# Aidan Madigan-Curtis
Aidan Madigan-Curtis is a venture capital investor, originally Canadian, and a former operations executive who has been a partner at [Eclipse Ventures](https://www.edgepedia.org/eclipse-ventures) since August 2021, investing in physical AI, robotics, manufacturing, energy, defense, and supply chain companies after operational careers at [Bridgewater Associates](https://www.edgepedia.org/bridgewater-associates), Apple, and Samsara.[1](https://evca.org/content/meet-aidan-madigan-curtis-partner-at-eclipse-ventures) • [2](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210804005772/en/Eclipse-Ventures-Expands-Investment-Team-to-Advance-Mission-to-Modernize-Essential-Industries)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Current role | Partner, Eclipse Ventures (announced August 4, 2021)[2](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210804005772/en/Eclipse-Ventures-Expands-Investment-Team-to-Advance-Mission-to-Modernize-Essential-Industries) |
| Investing focus | Physical AI, robotics, manufacturing, energy, defense, supply chain[3](https://tanktalks.substack.com/p/the-brutal-truth-about-hardware-startups) |
| Prior operating roles | Apple Global Operations (first Apple Watch, iPhone 6S); Samsara employee No. 27, later VP and GM of Connected Sites[2](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210804005772/en/Eclipse-Ventures-Expands-Investment-Team-to-Advance-Mission-to-Modernize-Essential-Industries) |
| Education | BA in economics, Harvard; MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business[1](https://evca.org/content/meet-aidan-madigan-curtis-partner-at-eclipse-ventures) |
| Known investment | Led Eclipse's investment in Verkada; 10 board seats including Bedrock Robotics, Stand Insurance, Simbe Robotics, Liberate, VoxelAI[4](https://people.equilar.com/bio/person/aidan-madigan-curtis-simbe/7801785) |
| Firm context | Eclipse managed over $2 billion at her hire; later announced a $1.3 billion physical-AI fund[2](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210804005772/en/Eclipse-Ventures-Expands-Investment-Team-to-Advance-Mission-to-Modernize-Essential-Industries) • [5](https://www.crux.com/critical-capital/physical-ai-aidan-madigan-curtis) |
| Early life | Grew up in a small town in the Canadian Rockies; originally Canadian[1](https://evca.org/content/meet-aidan-madigan-curtis-partner-at-eclipse-ventures) |
## Overview
Eclipse Ventures announced Madigan-Curtis as a new partner on August 4, 2021, alongside Jay Knafel, to invest the firm's more than $2 billion under management in industrial sectors including manufacturing, logistics and supply chain, transportation, construction, and healthcare.[2](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210804005772/en/Eclipse-Ventures-Expands-Investment-Team-to-Advance-Mission-to-Modernize-Essential-Industries) Bloomberg Markets lists her as Partner at Eclipse Ventures LLC,[6](https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/22407620) and the firm's official team page carries her profile as a current partner.[7](https://eclipse.capital/team/aidan-madigan-curtis)
Her investing practice follows Eclipse's stated mission to modernize essential industries. In interviews she describes investing across physical AI, robotics, manufacturing, energy, defense, and supply chain,[3](https://tanktalks.substack.com/p/the-brutal-truth-about-hardware-startups) and frames the opportunity in an "atoms and bits" formulation: the firm's thesis, which she shares, is that the next generation of trillion-dollar companies will be built where atoms and bits connect.[5](https://www.crux.com/critical-capital/physical-ai-aidan-madigan-curtis)
## Early life and education
Madigan-Curtis grew up with just her mother in a small town in the [Canadian Rockies](https://www.edgepedia.org/canadian-rockies); a later interview identifies the town as Penticton, Canada.[1](https://evca.org/content/meet-aidan-madigan-curtis-partner-at-eclipse-ventures) • [3](https://tanktalks.substack.com/p/the-brutal-truth-about-hardware-startups) She holds a BA in economics from Harvard University and an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.[1](https://evca.org/content/meet-aidan-madigan-curtis-partner-at-eclipse-ventures) At Stanford she has since co-taught in the Technology Ventures Program.[4](https://people.equilar.com/bio/person/aidan-madigan-curtis-simbe/7801785)
## Career before venture capital
Finance. Out of Harvard she joined Bridgewater Associates as an investment analyst and spent five years there, rising to director, before pursuing her Stanford MBA.[1](https://evca.org/content/meet-aidan-madigan-curtis-partner-at-eclipse-ventures)
