Invests in
Sectors:
Min Investment:
$2,000,000.00Max Investment:
$50,000,000.00Target Investment:
$25,000,000.00
Skills
Education
- TW
- Uo
Lists including Aaron
Investments
Second Front Systems
Total Funding: $84M
Martian
Total Funding: $12M
Pulumi
Total Funding: $99M
Embrace
Total Funding: $78M
Flox
Total Funding: $24M
Crowdbotics
Total Funding: $55M
ForAllSecure
Total Funding: $21M
Rapid Robotics
Total Funding: $55M
Bitglass
Total Funding: $150M
Tigera
Total Funding: $53M
Work Experience
Partner
2011
My focus is AI, cybersecurity, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and autonomy / robotics. I currently serve as a director of Veza, Firestorm Labs, Second Front, Flox, Crowdbotics, Embrace, Rapid Robotics, Pulumi, Deltastream, Outrider, Mayhem, Tigera, and Juvo. I also serve as a Board Observer at Horizon3.ai and Databricks and work with other portfolio companies such as Martian and Built Robotics. Previous investments include Streamsets (Acq. by Software AG), Box (NYSE:Box), NGINX (Acq. by F5), and illusive networks (Acq. by Proofpoint). Other investment experiences includes: Bloom Energy, Coursera, BlockCypher, CareZone, CCP Games, Cohere Technologies, Gainspeed, GuideSpark, Hyperpilot, iopipe, Igneous Systems, Kumu Networks, Lattice Engines, Luminate Wireless, Mimosa Networks, Psikick, Silk, Stormpath, and Transfix.
2014
Board Observer
2014
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 5,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, H&M, and over 40% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform to unify their data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow, Databricks is on a mission to help data teams solve the world's toughest problems.
2025
Director
2025
Veza is the leader in identity security, helping organizations secure access across the enterprise. Veza’s Access Platform goes beyond identity governance and administration (IGA) tools to visualize, monitor, and control entitlements so that organizations can stay compliant and achieve least privilege. Global enterprises like Wynn Resorts, Expedia, and Blackstone trust Veza to manage identity security use cases, including privileged access monitoring, non-human identity (NHI) security, access entitlement management, data system access, SaaS access security, IAM hygiene, identity security posture management (ISPM), and next-generation IGA. Founded in 2020, Veza is headquartered in Los Gatos, California, and is funded by Accel, Bain Capital, Ballistic Ventures, Google Ventures (GV), NEA, Norwest Venture Partners, and True Ventures.
2024
Director
2024
Firestorm Labs specializes in advanced additive manufacturing technologies, developing modular, open-architecture unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for rapid deployment in expeditionary and combat environments.
2023
Director
2023
Second Front Systems (2F) fast-tracks government access to disruptive, commercially-proven software as a service (SaaS) applications for national security missions. Leading software providers—ranging from publicly traded defense contractors to startups—and global government agencies trust 2F's Game Warden DevSecOps platform and secure cloud hosting environment to accelerate their delivery and harness the cloud revolution at scale. For more information, visit https://secondfront.com.
2023
Investor
2023
Martian built the first model router, backed by $9M from NEA, General Catalyst, CVP, and Prosus Ventures. You can think of us like Google for LLMs: every time you send us a request, we automatically find and use the LLM which will give you the best result at the lowest cost. Engineers at 300+ companies, from Amazon to Zapier, have used Martian to achieve higher performance and lower costs, with greater security and reliability. The team consists of previous AI researchers at Stanford, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, the Google Bard Team, and Microsoft Research who have previously built and sold multiple NLP companies and published in the leading AI research journals.
2023
Director
2023
flox brings the power of Nix to everyone by offering the first end-to-end solution that empowers teams to accelerate and simplify their Systems Development Life Cycle. flox is the secure way to manage and deploy software in isolated and reproducible development or runtime environments. For more information, please visit:
2022
Director
2022
CoreStory unlocks the hidden intelligence in your legacy code. By using AI to surface business logic and technical insights, we give enterprises the clarity to modernize faster, maintain apps smarter, and reduce the risk of costly failures.
2021
Director
2021
Embrace's mission is to transform all companies to mobile by empowering them to deliver incredible mobile experiences. Embrace is the only observability and data platform built for mobile. With Embrace, teams proactively uncover, prioritize, and instantly solve issues before they affect a business' bottom line. More than 100 organizations worldwide — and many of the world's best mobile companies — including Hyatt, GOAT, Glo, Depop, Dave, and ChowNow, use Embrace to proactively optimize their mobile experiences.
2021
Director
2021
Rapid Robotics is the creator of the first affordable robotic machine operator designed for simple machine tasks. Available for just $25K a year and requiring absolutely no programming, systems integration, specialized hardware or robotics skills, the Rapid Machine Operator enables manufacturers to easily deploy a pre-trained cobot in hours, moving it between tasks as needed and seeing ROI in months. Rapid Robotics’ founding team combines robotics and manufacturing expertise with a SaaS business model to deliver affordable solutions to real-world industry problems. Investors include NEA, Greycroft, Bee Partners and 468 Capital. The company is based in San Francisco, California.