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Ethan Batraski

Partner at Venrock

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Ethan Batraski is a Partner at Venrock, specializing in early-stage developer-first venture capital investments. He has served on the boards of multiple companies and has made significant investments in various sectors, including GovTech, Space, Robotics, and Developer Tools, with notable investments in companies like Atom Computing and Astranis. Batraski's career highlights include his role as a Partner at Venrock, where he focuses on investing in innovative companies at the seed, Series A, and Series B stages, particularly in sectors like GovTech and Space, and his board memberships in companies such as Archetype AI and ABL Space Systems.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2017 - Current

    Early-stage investor in developer and engineering first founders

Venrock is a venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare companies.

  • Board Member

    2024

    The Physical AI company

  • Board Director

    2023

    The SQLite company, the most deployed database in the world

  • Board Director

    2022

    Goodbye database sprawl, hello Postgres Founding investor

Dev-first, fully-extensible managed Postgres.

Raised $20,500,000.00 from Defined, Cintrifuse Capital, Alumni Ventures, Venrock, GreatPoint Ventures, Grand Ventures and Wireframe Ventures.

  • Board Director

    2022

    AI for the Frontend

  • Board Director

    2022

    SQL-like ergonomics over API

  • Board Director

    2021

    The Apache Flink company

Decodable is a serverless data integration and engineering platform for streaming data.

Raised $25,500,000.00 from Venrock, DJ Patil, Bossa Invest, Olivier Pomel, Perkins Cove Partner, Jason Forget, Harpoon, Bain Capital Ventures, Spencer Kimball and Zero Prime Ventures.

  • Board Director

    2020

    Commercial developers of Apache Airflow

Astronomer develops a data orchestration platform that helps with the deployment, management, and scaling of distributed airflow services.

Raised $282,900,000.00 from Meritech Capital Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Insight Partners, Sierra Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, JP Morgan, K5 Global, Venrock and FirstMark.

  • Board Director

    2019

    We build rockets to launch small satellites

ABL Space Systems specializes in building rockets to launch satellites.

Raised $479,000,000.00 from Leonid Capital Partners.

  • Board Director

    2019

    Connecting the next four billion people

Astranis is a space startup that builds small and low-cost telecommunications satellites to provide internet access in remote regions.

Raised $753,499,998.00 from PWV/RedwoodJS, Uncorrelated Ventures, Refactor, Jeff Dean, Trinity Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Haystack, SV Angel, Fidelity and Y Combinator.

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