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Pathbreaker Ventures raises $12 million to invest in emerging tech like VR and robotics

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Pathbreaker Ventures has closed its first venture capital fund to invest $12.9 million in early stage companies in emerging technologies.

Ryan Gembala, general partner of Pathbreaker, is looking to fund companies developing technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, robotics, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, connected homes and cars, and space technologies. That seems like a wide range, but Gembala said in an exclusive interview (and a post) with VentureBeat that he will focus on founders who have specialty knowledge to solve big technical problems.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.