Storm Ventures brings on two new partners at enterprise-focused firm
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This week, the company announced it has taken on two freshly minted partners, Arun Penmetsa and Paul Willard, to continue the mission.The two men join a firm with over $800 million in assets under management and each brings real world experience working at successful enterprise companiesWillard says he felt like he found kindred spirits when started talking to the folks at Storm because their mission matched so well with his work helping young enterprise companies.Willard, who was an aerospace engineer at Boeing in the 1990s, has a passion for airline-related startups, and when he was at Subtraction he helped a number of companies including Zipline , which is building robot airplanes to deliver emergency supplies like blood and medicine and Boom , a company building a new generation of supersonic transport planes.While he says that he is open to talking to any enterprise software startup, he has his eye on Robotics as a Service and drone companies in particular at the moment.