Alex Kolicich focuses on IT and Bio-IT investments.
Prior to joining 8VC, Alex was a Partner at Formation 8. Alex also worked with Peter Thiel as a Principal at Mithril Capital Management, a growth-stage venture fund, where he helped lead investments in AppDirect, C2FO and Helion Energy.
Preceding his venture career, Alex worked as engineer and early-product advisor at Clarium, Palantir, and Google. He was an early member of the Clarium Capital quantitative engineering team (with Joe Lonsdale) and close advisor/collaborator with the early Palantir team; advising on product design and contributing to the product. At Google Research, Alex worked on Google Street-Views before and during launch. Preceding Street-Views, also at Google, he worked on the development and launch of the Google Checkout product.
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Announcing Our Investment in Edra
Ontology was the silent word of the 2010s. Palantir built a $400B company on a simple insight: raw data alone isn’t enough to understand how a business operates. You need to map the nouns and verbs of a business—the objects, their states, their relations—on top of the data to navigate the intricacies of any operationally complex organization. The ontology was the grammar of the enterprise. Building an ontology is an immersive, painstaking process of extracting knowledge from the minds of experts across a company.
Announcing Our Investment in Edra
Ontology was the silent word of the 2010s. Palantir built a $400B company on a simple insight: raw data alone isn’t enough to understand how a business operates. You need to map the nouns and verbs of a business—the objects, their states, their relations—on top of the data to navigate the intricacies of any operationally complex organization. The ontology was the grammar of the enterprise. Building an ontology is an immersive, painstaking process of extracting knowledge from the minds of experts across a company.
Quince Crosses the Chasm
In economics, there’s a class of goods where demand rises as price rises. These are referred to as Veblen goods, named after economist Thorstein Veblen who coined the phenomenon of “conspicuous consumption.” For certain products, the price is the product. An Hermès Birkin doesn’t cost upwards of $20K because of the leather. It retails for this price because costing $20K is the point. The scarcity and price aren’t bugs, but the entire feature set. This is why “affordable luxury” is an oxymoron. If you make it affordable, you destroy the very thing that makes it luxury.
Quince Crosses the Chasm
In economics, there’s a class of goods where demand rises as price rises. These are referred to as Veblen goods, named after economist Thorstein Veblen who coined the phenomenon of “conspicuous consumption.” For certain products, the price is the product. An Hermès Birkin doesn’t cost upwards of $20K because of the leather. It retails for this price because costing $20K is the point. The scarcity and price aren’t bugs, but the entire feature set. This is why “affordable luxury” is an oxymoron. If you make it affordable, you destroy the very thing that makes it luxury.
The AI Wave
Since the advent of Silicon Valley, we’ve seen six major technological waves: “Electronic Tools,” “Semiconductor,” “Enterprise,” “Telecom,” “Consumer”, and “Smart Enterprise.” We can now add a seventh: AI Applications & Services.
The AI Wave
Since the advent of Silicon Valley, we’ve seen six major technological waves: “Electronic Tools,” “Semiconductor,” “Enterprise,” “Telecom,” “Consumer”, and “Smart Enterprise.” We can now add a seventh: AI Applications & Services.
An Early Map for a Useful Robotics Future
If reading this, you’re likely able to recall the first moment you marvelled at some act of physical autonomy - the sort our progenitors might have pronounced spellwork. The memory is for some more recent than for others; it may have been a Waymo or a mobile manipulator, a humanoid or a quadruped. In any case, the experience seems to have surpassed that threshold of ubiquity which affords us all the right to say: robotic intelligence has captured our mainstream public imagination.
An Early Map for a Useful Robotics Future
If reading this, you’re likely able to recall the first moment you marvelled at some act of physical autonomy - the sort our progenitors might have pronounced spellwork. The memory is for some more recent than for others; it may have been a Waymo or a mobile manipulator, a humanoid or a quadruped. In any case, the experience seems to have surpassed that threshold of ubiquity which affords us all the right to say: robotic intelligence has captured our mainstream public imagination.
Announcing the Augment-8VC Partnership
Earlier this year, we led Augment’s $25 million seed round, our second time backing Harish Abbott (CEO) and Art Rivilis (CTO). The momentum around Augment is unmistakable, as they demonstrate how AI will reshape the logistics industry—and announce their Series A funding round.
Announcing the Augment-8VC Partnership
Earlier this year, we led Augment’s $25 million seed round, our second time backing Harish Abbott (CEO) and Art Rivilis (CTO). The momentum around Augment is unmistakable, as they demonstrate how AI will reshape the logistics industry—and announce their Series A funding round.
The American Development Renaissance: Our Investment in Bedrock Robotics
The concept of building holds mythic status in the world of new venture creation, and the mythos often obscures the difficulty. In construction, there are no such illusions. Construction is a $2 trillion U.S./$13 trillion global industry where automation has barely scratched the surface of possibility. Beneath that surface is dirt—unfathomable amounts. For new housing subdivisions, commercial real estate developments, data centers to power the AI boom, highway expansions, and countless other projects, American abundance begins with dirt.
The American Development Renaissance: Our Investment in Bedrock Robotics
The concept of building holds mythic status in the world of new venture creation, and the mythos often obscures the difficulty. In construction, there are no such illusions. Construction is a $2 trillion U.S./$13 trillion global industry where automation has barely scratched the surface of possibility. Beneath that surface is dirt—unfathomable amounts. For new housing subdivisions, commercial real estate developments, data centers to power the AI boom, highway expansions, and countless other projects, American abundance begins with dirt.
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