Mytra Automates the most common task in industry: Moving and storing material
Founded
2022
Location
South San Francisco, CA
Funding
78M
Employees
50+

We are a motivated team from all corners of the technology world, bringing expertise across hardware, software, and operations.

We are focused on automating the most common industrial task – moving and storing material – with flexible, scalable, and intuitive robotics and AI.

Team
25+ years experience leading development of large-scale enterprise systems. Led global Distributed Automation Systems, Manufacturing Optimization & Scalability, and AI/Vision tracking at Tesla & Rivian. Chief Product Architect @ Xerox PARC. Repeat entrepreneur.
Ahmad Baitalmal
CTO
Leads the Design Studio at Mytra. Led Tesla’s V4 Supercharging Concept development and production design, along with other flagship energy products including special projects, and was part of the design team for the Model Y, Cybertruck, and TeslaBot.
Alberto Esses
Design
Leads software, robotics, and AI Product Management at Mytra. More than 12 years of experience leading development of consumer & enterprise software at Google, YouTube, and Slack. Founding member of 5 zero-to-one product teams.
Angela Kirchhof
Product
Leads Finance and Pricing at Mytra. 9+ years of experience leading FP&A teams at Stitch Fix, Morphe, and Mars Wrigley. Boston sports fan and former ski instructor.
Brian Kembel
Finance
Leads Recruiting and HR at Mytra. 12+ years of experience leading, scaling, and developing Talent Acquisition teams, supporting software, hardware, and G&A functions. Most recently scaled Tesla's FSD and Optimus teams in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Motion Planning and SLAM.
Chris Kusaba
People
Leads Internal Operations and Program Management at Mytra, including Manufacturing, Supply Chain, System Integration and Hardware Test. Over 12 years in Manufacturing and Program management roles at Tesla, CloudKitchens and Caterpillar. Launched the Model X and Model 3 on the NPI team, and brought up factory automation in Gigafactory Shanghai at Tesla. Scaled real estate and infrastructure for thousands of kitchens across NA at Cloudkitchens
Chris Lara
Operations
20 years of software and systems development experience across manufacturing, energy, and automotive industries. 7.5 years at Tesla where he led Model 3 material flow automation, started/led Tesla’s mobile robotics team developing in-house mobile robots for its factories, and started/led the TeslaBot (Humanoid) program. Loves all sports involving a ball or skis.
Chris Walti
CEO
Leads server and UI software development at Mytra. Over 18 years of experience developing full-stack software and leading high performing engineering teams. Responsible for engineering multiple new product launches. Forever devoted to Reading FC
Dave Stevens
Software
Leads Mechanical Engineering at Mytra. 25+ years of mechanical design, manufacturing, and test/validation leadership. Led mechanical design for Tesla mobile robotics, arm sub-system design for TeslaBot. Led multiple design and automation engineering teams at Boeing over 15 years. Hot sauce enthusiast.
Gagan Thable
Mechanical Engineering
Leads Sales and Business Development at Mytra. 30+ years managing and selling multi-million dollar supply-chain software and material handling solutions into multi industry corporate accounts at companies like Intelligrated, Manhattan, and Kindred.
Joe Nentwig
Business Development
Leads Systems Engineering at Mytra. 10+ years leading hardware projects and teams. Led technical and system design for Origin's industrial DLP ecosystem through $100M acq. by Stratasys and led international HW team for Stratasys Origin BU. Expert on DFX & MFG scalability, enthusiastic amateur on snowboarding and surfing.
John Paton
Systems Engineering
Leads Electrical Engineering at Mytra. 14 years at Tesla progressing from individual EE contributor to leading full traction inverter design team. Designed and scaled safety-critical circuits utilized in every S, X, 3, and Y. Grew team responsible for the design, scaling, and sustaining of an industry-renowned traction inverter using cutting edge Silicon Carbide (SiC) power devices.
Laurel Fullerton
Electrical Engineering
Leads Robotics Software and Firmware at Mytra. 10+ years of experience at Tesla and Amazon, leading and developing software for a wide array of applications including: controls, robotics, power electronics, quantum compilation, health care, accounting reconciliation and big data ETL. Die-hard Chicago Bears fan and poker player.
Matt Cordoba
Robotics
Leads Solutions Engineering and Marketing at Mytra. 19 years experience designing automation solutions for global operations and leading large scale teams across multiple disciplines at UPS, Walmart, and Stitch Fix. Launched Walmart's Global eCommerce Supply Chain Innovation team. Founded Operations Automation & Strategy team at Stitch Fix for IPO readines, transitioning to running all of Operations post public offering.
Matt Naslund
Solution Engineering
Leads systems and hardware Product Management at Mytra. 20+ years of experience across enterprise software, industrial domains, and manufacturing (Tesla). Brought multiple products from idea to scaled market adoption, through internal product development, acquisitions, and partnerships at Workday and Meltwater.
Misha Shemyakin
Product
Leads Go-To-Market Operations and Strategy at Mytra. Over 12 years leading operations teams of 3 to >100 people and developing innovation strategy. Prior US Air Force Officer, recovering D1 soccer player, and skydive airshow demonstrator.
Stephanie Clements
GTM Operations
Investors
Greenoaks
Eclipse Ventures
Humba Ventures
Abstract Ventures
Promus Ventures
LifeX Ventures
515 Ventures
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