Fusion Fund invests in enterprise AI, industrial automation, and digital biology domains in pre-seed, seed, and series-a companies in the United States and Canada.The firm has invested in ~80 companies across 3 flagship funds and raised over $350m so far.

Sixty Degree Capital invests in software, digital infrastructure, healthcare, and biotech domains across stages (as early as Series A, as late as pre-IPO).

We are conserving wildlife on earth by increasing the porosity of linear infrastructure (roads, freeways, trains, and canals), i.e. (in nerd-speak) defragging(Nature)!

Berkeley SkyDeck Fund supports entrepreneurial activity through Berkeley SkyDeck, the world's premier academic accelerator. LP in Skydeck Fund-II.Investment themes: ML infrastructure & operations, data infrastructure, robotics, and industrial metaverse.Affiliated with a range of companies: Jacobi Robotics, RIIICO, Efemarai, Quasara AI, and Drishya AI

A Stanford spin-off provides cutting-edge embedding and reranker models that can be company-specific and specific to domains like finance, law, and software code retrieval.

Help drive company strategy, product-market fit, go-to-market, early customer engagements, pricing, and fundraising for early-stage startups.Themes & Interests: Data Infrastructure & Privacy, Vertical ML Platforms, Foundation Models, Digital Twins & Digital Threads, Industrial Metaverse, Economics & Business Models of Data & AI.AI+Enterprise- Voyage AI (voyageai.com)- Accern Corp. (accern.com)- Enkrypt AI (enkryptai.com)- Airwave (airwave.us)- Superbio (superbio.ai)- Collagia (collagia.com)- Stamp Free (stampfree.co.uk)AI+Industrial- RIIICO GmbH (RIIICO.com)- Plato Systems (plato.systems)- Jacobi Robotics (jacobirobotics.com)- Owl Autonomous Imaging (owlai.us)Longevity & Bio-Sciences- Mitrix Bio (mitrix.bio)- Noetic Fund (noeticfund.com)

The investor of choice for founders and entrepreneurs building next-generation AI companies.

NLP uniquely optimized for the financial vertical.

Generating intelligent digital twins of factory floors via AI and 3D data, in a Figma-like 3D environment.

Improving the ROI on robot automation solutions via software.

Applying DL to drive productivity and safety in supply chain and manufacturing operations.

Model Rights Management - monetizing, enabling, and protecting AI models in production.

It's the ultimate sidekick for every field job. Instant answers to your questions right when you need them! Also, the ultimate LLM app!

Sand Hill Angels is a group of Silicon Valley investors who have been helping entrepreneurs reach the next level for over two decades. It is unique because of the collective experience of its members at deep-tech companies.Conducted due diligence (some as a deal lead) and invested in several deep technology companies in data infrastructure, analytics, vertical machine learning, and computer vision.

Planned and executed the first major product release, made key hires, and drove the initial set of customer engagements as an executive leadership team member.Led solution implementations for banks and social networks that enabled cross-border data access, data exchanges for trading third-party data sets, and social media data sharing. Designed new abstractions for privacy-preserving data access via SQL and ML algorithms.Recruited engineers to work on data privacy, ML algorithms, Spark runtime, and ML models. Key Technologies: Authorization extensions for SQL, Python, Scikit-learn, Spark, and SparkML.

Foghorn's edge computing platform formed the basis of GE's Predix Edge offering.As a member of the senior executive team, I am responsible for strategic planning and execution related to product direction and design, key use cases, and customer deployments.Developed data science solutions focused on operational intelligence for assembly lines, elevator maintenance, and windmill power generation, leading to initial deployments.Co-designed product sub-systems for supporting multi-tenancy, geo-code-based analytics, and scaling of system management, enabling larger customer deployments.Key Technologies: Python, Java, C++, ZeroMQ, InfluxDB, Docker, MQTT, and OPC-UA.

