Maria Karaivanova

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.

Kauffman Fellow - Class 24

2019

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.

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.

Principal

2017 - 2020

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/