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Nate Boyd
Founder of Plus Plus
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Nate Boyd is a Founder, Investor, and Advisor to AI startups in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a background in leading companies like Nomic as CEO and Co-Founder and serving as a Talent Partner at Pivotal Software, Inc. He specializes in investing in sectors such as Generative Tech/AI, Pharmaceuticals, and DeepTech, with a focus on diverse founders and investors who support female entrepreneurs.
Boyd's career highlights include founding Plus Plus and advising companies like Astronomer and Yugabyte, showcasing his expertise in the AI and tech industry while actively supporting and investing in underrepresented founders and diverse startups.
Work Experience
Investor & Advisor
2023 - Current
Looking for a handful of AI/ML researchers & engineers to round out the founding team of one of the most promising AI for science companies I have come across. In a sea of AI startups, here are a few things that separate us: 1/ Pushing the frontier of multimodal learning beyond text + image. 2/ A mission that matters, in a massive market. Not just exciting tech + science. 3/ Building an environment that attracts the very best people to come and do seminal work.
Founder
2016
Plus Plus helps founders identify and hire the scientific, research and engineering talent to build the coming generation of AI-first businesses. We choose clients with a mission we find inspiring, a market we believe in, and hard problems that attract deep thinkers. We invest in our clients, aligning long-term interests. We take a high-touch, research-intensive approach. We are infinitely curious, allowing us to go where others cannot. We are passionate about organizational design and everything that goes into crafting high-performing teams. People we work with attest that we operate at a different level. Addepar • Ahana (IBM) • Astronomer • Axiom • BedRock • Coinbase • Cruise • Culture • Datometry • Gladly • System1 / Herophilus • mLab (MongoDB) • Pivotal (VMware) • Rill • Sift • Spring • The Yes (Pinterest) • Yugabyte • Wevr
Plus Plus helps founders build early-stage R&D teams, and expand their leadership team as the business grows.
Investor & Advisor
2021
Astronomer is the company behind Apache Airflow, the emerging data observability and orchestration open source standard.
Astronomer develops a data orchestration platform that helps with the deployment, management, and scaling of distributed airflow services.
Raised $282,900,000.00 from Meritech Capital Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Insight Partners, Sierra Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, JP Morgan, K5 Global, Venrock and FirstMark.
Investor & Advisor
2020 - 2023
YugabyteDB is a distributed SQL database build around PostgreSQL for mission-critical, cloud-native transactional workloads and applications.
Yugabyte is an open-source distributed SQL database for customers in industries such as cybersecurity, financial markets, and IoT.
Raised $291,000,000.00 from Dell Technologies Capital, Alkeon Capital, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, 8VC, Sapphire Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Wipro Ventures.
Investor & Advisor
2019 - 2023
Spring is on a mission to build the definitive no-code analysis toolkit for high-dimensional bio data.
Spring Science is a software platform that offers image analysis services for researchers.
Investor & Advisor
2019 - 2022
Investor & Advisor
2017 - 2020
Technology platform & team acquired by Genentech 2023.
Herophilus is a neurotherapeutics discovery company based on next-generation scaled complex in vitro models.
Raised $16,000,000.00 from KF Ventures, Kinled Holding, Luxor Capital Group, 515 Ventures and Liquid 2 Ventures.
Talent Partner
2017 - 2019
Acquired by VMware 2019.
Talent Partner
2016 - 2018
Acquired by MongoDB 2018.
mLab is a cloud-based infrastructure company that builds software for developers and IT professionals.
Raised $8,000,000.00 from Techstars Ventures, Baseline Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Foundry Group and Upfront Ventures.
CEO and Co-Founder
2010 - 2016
A tale of many pivots, from "Yelp for people," to a local business messaging platform, to a service industry recruiting network :) We had many amazing people on our team, whom I hold in high regard and care about deeply. Finding and working alongside them was one of my great privileges and successes. I learned a ton about consumer app design, marketing, and engineering, and had a lot of fun working different muscles after many years in enterprise software. We had the great fortune to work with sharp and supportive backers from Greylock and Sierra, alongside an outstanding cast of angel investors.
We're building a local job network, launching first in the Las Vegas food & beverage industry.