Michael Driscoll
Founder of Rill Data
Michael Driscoll
Founder of Rill Data
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder, CEO
2020 - Current
Dashboards that move as fast as your business.
Founding Partner
2011
Partner of a venture fund supporting innovative entrepreneurs building big data, deep compute, and IT infrastructure companies. Now on its seventh fund having raised $1B+ of capital and invested in hundreds of firms.
DCVC backs entrepreneurs using deep tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.
General Manager, Metamarkets
2017 - 2019
Metamarkets is a SaaS analytics platform for digital media marketplaces, whose clients include Twitter, Verizon (Oath), and Microsoft. Our technology platform processes trillions of real-time transactions monthly, and was named Inc's 292nd fastest-growing firm in 2016. Metamarkets was acquired by Snap Inc. in November 2017.
Snap is a technology company that offers the products Snapchat, Spectacles, and Bitmoji.
Raised $5,553,527,880.00 from Alwaleed Bin Talal and Tencent.
Co-Founder, CEO
2012 - 2017
Metamarkets is a SaaS analytics platform for digital media marketplaces, whose clients include Twitter, Verizon (Oath), and Microsoft. Our technology platform processes trillions of real-time transactions monthly, and was named Inc's 292nd fastest-growing firm in 2016. Metamarkets was acquired by Snap, Inc. in November 2017.
Co-Founder, CTO
2010 - 2012
As CTO, I hired and led a team of engineers to innovate a real-time analytics stack that eventually scaled to process 100s of billions of events daily across 1000s of servers. We leveraged a suite of leading frameworks (Kafka, Spark, Node/React) and invented and open-sourced an award-winning distributed database called Druid.
Founder
2008 - 2011
Dataspora was a predictive analytics software and services firm whose clients included banks, telcos, and digital media companies. We were a team of data scientists with Ph.D.s in everything from theoretical physics, mathematics, to computational biology and helped firms accelerate their data strategies. Dataspora was acquired by Via Science in 2011.
Founder, Board Director
1999 - 2008
Conceived CustomInk.com in 1999, and was lucky enough to hand it off to my college roommate and former Wall Street banker Marc Katz who scaled it to the thousands of employees and hundreds of millions of revenue business it is today.
Custom Ink is a provider of an online platform used for custom apparel and accessories for groups and occasions.
Raised $40,750,000.00 from Mark Gillespie, Great Hill Partners, SWaN & Legend Venture Partners and HarbourVest Partners.
Software Engineer
2001 - 2002
National Institutes of Health is a biomedical research facility that focuses on biomedical and health-related research.
Raised $5,000,000.00 from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Software Engineer
2000 - 2001
Gentech was acquired by Sanofi.