private and corporate needs. At Hitachi Ventures, he is particularly looking into digital technologies to scale human activity.
He holds an MBA from IESE in Spain and is also a former officer in the Swiss military.
Areas of Interest
- AI
- Cybersecurity
- Data
- Digital Infrastructure (HW & SW)
- Human Efficiency and Augmentation
Active Investments
Aerial Robotics that increase grid capacity and automate power line construction
Infravision is an integrated aerial robotics platform featuring custom drones, an electric tensioner unit, and intelligent software / communications that automates and controls the power line stringing process with high precision, significantly enhancing safety, speed, and efficiency over traditional methods.
CEO
Cameron Van Der Berg
Sectors
Environment
Stage
Series B
Deal Team
Pete Bastien
Grace Mathis
Matt Morris
Somil Singh
Tobias Graf
Unified software supply chain security management platform
Lineaje Inc. provides Continuous Software Supply Chain Security Management to companies that build or use software. Destructive supply chain attacks, undetectable by existing cybersecurity tools, are growing dramatically impacting thousands of companies with one compromise. From SolarWinds to Kaseya to OSS compromises, these attacks put software & digital brands and their customers at risk. Lineaje secures your Company from these attacks.
SBOM360 is the first product on this journey enabling you manage your entire supply chain consisting of applications you build, or buy in one place with common policies shared by your entire company.
CEO
Javed Hasan
Sectors
Digital
Stage
Series A
HQ
California
Deal Team
Gayathri (G) Radhakrishnan
Galina Sagan
Tobias Graf
Aditi Purandare
Automating data operations in one unified platform
Pantomath delivers automated data operations for modern enterprises, unifying real-time monitoring, cross-platform lineage, AI-driven root-cause and impact analysis into a single platform.
CEO
Shashank Saxena
Sectors
Digital
Stage
Series B
Deal Team
Gayathri (G) Radhakrishnan
Aditi Purandare
Tobias Graf
Revolutionizing Cyber Security with an AI-powered Command Center.
StrikeReady’s functionality scope goes far beyond SoC automation co-pilots, while combining elements of SIEM (proactive), SOAR (reactive/defensive) and workflow automation solutions with AI-led agent-based assistance.
StrikeReady augments security professionals’ work by providing a common workspace that empowers faster, better decision-making.
CEO
Yasir Khalid
Sectors
Digital
Stage
Series A
HQ
Texas
Deal Team
Wolfgang Seibold
Galina Sagan
Tobias Graf
Developer of a fusion energy system intended to create a limitless source of zero-emission power for a sustainable future with an improved stellarator approach.
Thea is a planar coil stellarator design revolutionizing fusion through arrays of planar magnets that enable new ways of designing, manufacturing, and dynamically controlling stellarators to achieve commercial fusion in a cost-competitive way.
CEO
Brian Berzin
Sectors
Environment
Stage
Series A
HQ
Texas
Deal Team
Wolfgang Seibold
Tobias Jahn
Elena Ballesteros
Tobias Graf