Daniel Alvarez

®️ Building Brand at @Infravision_UAS
💥 Founder of PROTOSTAR
⚡️ Energy • Tech • AI
📸 iPhone + Drone Photography
📍 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇯🇵

[Daniel Alvarez @ImDanielAlvarez]

Very excited to share that I’ve joined @Infravision_UAS as Director of Brand Marketing, leading the company’s global brand, marketing, and strategic communications efforts across a rapidly growing footprint spanning three continents.

Infravision is an aerial robotics company tackling one of the most complex and consequential challenges of our time: building power infrastructure faster, safer, and more affordably. We've just announced a $91 million Series B led by GIC, Energy Impact Partners, Hitachi Ventures, and Activate Capital — funding that will fuel the next phase of growth, from advanced engineering and system innovation to manufacturing scale-up and global market expansion. (And yes, we’re hiring!)

I couldn’t be happier to join such a world-class, mission-driven team led by Cameron Van Der Berg, a founder who’s spent his career developing hard tech to accelerate electrification and the energy transition. Grateful for the opportunity, Cam.

To learn more about Infravision and today's news, visit https://t.co/HGdGOD5PpN or read the press release linked below.

As for PROTOSTAR, I’ll continue keeping the brand alive through occasional content and industry commentary, though I’m pausing all new client initiatives to fully focus on Infravision’s next chapter.

Appreciate everyone who’s supported the journey so far, and excited for what’s ahead.

Onwards and upwards!

DA

[Infravision @Infravision_UAS]

Proud to share that Infravision has raised $91 million led by GIC, with participation from Activate Capital and Hitachi Ventures, as well as existing investor Energy Impact Partners.

The funding will help us scale our aerial robotics system for power grid construction and maintenance – helping unleash reliable energy infrastructure faster, safer, and more affordably.

As efforts like the U.S. Department of Energy (@ENERGY) Speed to Power Initiative underscore, expanding and modernizing the grid is critical to national energy security and the broader energy transition. The International Renewable Energy Agency (@IRENA) recently echoed that urgency, noting that outdated electricity grids are among the main reasons the world is falling short of global electrification targets.

Infravision’s technology directly supports these goals, enabling utilities and developers to meet surging demand driven by electrification, AI, and industrial growth.

Today, our CEO, Cameron Van Der Berg, shares what this milestone means for our mission and why we’re hiring across engineering, operations, and field roles to accelerate grid expansion and resilience.

Watch the video below, and read the full announcement here: https://t.co/DhMlQjdK5b

@EnergyImpact_

[Daniel Alvarez @ImDanielAlvarez]

it was a good day

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🇨🇴⚽️

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@Jason Not a flex.

[Aaron Cannon @AaronLCannon]

I started talking to my co-founder like Claude

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CONGRESS

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TEMS type of mornin' @temsbaby

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3 ALBUMS!!! 🤯

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"the most important skill is the simplest one: doing what you say you will do" #FactsOnly

via @auren

https://t.co/cCWgqXeSO9

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels. This is fully autonomous running Helix-02 https://t.co/IdZR0T1F5I

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Mood

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🌘 https://t.co/ywSGph7JYg

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Godspeed, Artemis II 🚀

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Happy 50th, Apple 🍎 #Apple50

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Apple Park #WWDC25

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@SenSanders surveillance capitalism

[Bill Gross @Bill_Gross]

What was I thinking?

30 years ago this week I started a “1-year experiment” to build a startup factory based loosely on Thomas Edison’s laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

It was early 1996 and the Internet was growing like crazy after the Netscape IPO, with a whopping 30 million global users (which seems hysterically tiny now). But I felt that this was a disruptive event that with the potential for many new businesses. I wanted to make a lab where I could take my favorite 12 ideas, try one a month for a year, and see if we could make a go of dreaming up, starting, and growing companies.

After a year, 5 of those 12 had failed, 7 were able to get additional funding beyond the seed capital we provided, and eventually 5 of our earliest companies went public. We learned so many lessons living through the dot com boom and crash, the 2007 boom and 2008 crash, more recently the Cleantech boom and crash, and now the Ai boom. With a great deal of good timing, good luck and an amazing team of people I worked with over the years, we were able to start more than 150 companies in the last 30 years.

I believe that entrepreneurship unlocks human potential and provides so much personal growth. I love helping other entrepreneurs be successful, and hope to give back as much as I can from the joys and challenges of the last 30 years of Idealab (here is a link to my top lessons learned:
https://t.co/YGXdnfbbdn).

I am so grateful for the tens of thousands of people who came into our orbit to help make the dreams of each of our companies come true.

Thank you so much, and Happy Birthday, Idealab!
Sincerely, Bill

[Daniel Alvarez @ImDanielAlvarez]

“When we expect certain behaviors of others, we are likely to act in ways that make the expected behavior more likely to occur.”

Loved piece by @SahilBloom on the 'Pygmalion Effect,' referring to the impact of belief & expectations in shaping outcomes.

https://t.co/GrqKDFVgOi

[Auren Hoffman @auren]

repeat founders make different mistakes than first time founders. It is easier to make first sales and get a false signal on product market fit when you have good connections and know how to sell

[Infravision @Infravision_UAS]

Our CEO, Cameron Van Der Berg, sat down with Katie Fehrenbacher (@katiefehren) at @Axios to talk about our $91M Series B raise and how our aerial robotics system is helping build the grid faster, safer, and more affordably.

The story digs into what makes our approach different, why we’re scaling globally, and how drones are changing the future of power line construction.

Huge thanks to our investors — GIC, Activate Capital, Hitachi Ventures, and Energy Impact Partners — and to our team around the world making it happen every day.

Read the full story on Axios: https://t.co/k7my4o1J8n

[Daniel Alvarez @ImDanielAlvarez]

Kiké!!! ⚾️