Magnus Christerson
Investor Investor
Greater Seattle Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Chair AI Committee
2023 - Current
Screen, fund and build AI companies
Screening Committee
2020
Screening companies for Alliance of Angels members
Angel Investor
2017
Alliance of Angels is the largest and most active angel group in the Pacific Northwest. Each year, we invest $10M+ into 20+ companies. Our network of 150+ active angel investors is further augmented by an annual Innovation Fund.
We are a group of 140+ active angel investors. Each year, we invest $10M+ into 20+ startups and provide mentorship to help them succeed.
Angel Investor, Board of Directors, Chairman, Advisory Board
2008
The world's leading graph database www.neo4j.com Open source neo4j.org
Neo4j is the leader in graph technology. We help global brands to reveal and predict how people, processes & systems are interrelated.
Raised $805,100,000.00 from Noteus Partners.
Co-Founder and CTO
2018 - 2020
Fizikl is developing an automated physical inventory counting solution, flying autonomous drones in warehouses and fusing inputs from cameras and other sensors with machine learning to continuously cycle count items in inventory.
Executive VP, Products
2004 - 2017
Company founded by Charles Simonyi to build a team-based productivity platform for domain specific applications and languages using the Intentional Programming paradigm. Product/program management, engineering, quality assurance, marketing. • Product Manager • Owned all customer facing projects • Led DARPA projects valued at $6M+ as Principal Investigator (PI) Acquired by Microsoft - May, 2017
Consulting Executive
2004 - 2004
Worked with CEO to streamline Product Development, Program/Product Management, and Marketing.
Edifecs develops information technology solutions to transform the healthcare marketplace.
Raised $525,000.00 from TA Associates and Francisco Partners.
Product Director - CTO Office
2003 - 2004
IBM Software CTO office; model driven development.
IBM is an IT technology and consulting firm providing computer hardware, software, infrastructure, and hosting services.
Director, Product Management
1995 - 2003
Led product management for the worlds leading model-driven development tools Rational Rose/RoseRT, Rational XDE, and Rational Developer Suite. Acquired by IBM for $2.1B in February 2003.
Software Engineer, Consultant, Product Manager
1990 - 1995
The startup which coined the term "Use Case". Built and delivered object-oriented software engineering tools and processes to Fortune 500 companies. Co-author with Ivar Jacobson of Object-Oriented Software Engineering - A Use Case Driven Approach, Addison-Wesley. Acquired by Rational Software.
Graduate Student, Artificial Intelligence Lab
1988 - 1990
Created PLANKEE, an artificial intelligence planner with replanning learning capability implemented in Lisp and IntelliCorp's Knowledge Engineering Environment (KEE) on a Symbolics machine.