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Database Optimization on Autopilot: Our Investment in OtterTune
Talks about Database, Machine Learning and Database Administration
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Nick Washburn
Managing Director at Intel Capital
Denver Metropolitan Area
Overview
Nick Washburn is a Senior Managing Director at Intel Capital, overseeing investments in companies like Fly.io and Moderne. With a J.D. from Villanova University and experience as a board member for various tech startups, he has successfully led funding rounds for companies in sectors like Enterprise Applications and AI, making significant contributions to the tech industry.
Work Experience
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
2022 - Current
Co-partner on Intel Capital’s Series A lead investment and subsequent Series B investment in Freshpaint. Intel Capital’s designee as a member on the board of directors of Freshpaint at the Series A round. Freshpaint is a data platform that enables healthcare companies to collect, safeguard, and activate customer data across their entire marketing stack. Freshpaint bridges the gap between patient privacy and digital marketing by ensuring sensitive data is never shared with tools that aren’t HIPAA-compliant.
Freshpaint is a data platform that facilitates marketing by collecting customer data.
Raised $46,850,000.00 from Zero Prime Ventures, Intel Capital, Y Combinator, SignalFire and Threshold.
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
2022
Co-partner on Intel Capital’s Series A lead investment in OtterTune. Intel Capital’s designee as a member on the board of directors of OtterTune at the Series A round. OtterTune is a database automation and optimization platform that observes your database's runtime metrics and then carries out machine learning to recommend and deploy configuration settings, improving its performance, uptime, and efficiency. It works for cloud-based PostgreSQL and MySQL databases (Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora).
OtterTune is an automated perfector of databases.
Raised $14,500,000.00 from Intel Capital, Koa Labs, Race Capital and Accel.
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
2021
Co-partner on Intel Capital’s Series A lead investment in Moderne. Intel Capital’s designee as a member on the board of directors of Moderne at the Series A round. Moderne’s mission is to solve the laborious and manual tasks of software development that suck the productivity out of developers and kill innovation. The company accelerates software development through continuous software modernization across an organization’s codebase, freeing developers to do what they love—create great software.
Moderne automates code remediation.
Raised $19,700,000.00 from Mango Capital, Intel Capital, True Ventures and Allstate Strategic Ventures.
Intel Capital Investor
2021
Co-partner on Intel Capital’s Series B investment in Upbound. Upbound is a leading enterprise cloud management platform and the company behind the open source Crossplane project. Crossplane is designed for platform teams looking for a cloud-native infrastructure management solution. Customers use Upbound’s Universal Cloud Platform to transform their internal operations into a comprehensive cloud computing platform, simplifying infrastructure management and empowering developers with self-service capabilities.
Upbound is an infrastructure management platform that runs, scales, and optimizes services across multiple cloud environments.
Raised $69,000,000.00 from Titanium Ventures, Google Ventures, Intel Capital and Altimeter Capital.
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
2021
Co-partner on Intel Capital’s Series A lead investment and subsequent Series B and C investments in Fly.io. Intel Capital’s designee as an observer to the board of directors of Fly.io from August 2021 until April 2022, and then Intel Capital’s designee as a member on the board of directors of Fly.io from April 2022 onward. Fly.io offers an Application Delivery Network (ADN) intended to help website owners get connected with their customers easily. The company's application delivery network uses a global network of servers to accept visitor traffic, run middleware on requests, then route them to backend applications, enabling website owners to direct their visitors to their respective sites securely and in a few clicks.
Board Member
2021
The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) empowers the next generation of American companies that will fuel the economy of tomorrow. As the voice of the U.S. venture capital and startup community, NVCA advocates for public policy that supports the American entrepreneurial ecosystem. Serving the venture community as the preeminent trade association, NVCA arms the venture community for success, serving as the leading resource for venture capital data, practical education, peer-led initiatives, and networking.
National Venture Capital Association advocates for policies that promote long-term investment and encourage innovation.
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
2020
Co-partner on Intel Capital’s Series Seed investment and subsequent Series A lead investment in Augtera Networks. Intel Capital’s designee as a member on the board of directors of Augtera at the Series A round. Augtera Networks’ industry-first network AI platform is designed for proactive visibility and resolution in multi-cloud networks. Augtera’s Network AI Platform is deployed in large scale production networks of Fortune 500 and global enterprises enabling them to proactively prevent network incidents and dramatically reduce resolution times.
Augtera Networks is enabling networks to keep up with increasing scale, complexity, and change.
Raised $18,000,000.00 from Bain Capital Ventures, Intel Capital, Dell Technologies Capital and Acrew Capital.
Intel Capital Investor
2019
Co-partner on Intel Capital’s Series A investment and subsequent Series B and C investments in Anyscale. Anyscale is the future of distributed computing. Founded by the creators of Ray, an open source project from the UC Berkeley RISELab, Anyscale enables developers of all skill levels to easily build applications that run at any scale, from a laptop to a data center. Anyscale empowers organizations to bring AI applications to production faster, reduce development costs, and eliminate the need for in-house expertise to deploy and manage these applications.
Anyscale accelerates the development and productionization of any AI app, on any cloud, at any scale.
Raised $259,000,000.00 from Sancus Ventures, Addition, Foundation Capital, Intel Capital, Addition, Foundation Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Andreessen Horowitz and Intel Capital.
Intel Capital Investor & Board Observer
2019
Co-partner on Intel Capital’s Series A investment and subsequent Series B investment in Tetrate. Intel Capital's designee as an observer to the board of directors of Tetrate. Tetrate is a leading enterprise-grade service mesh company founded by key creators and maintainers of the Istio and Envoy open-source projects. The company’s service mesh platform makes it easy for DevOps, security, and network administrators to manage the complexity of modern hybrid cloud application infrastructure.
Tetrate provides enterprise-ready service mesh for all workloads and all environments.
Raised $52,500,000.00 from 8VC, Dell Technologies Capital, Scale Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Samsung NEXT, NTT Venture Capital and Intel Capital.
Senior Managing Director, Intel Capital
2018
I am a Senior Managing Director of Intel Capital. I am a voting member of Intel Capital’s investment committee and co-manage Intel Capital’s cloud investment domain. I focus on early-stage investments in cloud-native infrastructure, developer tools, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and data platforms.
Managing Counsel, Intel Capital (North America)
2017 - 2018
I managed team of five attorneys and three paralegals supporting Intel Capital’s North American investment activities, including new and follow-on equity and debt venture capital investments and post-investment portfolio management matters (M&As, IPOs, etc.). I oversaw development and implementation of legal policies and procedures governing worldwide Intel Capital legal operations together with colleagues in APAC and EMEA.
Senior Attorney, Intel Capital
2014 - 2017
I supported Intel Capital’s North American investment activities, including new and follow-on equity and debt venture capital investments and post-investment portfolio management matters (M&As, IPOs, etc.).
Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and other disruptive technologies.
Raised $650,000.00 from Raj Sareen.
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