•
Billion-Dollar Bet: The Real Reason Amazon and Google Wanted Twitch
Talks about Amazon acquisition of Twitch, Twitch live video platform and video streaming infrastructure
MC
Mackey Craven
Early Stage Technology Investor
New York, New York
Overview
Mackey Craven is an accomplished early-stage technology investor based in New York, known for investing in successful companies like Datadog, Axonius, and JumpCloud. With a strong background in venture capital and entrepreneurship, he has made strategic investments in notable startups across various sectors including enterprise infrastructure, IoT, and cloud services.
Craven's career highlights include investing in companies like Buildkite (Series B) and Axonius (Series D), demonstrating a keen eye for identifying promising startups and contributing to their growth and success through strategic investments.
Work Experience
Investor
2014 - Current
Datadog is an observability and security platform that offers infrastructure, applications, software development, and monitoring services.
Raised $1,017,900,000.00 from IVP.
Investor
2019
Axonius is an asset inventory management platform that focuses on cybersecurity solutions and policies.
Raised $865,000,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel, Stripes, ICONIQ Growth, Alta Park Capital, Alkeon Capital, Owl Rock Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, DTCP and Accel.
Investor
2017
JumpCloud is an open directory platform for secure, frictionless access from any device to any resource, anywhere.
Raised $416,817,501.00 from Atlassian Ventures, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund, Steadfast Capital Management, NTT DOCOMO Ventures, OurCrowd, Waterman Ventures, Endeavor Catalyst, H.I.G. Growth Partners, Owl Rock Capital and Sands Capital Ventures.
Investor
2022
TrustCloud turns GRC into a profit center with AI to complete security questionnaires & programmatic compliance automation.
Raised $22,000,000.00 from OpenView and Tola Capital.
Investor
2021
Comet allows data scientists to automatically track their datasets, code changes, experimentation history, and production models.
Raised $69,800,000.00 from Scale Venture Partners, Trilogy Equity Partners, OpenView and Two Sigma Ventures.
Investor
2019
Investor
2019
Balena is a complete set of tools for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected IoT devices.
Raised $31,400,000.00 from Threshold, GE Ventures, Aspect Ventures and OpenView.
Investor
2016
Logz.io provides a scalable and intelligent machine data analytics platform built on ELK and Grafana for monitoring modern applications.
Raised $121,900,000.00 from General Catalyst and Pitango VC.
Investor
2015
Investor
2016
Cogito enhances the emotional intelligence of phone professionals by applying behavioral science through artificial intelligence.
Raised $155,722,375.00 from Telcom Ventures, Lions Capital, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Safar Partners and Schechter Private Capital.