Michael V Dvorkin

turning watts into ROI

📍 Redwood City, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 17 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
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investor/advisor
Feb 2021
Databento makes it simpler and faster to get market data. Our self-service model allows users to instantly pick up live exchange feeds and terabytes of historical data - and only pay for what they use. Databento provides both historical and real-time data, both raw PCAPs and normalized data, both usage-based pricing and affordable monthly subscriptions, as well as connectivity solutions. Since launching 3 years ago, Databento has gained over 60,000 customers, from early-stage startups to the largest financial institutions in the world. Databentos team has walked in the shoes of its customers, bringing years of experience running high-frequency trading desks from firms like Two Sigma, Flow Traders, Virtu, and Tower Research.
advisor/investor
Mar 2020
Systematic failures in keeping of cows and late detection of diseases result in $535K annual losses per dairy farm, where the root causes of problems thereof are: - Lack of cattle monitoring tools - Over-reliance on human expertise - Ineffective legacy analytics - No quality control over farm’s personnel. We are going to provide to farmers: - 24/7 video monitoring of the cattle using low-cost commodity hardware - Detection and continuous tracking of behavioural signatures for each cow in a herd using computer vision algorithms. - Early discovery of diseases and behavioural anomalies via comparison of each cow’s behavioural signatures vs the herd’s statistical norm. - Automatic monitoring of the farm’s personnel daily activities to ensure correct execution of prescribed tasks.
Investor
Jan 2020
Stretch Dance is a vibrant and inclusive dancewear shop that seamlessly bridges the gap between online and in-person experiences. Dedicated to celebrating diversity, we welcome dancers of all styles, body shapes, and ethnicities. With a comprehensive range of new items and consignment options for previously owned costumes and dancewear, Stretch Dance ensures accessibility and affordability. Located in the heart of Victoria, BC, this store is a haven for dancers seeking a supportive community and a vast selection of high-quality dance apparel.
investor/advisor
Dec 2019
HyPoint, Inc. is developing the next generation hydrogen fuel cell system with zero CO2 emissions and game-changing energy performance for the air transportation and urban air mobility market. Our solution increases operational time by 5X and utilization rate by 10X while decreasing TCO of any flying platform by 90%.
investor/advisor
Oct 2019
Bridgefy is software that makes any mobile app work without the Internet. Integrate the Bridgefy SDK today and change the world. 10 million users and counting.
advisor/investor
Oct 2019
Modality.ai provides multimodal technology for the objective assessment of CNS conditions through automated speech and visual analytics of conversations elicited by Tina, a virtual guide. Our platform is used in clinic and remotely in IRB approved studies generating over 20,000 recorded sessions to date. Modality is led by a team of world-class scientists, clinicians, technologists, and serial entrepreneurs, and has shown clinical validation through numerous peer-reviewed publications.
advisor/investor
Sep 2019
Particle.One Alpha is an artificial intelligence (AI) system that captures, processes, and models structured and unstructured data for commodity market participants, translating data into actionable intelligence. Find exactly what you're looking for without having to waste hours scrolling through SEC filings. Sign up for a free trial to discover 8-K, 10-Q and 10-K insights hidden in plain sight. With the most comprehensive database of filings, we'll uncover material events companies don't announce in press releases. Our Knowledge Graph technology accelerates common exploratory and modeling flows while taking into account economic relationships, making it easier to understand, and act on market-moving information.
advisor/investor
Aug 2019
Supporting your employees’ lives just got a lot easier. Create equity across your global team and give them the freedom to choose what aspects of their life they want 1:1 support and guidance via video call. After all, everyone is unique! Powered by a global, culturally diverse community of specialists covering nearly 1000 categories, including topics such as physical fitness, mental well-being, leadership coaching, ERG support, diversity & inclusion, and more. Employees have the freedom to explore and amplify their lives wherever they are, whenever they want. Enjoy an employee benefit that gives you the freedom to keep your budgets tight and consistent across your global enterprise. With TaskHuman’s unlimited pricing model, every member of your organization can engage in limitless ways to address their goals privately and confidentially with unlimited 1:1 sessions, group sessions, and in-app content. Gaining new insights with employee utilization and feedback are important for any successful benefit. Our team works hand in hand with you to provide clear and custom metrics on usage and educational resources to provide guidance and transparency to ensure your team is successful and highly engaged.
