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About Investor

Lance Cottrell is President at Obscura Security and the founder of Feel the Boot, an education and advisory platform for early stage founders. He invests as an angel in pre-seed and seed stage companies, focusing on hardware, security, IoT, energy and climate tech, medical devices, enterprise software, SaaS, and marketplaces, typically writing checks in the $5K to $50K range. His career includes founding and leading Anonymizer Inc as President and Chief Scientist, serving as CTO and Chief Scientist at Abraxas Corporation, and working as Chief Scientist at Ntrepid, built on an academic foundation in physics and astrophysics from the University of California system.