Ben Sampson
Managing Director at Standard Investments
Portland, Maine Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Sampson is a Managing Director with nine years of venture investment and operational experience focused on industrial technology, intelligent infrastructure, and transformative business models. He leads Standard Ventures’ early-to-growth investments, partnering with founders to modernize manufacturing, energy, and built-environment sectors and has a track record including companies like Desktop Metal, Proterra, and Saildrone. Prior to Standard, he spent eight years at GE Ventures sourcing and scaling startups across transportation, logistics, and manufacturing, combining technical rigor with commercial deal execution and M&A experience. His engineering foundation from Dartmouth and hands-on product work—ranging from steam expanders to compressor development and MATLAB-driven optimization—gives him uncommon domain fluency for a VC. Energized by entrepreneurial teams and hard technical challenges, he blends strategic thinking with a knack for spotting practical, high-impact engineering innovations. He also pursues AI experimentation on GitHub with the lighthearted mission of “training AIs to get on their good side,” signaling curiosity about applied ML alongside industrial tech investing.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
AB, Engineering Sciences modified with Studio Art, AB, Engineering Sciences modified with Studio Art at Dartmouth CollegeMasters, Engineering Management, Masters, Engineering Management at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
Github Skills (41)
sitemap9
dom8
zeplin7
decomposition7
correlation7
arxiv7
boilerplate7
mongodb6
react6
nodejs6
synthetic-data6
apollo6
styled-components6
finance6
autoencoder6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
benhsampson/pye57
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Patched version of pye57 for use in LARKI services
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 5 months
benhsampson/wikishirts-new
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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