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About Investor

Kai Backman is a Partner at Lifeline Ventures, focusing on investments in messaging, medical devices, cloud infrastructure, and IoT companies from pre-seed through seed stages, with investment ranges typically between $660K and $1.3M. With over three decades of experience in software, Kai spent a decade in the San Francisco Bay Area learning from top software engineers and worked as an engineer at Google where he led the Docs server team. He founded Tinkercad, the first browser-based 3D CAD tool with 7M users globally, and Airstone, a company developing an experimental 32-dimensionally connected supercomputer.