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Bryan Offutt

Partner at Index Ventures

Santa Cruz, California

Overview 

Bryan Offutt is a Partner at Index Ventures in Santa Cruz, California, with a Bachelor of Science degree from Stanford University. He has made significant investments in companies like Superlinked, Adaptive ML, Lightning AI, ReadySet Technology, and Deepnote, focusing on sectors such as Analytics, Developer Tools, Future of Work, Data Services, and AI. Offutt's career highlights include serving as a Board Director at Transcend, Temporal Technologies, Starburst Data, and Adaptive ML, as well as being a Lead Investor at Superlinked and Ollama, showcasing his expertise in investment strategy and board governance within the tech industry.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2018 - Current

    Infra + AI

Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps the entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.

  • Board Director

    2024

    Index Led Series A

Transcend is a data privacy infrastructure for companies to give users control over their personal data.

Raised $68,950,000.00 from 01 Advisors, Index Ventures, StepStone Group, Accel, Highland Capital Partners, South Park Commons and Script Capital.

  • Board Director

    2021

    Led Series B

Temporal Technologies enables its users to build and operate resilient applications using developer-friendly primitives.

Raised $203,500,000.00 from Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Madrona, Amplify Partners, Addition, Greenoaks, Addition, Index Ventures, Madrona and Amplify Partners.

  • Board Director

    2019

    Creators of Trino (fka Presto). Led Series A

Starburst Data is an analytics platform for data.

Raised $414,000,000.00 from B Capital, Alkeon Capital, Index Ventures, Ethos VC, Salesforce Ventures, Altimeter Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Coatue.

  • Board Director

    2023

    Led Seed

  • Lead Investor

    2023

    The Vector Comptuer Led Seed

A compute framework for turning complex data into vector embeddings.

Raised $10,564,000.00 from MMC Ventures, Firestreak Ventures, Index Ventures, 20SALES, Episode 1 and Theory Ventures.

  • Board Director

    2024

    Index Led Series B

  • Lead Investor

    2021

    Co-led Seed

  • Board Director

    2019

    Creators of Pytorch Lightning Co-led Seed, Led Series A

The lightweight PyTorch wrapper for ML researchers. Scale your models. Write less boilerplate.

  • Board Director

    2021

    Led Series A

ReadySet is a distributed SQL cache that helps developers build scalable, real-time applications without code or database changes.

Raised $28,900,000.00 from Adam Gross, Index Ventures, Zero Prime Ventures, Spencer Kimball, Yury Izrailevsky, Amplify Partners, Guillermo Rauch and Jason Warner.

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