Michael Callahan
Investor
Michael Callahan
Investor
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Investor and Advisor
2018 - Current
Working with early-stage companies in enterprise infrastructure software, and with various math-, software- and education-related projects
Investor, Member Board Of Directors
2011
Seed investor in and member of the Board of Directors of the leading company delivering scalable monitoring as a service for the cloud era
Cofounder, Founding CEO, Board Member
2014 - 2018
Awake’s advanced network traffic analysis solution recognized malicious intent and learns over time—tracking entities, deducing and remembering their pattens of behavior, and providing actionable insights to elevate a security team’s ability to respond rapidly to danger
Entrepreneur in Residence
2011 - 2014
Consultant
2010 - 2011
Chief Technologist, StorageWorks Enterprise NAS
2007 - 2009
Cofounder, CTO
2000 - 2007
Cofounded and served as CTO for an early Big Data infrastructure company that built a scale-out cluster file system suitable for mission-critical, latency-sensitive applications. We helped large enterprise and government customers move applications to horizontally-scaled industry-standard servers starting in 2002, long before the approach became common. As the technical founder and CTO, I helped recruit a world-class engineering and business team, raise multiple rounds of funding from Greylock Partners, NEA and Fidelity Ventures, design and deliver the product, and sell our technology into F500/G2000 accounts and major government environments. At time of acquisition by HP, we had over 1000 paying customers.
Dir., Advanced Development
1999 - 2000
Education
AB
1987 - 1991
Latest Articles
NPS AND THE HABITS THAT CRIPPLE US
Talks about Startup, NPS (Net Promoter Score) and mental maps