Marcel Botha is an entrepreneur, engineer, architect and investor. He experiments with novel hardware ideas on the edge between consumer and medical products.  Feeding off his passion for product acceleration and digital manufacturing, he guides product development teams from concept to commercialization. Marcel founded 10XBeta in 2010, since building an international team of designers and engineers who together have initiated, accelerated, and commercialized a diverse range of venture-backed and self-funded products with notable fortune 500 partners. Marcel has founded, invested and sold positions in multiple companies since graduating from MIT in 2006. Current and prior affiliations include Patients Pending Ltd., Common Sensing INC., BioWink GmbH, Infant Ventures INC., MIT Council for the Arts, MIT Smart Cities, MIT Mobile Experience Lab, MIT Digital Design and Fabrication Group and MIT Center for Bits and Atoms.