John M.

Board Member, Author of "The Qualified Sales Leader" and Co-Host of Revenue Builders Podcast

📍 Boston, Massachusetts, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2023
Angel investor🌍 United States
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Board Member
Dec 2023
Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical analytics, AI, and software to life and is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®. Astro accelerates building reliable data products that unlock insights, unleash AI value, and powers data-driven applications. Trusted by more than 700 of the world’s leading enterprises, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data. To learn more, visit www.astronomer.io Apache® and Apache Airflow® are either registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. No endorsement by the Apache Software Foundation is implied by the use of these marks. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Board Member
Sep 2019
Lacework is the data-driven security platform for the cloud. The Lacework Polygraph® Data Platform automates cloud security at scale so our customers can innovate with speed and safety. Only Lacework can collect, analyze, and accurately correlate data across an organization’s AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes environments, and narrow it down to the handful of security events that matter. Customers all over the globe depend on Lacework to drive revenue, bring products to market faster and safer and consolidate point security solutions into a single platform.
Board Member
Jan 2019
Observe – the AI-powered observability company – is reinventing how businesses detect anomalies, troubleshoot applications, and resolve incidents to deliver exceptional customer experiences. Only Observe eliminates silos of logs, metrics, and traces by storing all data in a single, cost-efficient data lake, analyzing all telemetry data using a single language, and providing access through a single, consistent, user interface. Observe’s AI-Powered Observability enables companies to resolve software incidents three times faster at one-third the cost. Customers such as Capital One, Dialpad AI, Top Golf and more trust Observe to turn their data into actionable insights. Investors include Capital One Ventures, Evolution Equity Partners, Madrona Venture Group, and Sutter Hill Ventures.
Board Member
Mar 2018
Sigma is the AI apps and analytics platform connected to the cloud data warehouse. Using Sigma, business and technical teams can build intelligent, production-ready AI apps that accelerate and automate operational workflows. Sigma provides a spreadsheet interface, SQL and Python editors, visual builders, and native AI to help teams turn live data into interactive applications, analysis, reports, and embedded experiences.
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Sep 2016
Headquartered in New York, MongoDBs mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. Built by developers, for developers, our modern database platform is a database with an integrated set of related services that allow development teams to address the growing requirements for todays wide variety of modern applications, all in a unified and consistent user experience. MongoDB has tens of thousands of customers in over 100 countries. The MongoDB database platform has been downloaded hundreds of millions of times since 2007, and there have been millions of builders trained through MongoDB University courses. To learn more, visit mongodb.com.
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Jun 2014
Cybereason is a leading global cybersecurity company. Cybereason provides preparedness and resilience solutions with cutting edge EDR and industry recognized consulting services to support organizations throughout any stage of the incident lifecycle. Cybereason’s award-winning technology and elite experts empower organizations of all sizes to harden, respond and recover from cyber threats in an ever evolving threat landscape. Cybereason is a privately held international company headquartered in California with customers in more than 40 countries.
Board Member
Sep 2013
**Snowflake is proud to be the Official Data Collaboration Provider for LA28 and Team USA.** Snowflake delivers the AI Data Cloud — a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Inside the AI Data Cloud, organizations unite their siloed data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless experience across multiple public clouds. Snowflake’s platform is the engine that powers and provides access to the AI Data Cloud, creating a solution for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and data sharing. Join Snowflake customers, partners, and data providers already taking their businesses to new frontiers in the AI Data Cloud.
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Apr 2013
Fuze is a global cloud communications and collaboration software platform for the enterprise that was acquired by 8x8. Learn more at 8x8.com/fuze. Follow 8x8 on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/8x8
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Jan 2013
Sumo Logic turns insights into action by enabling customers to deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications through its Sumo Logic SaaS Log Analytics Platform.
Board Member
Sep 2011
Sprinklr is the definitive, AI-native platform for Unified Customer Experience Management (Unified-CXM), empowering brands to deliver extraordinary experiences at scale — across every customer touchpoint. By combining human instinct with the speed and efficiency of AI, Sprinklr helps brands earn trust and loyalty through personalized, seamless, and efficient customer interactions. Sprinklr’s unified platform provides powerful solutions for every customer-facing team — spanning social media management, marketing, advertising, customer feedback, and omnichannel contact center management — enabling enterprises to unify data, break down silos, and act on real-time insights. Today, 1,900+ enterprises — including Microsoft, P&G, Samsung, and 60% of the Fortune 100 — rely on Sprinklr to help them deliver consistent, trusted customer experiences worldwide.
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2023
Board Member
Dec 2023
Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical analytics, AI, and software to life and is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®. Astro accelerates building reliable data products that unlock insights, unleash AI value, and powers data-driven applications. Trusted by more than 700 of the world’s leading enterprises, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data. To learn more, visit www.astronomer.io Apache® and Apache Airflow® are either registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. No endorsement by the Apache Software Foundation is implied by the use of these marks. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
2019
Board Member
Sep 2019
Lacework is the data-driven security platform for the cloud. The Lacework Polygraph® Data Platform automates cloud security at scale so our customers can innovate with speed and safety. Only Lacework can collect, analyze, and accurately correlate data across an organization’s AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes environments, and narrow it down to the handful of security events that matter. Customers all over the globe depend on Lacework to drive revenue, bring products to market faster and safer and consolidate point security solutions into a single platform.
Board Member
Jan 2019
Observe – the AI-powered observability company – is reinventing how businesses detect anomalies, troubleshoot applications, and resolve incidents to deliver exceptional customer experiences. Only Observe eliminates silos of logs, metrics, and traces by storing all data in a single, cost-efficient data lake, analyzing all telemetry data using a single language, and providing access through a single, consistent, user interface. Observe’s AI-Powered Observability enables companies to resolve software incidents three times faster at one-third the cost. Customers such as Capital One, Dialpad AI, Top Golf and more trust Observe to turn their data into actionable insights. Investors include Capital One Ventures, Evolution Equity Partners, Madrona Venture Group, and Sutter Hill Ventures.
2018
Board Member
Mar 2018
Sigma is the AI apps and analytics platform connected to the cloud data warehouse. Using Sigma, business and technical teams can build intelligent, production-ready AI apps that accelerate and automate operational workflows. Sigma provides a spreadsheet interface, SQL and Python editors, visual builders, and native AI to help teams turn live data into interactive applications, analysis, reports, and embedded experiences.
2016
Board Member
Sep 2016
Headquartered in New York, MongoDBs mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. Built by developers, for developers, our modern database platform is a database with an integrated set of related services that allow development teams to address the growing requirements for todays wide variety of modern applications, all in a unified and consistent user experience. MongoDB has tens of thousands of customers in over 100 countries. The MongoDB database platform has been downloaded hundreds of millions of times since 2007, and there have been millions of builders trained through MongoDB University courses. To learn more, visit mongodb.com.
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