Rachel Chalmers

Partner

2023 - Current

Co-Founder

2023

Part-time Partner

2018

- Reviewing over 1000 applications/year and selecting the best for interview - Coaching over 100 founders/year in strategy and fundraising - Personally investing in AI companies led by underrepresented minority founders including EngFlow, Loyee and Wave Terminal

President, Managing Director

2020 - 2023

- Investing in startups that monetize from enterprise - Led AlchemistX, the corporate practice, to profitability by securing clients including AWS, Gerdau, NEC and the governments of Alberta, Japan, Korea and Qatar - Owned LP relationships and secured an additional LP for the core accelerator

Venture Partner

2017 - 2019

- Investing in women founders in deep tech, including data science and machine learning - Sourced and led investment in Honeycomb and served as board observer - Coached founders of Cirrus Identity, Populus and Provenance in strategy

Advisor

2017 - 2019

Principal

2013 - 2017

- Investing in developer tools, data science and machine learning - Sourced and led investments in Unikernel and Docker - Named Aviatrix, built customer discovery program, wrote first case study, served as board observer - Ran Listen conference and served as board observer for Wit.ai (acquired by Facebook) - Served as board observer for StrongLoop (acquired by IBM), Accompany (acquired by Cisco), Trifacta (acquired by Alteryx)

Advisor

2011 - 2015

- Board member for this nonprofit supporting women's involvement in open technology and culture - Created and disseminated Codes of Conduct for technical conferences - Helped run AdaCamps 2012-2014 galvanizing communities of women in technology

VP Research, Infrastructure

2000 - 2013

- As employee number 10, built and ran the profitable infrastructure practice at this industry analysis firm - First analyst to cover infrastructure unicorns Chef, Cloudera, VMware and Splunk