Chip Hazard

General Partner and Co-Founder, Flybridge; Co-Founder and Investment Partner, XFactor Ventures; Board Member and early investor at MongoDB

📍 Boston, Massachusetts, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 46 investments📅 29 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Dec 2024
Arcade.dev is the action runtime for enterprise AI agents. We enforce your security and governance policies on every action, execute reliably across every business system, and govern your agents from a single control plane. Configure once and use any model, framework, and client. Deploy the first agent the same way you deploy the hundredth. Were proud to announce our recent $60 million Series A, led by SYN Ventures, with strategic investment from Morgan Stanley and Wipro Ventures. Check out our profile in the Wall Street Journal for more on how were solving the hardest problem in enterprise AI right now and why we are the team to solve it (see our Featured post).
Seed Investor
May 2024
Our technology eliminates the need for expensive and manual GPU optimization. MakoGenerate is an AI agent that writes and validates GPU kernels in CUDA, Triton, and more. MakoOptimize automatically tunes hyperparameters in vLLM and SGlang to maximize performance. MAKO was formerly known as A2 Labs.
Board Member
Mar 2024
Trusted by Leading Enterprises for AI/ML/LLM Risk Management & Security
Seed Investor
Jan 2024
Prime’s AI Security Architect helps Product Security teams scale design-stage coverage without adding headcount by automating design reviews, surfacing missed risks, and delivering actionable mitigation guidance into developer workflows.
Seed Investor
Oct 2023
The next generation of analytics is embedded in applications and AI. Not just BI, but analytics for end users and for agents. And next gen analytics demand a next gen data foundation. Real time analytical infrastructure seamlessly integrated into your developers application and AI stack. Dev and agent friendly interfaces and data engineering best practices built in. Fiveonefour is the developer platform for building on ClickHouse and integrating real time analytics into your applications and AI. Were the creators and maintainers of the MooseStack open source developer framework - the fastest way for developers to build analytics and AI apps on top of ClickHouse and other best in class open source analytical infrastructure.
Seed Investor
May 2023
Glimpse builds battery quality solutions for battery cell producers and cell buyers to gain tight control over their battery quality across factories, teams, and time. Combining the latest hardware advancements in X-ray technologies with cutting-edge image processing and computer vision software, Glimpse transforms any computed tomography (CT) scanner from a costly and complex tool into a scalable, collaborative, and cost-efficient battery Quality Management Solution.
Board Member
May 2022
You don’t patch because you expect it to break your shit. trackd provides insights into how a patch has impacted other systems before you apply it in production. Giving you peace of mind and accelerating your vulnerability remediation cadence — trackd is the only intelligent vulnerability and patch management platform; let us take the guesswork out of your remediation efforts.
Seed Investor
Dec 2021
Blaze is the smarter no-code platform that improves your organization's operations. Whether it's sales automation tools, custom reports, or complex workflows, we give you the superpower to become an entrepreneurial product builder on your team. Build the tools that make your organization run better. No coding needed.
Board Member
Nov 2021
Rezonate has been acquired by Silverfort. Together, we will fulfill our shared vision of protecting identities everywhere with the world’s first end-to-end identity security platform. Joining forces with Silverfort allows us to combine our strengths, people, and groundbreaking technologies. Together, we are creating a powerhouse platform uniquely positioned to shape the future of identity security and finally give organizations the solution they need and deserve. We are bringing our platforms together to solve every identity security need across any enterprise environment, yielding stronger security, easier deployments, and better operational efficiencies. Our consolidated offering will strengthen and expand what we currently offer for human and non-human identity protection across everything from on-prem assets, hybrid environments, cloud infrastructure, identity providers, and SaaS applications. This unification breaks down the silos of identity security across all enterprise environments to stop hackers wherever they operate. Our proactive, intelligent approach makes it easier, faster, and more intuitive for identity and security teams to get ahead and stay ahead of attackers. Learn more about this acquisition in a letter from Silverforts CEO: https://www.silverfort.com/blog/silverfort-acquires-rezonate-cloud-identity-security/
Board Member
Jun 2021
Appwrite is the developers cloud. An open-source, cloud development platform for developers who like to get things done. Use built-in backend infrastructure and web hosting, all from a single place. Add Authentication, Databases, Functions, Storage, and Messaging to your projects using the frameworks and languages of your choice. Integrated with hosting. Build like a team of hundreds_
Seed Investor
Apr 2020
