Robert Sayle

Investor and Operator

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2022
Angel investor🌍 United States
15
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Portfolio

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Investor
May 2022
Starburst was founded by the inventors of OS Trino so that data-driven companies could have a full-featured open data lakehouse platform powered by the #1 SQL analytics engine. Our end-to-end analytics platform includes the capabilities needed to discover, organize, consume, and share data with industry-leading price-performance for cloud and on-premises workloads. We believe the lakehouse should be the center of gravity, but support accessing data outside the lake when needed. With Starburst, teams can access more complete data, run scalable analytics, lower the cost of infrastructure, use tools best suited to their needs, and avoid vendor lock-in. Trusted by companies like Apache Corporation, Comcast, Doordash, DBS Bank, and VMware, Starburst helps you make better decisions faster on all data. Join us! -- Our company was founded in an unusual way; with customers and revenue from the beginning! Our growth is already ahead of some of the most successful software start-ups, and we don’t plan on slowing down. We believe our opportunity is huge. Every large company in the world suffers from a data silo problem. Traditional data warehouse products approach the problem with old solutions that breed inefficiency and ultimately can’t help business analysts run fast analytics on all their data. This prevents the business from making better decisions to improve their company’s performance. Starburst provides a modern solution that addresses these data silo & speed of access problems. Starburst helps enterprises harness the value of Trino, the fastest distributed query engine available today, by adding the tools and 24x7 support that meet the needs for big data access at scale. Ultimately, Starburst helps organizations run analytics anywhere to make better business decisions. We’re building a team of all-stars: engineers, customer success, sales, and marketing pros who are at the top of their game. If this sounds like you, check out our open roles: starburst.io/careers
Board Member
Apr 2022
At Imply, we are on a mission to help developers become the new heroes of analytics. Our unique database, built from Apache Druid, enables them to develop the next generation of analytics applications. With Imply, developers can build without constraints as our database lets them create interactive data experiences on streaming and batch data with limitless scale and at the best economics. Backed by leading investors including a16z and Bessemer Venture Partners, Imply is on a fast growth trajectory - disrupting the $100B database market - with customers including Twitter, Salesforce, Atlassian, Reddit, and Intercontinental Exchange. To learn more, please visit: https://imply.io/. --- Attention: Imply Applicants Due to reports of phishing, we’re requesting that all Imply applicants apply through our official Careers page at imply.io/careers. All official communication from Imply will come from email addresses ending with @imply.io.
Board Member
Dec 2021
Money Management & PFM for Banks & Financial Institutions. Personetics serves hundreds of banks and financial institutions across 30 global markets. See how your bank can harness the power of AI to engage customers and increase revenue with financial data-driven personalized customer engagement, PFM, and money management platform. Harnessing the power of AI, Personetics’ Self-Driving Finance™ solutions are used by the world’s largest financial institutions to transform digital banking into the center of the customer’s financial life – providing real-time personalized insight and advice, automating financial decisions, and simplifying day-to-day money management. Serving over 135 million bank customers worldwide, Personetics has the largest direct customer impact of any AI solution provider in banking today. Personetics now counts among its customers 6 of the top 12 banks in North America and Europe, as well as other leading banks throughout the world. Personetics is the global leader in financial-data-driven personalized banking and customer engagement for financial services and the company behind the industry’s first Self-Driving Finance™ platform. Led by a team of seasoned FinTech entrepreneurs with a proven track record, Personetics is a rapidly growing company with offices in New York, London, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, Tel Aviv and Nazareth. The company has been named a Gartner Cool Vendor, a Top Ten FinTech Company by KPMG, and a Top Ten Company to Watch by American Banker.
Investor
Dec 2021
project44 is on a mission to make supply chains work. We optimize the movement of products globally, delivering better resiliency, sustainability, and value for our customers. As the supply chain connective tissue, we operate the most trusted end-to-end visibility platform that tracks more than 1 billion shipments annually for the world’s leading brands. Now the undisputed leader in the market, project44 has achieved the following recognition: 1️⃣ Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant 2️⃣ Top ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ customer ratings on G2 3️⃣ Ranked #1 on FreightWaves’ FreightTech 25 for 2022 4️⃣ Named a Customer’s Choice in Gartner Peer Insights’ Voice of the Customer 5️⃣ Achieved Tech Unicorn Status in June 2021 6️⃣ Raised $420M in Series F Funding led by Goldman Sachs, Thoma Bravo, & TPG project44 is the world’s most robust multimodal network, operating in over 170 countries and more than 20 languages. Our approach to global and multimodal connectivity enables supply chain and logistic professionals to track inventory throughout their entire journey, including: 🚚 Truckload 🚚 LTL 🚚 Volume LTL 🌊 Ocean 🚂 Rail ✈️ Air 📦 Final Mile Headquartered in Chicago, project44 is comprised of a diverse, fast-growing, and global workforce with offices in Amsterdam, Austin, San Francisco, France, Poland, Germany, Brazil, Mexico City, India, and Colombia. Ready to transform your supply chain? Click on the LEARN MORE button ☝ above ☝ Or, if you’re eager to be part of a winning team that works together to solve the world’s most complex supply chain challenges, click Jobs to view our open roles.
