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Jan 2026
Nixo -- customer intelligence built for the forward-deployed era
FDE teams manage some of the most complex customer engagements: enterprise onboarding, custom integrations, and high-stakes deployments where precision matters. Nixo defines the new standard of FDEOps -- bringing clarity, automation, and operational precision to every customer engagement. With Nixo, forward-deployed services can finally scale with SaaS-level efficiency and margins.
Board Member
Jan 2025
Parspec is revolutionizing the materials supply chain for the $15 trillion global construction industry by digitizing and organizing the industrys product data. Our proprietary AI technology maintains a current and comprehensive catalogue of millions of products, enabling our customers to identify products that best meet their needs–instantly. Trusted by top designers, builders, distributors, manufacturers, and sales agents, and backed by leading venture investors, Parspec is paving the way for a more innovative, connected, and sustainable future in construction.
Board Observer
Oct 2023
Parasail is the first AI Deployment Network built for the new era of open and scalable AI. We connect teams to the world’s largest pool of on-demand GPU compute—giving AI builders fast, flexible, and cost-efficient infrastructure to deploy and scale models without contracts, quotas, or cloud complexity.
From real-time inference to massive batch jobs, Parasail intelligently matches workloads across a global GPU network, optimizing for performance, price, and geography. No DevOps burden, no vendor lock-in—just plug-and-play access to high-performance infrastructure that works with the latest open-source models and evolving AI stacks.
Companies like Weights & Biases, Elicit, Rasa, Everpilot, and Oumi are already building faster and saving up to 30x on costs with Parasail.
The future of AI deployment isn’t a single cloud. It’s a global compute network. Parasail is making that future a reality.
🔗 www.parasail.io
Board Member
Jan 2022
The OpsLevel developer portal removes engineering team friction by opening up self-serve access to the tools and knowledge your developers need to move faster.
Board Member
Aug 2021
Benepass is a platform to flexibly distribute benefits and non-salary compensation globally. Our card-first technology gives employees a physical and virtual VISA card with all their benefits from their employer coded on the card including:
- Pre-Tax Benefits: Public Transit, Parking, Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, HSA
- Perks Programs: Wellness (Physical and Mental), Food, Family and Childcare benefits, Work from Home, Professional Development, LSA, and custom programs for your company!
Companies see 80%+ engagement with Benepass.
Email us at sales@getbenepass.com to learn more!
Board Member
Jul 2020
CrowdAI is on a mission to democratize vision AI and unlock billions in enterprise value by automating key visual workflows. By bringing together the best of human and computer vision, we empower companies of all sizes to unlock the value hidden in their growing amount of images and video. Our AI-lifecycle platform empowers any user to leverage cutting-edge vision AI and go from raw pixels to delivering business impact in just a few clicks. Unlike other platforms built for a small group of highly technical experts, the CrowdAI platform is built for domain experts and operators of all technical abilities, democratizing the ability to leverage cutting-edge AI across the enterprise, enabling true cross-functional collaboration, and institutionalizing distributed domain expertise.
CrowdAI has been used by the world's leading institutions to combat mass-scale wildfires, coordinate hurricane response efforts, catch drug and narcotics trafficking, and realize quality, production, and safety efficiencies. Customers use our single platform to bring together and organize all forms of media, make data AI-ready, train cutting edge model architectures, deploy deep learning models, and monitor performance over time.
With every partnership, CrowdAI's commitment to delivering real business impact remains a foundational guiding principle, ensuring that AI projects quickly move beyond R & D and innovation labs toward delivering real business value.
Board Member
Nov 2019
Elementary helps Fortune 500 manufacturers automate inspection, increase production yield, and achieve measurable ROI in less than 6 months.
Our industrial-grade inspection stations and QA platform deliver high-speed inspection, advanced defect detection, and real-time root cause analysis—empowering manufacturers to reduce downtime and drive digital transformation on the factory floor.
Board Member
May 2019
Freeform builds AI-native manufacturing systems that unify software, hardware, and physics to produce industrial-scale parts at the speed of human ideation. By treating manufacturing as a single integrated system, we unlock a new era of innovation where complex hardware is designed, built, and scaled without limits.
We are a team of first-principles thinkers driven by a shared mission: to build the fundamental technology that moves the world forward. We believe that solving the foundational challenges of production requires a massive diversity of expertise, deep collaboration, low ego, and a healthy sense of humor. Whether you are an engineer, a builder of systems, or a creative problem-solver in any field, we invite you to help us align the physical world with the pace of human imagination.
We are backed by industry leading VCs including Founders Fund, NVIDIAs NVenures, Threshold Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, Linse Capital, 8VC, Valor, and more who share our conviction in scaling Physical AI to revolutionize manufacturing.
Board Member
Sep 2018
EdgeQ is a leading innovator delivering the worlds first 5G Base Station-on-a-chip. Led by executives from Qualcomm, Intel, and Broadcom, EdgeQ is pioneering a converged connectivity and AI platform that is fully software-customizable and programmable. The company is backed by leading investors, including Threshold Partners, Fusion Fund and AME Cloud Ventures, among others.
Board Observer
Aug 2018
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Board Observer
Jan 2017
Yellowbrick Data Warehouse is a modern, elastic data warehouse with separate storage and compute that runs in the cloud. Yellowbrick enables large-scale enterprises to eliminate complexity, reduce risk, and predict and control costs by running all their data anywhere, across multi-cloud and on-premises instances.
Yellowbrick allows enterprises to run complex queries on live data at petabyte scale in their own cloud account, while supporting high concurrency with fast, interactive query response to customers most challenging business questions.
Board Observer
Nov 2016
Founded in 2012 by Mike Henry and Dave Fick, and based in Austin, TX and Redwood City, CA, Mythic is creating a unified hardware and software platform that relies on unique analog compute-in-memory technology to deliver revolutionary power, cost, and performance that will shatter the limits restricting AI innovation. Mythic is making it much easier and more affordable to deploy powerful AI solutions, from the data center to the edge device.
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Venture capital for startups reimagining trillion-dollar industries through a world positive lens.
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Nixo -- customer intelligence built for the forward-deployed era
FDE teams manage some of the most complex customer engagements: enterprise onboarding, custom integrations, and high-stakes deployments where precision matters. Nixo defines the new standard of FDEOps -- bringing clarity, automation, and operational precision to every customer engagement. With Nixo, forward-deployed services can finally scale with SaaS-level efficiency and margins.
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