Ori Inbar

Founder & Managing Partner

Ori is the world’s leading expert in augmented reality and has devoted the past 10 years to fostering the AR ecosystem. In 2009, Ori was the co-founder and CEO of Ogmento (renamed Flyby Media - Acquired by Apple), one of the first venture-backed companies conceived to develop augmented reality games and tech. In 2012, Ori founded AugmentedReality.org, a non-profit organization on a mission to advance augmented reality in order to advance humanity. AugmentedReality.org has a moonshot goal to inspire 1 billion active users of augmented reality by 2020 and is the producing organization behind AWE, the world’s largest AR event in Silicon Valley, Asia, and Europe. Ori is a recognized speaker in industry events and a sought-after advisor for AR startups and initiatives. 

Previously, as Senior Vice President of Solution Marketing for SAP’s platform, Ori was responsible for the positioning and marketing of SAP NetWeaver - which under his leadership grew from a mere concept to a billion dollar business for SAP. 
Prior to SAP, Ori joined TopTier Software, as one of the first employees of this start-up.
He lead the development and introduction to the market of more than 15 multimedia and business applications including the world’s leading enterprise portal, which in 2001 was acquired by SAP for $400 Million.

Tom Emrich

Partner

Sometimes called the “man from the future” Tom Emrich is a leading voice in augmented reality, virtual reality and wearable tech. He is committed to driving adoption and innovation in technology which is augmenting the human experience. Tom is an active investor and founding partner at Super Ventures, the first fund dedicated to augmented reality. He is also a community builder having grown a community of over 250,000 professionals dedicated to augmented reality, virtual reality & wearable technology through We Are Wearables, the largest wearable tech community in the world and AWE (Augmented World Expo) the world's #1 AR+VR conference and expo with annual dates in the USA, China and Europe.  Tom has been recognized as a top global influencer for AR, VR and wearables and has presented talks at major conferences such as TEDx, SXSW, TechCrunch Disrupt SF, CVR, WT Conference, Wearable Technology Show, TOM*FW, and FITC. He regularly appears in the media as a futurist and expert including The New York Times, Huffington Post, Space Channel, CNN, BBC, CBC, Readers Digest, Globe and Mail and FASHION magazine. Tom's passion for this space is driven by his belief that wearable tech plays a critical role in our human evolution.

Matt Miesnieks

Partner

Matt has a unique commercial and tech operational background which he brings to Super Ventures to help early stage startups find product market fit. He most recently led an AR R&D team at Samsung and previously was co-founder & CEO of Dekko, the company that invented 3D AR holograms on IOS. Prior to this Matt led worldwide customer development at Layar in Amsterdam, resulting in their AR browser being pre-loaded on the majority of Android smartphones & promoted in high profile marketing campaigns. Before that Matt led Asia based commercial and technical teams for Sylantro, Openwave, Ascend Communications and founded + sold an ISP. Matt has raised approximately $15m for AR companies in the last 5 years & served in public company VP level roles. He is a formal advisor to 3 fast growing startups (30Mhz (EU), Fantasmo (US) and Yuno Juno (UK)). He has 4 AR patents pending and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Wollongong University.

Mark Billinghurst

Partner

Mark is the definitive voice in collaborative AR and interaction design for AR and wearable interfaces with multiple patents and citations of his research papers in the field. He developed some of the world’s first collaborative AR interfaces, and one of the first tools for visual authoring of AR scenes, BuildAR – a product of Envisage AR of which is the founder. In 2002, he founded the HIT Lab NZ, a leading AR research laboratory, which created 8 spin-out companies including Quiver which recently raised $1.5 million in seed funding and has seen over 2 million downloads of its AR colouring book application. Mark was also co-founder of ARToolworks (acquired in 2015 by DAQRI), which produced ARToolKit, the most popular open source AR tracking library. Professor Mark Billinghurst completed the first PhD on collaborative AR systems at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington and has received many accolades for his work including the 2013 IEEE VR Technical Achievement award for achievements in Augmented Reality research and commercialization, and the 2001 Discover Award for developing the AR MagicBook technology. He has over 20 years of experience in the research, commercialization and development of Augmented Reality technology.