Maria Karaivanova
Founder of WhyLabs
Seattle, Washington
Overview
Work Experience
Co-founder & COO
2019 - Current
WhyLabs is on a mission to prevent AI failure. As teams across industries adopt AI, WhyLabs enables them to operate with certainty by providing model monitoring, preventing costly model failures, and facilitating cross-functional collaboration. Incubated at the Allen Institute for AI, WhyLabs is a privately-held, venture-funded company based in Seattle.
WhyLabs AI Control Center provides security & observability for AI and GenAI applications
Raised $14,000,000.00 from Madrona, AI Fund, Defy.vc and Bezos Expeditions.
Kauffman Fellow - Class 24
2019
Co-investment VC firm supporting the mission of the Kauffman Fellows
Board Observer
2018 - 2020
Eclypsium is a firmware security company that protects organizations from the foundation of their computing infrastructure upward, controlling the risk and stopping threats inside firmware of laptops, servers, and networking infrastructure. Eclypsium was founded by two of the world's leading security researchers who pioneered the open source project CHIPSEC while at Intel.
Eclypsium offers a platform for supply chain security for IT infrastructure.
Raised $84,049,983.00 from J-Ventures, Ubiquity Ventures, Intel Capital, Alumni Ventures, KDDI Open Innovation Fund, Green D Ventures, Madrona, Global Brain Corporation, AV8 Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.
Board Member
2018 - 2020
Pulse Labs helps brands understand how real people interact with their voice apps through a rigorous process of live testing and data analysis. Using Pulse, voice app developers can quickly see how consumers want to interact with their app and get data on which prompts work and which don’t.
Board Observer
2017 - 2020
Audience insights platform unifying key data from the entire video ecosystem for actionable KPIs.
Board Observer
2017 - 2020
Pulumi makes it easy to build cloud applications that use a combination of containers, lambdas, and connected data services and infrastructure.
Pulumi is a cloud engineering company that offers a way to build, connect, and run modern cloud applications.
Raised $98,500,000.00 from New Enterprise Associates, Tola Capital, Strike Capital and Madrona.
Principal
2017 - 2020
Madrona is a venture firm that invests in early- to late-stage companies in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
Board Observer
2017 - 2020
Provider of IT operations and wire data analytics platform designed to transform the scale and complexity of modern IT into a powerful source of intelligence for business operations.
Board Observer
2017 - 2018
Heptio was co-founded by Joe Beda and Craig McLuckie, two of the creators of Google's Kubernetes project. Heptio aims to advance and support the open Kubernetes ecosystem. The company was acquired by VMware (VMW) after two years.
Board Observer
2017 - 2018
Software-defined application delivery platform, acquired by Citrix (CTXS). Cedexis provides a real-time, data-driven service for dynamically optimizing the flow of traffic across public clouds, data centers, CDNs, and ISPs. Cedexis technology intelligently routes traffic across dozens of CDNs, and hundreds of data centers and POPs globally. https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2018/02/12/citrix-acquires-cedexis/
Education
Master of Business Administration
2007 - 2009
BSBA
2001 - 2003