Fivetran

We back ambitious founders who actively seek to change the status quo.

Global investment group specialized in venture capital and private equity founded in 2005.

Twice a year YC invests $500,000 per company in a large number of startups. They work intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.

Interests span products that bring operational improvements to businesses, big and small, as well as the underlying picks & shovels that help developers build great software and keep systems up and running. At GC, work with the teams at Aura, Contentful, Fivetran, Grammarly, Housecall, Loom, and Mosaic. Before joining General Catalyst, spent nine years at Bessemer where he invested in and/or served on the boards of 2U (NASDAQ: TWOU), Clio, Instructure (NYSE: INST), PagerDuty (NYSE: PD), Shopify (NYSE: SHOP), Zopa, and Zapier Originally from South Africa but landed in Orange County when he immigrated to the US as a kid Studied engineering at both Berkeley and Stanford and have an MBA from The Wharton School

Prior to joining a16z, David spent seven years at General Atlantic leading and partnering on numerous consumer internet and enterprise software growth investments, including Airbnb, AppDynamics, Opendoor, Slack, and Uber. Previously, he was an investment associate at FFL Partners and an investment banking analyst for William Blair & Company. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame and earned his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He currently sits on the Advisory Council of the IDEA Center at the University of Notre Dame.

Martin was previously the cofounder and chief technology officer at Nicira, which was acquired by VMware for $1.26 billion in 2012. While at VMware, Martin was a fellow, and served as senior vice president and general manager of the Networking and Security Business Unit, which he scaled to a $600 million run-rate business by the time he left VMware in 2016. He started his career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he worked on large-scale simulations for the Department of Defense before moving over to work with the intelligence community on networking and cybersecurity. These experiences inspired his work at Stanford where he created the software-defined networking (SDN) movement, leading to a new paradigm of network virtualization. While at Stanford he also cofounded Illuminics Systems, an IP analytics company, which was acquired by Quova Inc. in 2006.

Paul Graham is the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first SaaS company, which in 1998 became Yahoo Store. In 2002 he discovered a simple spam filtering algorithm that inspired the current generation of filters. He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard.

Previously a co-founder and CEO of Justin.tv from 2007 2011 and the co-founder and CEO of Socialcam in 2012. Graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in political science.

Prior to founding SignalFire, Chris was a Venture Partner with General Catalyst Partners (2010–13), where he played a significant role in establishing the California office. He led GC’s successful seed investment program including seed investments in Alation, ClassDojo, Coinbase, Discord, Fivetran, Game Closure/PlayCo, Getaround, Stripe, Venmo, and Zapier. Chris was previously a Vice President with Bessemer Venture Partners (2005–09) where he led investments in digital media and mobile companies. Prior to Bessemer, Chris was a Consultant with Bain & Company where he advised on technology buyouts. Chris began his career on Wall Street in the private equity group of Cowen & Company.