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Russ Wilcox is the Co-Founder and Partner at Pillar. Prior to VC, he has 20 years of start-up operating experience and has founded three companies. At Pillar, he is a general partner investing ~$500K to $2 million in seed-stage companies coming out of the Boston-area innovation ecosystem. Pillar typically leads and plays an active role in helping founders to create new companies and scale them to success. As Co-Founder and CEO at E Ink Corporation, he commercialized electronic paper invented at the MIT Media Lab. E Ink conducted materials research, filed patents, scaled a factory, and shipped tens of millions of displays for the Amazon Kindle and other devices. To date consumers have purchased more than $10 billion of E Ink-related devices and content. Following E Ink, Russ co-founded Transatomic Power, advancing a source of clean energy; and Piper Therapeutics, conducting pre-clinical studies for an immuno-oncology drug. Russ actively supports the Boston entrepreneurial community
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 6 investors at Pillar VC are tracked.
- • 94 investors hold the Co-Founder and Partner role in VCSift. Russ Wilcox is one of them.
- • 491 investors are based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated June 2026.
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- Cambridge, US
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