Mike Kail
CTO PrimaryIO
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
CTO
2022 - Current
Technical Advisor
2015
PrimaryIO is a start-up based in Silicon Valley that develops software solutions to dramatically increase application performance in the most cost effective and least disruptive way imaginable. Big data, web and database applications are stressing the limits of traditional IT architectures because storage performance has not kept pace with compute capabilities. Eliminating this bottleneck has become a top priority for IT organizations globally. PrimaryIO provides software solutions that leverage application policy based management to dramatically increase application performance. Our software dynamically accelerates primary data and I/O for business critical workloads by efficiently utilizing server-side flash, while at the same time avoiding costly server and storage upgrades.
Angel Investor
2024
Strategic Advisor
2024
The DBaaS Platform for Cloud-Born and Cloud-Defining Enterprises
Raised $34,000,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Strategic Advisor
2024
Technical Advisor
2024
Founding Member - Lead
2022
Exclusive community of IT & technology leaders supporting disruptive startups
GIT1K is the End-User Syndicate for IT, Eng, Data, and Security leaders.
Strategic Advisor
2020
Pulse is a social research platform and interactive community reimagining innovation decision-making for the fast-changing business world.
Raised $10,575,000.00 from Farvatn Venture and AV8 Ventures.
Technical Advisor / Investor
2016
DataXylo, with its patent pending self-service Cognitive Customer Intelligence (CIP) platform, helps omni-channel marketing operations to continuously collect, combine & enrich customer data in a non-linear way. Data sources include organizational data silos as well as external sources. Dynamic segmentation and just-in-time insights drive revenue maximization. DataXylo is an MIT spin-out who currently has several Fortune 500 clients in the Retail and High-Tech sectors.
Zylotech is a B2B customer data platform that delivers trusted data governance for both people and companies.
Raised $7,100,000.00 from Geekdom, Glasswing Ventures, Rubicon Venture Capital, Revel Partners, Geekdom Fund and Half Court Ventures.
Strategic Advisor / Investor
2016
A Virtual Marketplace for Live Interactive Experiences
Anchored around live video, Immerss offers a suite of engagement and monetization tools designed for D2C brands.
Raised $2,100,000.00 from Muse Family Enterprises and Oak Stream Investors.
Technical Advisor
2015
Virtual Power Systems, Inc. (VPS) is transforming how data centers provision, manage, and utilize power capacity. We share a passion for solving hard problems with cutting edge technology, data science and design. Our mission is to enable data center operators to double power and server utilization, slash costs, and improve reliability.
Cato provides digital infrastructure solutions that assist data centers in optimizing efficiency, uptime, and cost.
Raised $8,718,126.00.
Technical Advisor
2015
Technical Advisory Board Member
Egnyte is a cloud content security and governance platform that is trusted by 16,000+ businesses worldwide.
Raised $137,500,000.00 from GS Growth.
Education
B.S.
1987 - 1991