Tyler Jewell

CEO & President
2023
Akka lets you build and run apps that are elastic, agile, and guaranteed resilient. F500 and at-scale startups have downloaded Akka over 1 billion times creating apps experienced by 2 billion people daily. We are backed by Dell Tech Capital, Intel Capital, Juniper Networks, IBM, and Greylock.

2012 - 2024

Partner
2012 - 2024
Board: - Sauce Labs (exited to PE, 2017) - WSO2 (acquired by EQT, Q2 '24) - Codenvy (acquired by RHT, Q2 '17) - Cloudant (acquired by IBM, Q1 '14) Angel: - SourceGraph (exited in 2015 secondary) - ZeroTurnaround (acq. by Roguewave, Q4 '17) - InfoQ.com (exited in 2017 secondary) - AppHarbor (acquired by MSFT, Q4 '14) Advisor: - Security Compass (acquired by PE, Q4 '19) - Tomitribe (apache support) Toba Capital's partners are proven operators with expertise in IT infrastructure. Many of our partners continue as active CEOs, bringing a unique blend of market depth and support to our portfolio companies.

2019 - 2023

Managing Director
2019 - 2023
I am a geek in developer tools, dev{sec|net|git}ops, infrastructure, dev platforms, and open-source licensing. I'm knowledgeably dangerous in analytics, business intelligence, big data, cloud computing, and systems management. Board / Observer: - NS1 (smart network services acq. by IBM) - Oxeye Security (cloud native app sec acq. by Gitlab) - Orion Labs (dev push-to-talk acq. by Modaxo) - Akka (build and run responsive apps) - Loops.ai (operational intelligence) - CUE Labs (CUE configuration language) - AppMap (personalized dev observability) - Archipelo (developer security posture management) - Zingly (rethinking the contact us box) Advisor: Yugabyte, Tetrate, Minio, Fly.io.

2017 - 2019

CEO
2017 - 2019
WSO2 was acquired by EQT for $650M in 2024. 10 years as WSO2 board director and 2 years as its CEO. Founded in 2005, WSO2 is the world's #1 open-source integration vendor, helping digitally-driven organizations become integration agile. Brand name customers choose WSO2 for their broad, integrated platform, approach to open source, and agile transformation methodology. With offices in Australia, Brazil, Sri Lanka, UK, Germany and USA, WSO2 employs over 1000 professionals.

2012 - 2017

CEO & Founder
2012 - 2017
Codenvy was acquired by Red Hat in June 2017! Codenvy makes cloud workspaces for development teams. 45 employees and $10M in venture capital raised from Toba Capital and Auriga Ventures.

2011 - 2012

VP, Oracle Public Cloud
2011 - 2012
A combination of SAAS and PAAS businesses that are offered in a self-service, elastic environment on a subscription basis generating more than $1B in annual revenue.

2005 - 2011

VP & Investment Manager
2005 - 2011
Investment and product leader for Quest's app dev, app server, cloud, and DevOps portfolio representing ~$150M ARR. Investments include WSO2, ZeroTurnaround, AppHarbor, AwayFind, rule.fm and Skydera.

2003 - 2004

COO/CEO
2003 - 2004
A media subsidiary that published TheServerSide.com, a tabloid and research community for enterprise Java and .NET devs with 1M subscribers. Divested from Veritas in a sale to TechTarget where TSS still operates today!

1997 - 2003