Nate Boyd

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📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2023
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Investor & Advisor
Nov 2023
Axiom helps scientists eliminate molecular toxicity by providing the most accurate and affordable predictive models. Our proprietary dataset includes more than 100,000 molecules tested in pooled primary human liver cells, tens of thousands of molecules with pharmacokinetic measurements, and thousands of molecules with curated clinical outcome data. Axioms AI models offer higher accuracy than advanced in vitro systems like 3d spheroids, deep mechanistic understanding which untangles mitochondrial toxicity, ER stress, ROS formation, cytotoxicity, and more, and precise risk assessment for any molecule at relevant clinical dosage and clinical exposure levels. Our models remove the need for costly physical experiments, giving more accurate and cheaper toxicity assessments, and empowering scientists to make better-informed decisions and bring safer drugs to the clinic.
Investor & Advisor
Jan 2023
A platform for building the impossible. Autonomous testing trusted by Palantir, MongoDB, Ethereum and many others.
Investor & Talent Partner
Jun 2021
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.
Investor & Talent Partner
Aug 2020
Yugabyte is the company behind open source YugabyteDB, the AI-ready, high-performance, PostgreSQL-compatible, distributed database for mission-critical cloud native applications. Built using a unique combination of high-performance document store, auto sharding, per-shard distributed consensus replication and multi-shard ACID transactions (inspired by Google Spanner), YugabyteDB serves both scale-out RDBMS and internet-scale OLTP workloads with low query latency, extreme resilience against failures and global data distribution. As a cloud native database, it can be deployed across public and private clouds as well as in Kubernetes environments with ease. We are backed by top-tier investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, Alkeon Capital, Meritech Capital, 8VC, Wipro Ventures, and Wells Fargo Strategic Capital. We are hiring across the board in Engineering, Sales and Marketing. Apply on our Careers page: https://www.yugabyte.com/about/careers/ GitHub (Apache 2.0): https://github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db Docs: https://docs.yugabyte.com To discover more, join the Yugabyte Community via our Slack channel and connect with database experts from across the world: https://inviter.co/yugabytedb
Investor & Talent Partner
Oct 2019
Spring gives scientists superpowers. We put world-leading technology and easy-to-use software in the hands of researchers working to understand and battle disease. Our mission is to give scientists the best tools in the world to help them fight disease. We’re bringing new software, design, and machine learning tools to bear on this challenge. Our approach is to be an extension of industry partners’ teams in their discovery and preclinical efforts; and to build software helping scientists comprehend and make decisions using high-dimensional data. We're hiring!
Investor & Talent Partner
Mar 2019
THE FUTURE IS BUILT ON BEDROCK Unbreakable Foundation for Formally Secured Computing OUR MISSION An Unbreakable Foundation for Formally Secured Computing BedRock Systems is on a mission to deliver a trusted computing base from edge to cloud, where safety and security isn’t just a perception, it’s a formally proven reality. Our foundation does not require painful up-stack changes; it embraces existing hardware, operating systems, and application ecosystems. When systems are BedRocked, the operation is secured, innovation is unlocked, new services are launched, trust is re-established, and revenue can grow. Governments and businesses gain back velocity and can securely evolve at the speed of software. JOIN THE TEAM BedRock Systems is a startup with a global team. Our platform is based upon cutting-edge technology and leverages the latest development methodologies and tools. We were founded by industry veterans who built large successful companies from scratch. Our top-notch team is a mixture of the best from industry and academia. Come transform the computing landscape. Join the BedRock Systems team! jobs@bedrocksystems.com
Investor & Talent Partner
May 2017
Herophilus is a San Francisco based neurotherapeutics development company that employs AI-driven phenotypic screening to discover and develop novel drugs for complex brain diseases, disorders for which traditional discovery techniques have proved least successful. Herophilus industrializes the recent revolution in complex in vitro experimental science, leveraging robotic automation and machine learning, to characterize the etiology and expression of disease at molecular, cellular, and tissue levels. These "deep phenotypes"​ are exploited to identify novel therapeutic targets and drug treatments.
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2024
Talent Partner
Aug 2024
We are forging the worlds most advanced mathematical reasoning engine
Talent Partner
Aug 2024
Augment is the AI coding platform built for enterprises - powered by a highly secure, production-grade Context Engine developed over 2.5 years in stealth until our public launch in November 2024. Augment semantically indexes your entire codebase, documentation, dependencies, and internal knowledge in real time to enable devs to ship code faster, onboard in days instead of months, and modernize legacy systems with confidence. We are alumni of global-leading AI and cloud companies including Google, Meta, NVIDIA, Snowflake, and Databricks - all on a mission to provide enterprises with context that actually understands your codebase. If, like us, you believe in augmenting and not replacing software developers, join us on our mission to improve software development at scale using AI.
2023
Investor & Advisor
Nov 2023
Axiom helps scientists eliminate molecular toxicity by providing the most accurate and affordable predictive models. Our proprietary dataset includes more than 100,000 molecules tested in pooled primary human liver cells, tens of thousands of molecules with pharmacokinetic measurements, and thousands of molecules with curated clinical outcome data. Axioms AI models offer higher accuracy than advanced in vitro systems like 3d spheroids, deep mechanistic understanding which untangles mitochondrial toxicity, ER stress, ROS formation, cytotoxicity, and more, and precise risk assessment for any molecule at relevant clinical dosage and clinical exposure levels. Our models remove the need for costly physical experiments, giving more accurate and cheaper toxicity assessments, and empowering scientists to make better-informed decisions and bring safer drugs to the clinic.
Investor & Advisor
Jan 2023
A platform for building the impossible. Autonomous testing trusted by Palantir, MongoDB, Ethereum and many others.
2021
Investor & Talent Partner
Jun 2021
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.
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