Thomas Daly

Working at the intersections of Terrestrial and Satellite Connectivity!

📍 Greater Boston, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Investor and Advisor
Jul 2022
Building the next generation identity & access experience that is simple to use and easy to manage
Investor and Board Member
Oct 2021
Big Network is the connectivity platform that securely and simply connects networks and services between people, places, clouds and devices anywhere. We combine easy button simplicity for vpn, sdwan and cloud services. Big Network also provides broadband services, a cloud marketplace and a partner ecosystem. #hybridwork #workfromanywhere #connecteverything #connectsecurely #vpn #sdwan #cloudmarketplace #partnerecosystem #sdn #networkautomation #orchestration
Investor
Sep 2021
Cycle is the leading LowOps platform built to simplify container orchestration and infrastructure management for developers and DevOps teams alike. Adopted by organizations who are looking for an alternative to Kubernetes (GKE/EKS), ECS, and Heroku, Cycle empowers developers to deploy faster without having to become DevOps experts themselves. Deploy to your infrastructure, whether it’s in the cloud or on-premise.
Investor and Board Member
May 2021
Chekhub: Where Workforce Empowerment Meets Operational Excellence At Chekhub, we help businesses optimize their most valuable resource: their people. Our platform simplifies complex operations, reduces errors, and fosters innovation—giving you the clarity, precision, and efficiency to excel. With Chekhub, you can combine and centralize all your operational essentials in one easy-to-use platform: - Asset Management & Maintenance: Keep your infrastructure running smoothly. - Workforce Management & Performance: Optimize team productivity and effectiveness. - Customer Engagement & Alignment: Ensure seamless collaboration with real-time insights. - Digital MOPs, SOPs, and Procedures: Standardize workflows for consistency and quality. - Training & Qualifications Management: Equip your team with tools like In-the-Job Training™ (IJT) to upskill and thrive. - Ticketing, Scheduling, & Dispatch: Simplify coordination for greater efficiency. Chekhub empowers businesses to: - Reduce human error with standardized workflows. - Collaborate seamlessly with stakeholders on a single platform. - Gain real-time visibility into fieldwork and operations. - Clarify the scope of work for precise execution. - Optimize processes and drive continuous improvement. With Chekhub, you don’t just manage operations—you redefine them. Empower your workforce, eliminate inefficiencies, and build a future where excellence is the standard.
Investor and Advisor
Oct 2020
Platina is the transformative solution that empowers your organizations hybrid cloud journey. Leveraging the power of open-source technologies, seamlessly integrated with commodity hardware, Platina enables you to rapidly build and manage a cloud object storage stack, all while ensuring enterprise-grade resiliency and support. Ceph management in a single pane of glass eliminates finger-pointing and vendor liability loops. Transparent and predictable pricing model enables you to control operating costs, while minimizing egress costs and usage surprises. With Platina application deployment becomes a seamless and empowering process, enabling your organization to thrive in the era of hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.
Investor and Board Observer
Jun 2020
VETRO builds software that makes it radically simpler and faster for broadband providers to plan, design, build, and operate their fiber optic networks. Our map-based SaaS platform is easier to use and more powerful than traditional tools, and enables network owners, operators and sponsors to benefit from a modern, integrated, and connected digital hub for their physical network assets. Launched in 2017, VETRO is experiencing rapid adoption worldwide as we scale to meet an eager connectivity market. ISPs, Electric Co-ops, Local Governments and many others who are deploying and managing fiber now rely on VETRO FiberMap as their system of record for network documentation and asset management, as well as a collaboration and integration platform. Leveraging the platform combined with our top notch onboarding and support team, our customers need to hire fewer specialty technical staff, and routinely report reduced overhead and dramatic increases in productivity. Our goal is to provide the worlds best mapping platform for internet/broadband infrastructure planning, design, construction and operations. And in doing so to deliver a platform that becomes the digital home for the physical internet. We are Headquartered in Portland, Maine and take pride in our Maine HQ and foundation underpinning a distributed team across the U.S.
Investor and Board Member
Apr 2020
Quantum Loophole's first-of-its-kind gigawatt-scale, master planned data center development uniquely addresses the scalability, connectivity, and cost-efficiency challenges of today’s large-scale deployments.
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2026
Principal Technologist
Jul 2026
Contrivian delivers mission-critical connectivity engineered for continuity. We design, deploy, and manage resilient global connectivity across fiber, broadband, LTE/5G, and multi-constellation LEO satellite networks. Our software-defined platform continuously monitors network health and dynamically optimizes performance across terrestrial and non-terrestrial underlays. Built for environments where downtime is not an option, Contrivian supports public safety, utilities, healthcare, government, and distributed enterprise operations that depend on uninterrupted performance. Powered by the Contrivian Platform, our architecture combines performance orchestration, real-time visibility, rapid deployment capabilities, and multi-constellation readiness — including Starlink today and Amazon Leo (expected 2026). Connectivity for when it matters most.
2022
Investor and Advisor
Jul 2022
Building the next generation identity & access experience that is simple to use and easy to manage
2021
Investor and Board Member
Oct 2021
Big Network is the connectivity platform that securely and simply connects networks and services between people, places, clouds and devices anywhere. We combine easy button simplicity for vpn, sdwan and cloud services. Big Network also provides broadband services, a cloud marketplace and a partner ecosystem. #hybridwork #workfromanywhere #connecteverything #connectsecurely #vpn #sdwan #cloudmarketplace #partnerecosystem #sdn #networkautomation #orchestration
Investor
Sep 2021
Cycle is the leading LowOps platform built to simplify container orchestration and infrastructure management for developers and DevOps teams alike. Adopted by organizations who are looking for an alternative to Kubernetes (GKE/EKS), ECS, and Heroku, Cycle empowers developers to deploy faster without having to become DevOps experts themselves. Deploy to your infrastructure, whether it’s in the cloud or on-premise.
Investor and Board Member
May 2021
Chekhub: Where Workforce Empowerment Meets Operational Excellence At Chekhub, we help businesses optimize their most valuable resource: their people. Our platform simplifies complex operations, reduces errors, and fosters innovation—giving you the clarity, precision, and efficiency to excel. With Chekhub, you can combine and centralize all your operational essentials in one easy-to-use platform: - Asset Management & Maintenance: Keep your infrastructure running smoothly. - Workforce Management & Performance: Optimize team productivity and effectiveness. - Customer Engagement & Alignment: Ensure seamless collaboration with real-time insights. - Digital MOPs, SOPs, and Procedures: Standardize workflows for consistency and quality. - Training & Qualifications Management: Equip your team with tools like In-the-Job Training™ (IJT) to upskill and thrive. - Ticketing, Scheduling, & Dispatch: Simplify coordination for greater efficiency. Chekhub empowers businesses to: - Reduce human error with standardized workflows. - Collaborate seamlessly with stakeholders on a single platform. - Gain real-time visibility into fieldwork and operations. - Clarify the scope of work for precise execution. - Optimize processes and drive continuous improvement. With Chekhub, you don’t just manage operations—you redefine them. Empower your workforce, eliminate inefficiencies, and build a future where excellence is the standard.
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