Apple operations. After Stanford she took a job on Apple's global operations team to work on the original [Apple Watch](https://www.edgepedia.org/apple-watch).[1](https://evca.org/content/meet-aidan-madigan-curtis-partner-at-eclipse-ventures) Her focus was building the System-in-Package (SiP) manufacturing process and facility, the upstream process for producing the miniaturized components in the Apple Watch; in an EVCA interview she describes scaling that production from hundreds to millions of units, a process Apple later rolled out across other products.[1](https://evca.org/content/meet-aidan-madigan-curtis-partner-at-eclipse-ventures) Eclipse's own announcement says she also helped launch the iPhone 6S and helped lead what the firm describes as Apple's most scaled manufacturing division.[8](https://eclipse.vc/blog/welcome-aidan-madigan-curtis-and-jay-knafel/)
Samsara. She then joined Samsara, the industrial IoT company, as employee No. 27.[2](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210804005772/en/Eclipse-Ventures-Expands-Investment-Team-to-Advance-Mission-to-Modernize-Essential-Industries) She rose from Head of Operations to VP and General Manager of the Connected Sites business unit, managing a team of over a hundred people;[1](https://evca.org/content/meet-aidan-madigan-curtis-partner-at-eclipse-ventures) the Connected Sites unit served a customer base exceeding 20,000.[2](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210804005772/en/Eclipse-Ventures-Expands-Investment-Team-to-Advance-Mission-to-Modernize-Essential-Industries) At Samsara she was an early executive, helping scale the company from pre-product to public company.[3](https://tanktalks.substack.com/p/the-brutal-truth-about-hardware-startups) At Samsara she was also a founding member of the company's Privacy & Ethics Board and its Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Board.[2](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210804005772/en/Eclipse-Ventures-Expands-Investment-Team-to-Advance-Mission-to-Modernize-Essential-Industries)
## Role at Eclipse Ventures
At Eclipse she invests from the firm's industrial and deep-tech thesis, backing companies in physical AI, robotics, manufacturing, energy, defense, and supply chain.[3](https://tanktalks.substack.com/p/the-brutal-truth-about-hardware-startups) In a Crux interview she and the firm traced what the podcast describes as the industrial arc from the [Gilded Age](https://www.edgepedia.org/gilded-age) to the modern age of physical AI, including the geopolitical relationship with China and the energy shifts required to power that future.[5](https://www.crux.com/critical-capital/physical-ai-aidan-madigan-curtis)
## Notable investments and board seats
Equilar's profile states that she led Eclipse's investment in [Verkada](https://www.edgepedia.org/verkada), the enterprise security camera company, and sits on 10 boards, including Bedrock Robotics, Stand Insurance, Simbe Robotics, Liberate, and VoxelAI.[4](https://people.equilar.com/bio/person/aidan-madigan-curtis-simbe/7801785)
## Public positions and writing
Her public commentary concentrates on manufacturing and hardware economics. [The Eclipse](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-eclipse) team page features her authored piece "Why the 'Design for Manufacturing' Mind Kills Companies."[7](https://eclipse.capital/team/aidan-madigan-curtis) Equilar lists her as a Fortune Most Powerful Women Ambassador, a board member of the [Human Rights Campaign](https://www.edgepedia.org/human-rights-campaign), and a co-teacher at Stanford's Technology Ventures Program.[4](https://people.equilar.com/bio/person/aidan-madigan-curtis-simbe/7801785) Her Samsara-era governance roles included founding membership of the Privacy & Ethics Board.[2](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210804005772/en/Eclipse-Ventures-Expands-Investment-Team-to-Advance-Mission-to-Modernize-Essential-Industries)
## References
1. Meet Aidan Madigan-Curtis, Partner at Eclipse Ventures — EVCA. https://evca.org/content/meet-aidan-madigan-curtis-partner-at-eclipse-ventures
2. Eclipse Ventures Expands Investment Team to Advance Mission to Modernize Essential Industries — Business Wire, August 4, 2021. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210804005772/en/Eclipse-Ventures-Expands-Investment-Team-to-Advance-Mission-to-Modernize-Essential-Industries
3. The Brutal Truth About Hardware Startups and Physical AI with Aidan Madigan-Curtis of Eclipse Capital — Tank Talks. https://tanktalks.substack.com/p/the-brutal-truth-about-hardware-startups
4. Aidan Madigan-Curtis — Equilar ExecAtlas. https://people.equilar.com/bio/person/aidan-madigan-curtis-simbe/7801785
5. Atoms, bits, and the trillion-dollar manufacturing race — Crux podcast. https://www.crux.com/critical-capital/physical-ai-aidan-madigan-curtis
6. Aidan Madigan-Curtis, Eclipse Ventures LLC: Profile and Biography — Bloomberg Markets. https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/22407620
7. Aidan Madigan-Curtis — Eclipse Team Page. https://eclipse.capital/team/aidan-madigan-curtis
8. Welcome Aidan Madigan-Curtis and Jay Knafel — Eclipse blog. https://eclipse.vc/blog/welcome-aidan-madigan-curtis-and-jay-knafel/
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