CloseFactor

Helps the daring build legendary companies, from idea to IPO and beyond.

Morado Ventures is focused on high-growth, seed-stage technology companies, with particular emphasis on “Data-fueled” businesses.

Vertex Ventures US partners with enterprising founders who seek to disrupt large markets.

Firm that makes high-conviction Seed/Series A investments in SaaS and infrastructure software startups. They only invest in only a few new companies each year, allowing them to concentrate their time and capital on a small portfolio.

Logical domains are cloud infrastructure, developer tools, DevOps, open source, observability as well as SaaS apps for sales and marketing. In terms of specific companies and entrepreneurs, he is looking for the same things I did when I was running large teams and hiring people: iconoclastic thinking, the courage to break paradigms, defiance of common wisdom.

I was a General Partner with North Bridge Venture Partners, from April 2012 to November 2014. During my tenure I started the seed practice and led investments in Lytro, Periscope.io, Quora, and Ravel Law, in addition to co-founding Coolan. Prior to NBVP, I worked at Facebook, where I led global infrastructure, site architecture, and internal systems as VP Infrastructure & Technical Operations, from 2007 until 2012. During that time Facebook grew from 35 million to over 800 million users. Earlier in my career, I co-founded and was CTO of GlobalCenter, and later founded Global Crossing’s venture capital group. While scaling GlobalCenter, we saw an opportunity to build the world’s first native-optical IP network. I currently serve on the board of directors of Webmonsters, in addition to Vertex portfolio companies PerimeterX, CloudAcademy, and SpaceIQ.