Cockroach Labs

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Focuses on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, infrastructure, and enterprise software.

NYC-Focused VC that accelerates startup founders with access, top-tier talent, & largest community in venture.

VC firm founded in 2012 that makes concentrated, long-term investments in technology-enabled businesses globally.

Aims to generate world-class investment returns over the long term in a way that makes our partners and portfolio companies proud, as they build a unique, global investment platform.

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Privately owned hedge fund founded in 1999 investing across different sectors.

Fund based in London, San Francisco and Geneva, helping entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into transformative international businesses. Index covers every investment stage, from earliest seed through to explosive growth.

Lenny started his VC career in New York at the height of the social and mobile booms where seemingly the entire tech world was chasing the next Instagram or WhatsApp. To him, technology was always about leverage, enabling us to do more with less, to build better, faster, and cheaper, and unlock new applications and services. Fast forward a decade later, and his exploration of cloud computing, DevOps, data infrastructure, and security led me to work with generational founders of companies like Datadog, Hashicorp, and Cockroach Labs.

Matt Turck is a Partner at venture capital firm FirstMark, where he focuses mostly on early-stage enterprise and B2B investing. Prior to FirstMark, Matt was a startup founder, tech executive and angel investor. Most recently, he was a Managing Director at Bloomberg Ventures, the incubation arm of Bloomberg LP, which he helped start. Previously, Matt was the co-founder of TripleHop, an enterprise search software startup that was acquired by Oracle, and then an executive at Oracle following the acquisition. Matt is passionate about building communities. Since 2011, he has been running Data Driven NYC, the largest data and AI community in the US (19,000 members). He also organizes Hardwired NYC, a community focused on deep tech (7,500 members).

Dave Munichiello leads the firm’s digital investing team, spanning its consumer, enterprise, and frontier practice areas. Dave is himself deeply curious about data platforms, data science, developer tools, infrastructure, and enterprise software. His investments include Bugsnag (sold to SmartBear), Cockroach, CoreOS (sold to RedHat), DeterminedAI (sold to HPE), GitLab (IPO Nasdaq: GTLB), Jet.com (sold to Walmart), Lattice.io (sold to Apple), Modular, Pixie (sold to NewRelic), Plaid, RedPanda, SambaNova, Segment (sold to Twilio), Slack (IPO, then sold to Salesforce), Snorkel, Upbound, and Wonder.

As a general partner at GV, Erik invests across enterprise software and frontier technology, focusing on developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning. He has backed leaders like Cockroach, Bowery, and CTRL-Labs. Erik also manages GV operations in New York and leads the firm's technical team. Erik has more than a decade of technical experience as an engineering leader with expertise in building first-class teams and scaling massive systems. He gravitated to engineering and computing science early on. "I am curious about how things are made and enjoy working with deeply technical founders as they work toward building their visions." Before joining GV in 2010, Erik led the development of Google's next-generation display ad serving system. He was also a developer for Google's core infrastructure, creating a distributed file system that Google.com and Gmail rely on today.

Focused on future of work, teams, and jobs. Previously in Learning & Development at Cisco Systems, and worked on an innovation and design fellowship in South Africa at Harvard University. Longtime GED instructor, and passionate about transforming workforce development through tech. Writes column for Forbes on the future of jobs and startups helping to create jobs here in the U.S. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessicalin.

Jonathan is a Co-Founder and General Partner of Work-Bench, where he focuses on investments in areas including machine learning and AI, cloud-native infrastructure, and security. Jon founded the NY Enterprise Technology Meetup in January 2012 and organizes monthly meetups of the 9,000+ person group as a way to promote collaboration for theenterprise tech ecosystem in New York including entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 technologists, investors, and graduate students. Prior to Work-Bench, Jon worked at Morgan Stanley in the Office of the CIO in IT. There he partnered with internal technology clients to facilitate the selection and on-boarding of emerging technology startups.

I was part of the founding team of two companies that Redpoint invested in. Tim Haley, one of the founders of this firm, who was on my board both times, sprung this VC thing to me one day at lunch. And here we are!