Abby Kearns

Board Director & Executive Leader | Scaling Open Source & AI Platforms | Strategy & Growth | Ex-Cloud Foundry, Puppet

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2023
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Board Member
Jul 2023
InvokeAI is a leading creative engine for Stable Diffusion models, empowering professionals, artists, and enthusiasts to generate and create visual media using the latest AI-driven technologies.
Board Member
Jan 2023
StackPath is an edge cloud platform, providing cloud services that are physically closer to end users than core cloud providers’ services. StackPath edge compute—including Virtual Machines and Containers—and edge applications—including CDN and WAF—are strategically located in the world’s most densely populated areas, and united by a secure private network fabric and a single management system. Customers ranging from Fortune 50 enterprises to one-person startups trust StackPath to give their latency-sensitive workloads and applications the speed, security and efficiency they require.
Investor
Feb 2022
Plural is designed for DevOps and platform engineering teams to automate and streamline the lifecycle management of Kubernetes fleets. Plural provides a single pane of glass interface for managing multiple clusters, automating upgrades, and advanced monitoring/observability complete w/ enterprise grade security features. We’re making Kubernetes accessible to engineers of all skill levels by reducing painful day 2 operational challenges.
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2022
Helping data teams be ethical and responsible without getting in their way.
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2021
Mimoto proactively identifies security breaches, so they can be addressed and stopped in near real-time.
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2021
At vCluster, we build the tools that make Kubernetes simpler, more efficient, and cost-effective. Our open-source projects enable platform engineers to streamline multi-tenancy, reduce cloud costs, and scale their Kubernetes environments with ease. With over 100 enterprises using our solutions, we’re focused on helping teams move faster, save money, and maintain stability in their platform stacks. Whether you’re managing multi-tenant clusters or optimizing resource usage, vCluster provides the building blocks to make it happen.
Investor
2021
The most difficult decisions software leaders make are about people, not code. Are we staffed for high performance? Are we supporting our people and teams with the skills they need to succeed? What will my organization look like in six months? Most reorgs fail to achieve their goals. HR tools dont help much here. The founders of Orgspace spent years in software leadership, and we set out to build a tool to make ourselves and our people more successful—to help get folks the context they need to make the right decisions. We want to make every software team great, and for our leaders to spend more time growing talent and building relationships and less time shoving names around in spreadsheets. Were just getting started. Visit https://orgspace.io now to sign up for the closed beta.
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2021
Founded by creators of Testcontainers, AtomicJar, Inc. is on a mission to build tools that developers love, and change automated testing for the better.
Investor
2021
Taiyō.AI is the worlds first infrastructure intelligence platform. Our objective is to improve efficiency and outcomes for global infrastructure stakeholders by providing better data, intelligence, and tools for early-stage planning across the industry.
Board Member
Dec 2020
Lightbend removes the architectural hurdles associated with globally distributed, cloud-native application environments. We equip development teams with the technology and expertise to build microservices that are resilient to failure, scale effortlessly, and instantaneously process data for in-the-moment business critical decisions and hyper-personalized customer experiences. Eliminate the barriers of back-end complexity and long lead-times that prevent business from moving forward quickly. Unleash the full power of the cloud with Lightbend.
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2023
Board Member
Jul 2023
InvokeAI is a leading creative engine for Stable Diffusion models, empowering professionals, artists, and enthusiasts to generate and create visual media using the latest AI-driven technologies.
Board Member
Jan 2023
StackPath is an edge cloud platform, providing cloud services that are physically closer to end users than core cloud providers’ services. StackPath edge compute—including Virtual Machines and Containers—and edge applications—including CDN and WAF—are strategically located in the world’s most densely populated areas, and united by a secure private network fabric and a single management system. Customers ranging from Fortune 50 enterprises to one-person startups trust StackPath to give their latency-sensitive workloads and applications the speed, security and efficiency they require.
2022
Limited Partner
Nov 2022
Operator Collective is a venture fund and dream team community of operator LPs. OpCo brings together 200+ of tech’s most exceptional executives from diverse backgrounds to invest in and supercharge the next generation of enterprise tech. Meet the Collective Venture Model™.
EIR
Oct 2022
We are an early-stage B2B focused venture firm that specializes in building enterprise leaders. We invest in companies that have found PMF. We dont care where youre based, as long as you have happy customers, innovative software, and a team hungry to leave their mark on the enterprise. We will never solicit or ask you for personal information via X, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, etc.
Investor
Feb 2022
Plural is designed for DevOps and platform engineering teams to automate and streamline the lifecycle management of Kubernetes fleets. Plural provides a single pane of glass interface for managing multiple clusters, automating upgrades, and advanced monitoring/observability complete w/ enterprise grade security features. We’re making Kubernetes accessible to engineers of all skill levels by reducing painful day 2 operational challenges.
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