advisor/investor
Aug 2019
Cloud-based computational platform provider for resource intensive tasks in science and business applications. SOLUTIONS Public HPC Cloud Automated provisioning of vSC on-demand with an access to be granted through the web interface (for the B2B и B2C segments): • A wide spectrum of vSC configuration • Pay per use • Ability to get vSC with preinstalled comuting software • A flexible management system of vSC • Saving a copy of vSC, vSC migration, checkpointing (coming soon) Private HPC Cloud HPC cloud on the clients infrastructure: • Higher average utilization level • An ease of HPC resources management • A simple utilization of computing software: independent environments for various tasks within a single physical cluster ADVANTAGES Shared file storage Ceph: - distributed file system, - almost linear scalability, - high performance. Pure OpenStack based architecture. Secure computations: - L2 network isolation, - KVM virtualization. Reliability of data storage - data replication on Ceph level. Minimal overhead of virtualization by special tunning (NUMA tunnig, vCPU tunning, huge pages). Ability to transfer vSC image between users.
investor
2019
Battery Capacity Unlocked
advisor/investor
2019
Netris is the new automatic netops. Netris enables customers to operate their physical/private networks like a cloud. We are headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with a globally distributed team. Our customers are trusting up to 100% of their production networks to Netris - the automatic netops.
investor/advisor/co-creator
May 2018
DevOps as a service for Fortune 500 companies, focused on application delivery using Kubernetes, Helm, CD pipelines and GitOps
investor/advisor
May 2018
Hi, were Armorblox! We help organizations communicate more securely over email and other cloud office applications with the power of Natural Language Understanding (NLU). The Armorblox platform connects over APIs and analyzes thousands of signals to understand who users are, what they do, and how they communicate. With this context, Armorblox can stop advanced email attacks like business email compromise, and also help organizations stay compliant by protecting their sensitive data from falling into the wrong hands. Security teams also become more proactive after using Armorblox because the platform automates away most of the manual and repetitive tasks involved in responding to user-reported email threats. We create the VERY BEST People-first Company Culture through thoughtful programs that elevate and engage our People. We are proud to have an industry-leading product, a gender score that ranks in the top 20%, and a diversity score that ranks in the top 30%. We are honored Armorblox was awarded Great Place to Work, Omni Award for Outstanding Wellbeing and Benefits, Best Company Leadership, Best CEOs for Diversity, Best Company Compensation, and was featured in the 2019 Forbes AI 50 list and was named a 2020 Gartner Cool Vendor in Cloud Office Security. Founded in 2017, Armorblox is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and backed by the very best investors in Silicon Valley including General Catalyst and Next47. Armorblox was acquired by Cisco in July 2023.
investor/advisor
Apr 2014
The ZeroStack Cloud Platform removes the complexity of building and managing a private cloud. Learn more at www.zerostack.com
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product/co-founder
Jan 2025
Helping Stealth Startups to Launch, Hire & Scale. Here Recruiters Usually List Stealth Roles for early stage startups and job seekers can connect and consider those roles.
product/co-founder
2025
servescale.ai is an economics-first, topology-aware inference platform for the enterprise that uniquely maps models to infrastructure. servescale.ai provides CIO organizations with a platform-centric approach to deliver AI as a service to business and application teams.
2023
Partner
Jun 2023
271.vc is a deep tech investing and advisory firm. We take hard technology from the lab to scaled adoption. We invest pre-seed and seed, partnering with founders from invention through growth, working hands-on across go-to-market, capital strategy, and M&A. For select later-stage companies, we advise on partnerships, carve-outs, and exits. We know what its like to be in the founders shoes, weve built and exited companies ourselves. Applied AI, bio & medtech, accelerated computing, biomanufacturing, energy & climate.
2022
CTO/Co-founder
Sep 2022
Hedgehog is an open source software company dedicated to giving Cloud Native application owners the ability to deploy workloads on edge compute and distributed cloud infrastructure with the same procurement power and automated operations used in the public cloud.
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