The people behind the ideas.
The ideas behind the companies.

Common Room’s
Linda Lian
on integrating community into your company 
Pendulum’s
Mark Listes
on finding hidden narratives in social media 
OctoML’s
Luis Ceze
on bringing ML to all platforms 
Flexe’s
Karl Siebrecht
on transforming the logistics industry 
Spotnana’s
Sarosh Waghmar
on challenging a decades-old industry 
Highspot’s
Robert Wahbe
on customers, AI, and building relationships that last 
Nautilus Bio’s
Sujal Patel and Parag Mallick
on the proteome 
SeekOut’s
Anoop Gupta
on hiring and untapped talent pools 
Rover’s
Aaron Easterly
on the love of pets and finding the right partners 
RelationalAI’s
Molham Aref
on finding investors who believe in your passion 
Statsig’s
Vijaye Raji
on using data to build better products 
Crowd Cow’s
Elizabeth Liu
on the power of e-commerce to transform an industry Company List
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Battlesnake is a multi-player programming game for experienced web developers where your code is the controller. We build games for programmers that encourage self-directed learning, are challenging to master, and are fun to share with friends and family.Initial Investment2021Battlesnake is a multi-player programming game for experienced web developers where your code is the controller. We build games for programmers that encourage self-directed learning, are challenging to master, and are fun to share with friends and family.
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CloudCoreo was a next-generation cloud management platform that enabled DevOps and SecOps teams to scale efficiently within and across cloud providers.Initial Investment2016CloudCoreo was a next-generation cloud management platform that enabled DevOps and SecOps teams to scale efficiently within and across cloud providers.FoundersJason Needham
Paul AllanInvestment JourneyAcquired by VMWare 2018Initial Investment2016 -
DevZero makes developers more productive by providing a platform for cloud-based software development environments that work with all IDEs, existing dev tooling, and enterprise integrations. Their mission is to be the de facto dev platform for modern enterprises.Initial Investment2021DevZero makes developers more productive by providing a platform for cloud-based software development environments that work with all IDEs, existing dev tooling, and enterprise integrations. Their mission is to be the de facto dev platform for modern enterprises.
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MontyCloud is a multi-cloud management and governance company.Initial Investment2019MontyCloud is a multi-cloud management and governance company.
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MotherDuck makes analytics fun, frictionless, and ducking awesome. In partnership with the team building open-source database DuckDB, MotherDuck was founded by former leaders at some of the most innovative companies in data. It is on a mission to combine the elegance and speed of DuckDB with the collaboration and scalability of the cloud to provide a serverless, easy-to-use data analytics platform for data, small and large.Initial Investment2022MotherDuck makes analytics fun, frictionless, and ducking awesome. In partnership with the team building open-source database DuckDB, MotherDuck was founded by former leaders at some of the most innovative companies in data. It is on a mission to combine the elegance and speed of DuckDB with the collaboration and scalability of the cloud to provide a serverless, easy-to-use data analytics platform for data, small and large.
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Pulumi is a platform for cloud software development. It is designed for developers and DevOps teams to build and manage cloud native software, from containers, serverless functions, APIs, to infrastructure, using one consistent approach.Initial Investment2017Pulumi is a platform for cloud software development. It is designed for developers and DevOps teams to build and manage cloud native software, from containers, serverless functions, APIs, to infrastructure, using one consistent approach.
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Shippable is a cloud-based continuous integration and delivery platform (CI/CD) that developers use to ship code and deliver app and microservices updates and plans to integrate it into its enterprise+ platform.Initial Investment2013Shippable is a cloud-based continuous integration and delivery platform (CI/CD) that developers use to ship code and deliver app and microservices updates and plans to integrate it into its enterprise+ platform.FoundersManisha Sahasrabudhe
Avi CavaleInvestment JourneyAcquired by JFrog 2019Initial Investment2013 -
XetHub brings data and code together so that hybrid and remote teams can collaborate seamlessly in a git-enabled environment at scale and speed.Initial Investment2022XetHub brings data and code together so that hybrid and remote teams can collaborate seamlessly in a git-enabled environment at scale and speed.