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David Sorenson

Former CTO · Keystone Robotics

Ann Arbor, MI, US

Veteran CTO who has taken three deep-tech companies from prototype to production manufacturing and one to IPO.

30+ years experienceEnglish

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30yrs

Operating leadership

Senior roles

Areas of expertise

5.0★

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What David is known for

David Sorenson has spent 30 years as a hands-on technology leader in robotics, industrial IoT, and embedded systems. As CTO of Keystone Robotics he scaled the engineering team from 35 to 140 and shepherded the company through an IPO, owning everything from firmware to cloud fleet management. Earlier he led the team that brought an autonomous warehouse platform from a single prototype to 600 deployed units across 40 facilities. David now mentors technical founders on hardware-software integration, technical due diligence, and the realities of scaling deep-tech engineering.

Expertise & sectors

Core expertise

Deep-tech leadership Embedded systems Robotics Technical due diligence Hardware-software integration

Sectors

Robotics Industrial IoT

Experience

Chief Technology Officer · Keystone Robotics

2015 — 2024

VP Engineering · Ironwood Automation

2008 — 2015

Ways to work together

15-min intro

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Technical Due Diligence

$12,000

Independent technical due diligence on a deep-tech or hardware target for investors and acquirers.

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Founder Strategy Call

$800 · 60 min

One-hour call for technical founders working through hardware-software architecture or scaling decisions.

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What people say about David

“David's diligence caught two architecture risks our team had completely missed. It reshaped how we structured the deal.”

RLRebecca Lin · Partner, Foundry Ventures

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