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Locations:
Min Investment:
$500,000.00Max Investment:
$40,000,000.00Target Investment:
$20,000,000.00
Skills
Education
Lists including Rajko
Work Experience
2023
Partner
2023
Partner to: Udio*, Anysphere (Cursor), Braintrust Data (evals / LLM Ops for devs), Stealth Devtool Co (seed), Mistral AI, Luma AI, Black Forest Labs (creators of Flux OSS image models), World Labs (Fei-Fei Li), Sesame AI Partner with and support the most ambitious founders and teams pushing the bounds of artificial intelligence. I also incubated and help run the OSS AI Grant Program, supporting some of the most impactful, non-profit, OSS AI projects Reach out at rradovanovic [at] a16z.com
2023
Board Observer
2023
Partnered at Seed Round
2023 - 2023
Investor and Business Partner
2023 - 2023
Partnered at Series A
2021 - 2023
Venture Investor
2021 - 2023
Worked closely with the following teams: - Perplexity AI* (consumer-search with LLMs) - Sentry (developer-first debugging & application performance monitoring) - Metabase (open source BI and data visualization) - TimescaleDB (open source time series database) - Weaviate (open source Vector DB) - DeltaStream (stream data processing company) - Stealth* (data infra co at the query planning layer)
2017 - 2021
Enterprise technology team
2017 - 2021
- Diligence on growth-stage technology companies across Cybersecurity (e.g. micro-segmentation, EPP/EDR, SWGs, and CASBs), Data Infrastructure (e.g. Apache Arrow, Apache Kafka, dbt, etc.), DevOps tooling, EdTech, Social Media Marketing, and nonprofit sector technology solutions - Study on cloud AI Platforms and architecture trends. Including deep dives on AWS Sagemaker, Azure ML Service, Google Vertex AI, as well as AutoML (e.g. DataRobot), Foundation Models / transfer learning (e.g. OpenAI's GPT-3), Synthetic data, MLOps tooling, and more - Product strategy for a leading big data infrastructure company, in particular for their data streaming (low latency ingestion and analytics) product line - Study on 'The State of the Internet of Things' for a major global software company focusing on customer adoption and value creation challenges - Fintech product strategy for a regional bank. Deep dives in emerging payments-as-a-service space across acquiring, issuance and money movement (e.g. case studies on Stripe, Brex, Finix, Infinicept, Divvy, Affirm, Marqeta, etc.)
2016 - 2016
Teaching Fellow: AM 221, Advanced Mathematical Optimization
2016 - 2016
Graduate course in linear, convex and combinatorial optimization. Responsibilities included preparing and grading problem sets, as well as holding office hours.