Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$250,000.00Max Investment:
$10,000,000.00Target Investment:
$5,000,000.00
Skills
Education
Lists including Matthias
Investments
SurrealDB
Total Funding: $26M
Lago
Total Funding: $15M
Espresso AI
Total Funding: $11M
Sparta
Total Funding: $24M
Synthesia
Total Funding: $160M
Pigment
Total Funding: $400M
Frame AI
Total Funding: $16M
Bardeen
Total Funding: $19M
Astronomer
Total Funding: $220M
Quickwit
Total Funding: $3M
Work Experience
2013
Managing Director
2013
Investor in early-stage startups, mostly seed and Series A, anywhere in the US and Europe. Some companies I work with, in one capacity or another (board member, board observer, investor): Ada Support, Astronomer, ClickHouse, Cockroach Labs, Crossbeam, Dataiku, DCG, Espresso AI, Estuary, Helium (Nova Labs), Hyperscience, Lago, Ledger, Nextmv, Pigment, Softr, Sparta, SurrealDB, Synthesia, Upgrade. Some companies I worked with previously: ActionIQ (acquired by Uniphore), Frame AI (acquired by Hubspot), Quickwit (acquired by Datadog), Recombine (acquired by Cooper), Sense360 (acquired by Medallia), Sketchfab (acquired by Epic Games), Sproutling (acquired by Mattel), TextIQ (acquired by Relativity), Timber (acquired by Datadog).
Host / Organizer
2011
In depth conversations with leaders in data, ML and AI, in two formats: * Data Driven NYC: in person monthly events in New York. With 110+ events organized since 2011 and 20,000+ members, Data Driven NYC has become the largest community of its kind in the United States. To attend, follow FirstMark on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/firstmark-capital-2215570183 * The MAD (ML, AI & Data) Podcast: a podcast-only spin-off of Data Driven NYC, with weekly episodes available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DataDrivenNYC
2013 - 2020
Organizer
2013 - 2020
Organizer of Hardwired NYC, a 7,000+ person community focused on frontier tech and emerging computing platforms: IoT drones, robotics, AR/VR, 3D printing, space, etc. [on hiatus since the pandemic]
2008 - 2013
Managing Director
2008 - 2013
Helped start the incubation and venture arm of Bloomberg L.P.
2005 - 2008
Senior Director
2005 - 2008
Joined Oracle as Senior Director following the acquisition of TripleHop Technologies. Focused on launching new products globally (product, GTM, partnerships), in several categories, including enterprise search (Oracle SES) and collaboration (Oracle Collabsuite).
2000 - 2005
Co-Founder, President & COO
2000 - 2005
Co-founded enterprise search software startup, led product and GTM efforts. Our software MatchPoint used AI Bayesian techniques to search, classify and manage unstructured data. Company was venture-backed and headquartered in New York, with offices in London and Paris. Acquired by Oracle to accelerate Oracle's efforts in enterprise search (MatchPoint became Oracle Secure Enterprise Search).