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Astasia Myers

General Partner at Felicis

San Francisco Bay Area

Work Experience

2024

  • General Partner

    2024

    Our mission is simple: back companies inventing the future and become founders’ most trusted partners by investing directly in their growth. Honored to be a hands-on investor supporting founders’ journeys. Contact me at astasia@felicis.com.

2021 - 2023

  • Enterprise Partner

    2021 - 2023

    I founded Quiet’s early stage enterprise team leading opportunities across pre-seed, seed, and Series A.

2017 - 2021

  • Investor

    2017 - 2021

    Sourced and led investments across seed, Series A, and Series B including LaunchDarkly, Solo.io, Dremio, R2C.dev, Preset, Hex, Cyral, AqueductHq.com, Gremlin, and Stackrox (acq. Redhat). Honored in Forbes 30 under 30.

2015 - 2017

  • Cisco Investments and Corporate Development

    2015 - 2017

    Drove cloud-infrastructure M&A and venture investments. I revamped Cisco’s inorganic strategy for the data center and deployed +$120M of capital. Executed investments in Cohesity, Datos IO (acq. Rubrik), Springpath (acq. Cisco), Elastifile (acq. Google), Guardicore (acq. Akamai), among other undisclosed capitalizations.

2013 - 2015

  • Equity Research Analyst

    2013 - 2015

    Provided IT Systems and Networking investment ideas and trend insights to clients for companies including BRCD, CDW, CSCO, EMC, FFIV, FTNT, HPQ, JNPR, NTAP, PANW, RVBD, STX, VMEM, VMW, WDC, among others. Thomson Reuters ranked our team the #1 Stock Picker for Communications Equipment in 2014.

2013 - 2013

  • Operator

    2013 - 2013

    Led product development while working with EVP and SVPs at Fortune 10 tech companies to identify operational constraints and execute process improvements, resulting in ~$200M operating profit improvement.

  • Technology Industry Researcher

    2009 - 2012

    Spearheaded original research initiatives in the U.S. and abroad for Condoleezza Rice, Larry Diamond, Amy Zegart, and Saumitra Jha. My work was published in Harvard Business School Press, Journal of Democracy, Annual Review of Political Science, and American Political Science Review.