Brad Porter

Brad Porter is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Collaborative Robotics, a warehouse automation company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Before launching the startup in 2022, he served as Chief Technology Officer at Scale AI and Vice President of Robotics Fulfillment at Amazon. During his executive tenure at Amazon Robotics, Porter directed global artificial intelligence initiatives and scaled the corporation's automated fulfillment systems to include more than 750,000 deployed robots. At Collaborative Robotics, he recently secured a $100 million Series B funding round in early 2024, bringing the firm's total venture capital raised to over $140 million. His earlier engineering career included technical leadership positions at Tellme Networks and Netscape. Holding computer science degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his current focus centers on developing general-purpose collaborative robots for enterprise supply chain operations.