Sarah Catanzaro

Focuses on startups that apply technological advances in machine intelligence and enterprise infrastructure to solve real-world problems. In her first position as a Research Director for the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), Sarah and her team used advanced statistical models to predict the behavior of covert organizations, including Somali pirates, illicit charcoal traders, and jihadist insurgencies. She subsequently leveraged computational methods to help public agencies ranging from the US Joint Forces Command to the Secret Service anticipate and disrupt complex threats. Upon joining Mattermark as Head of Data, she applied similar approaches to incomplete and uncertain datasets on private companies. Sarah started her career in venture capital at Canvas Ventures, where she utilized similar methodologies to source the firm’s investments in Fluxx, Platform9, and Kinetica.