# Jeremiah Robison

> Jeremiah Robison is the founder and CEO of CIONIC, established in 2018. A Stanford-trained computer scientist based in San Francisco, he previously worked on handwriting recognition at Apple, mobile browser development at Openwave, social applications as Slide’s CTO and software and data science at Jawbone. His work spans embedded systems, large-scale services, wearable computing and product design.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at CIONIC
- **Organizations:** CIONIC, Apple, Openwave Systems, Slide, Jawbone, WAWOS
- **Education:** BS and MS in Computer Science, Stanford University
- **Known for:** Contributed to Apple Newton handwriting recognition., Led mobile browser development at Openwave; professional biographies report deployment on more than one billion handsets., Served as CTO and founding management team member at Slide, which was acquired by Google.

## Career timeline

- **1995** — Named to the All Pac-10 Academic team while playing Stanford water polo.
- **Before 1999** — Worked at Apple on handwriting recognition for the Newton handheld computer.
- **1999-2005** — Led browser development at Openwave Systems; dates reported by a public professional-profile capture.
- **2005-2010** — CTO and founding management team member at Slide; dates reported by a public professional-profile capture.
- **2010-2017** — VP of Software at Jawbone; dates reported by a public professional-profile capture.
- **2018** — Founded CIONIC; LDV Capital invested when the company was a one-person team with an alpha prototype.
- **2020** — Launched the Superpowering the Human Body podcast, opening with Brian Kolonick.
- **2023** — CIONIC and fuseproject’s Neural Sleeve received IDEA Gold for Digital Interaction and Dezeen Design Project of the Year.

## Achievements

- Contributed to Apple Newton handwriting recognition.
- Led mobile browser development at Openwave; professional biographies report deployment on more than one billion handsets.
- Served as CTO and founding management team member at Slide, which was acquired by Google.
- Oversaw software engineering and data science at Jawbone.
- Founded CIONIC in 2018.
- Earned All Pac-10 Academic recognition in Stanford water polo in 1995.
- Led CIONIC during its design collaboration with fuseproject, which received the 2023 Dezeen Design Project of the Year award.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Appeared on Medtech Talk with Geoff Pardo, discussing his career and company-building experience.
- **2025-10** — Publicly discussed CIONIC’s second-generation product receiving a TIME Best Inventions 2025 special mention.

## Links

- Website: https://cionic.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerobi/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/jerobi

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Last updated: 2026-10-25