Robert Dobkin

Active Investor

Founder & Chairman

Milpitas, California

Robert Dobkin, Founder & Chairman is an active investor based in Milpitas, California. This profile covers what Robert Dobkin backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Mr. Robert Dobkin is the Founder and serves as Chairman of Intuitive Private Equity. He is a Co-Founder at Intuitive Foundation. He serves as its Chief Technology Officer & Vice President at Linear Technology. He also serves as an Advisor at Genia Technologies. Mr. Dobkin served as a board member at SleepIQ Labs. He is the Technical Advisory Board Chairman at BAM Labs. He serves as the Technology Advisor of Aerielle Group International. He served as a Board Member at Actnano. He is a renowned inventor, entrepreneur, and is considered one of the founding fathers of analog integrated circuit design. He co-founded and served as Chief Technical Officer of Linear Technology Corporation, which he helped grow to 5,000 employees and well over $1 billion in revenue until ultimately selling Linear to Analog Devices for $14.8 billion in 2017. He is also Co-Founder and Chairman of Intuitive Private Equity. He has served on the boards and advisory councils of many companies, including Genia Technologies - alongside CMU alumnus Dietrich Stephan, HMicro, Quellan, and Spectra7 Microsystems; and has made several hundred private equity investments. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and started his career in his hometown of Philadelphia at GTE Defense Systems. He soon moved on to analog module manufacturer Philbrick Nexus in Boston, MA, and then, in 1969, he joined National Semiconductor in Santa Clara, CA, to work for Widlar designing analog integrated circuits. He stayed at National for 11 years and rose to Director of Advanced Circuit Development. He holds more than 100 patents in the field of linear integrated circuits. He has authored over 50 technical papers, including the three-volume technical guide, Analogue Circuit Design. He and his wife, Kasey, founded The Robert and Kathleen Dobkin Intuitive Foundation in 2017 with a mission to support education, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the fields of engineering, technology, medicine, and science. The Foundation grew out of his extensive engineering career and forty-five years of investment experience, and Kasey's passion for helping others.

Investor type: Angel
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Invests in: SaaS & EnterpriseHardware & Deep Tech
Location: Milpitas, California
Typical check: $500K
Past investments: 3

Notable investments

AferoBarcelona DesignNational Semiconductor

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