Ben Uretsky

Founder @ Sky Ventures & Founding CEO @ DigitalOcean

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2021
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Jul 2021
interviewing.io lets software engineers practice technical interviewing anonymously and land great jobs in the process. Become awesome at technical interviews, get fast-tracked at amazing companies, and find your next job, all in one place.
Investor
May 2021
Vantage is a cloud cost observability platform with more than a dozen native integrations, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Datadog, Snowflake, Databricks and more. Thousands of organizations globally, ranging from startups to F500 companies, rely on Vantage to optimize billions of dollars in annualized infrastructure costs. Vantage was founded by former employees of AWS, Digital Ocean, and GitHub and is backed by top venture capital firms, Andreessen Horowitz and Scale Venture Partners.
Investor & Advisor
Dec 2020
OhMD is the leading conversational patient engagement software. Our solution enables text-based patient communication and HIPAA compliant texting for thousands of medical practices and hospitals. Healthcare providers can increase patient engagement exponentially while improving patient satisfaction and the overall health of their patient population.
Investor
Aug 2020
Codesphere transforms deployment into a developer-centric self-service experience, reducing time-to-market and costs. It eliminates the wall by enabling developers to manage their own infrastructure needs end2end. On Codesphere you can deploy anything from simple frontends to multi service production landscapes and LLMs. Includes zero config autoscaling, replicas and managed services.
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Nov 2019
Plural helps public policy teams build AI directly into your public policy and regulatory work with specialized AI for bill tracking, regulatory compliance, and legislative analysis. Our customers include Google, Comcast, NBC Universal, The Associated Press, Common Cause, The University of Minnesota, Rockefeller Foundation, and other leading advocacy, policy research, and corporate government relations teams around the world. Plural is backed by leading names in venture capital including S3, Anthos, Menlo, M25, Bread & Butter, and Techstars. | Get started today: pluralpolicy.com
Investor & Advisor
2019
Accern is the leading NLP company empowering enterprises to develop industry-specific solutions. Offering a comprehensive NLP platform, models, data, and chat tailored for multiple industries, the company accelerates time-to-value for leading organizations across Financial Services, Government, and beyond. With a streamlined no-code workflow complemented by pre-built taxonomies, over 50,000 classification models, and access to billions of rows of public data, Accern is revolutionizing operational efficiency across the global workforce. Accerns remarkable achievements have earned it a notable position in Gartner®s 2023 Hype Cycle™ for Data Science, Machine Learning, and Emerging Technologies in Banking, as well as recognition by Fast Company as one of the Next Big Things in Tech. Trusted by elite data teams from global leaders like Capgemini, UniCredit, Interactive Brokers, Mizuho Bank, and Standard Bank, Accern facilitates the building and deployment of NLP solutions at scale. Headquartered in New York, NY, Accern is honored to be recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 company. The company has raised $40M from esteemed institutional investors including Fusion Fund, Tribe Capital, Shasta Ventures, Allianz Strategic Ventures, Mighty Capital, and many others. For more information about Accern, please visit www.accern.com.
Board Member
Jun 2011
DigitalOcean simplifies cloud computing so businesses can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With its mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean helps developers at startups and growing digital businesses rapidly build, deploy and scale, whether creating a digital presence or building digital products. DigitalOcean combines the power of simplicity, security, community and customer support so customers can spend less time managing their infrastructure and more time building innovative applications that drive business growth.
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2021
Investor
Jul 2021
interviewing.io lets software engineers practice technical interviewing anonymously and land great jobs in the process. Become awesome at technical interviews, get fast-tracked at amazing companies, and find your next job, all in one place.
Investor
May 2021
Vantage is a cloud cost observability platform with more than a dozen native integrations, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Datadog, Snowflake, Databricks and more. Thousands of organizations globally, ranging from startups to F500 companies, rely on Vantage to optimize billions of dollars in annualized infrastructure costs. Vantage was founded by former employees of AWS, Digital Ocean, and GitHub and is backed by top venture capital firms, Andreessen Horowitz and Scale Venture Partners.
2020
Investor & Advisor
Dec 2020
OhMD is the leading conversational patient engagement software. Our solution enables text-based patient communication and HIPAA compliant texting for thousands of medical practices and hospitals. Healthcare providers can increase patient engagement exponentially while improving patient satisfaction and the overall health of their patient population.
Investor
Aug 2020
Codesphere transforms deployment into a developer-centric self-service experience, reducing time-to-market and costs. It eliminates the wall by enabling developers to manage their own infrastructure needs end2end. On Codesphere you can deploy anything from simple frontends to multi service production landscapes and LLMs. Includes zero config autoscaling, replicas and managed services.
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Mar 2020
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