Designed and led new strategies for managing the lifecycle of many products across the company-wide product portfolio, driven by business objectives set by the CXO team.Focused on touchless delivery of software with security engineering and shared services.Led a group of ~130 employees in the U.S., Bangalore, Beijing, and Shanghai.Led the effort to lower engineering spending from 20% to 7-8% of total product revenue by migrating projects across geographies and automating engineering processes.

Spearheaded strategy development and execution for India while leading new product offerings, cross-functional initiatives, and regional key customer opportunities.Managed ~40% of the worldwide R&D headcount at the India lab. In six years, the engineering organization grew fivefold to more than 600 engineers.Helped create new engineering teams for Cloud, CEP, MDM, ILM, UM, B2B, and the CTO's office.Created new function teams for product management, usability eng, and documentation.Explored and funded applied research projects in ML, CEP & Hadoop at tier-1 institutes.Recruited over 300 people, including SSE, PSE, Staff SE, managers, directors, and PMs.Implemented processes to sustain hiring at pace; at one stage, made one offer/day for five months.Achieved R&D attrition rate lower than the company's average; instituted leadership pipelines.Led a cross-functional team, from engineering, pre-sales, support, and services, in a bid for Indonesia's largest telecom provider's metering and billing systems.Proposed and implemented an IP buy-back model for connectors, leading to 40% cost savings.Ranked amongst the top 150 most influential people in Big Data and Hadoop by GreyCampus. Key Technologies: Cloud - iPaaS, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Brokerless Messaging, MDM, and CEP.

Member of the Product Leadership Team (PLT) comprising all product heads.Jointly devised strategies at brand and product levels for WebLogic and AquaLogic brands.Received three promotions in three years, finally leading to a GM role for WebLogic Integration.General Manager, WebLogic Integration (WLI), 4th largest product with ~$100M in revenue.- Led a cross-functional org (Dev, QA, PM, Doc, PGM) based in San Jose, Bangalore & London- Shared responsibility for go-to-market, co-existence with other WebLogic products, product technical direction, and standards like BPEL.General Manager, Liquid Data / AquaLogic Data Services - XQuery-based data middleware.- Grew product revenue from $200K to $5M in one year.- Made a business case for growing the TAM by expanding into the MDM/CDI market.- Hosted CXO events, helped close strategic deals, and developed reference customers.- Led a cross-functional org (Dev, QA, PM, Doc, PGM) based in Silicon Valley and Bangalore.

Led cross-functional product team (dev, QA, PM, doc, support) for the Management ServerPresented risk assessment and operational reviews to the senior management teamParticipated in the due diligence process relating to mergers and acquisitionsJVM Performance & Operational CharacteristicsMonitoring & Management of Distributed ApplicationsMember, Expert Group for JDBC Rowsets & JMX Remoting

The sixth employee at the company, I introduced the founding CEO to the rest of the foundersImplemented a distributed file system using commodity servers and JBODsFunded by KPCB (Vinod Khosla) and NEA (Scott Sandell & Forest Baskett)Authentication & Authorization for File System ProtocolsGeographical Data Replication for a File System

Represented HQ at Oracle, South Africa, for Oracle8i launch held concurrently in 22 countriesConducted due diligence on startups relating to software sandboxing (Cal Berkeley spin-off), JMS message broker, and the first JDBC drivers for SQL databases.SQL Engine Extensibility, SQL-3Database (ORDBMS) Extensibility SDKSQL Support for Multi-media Data-typesMember, Expert Group for EJB1.0, JSP1.0 and Servlets2.2

I evaluated various object-oriented (graph) databases as the storage layer for Netscape's initial LDAP server offering. This work involved functional evaluation and performance benchmarking.

Worked at Object-Oriented Database (OODBMS) startups in various roles -- Employee #27 at Versant Object Technology (Object Sciences Corp.). Integrated the company's database with GIS software installed on American tanks during the first Iraq war.- At GemStone Corp. (aka Servio Logic Corp.), deployed as the primary DBA for the company's eponymous database product at IBM's memory manufacturing plant in Toronto, Canada.- At Object Design, spearheaded efforts to enter the OODBMS market for Smalltalk applications.