Shortwave is the AI agent app for business communications. Most peoples experience with AI today involves copy & pasting content back and forth from ChatGPT, or using simple AI features sprinkled into legacy apps. Not only are these terrible user experiences -- theyre severely limiting to the the transformative potential of AI. We see an opportunity to build a new kind of communications app -- one designed from the ground up with AI at its core, where our entire UX is optimized for effective human-AI collaboration. Our goal is to unlock 10x (or greater) productivity gains by bringing cutting edge AI together with all of a users business communications in a single app. With Shortwave, users can give the AI access to all of their data and then take action while still maintaining total control over what the AI does. Were focusing on email initially, as its (1) ubiquitous (2) an open platform and (3) has a diverse set of valuable business data. In the future, however, we plan to expand beyond email to include all essential business communications tools. Shortwaves founders Andrew Lee and Jonny Dimond believe that a small, focused team of ambitious and talented people can outcompete much larger teams, and that with AI this is now more true than ever. Shortwave is backed by world class investors, including Union Square Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Seed Investor
Jan 2020
Einblick is the fastest and most collaborative way to explore data, create predictions, and deploy data apps. The Einblick team has joined Databricks https://www.databricks.com/blog/welcome-data-intelligence-platform-databricks-einblick
Seed Investor
Oct 2019
Metaplane ensures everyone trusts the data that powers your business. Data teams at Bose, ClickUp, and Klaviyo use our data observability platform to prevent and detect data issues — before the CEO pings them about weird revenue numbers. Metaplane’s best-in-class data observability platform includes automatic anomaly detection, end-to-end column-level lineage, and powerful tools to prevent incidents before they occur. And, best of all, getting set up is as easy as flipping a switch.
Board Member
Sep 2019
Scitara is a global provider of laboratory-specific, cloud-based software solutions for the life sciences and other science-based industries. Our solutions are powering the digital transformation of scientific laboratories by enabling them with modern lab data connectivity infrastructure and tools to accelerate science.​ Scitara DLX allows plug-and-play connectivity between any device, instrument, application, informatics system, web service or lab resource, using our connector technology, automation of workflows, task notifications, and bi-directional data exchange through our powerful and easy-to-use orchestration engine, compliant transformation of data in-flight using our transformation tools and libraries, and capture, monitoring, and analysis of all data transactions using our monitoring capabilities​. Scitara’s lab informatics services are rooted in our deep laboratory domain experience, technology skills, and a global delivery model – allowing us to deliver services such as Scitara DLX platform deployment, validation, lab computing and cloud integration services to the highest standards of quality, capability and compliance. Scitara is Hiring! Please see our web site at https://scitara.com/news-events/ for more information.
Seed Investor
Jul 2019
StackHawk makes it simple for developers to find, triage, and fix application security bugs. Scan your application for AppSec bugs in the code your team wrote, triage and fix with provided documentation, and automate in your pipeline to prevent future bugs from hitting prod.
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Seed Investor
Dec 2024
Arcade.dev is the action runtime for enterprise AI agents. We enforce your security and governance policies on every action, execute reliably across every business system, and govern your agents from a single control plane. Configure once and use any model, framework, and client. Deploy the first agent the same way you deploy the hundredth. Were proud to announce our recent $60 million Series A, led by SYN Ventures, with strategic investment from Morgan Stanley and Wipro Ventures. Check out our profile in the Wall Street Journal for more on how were solving the hardest problem in enterprise AI right now and why we are the team to solve it (see our Featured post).
Seed Investor
May 2024
Our technology eliminates the need for expensive and manual GPU optimization. MakoGenerate is an AI agent that writes and validates GPU kernels in CUDA, Triton, and more. MakoOptimize automatically tunes hyperparameters in vLLM and SGlang to maximize performance. MAKO was formerly known as A2 Labs.
Board Member
Mar 2024
Trusted by Leading Enterprises for AI/ML/LLM Risk Management & Security
Seed Investor
Jan 2024
Prime’s AI Security Architect helps Product Security teams scale design-stage coverage without adding headcount by automating design reviews, surfacing missed risks, and delivering actionable mitigation guidance into developer workflows.
2023
Seed Investor
Oct 2023
The next generation of analytics is embedded in applications and AI. Not just BI, but analytics for end users and for agents. And next gen analytics demand a next gen data foundation. Real time analytical infrastructure seamlessly integrated into your developers application and AI stack. Dev and agent friendly interfaces and data engineering best practices built in. Fiveonefour is the developer platform for building on ClickHouse and integrating real time analytics into your applications and AI. Were the creators and maintainers of the MooseStack open source developer framework - the fastest way for developers to build analytics and AI apps on top of ClickHouse and other best in class open source analytical infrastructure.
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