Dr. Yvonne Lutsch is an accomplished Investment Principal at Bosch Ventures affiliate office located in Sunnyvale, and sources, evaluates, and executes venture capital deals in North America. Her specialty are investments in deep tech fields such as Machine Learning/AI, edge computing, robotics, industrial IoT, mobility, climate tech, next generation computing including quantum, semiconductors, or sensors. She is an investor and non-executive board member of Bosch Ventures’ portfolio companies InSyte Systems, Syntiant, Zapata Computing, UltraSense Systems, Aclima, and Recogni. Prior to this position Yvonne was Director of Technology Scouting and Business Development, building up an Innovation Center in Silicon Valley including startup scouting, business development, and innovation while advising executives of the Bosch business units on their strategy. She has more than two decades of solid experience in manufacturing operations and engineering in the automotive and consumer electronics space – gained through different executive roles at Bosch in Germany. Yvonne received a diploma in Experimental Physics from University of Siegen, Germany, and holds a PhD in Applied Physics from University of Tuebingen, Germany. Outside of work she mentors & advises several startup CEOs, serves as a board member at women@Bosch Silicon Valley, and volunteers in Bosch’s Mentoring Program. Yvonne is a regular conference speaker and panel moderator/participant on her investment focus areas, Venture Capital and Corporate Open Innovation at conferences and events such as AI Hardware/Edge AI Summit, Q2B, ACG, Silicon Catalyst, and others.

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Independent Board Director or Board Advisory Roles.

SPEAKING TOPICS

• Venture Capital

• Deep Tech

• Open/Corporate Innovation