Scott Darling
President at Dell Technologies
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
President, Dell Technologies Capital
2016 - Current
Founding and Managing Partner of Dell Technologies Capital, the corporate development and venture capital function for Dell Technologies. The Dell Technologies family of businesses generates approximately $100B of revenue. We pursue new and emerging technologies aggressively, at an approximate pace of $200M per year investment in venture capital, $2B per year in M&A transactions. * Since 2012 DTC Ventures has invested in 143 companies, produced 65 M&A exits and 9 IPO's * 7 consecutive funds exceed DPI of top 5% of US VC firms per PitchBook. * IPO's: Arista, DocuSign, JFrog, MongoDB, Nutanix, SumoLogic, Zscaler
President, EMC Corporate Develoment and Ventures
2012 - 2016
Lead EMC's Corporate Development (M&A) and Venture Capital teams. Founder of the venture practice. The teams are composed of approximately 25 investment professional who support EMC and its federated businesses. Led the team as we re-positioned EMC for next generation flash storage, converged infrastructure and cloud capabilities.
Dell transforms computing and provides high-quality solutions for people and businesses to be ready to move forward.
Member Board Of Directors
2016
Pre-eminent public cloud security company. $40B market capitalization (ZS:NASDAQ) Invested first outside institutional capital, April, 2012. Governance Committee, Audit Committee.
Zscaler is a global cloud-based information security company that enables secure digital transformation for mobile and cloud.
Raised $170,695,169.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund, EquityZen and Junipero Capital.
Board Observer
2020
Exotec provides the most efficient and performant three dimensional robotic picking systems for ecommerce providers seeking maximum efficiency from their warehouse investment. Exotec is a unicorn with 9 figures in revenue and growing in excess of 100% a year.
Board Observer
2016
The VAST Data Platform unifies storage, database, and compute into a single, scalable software platform to power AI & deep learning in modern data centers and clouds.
VAST Data offers a unified data platform that integrates storage, database, and compute capabilities into a single software platform.
Raised $381,000,000.00 from New Enterprise Associates, Fidelity, Bond Capital and Drive Capital.
Member Board of Directors
2023
Builds, secures and operates low latency services. Akka OSS & Kalix PaaS are used by the F500 and at-scale startups to power digital experiences to billions of end users. Lightbend performance drives Netflix, Dream11, Starbucks, CapitalOne, John Deere, WebEx, Epic Fortnite, Paypal, Walmart, and Workday. Backed by Dell, Intel, Juniper, IBM, Greylock, Shasta, and Bain.
Member Board Of Directors
2021
Rivos has assembled a world class team of silicon, software and platform designers to build industry-leading power efficient, high performance, secure server solutions, based on RISC-V, using workload-defined hardware. Rivos supports the intense requirements of the large language models and data analytics that will remake the enterprise, by providing the full solution of optimized chips combining RISC-V CPUs and a Data Parallel Accelerator, a reference multi-chip OCP modular server, and a full firmware-to-application open software stack.
Rivos is a high-performance RISC-V system startup targeting integrated system solutions for enterprises.
Raised $250,000,000.00 from CIDC Consultants, VentureTech Alliance, Hotung Venture Capital, Intel Capital, Walden Catalyst, Cambium Capital Partners, Capital TEN, Dell Technologies Capital, Matrix Capital Management and Koch Disruptive Technologies.
Member Board Of Directors
2019
Datometry is the pioneer and leader in database system virtualization
Member Board Of Directors
2018
Enterprise Applications powered by AI/ML. Led Series B.
Noodle.ai offers pioneering business solutions in Enterprise Artificial Intelligence.
Raised $97,000,000.00 from ServiceNow and Honeywell Ventures.
Member Board Of Directors
2019 - 2021
Nuvia has not disclosed details regarding it products. It is designing next generation silicon for the data center. Congratulations to the Nuvia team on their sale to Qualcomm for $1.4B
Nuvia develops processors intended to create high-performance silicon design for a compute-intensive world.
Raised $293,000,000.00 from Atlantic Bridge, Sehat Sutardja, Celesta Capital, Fidelity, Redline Capital, Mayfield Fund, Mithril Capital Management, Temasek Holdings, BlackRock Innovation Capital and Weili Dai.
Member Board Of Directors
2014 - 2019
The company designs and produces programmable network switch silicon, systems and software. Sold to Intel, INTC: NASDAQ
An ecosystem of software & hardware vendors, integrators and solution providers focused on adoption of NFV and SDN-based solutions.