Board Observer
Dec 2021
We believe in a world where all the friction that gets in the way of hiring is replaced by conversations — freeing people up to spend time with people, not software. Our conversational recruiting software is built to automate the tasks hiring teams dont have time for — like screening, interview scheduling, and onboarding — to save hours of time and take candidates from hello to hired faster than ever. Weve helped thousands of employers build world class hiring experiences, like Unilever, Medtronic, Nestle, General Motors, FedEx, and Lowes. And we’ve been honored to win several awards, including HR Executive Top Product, Brandon Hall Group’s Gold Award for Best Advance in AI for Business Impact, and one of Forbes’ Top 500 Startups to Work For. Please note: Paradox will never ask you for your credit card or bank account information in connection with our recruitment process. If anyone contacts you requesting such information, please email us at info@paradox.ai or go to https://www.paradox.ai/legal/fraud for more information.
Board Observer
Nov 2021
The only official Pendo LinkedIn account. Pendo’s mission is to elevate the world’s experience with software. Pendo’s product experience platform allows companies to make product intelligence actionable with speed and scale, giving rise to a new generation of companies that put product at the center of everything. Pendo customers include the world’s leading companies, including Verizon, Morgan Stanley, LabCorp, OpenTable, Okta, Salesforce, and Zendesk. Through Mind the Product and customer communities, sponsored events and podcast, Pendo aims to support the success of product and digital leaders everywhere. Pendo is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina and has offices around the world.
Investor
Oct 2021
Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry’s leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, which is licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore; Anchorage Digital New York, which holds a BitLicense from the New York Department of Financial Services; and self-custody wallet Porto by Anchorage Digital. The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. For disclosures, please visit: https://www.anchorage.com/legal
Board Observer
Sep 2021
Figment is the leading independent provider of staking infrastructure. With $17 billion assets under stake, Figment provides the complete staking solution for over 1000 institutional clients including asset managers, exchanges, wallets, foundations, custodians, and large token holders, to earn rewards on their digital assets. Figment is the largest non-custodial staking provider of staked Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL). Institutional staking services from Figment include seamless point-and-click staking, portfolio reward tracking, API integrations, audited infrastructure, and slashing protection. This all leads to Figment’s mission to support the adoption, growth, and long-term success of the digital asset ecosystem. To learn more about Figment, please visit figment.io.
Investor, M&A Committee
Jul 2021
We’re building the operating system for the trades, a critical industry that’s been underserved by technology for far too long. Founded by the sons of hard working tradespeople and backed by top investors, our platform delivers a seamlessly integrated experience that enables thousands of business owners to accelerate growth, drive operational efficiencies and deliver a superior customer experience. We currently serve over ten trades industries, and we’re just getting started. Joining our team means that you’ll have the opportunity to make an outsized impact on the trades ecosystem and world at large. Are you built for the challenge?
Investor
Jun 2021
Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. Powered by an AI security graph, our breach containment platform identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments – stopping the spread of attacks before they become disasters. Recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Microsegmentation, Illumio enables Zero Trust, strengthening cyber resilience for the infrastructure, systems, and organizations that keep the world running.
Board Member
Jan 2020
Aternity, the Digital Experience Management company, is now part of Riverbed Technology’s Digital Experience Management portfolio. Alluvio Aternity full-spectrum Digital Experience Management provides insight into the business impact of customer and employee digital experience by capturing and storing technical telemetry at scale from employee devices, every type of business application, and your cloud-native application service.
