Duran is one of the Founding Partners of Atlas Ventures, an industrial tech fund focused on domains such as energy, manufacturing, transportation and heavy industries. Previously, he set up and managed two industrial tech corporate VCs investing in similar domains and his prior investment experience spans mobility services, teleoperations, new generation logistics solutions, industrial AI, hydrogen and carbon capture solutions and robotics companies. Duran started his career in financial services, worked at BCG previously and has an MBA from INSEAD, and did his undergrad at Swarthmore College in the US.