Astasia Myers
General Partner at Felicis
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2024 - Current
Our mission is simple: back companies inventing the future and become founders’ most trusted partners by investing directly in their growth. Honored to be a hands-on investor supporting founders’ journeys. Contact me at astasia@felicis.com.
Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Enterprise Partner
2021 - 2023
I founded Quiet’s early stage enterprise team leading opportunities across pre-seed, seed, and Series A.
Quiet Capital is a technology investment firm.
Investor
2017 - 2021
Sourced and led investments across seed, Series A, and Series B including LaunchDarkly, Solo.io, Dremio, R2C.dev, Preset, Hex, Cyral, AqueductHq.com, Gremlin, and Stackrox (acq. Redhat). Honored in Forbes 30 under 30.
Redpoint partners with visionary founders to create new markets or redefine existing ones at the seed, early, and growth stages.
Cisco Investments and Corporate Development
2015 - 2017
Drove cloud-infrastructure M&A and venture investments. I revamped Cisco’s inorganic strategy for the data center and deployed +$120M of capital. Executed investments in Cohesity, Datos IO (acq. Rubrik), Springpath (acq. Cisco), Elastifile (acq. Google), Guardicore (acq. Akamai), among other undisclosed capitalizations.
Cisco DevNet is your source for everything developer at Cisco Systems.
Equity Research Analyst
2013 - 2015
Provided IT Systems and Networking investment ideas and trend insights to clients for companies including BRCD, CDW, CSCO, EMC, FFIV, FTNT, HPQ, JNPR, NTAP, PANW, RVBD, STX, VMEM, VMW, WDC, among others. Thomson Reuters ranked our team the #1 Stock Picker for Communications Equipment in 2014.
Baird is a financial company that provides wealth management, capital markets, private equity, and asset management services.
Operator
2013 - 2013
Led product development while working with EVP and SVPs at Fortune 10 tech companies to identify operational constraints and execute process improvements, resulting in ~$200M operating profit improvement.
McChrystal Group is a leadership and management consultancy.
Technology Industry Researcher
2009 - 2012
Spearheaded original research initiatives in the U.S. and abroad for Condoleezza Rice, Larry Diamond, Amy Zegart, and Saumitra Jha. My work was published in Harvard Business School Press, Journal of Democracy, Annual Review of Political Science, and American Political Science Review.