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2022
Investor
May 2022
Starburst was founded by the inventors of OS Trino so that data-driven companies could have a full-featured open data lakehouse platform powered by the #1 SQL analytics engine. Our end-to-end analytics platform includes the capabilities needed to discover, organize, consume, and share data with industry-leading price-performance for cloud and on-premises workloads. We believe the lakehouse should be the center of gravity, but support accessing data outside the lake when needed. With Starburst, teams can access more complete data, run scalable analytics, lower the cost of infrastructure, use tools best suited to their needs, and avoid vendor lock-in. Trusted by companies like Apache Corporation, Comcast, Doordash, DBS Bank, and VMware, Starburst helps you make better decisions faster on all data. Join us! -- Our company was founded in an unusual way; with customers and revenue from the beginning! Our growth is already ahead of some of the most successful software start-ups, and we don’t plan on slowing down. We believe our opportunity is huge. Every large company in the world suffers from a data silo problem. Traditional data warehouse products approach the problem with old solutions that breed inefficiency and ultimately can’t help business analysts run fast analytics on all their data. This prevents the business from making better decisions to improve their company’s performance. Starburst provides a modern solution that addresses these data silo & speed of access problems. Starburst helps enterprises harness the value of Trino, the fastest distributed query engine available today, by adding the tools and 24x7 support that meet the needs for big data access at scale. Ultimately, Starburst helps organizations run analytics anywhere to make better business decisions. We’re building a team of all-stars: engineers, customer success, sales, and marketing pros who are at the top of their game. If this sounds like you, check out our open roles: starburst.io/careers
Board Member
Apr 2022
At Imply, we are on a mission to help developers become the new heroes of analytics. Our unique database, built from Apache Druid, enables them to develop the next generation of analytics applications. With Imply, developers can build without constraints as our database lets them create interactive data experiences on streaming and batch data with limitless scale and at the best economics. Backed by leading investors including a16z and Bessemer Venture Partners, Imply is on a fast growth trajectory - disrupting the $100B database market - with customers including Twitter, Salesforce, Atlassian, Reddit, and Intercontinental Exchange. To learn more, please visit: https://imply.io/. --- Attention: Imply Applicants Due to reports of phishing, we’re requesting that all Imply applicants apply through our official Careers page at imply.io/careers. All official communication from Imply will come from email addresses ending with @imply.io.
2021
Board Member
Dec 2021
Money Management & PFM for Banks & Financial Institutions. Personetics serves hundreds of banks and financial institutions across 30 global markets. See how your bank can harness the power of AI to engage customers and increase revenue with financial data-driven personalized customer engagement, PFM, and money management platform. Harnessing the power of AI, Personetics’ Self-Driving Finance™ solutions are used by the world’s largest financial institutions to transform digital banking into the center of the customer’s financial life – providing real-time personalized insight and advice, automating financial decisions, and simplifying day-to-day money management. Serving over 135 million bank customers worldwide, Personetics has the largest direct customer impact of any AI solution provider in banking today. Personetics now counts among its customers 6 of the top 12 banks in North America and Europe, as well as other leading banks throughout the world. Personetics is the global leader in financial-data-driven personalized banking and customer engagement for financial services and the company behind the industry’s first Self-Driving Finance™ platform. Led by a team of seasoned FinTech entrepreneurs with a proven track record, Personetics is a rapidly growing company with offices in New York, London, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, Tel Aviv and Nazareth. The company has been named a Gartner Cool Vendor, a Top Ten FinTech Company by KPMG, and a Top Ten Company to Watch by American Banker.
Investor
Dec 2021
project44 is on a mission to make supply chains work. We optimize the movement of products globally, delivering better resiliency, sustainability, and value for our customers. As the supply chain connective tissue, we operate the most trusted end-to-end visibility platform that tracks more than 1 billion shipments annually for the world’s leading brands. Now the undisputed leader in the market, project44 has achieved the following recognition: 1️⃣ Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant 2️⃣ Top ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ customer ratings on G2 3️⃣ Ranked #1 on FreightWaves’ FreightTech 25 for 2022 4️⃣ Named a Customer’s Choice in Gartner Peer Insights’ Voice of the Customer 5️⃣ Achieved Tech Unicorn Status in June 2021 6️⃣ Raised $420M in Series F Funding led by Goldman Sachs, Thoma Bravo, & TPG project44 is the world’s most robust multimodal network, operating in over 170 countries and more than 20 languages. Our approach to global and multimodal connectivity enables supply chain and logistic professionals to track inventory throughout their entire journey, including: 🚚 Truckload 🚚 LTL 🚚 Volume LTL 🌊 Ocean 🚂 Rail ✈️ Air 📦 Final Mile Headquartered in Chicago, project44 is comprised of a diverse, fast-growing, and global workforce with offices in Amsterdam, Austin, San Francisco, France, Poland, Germany, Brazil, Mexico City, India, and Colombia. Ready to transform your supply chain? Click on the LEARN MORE button ☝ above ☝ Or, if you’re eager to be part of a winning team that works together to solve the world’s most complex supply chain challenges, click Jobs to view our open roles.
Board Observer
Dec 2021
We believe in a world where all the friction that gets in the way of hiring is replaced by conversations — freeing people up to spend time with people, not software. Our conversational recruiting software is built to automate the tasks hiring teams dont have time for — like screening, interview scheduling, and onboarding — to save hours of time and take candidates from hello to hired faster than ever. Weve helped thousands of employers build world class hiring experiences, like Unilever, Medtronic, Nestle, General Motors, FedEx, and Lowes. And we’ve been honored to win several awards, including HR Executive Top Product, Brandon Hall Group’s Gold Award for Best Advance in AI for Business Impact, and one of Forbes’ Top 500 Startups to Work For. Please note: Paradox will never ask you for your credit card or bank account information in connection with our recruitment process. If anyone contacts you requesting such information, please email us at info@paradox.ai or go to https://www.paradox.ai/legal/fraud for more information.
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