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Bruce McWilliams

Bruce McWilliams

Bruce McWilliams

CEO, Bossa Nova Robotics, the leading developer of service robots for the global retail industry

Bruce McWilliams is an American business executive and serial entrepreneur specializing in technology. He has co-founded and managed multiple companies in the field of electronics, semiconductor, packaging and display. McWilliams is currently Chief Executive Officer of Bossa Nova Robotics Bossa Nova Robotics, the leading developer of service robots for the global retail industry and Chairman of TetraVue.

About Bossa Nova Robotics
Headquartered in San Francisco, Bossa Nova empowers retailers to make educated and informed inventory decisions by collecting and analyzing terabytes of data about consumer products in the store. Bossa Nova’s robots provide fast inventory analysis enabling retailers to optimize task planning and helping their employees to more effectively stock shelves. Bossa Nova has solved the challenges to deploy fully autonomous robots in populated environments at scale. For more information, please visit http://www.bossanova.com.

Testimonials

It’s a great conference and it brings together great content from really terrific speakers like we just had and then a network of really interesting entrepreneurs.

Andy Tsao

Managing Director, Silicon Valley Bank

The quality of entrepreneurs and the international flavor: it’s always fun to see where innovation is happening around the world. It was fun for us to see not only the quality of thought but also pace of execution and the teams here are becoming ready to play.

Byron Deeter

Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners ($4B under management)

Excellent! Great conference! Lots of People! Lot of energy! Enthusiastic! Everything is just going so good.

Vish Mishra

Venture Director, Clearstone Venture Partners ($600M under management)

The founders of the conference are very authentic and these are people that want to change the world and make things better for entrepreneurs and help people and I think that’s a great thing.

George Zachary

Partner, Charles River Ventures, (Midas List, 1st investor in twitter & Yammer, $1.4B under management)

It was great to present at SVOD and meet world-class entrepreneurs and investors. Our venture was off to a fast start in the funding round after the conference, we had an early closing to the round, and I look forward to being part of SVOD in the future!

Alexei Dunayev

CEO &CoFounder, TranscribeMe & Stanford MBA

I love coming to the Silicon Valley Open Doors! I discover entrepreneurs here every single year, and I think I’ve been to all of them.

Carol Sands

Founder, The Angels’ Forum

Great conference, interesting presentations and most important, relevant participants with concrete ideas and tremendous willingness to mentor and help startups.

Adi Bittan

Founder & CEO, OwnerListens & Stanford MBA

A lot of energy, lot of very dedicated entrepreneurs here, very passionate, very committed to what they’re doing.

Mitchell (Mitch) Kapor

Partner, Kapor Capital