OctoML

Mike enjoys working with founders who are deeply steeped in their domain, feel like they’ve got something to prove, and are borderline obsessed with their idea. The passion that this creates touches all the key aspects of company formation: recruiting, selling, and (yes) fundraising. He started his VC career by joining Battery Ventures where he fell in love with the entrepreneur-facing aspect of venture capital and the ability to work with a wide array of people and technologies.

Focuses on startups that apply technological advances in machine intelligence and enterprise infrastructure to solve real-world problems. In her first position as a Research Director for the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), Sarah and her team used advanced statistical models to predict the behavior of covert organizations, including Somali pirates, illicit charcoal traders, and jihadist insurgencies. She subsequently leveraged computational methods to help public agencies ranging from the US Joint Forces Command to the Secret Service anticipate and disrupt complex threats. Upon joining Mattermark as Head of Data, she applied similar approaches to incomplete and uncertain datasets on private companies. Sarah started her career in venture capital at Canvas Ventures, where she utilized similar methodologies to source the firm’s investments in Fluxx, Platform9, and Kinetica.

Led investments in private cloud software companies across stages. He also has a $10 billion public software portfolio.