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Nate Boyd

Investor ~ Builder ~ Curator

San Francisco Bay Area

Work Experience

2016

  • Founder

    2016

    Plus Plus helps founders hire the research and engineering talent to build the coming generation of AI-first businesses. We see both near-term (e.g., AI for code, AI to augment intelligence) and long-term (e.g. AI for biology, Embodied AI) opportunities to create foundational new businesses amidst all the hype. We build companies with exceptionally high talent density. We are technical recruiters who are actually technical. We can hold an intelligent conversation with anyone. We geek out on startups, products, markets, research papers, leadership, all of it. We operate with integrity, curiosity and excellence. Addepar • Ahana (IBM) • Astronomer • Augment • Axiom • BedRock • Chai Discovery • Coinbase • Cruise • Culture • Datometry • Gladly • Harmonic • Herophilus • mLab (MongoDB) • Pivotal (VMware) • Reve • Rill • Sift • Slash • Spring • The Yes (Pinterest) • Yugabyte • Wevr

  • Talent Partner

    2024

    Developer AI startup focused on helping engineering teams build & maintain real systems at scale, that takes pride and finds joy in helping developers move faster, stay in the flow longer and have more impact.

2024

  • Talent Partner

    2024

    Superintelliigence for math + code startup co-founded by Vlad Tenev (Robinhood) and Tudor Achim (Helm.ai). Building AI with formal methods/Lean verifiers, language models and reinforcement learning.

2023

  • Investor & Advisor

    2023

    AI for science startup building a platform to predict drug + chemical safety, a huge blocker for biochemical R&D. Backed by Jeff Dean, Amplify, Dimension and others.

  • Investor & Advisor

    2023

    Autonomous bug finding platform for complex software systems, from the founders of FoundationDB. A "by and for developers" kind of company with a distinct culture and belief systems.

  • Investor & Advisor

    2021

    Astronomer is the company behind Apache Airflow, the emerging data observability and orchestration open source standard.

2020 - 2023

  • Investor & Advisor

    2020 - 2023

    YugabyteDB is a distributed SQL database build around PostgreSQL for mission-critical, cloud-native transactional workloads and applications.

2019 - 2023

  • Investor & Advisor

    2019 - 2023

    Spring is on a mission to build the definitive no-code analysis toolkit for high-dimensional bio data.

2019 - 2022

  • Investor & Advisor

    2019 - 2022

    formerly BedRock Systems

2017 - 2020

  • Investor & Advisor

    2017 - 2020

    Technology platform & team acquired by Genentech 2023.

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