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Natalie Vais

General Partner at Spark Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Investor
VC

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $2,750,000.00

Skills

Enterprise Software
Product Management
Sales
Big Data
Analytics
Solution Architecture
Start-ups
Distributed Systems
Cloud Computing
Enterprise Architecture
User Experience
Data Analysis
Virtualization
Business Intelligence
Operations Research
Data Visualization
ETL
Infrastructure
Data Warehousing
Data Mining

Education

Investments

PostgresML

Seed

Total Funding: $5M

Work Experience

Spark Capital

2023

  • General Partner

    2023

    General Partner at Spark Capital leading Seed and Series A investments in infrastructure, developer tools, data, and AI.

TigerBeetle

2024

  • Board Member

    2024

Polar Signals

2023

  • Board Member

    2023

Amplify Partners

2020 - 2023

  • Principal

    2020 - 2023

    Partner to MotherDuck (seed), TigerBeetle (seed), Eppo (seed), ReadySet (seed), Motif Analytics (seed), PostgresML (seed), and several unannounced companies.

Google

2017 - 2020

  • Product Manager

    2017 - 2020

    Started as PM on core infrastructure team serving Alphabet's internal developers. Eventually joined Google Cloud as lead PM for Cloud Firestore shortly before we launched the product GA.

  • Google.org Fellow

    2019 - 2020

    Using AI and satellite imaging to measure global emissions from space.

Interana

2014 - 2017

  • Director of Product Management

    2016 - 2017

    Fast columnar database for event and time series data. Acquired by Twitter in 2020.

  • Solutions Architect

    2014 - 2016

Oracle

2013 - 2014

  • Solutions Engineer

    2013 - 2014