Mike Miller

General Partner

2015 - Current

Founding partner at one of the most active early stage venture capital firms. I invest primarily in Space, Computing and Climate tech, as well as the old bread and butter of cloud infrastructure and developer tools. We believe in founding great teams with audacious goals, especially those using software to displace existing monopolies and market inefficiencies.

Affiliate Professor

2012

Research Assistant Professor

2008 - 2012

Studying natures fundamental particles and interactions. In particular, part of the 'wild-west' hunt to see Dark Matter in the lab. Dark Matter is 5x more prevalent in the universe than all of the other known particles.

Founder, Chief Scientist

2008 - 2014

Co-founded Cloudant (now IBM Cloud Data Services) out of MIT. YCombinator 2008. Raised $18MM before being acquired by IBM in 2014. Fund raising, technical architecture, sales, recruiting, developer relations, support, operations, evangelism, and long term product R&D.

Tier-0 Coordinator

2007 - 2008

Responsible for integration, commissioning and operations of the main computing systems for CMS, one of the two large detectors at the Large Hadron Collider.

Postdoctoral Fellow

2005 - 2008

Pappalardo Fellow in Physics. An MIT take on Harvard's Society of Fellows. Full research autonomy within the institute.

Graduate Student

1999 - 2004

PhD student in experimental particle physics.