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Magnus Christerson

Angel Investor

Greater Seattle Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $1,500,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Co-Chair AI Committee

    2023

    Screen, fund, and build AI companies

  • Screening Committee

    2020

    Screening companies for Alliance of Angels members

  • Angel Investor

    2017

    Alliance of Angels is the largest and most active angel group in the Pacific Northwest. Each year, we invest $10M+ into 20+ companies. Our network of 150+ active angel investors is further augmented by an annual Innovation Fund.

2008

  • Angel Investor, Board of Directors, Chairman, Advisory Board

    2008

    GenAI leader in knowledge graphs and GraphRAG, built on the world's leading graph database with analytics @ www.neo4j.com; open source @ neo4j.org.

2018 - 2020

  • Co-Founder and CTO

    2018 - 2020

    Fizikl is developing a warehouse inventory cycle count system, flying autonomous drones in warehouses and using visual inputs from cameras with machine learning to daily cycle count items in inventory.

  • Executive VP, Products

    2004 - 2017

    Knowledge capture and representation from domain experts to generate domain specific applications and languages. Founded by Charles Simonyi of Microsoft fame, every application is built on a team-based productivity platform. Technology is based on the "Intentional Programming" project from Microsoft Research. Responsibilities included: Product and program management, engineering, quality assurance, customer success, marketing. Owned all customer facing projects including DARPA projects valued at $6M+ as Principal Investigator (PI). Acquired by Microsoft for undisclosed amount in May, 2017.

2004 - 2004

  • Consulting Executive

    2004 - 2004

    Worked with CEO to streamline Product Development, Program/Product Management, and Marketing.

2003 - 2004

  • Product Director - CTO Office

    2003 - 2004

    IBM Software CTO office; model driven development.

1995 - 2003

  • Director, Product Management

    1995 - 2003

    Led product management for the worlds leading model-driven development tools Rational Rose/RoseRT, Rational XDE, and Rational Developer Suite. Acquired by IBM for $2.1B in February 2003.

1990 - 1995

  • Software Engineer, Consultant, Product Manager

    1990 - 1995

    The startup that created the concept of "Use Case". Built and delivered object-oriented software engineering tools and processes to Fortune 500 companies. Co-author with Ivar Jacobson of Object-Oriented Software Engineering - A Use Case Driven Approach, Addison-Wesley. Acquired by Rational Software.

  • Graduate Student, Artificial Intelligence Lab

    1988 - 1990

    Created PLANKEE, an artificial intelligence planner with replanning learning capability implemented in Lisp and IntelliCorp's Knowledge Engineering Environment (KEE) on a Symbolics machine.