Curtis Mckee

Partner, Third Point Ventures

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2018𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Investor / Board Observer
Sep 2018
Paperspace, now part of DigitalOcean, is a high-performance cloud computing and ML development platform for building, training and deploying machine learning models. Tens of thousands of individuals, startups, and enterprises use Paperspace to iterate faster and collaborate on intelligent, real-time prediction engines. To learn more about Paperspace, please visit paperspace.com or follow us on Twitter twitter.com/hellopaperspace Mission Our mission is to make cloud computing more accessible through radical simplicity, community-driven technical resources, and straightforward pricing.
Investor
Feb 2018
Big Switch Networks is the Cloud-First Networking company, bringing public cloud-style networking and hybrid cloud consistency to organizations around the world. The company provides data center switching, monitoring, visibility and security solutions for on-premises enterprise cloud, public cloud and Multi-cloud environments that enable companies of all sizes to dramatically increase operational efficiency, increase business agility, and reduce networking costs. Big Switch was founded in 2010, with roots in the original Stanford research team that invented software-defined networking. Big Switch has strategic partnerships with Dell EMC, HPE and Edgecore, delivering innovative software on industry-standard open networking hardware. Since its founding the company has been an active member and contributor to multiple open source communities. Big Switch Networks is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with a dedicated presence across more than 25 countries. To learn more: www.bigswitch.com
Board Observer
Feb 2018
Sedona Systems’ NetFusion™ platform automatically discovers the optical and IP layers [L0-L3] of Service Provider networks. It uses this unique real-time visibility and deep analytics to optimize and automate network control. This allows Service Providers to: Control Networks with Data​: handle increasing complexity with automatic multilayer network discovery, data-driven optimization, and zero-touch configuration. Make Your Network Service-aware: Provision, assure, and support services with the confidence of full visibility of their transport and routing. Accelerate SDN Benefits: safely unlock the benefits of controller-based architectures with converged IP/optical control and multi-layer SDN apps. With multi-layer awareness and multivendor / multi-domain support, Sedona’s applications boost effective WAN capacity, ensure network resilience and enable new services. Headquartered in California, Sedona’s solutions are deployed in the production networks of Tier 1 service providers globally. For more information, visit Sedona at http://sedonasys.com, on Twitter and LinkedIn, or contact marketing@sedonasys.com
Board Observer
Jan 2018
Schoology—used by millions of students and educators in K-12 schools and universities around the world—combines dynamic learning management, an easy-to-use collaborative interface, and next-generation API integration into one innovative solution. Schoology transforms learning into a media-rich interactive experience where students, teachers, parents and administrators work together to raise student achievement worldwide. Available as a free stand-alone product and as a fee-based integrated enterprise-class solution deployed in schools or across districts, Schoology is user-centric and scalable for any blended learning environment.
Investor
Dec 2017
Palo Alto, California-based Nyansa is a fast-growing innovator of advanced IT analytics software technology, venture-backed by Formation|8 and Intel Capital. Founded in September 2013 by Abe Ankumah, Anand Srinivas and Daniel Kan, the company employs technology professionals from MIT, Meraki, Aruba Networks and Google, and is credited with developing the first cloudsourced, vendor-agnostic network analytics system, called Voyance, purpose-built for increasingly mobile enterprise network environments. Visit us at: http://www.nyansa.com Completely focused on the end user experience, Voyance is the only analytics system that provides cross-company correlation and benchmarking of network metrics and trends. Voyance uniquely extracts, analyzes and correlates wired and wireless data for every user in — real-time and over time — across the entire network-application stack, from access to application. With Voyance, organizations can now proactively predict problems, optimize their network and justify infrastructure changes based on actual data, radically reducing the time and expense related to optimizing IT network operations from the client to the cloud. More information is available at www.nyansa.com WERE HIRING https://www.nyansa.com/jobs/
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Partner, Third Point Ventures
May 2021
Third Point LLC (“Third Point”) is an SEC-registered investment adviser based in New York City. The firm was founded in 1995 by Daniel S. Loeb, who serves as CEO and oversees all investment activity. Third Point employs a flexible, opportunistic investment style. We seek to identify situations across the capital structure with a recognizable catalyst, which we anticipate will unlock value. Third Point LLC’s team includes professionals focused on investment activity, risk management, and trading. This team is supported by highly-experienced accounting, operations, investor relations and marketing, and legal and compliance professionals. Third Point manages assets for corporate and public pensions, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, fund of funds, and high net worth individuals.
Associate Vice President, Corporate & Investor Development
Feb 2021
Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client to cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. Arista’s award-winning platforms deliver availability, agility, automation, analytics and security through an advanced network operating stack. For more information, visit https://www.arista.com. Additional information and resources can be found at: www.arista.com www.twitter.com/aristanetworks www.facebook.com/AristaNW www.youtube.com/user/AristaNetworks
2018
Investor / Board Observer
Sep 2018
Paperspace, now part of DigitalOcean, is a high-performance cloud computing and ML development platform for building, training and deploying machine learning models. Tens of thousands of individuals, startups, and enterprises use Paperspace to iterate faster and collaborate on intelligent, real-time prediction engines. To learn more about Paperspace, please visit paperspace.com or follow us on Twitter twitter.com/hellopaperspace Mission Our mission is to make cloud computing more accessible through radical simplicity, community-driven technical resources, and straightforward pricing.
Investor
Feb 2018
Big Switch Networks is the Cloud-First Networking company, bringing public cloud-style networking and hybrid cloud consistency to organizations around the world. The company provides data center switching, monitoring, visibility and security solutions for on-premises enterprise cloud, public cloud and Multi-cloud environments that enable companies of all sizes to dramatically increase operational efficiency, increase business agility, and reduce networking costs. Big Switch was founded in 2010, with roots in the original Stanford research team that invented software-defined networking. Big Switch has strategic partnerships with Dell EMC, HPE and Edgecore, delivering innovative software on industry-standard open networking hardware. Since its founding the company has been an active member and contributor to multiple open source communities. Big Switch Networks is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with a dedicated presence across more than 25 countries. To learn more: www.bigswitch.com
Board Observer
Feb 2018
Sedona Systems’ NetFusion™ platform automatically discovers the optical and IP layers [L0-L3] of Service Provider networks. It uses this unique real-time visibility and deep analytics to optimize and automate network control. This allows Service Providers to: Control Networks with Data​: handle increasing complexity with automatic multilayer network discovery, data-driven optimization, and zero-touch configuration. Make Your Network Service-aware: Provision, assure, and support services with the confidence of full visibility of their transport and routing. Accelerate SDN Benefits: safely unlock the benefits of controller-based architectures with converged IP/optical control and multi-layer SDN apps. With multi-layer awareness and multivendor / multi-domain support, Sedona’s applications boost effective WAN capacity, ensure network resilience and enable new services. Headquartered in California, Sedona’s solutions are deployed in the production networks of Tier 1 service providers globally. For more information, visit Sedona at http://sedonasys.com, on Twitter and LinkedIn, or contact marketing@sedonasys.com
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