Ryan Gembala grew up working on wildfire air tankers in rural Montana, giving him an unusual operational background among VCs that informs his respect for complex real-world execution. He focuses on being the first institutional investor in highly technical frontier companies, particularly those that measure the natural world in new ways through advanced sensing and robotics. Ryan Gembala grew up working on wildfire air tankers in rural Montana, giving him an unusual operational background among VCs that informs his respect for complex real-world execution. He focuses on being the first institutional investor in highly technical frontier companies, particularly those that measure the natural world in new ways through advanced sensing and robotics.