Co-Founder and Managing Partner
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Ben Marcus invests or supports investments through UP.Partners's published strategy: Back founders bringing intelligence into physical systems across aerospace, robotics, energy, defense, manufacturing and mobility.
Engineers and industrial founders choosing hard physical-world problems where AI can make infrastructure more adaptive, efficient and capable.
Purely digital products without a meaningful connection to physical infrastructure appear outside the firm's current stated focus.
Explain the physical system, technical breakthrough, AI advantage, validation, regulatory or manufacturing path and capital needed to reach the next proof point.
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Ben Marcus is a current Co-Founder and Managing Partner at UP.Partners, according to the firm's official roster. No prior employer, education or personal portfolio is inferred where the official source does not publish one.