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Magnus Christerson

Angel Investor

Greater Seattle Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $1,500,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Co-Chair AI Committee

    2023

    Screen, fund and build AI companies

  • Screening Committee

    2020

    Screening companies for Alliance of Angels members

  • Angel Investor

    2017

    Alliance of Angels is the largest and most active angel group in the Pacific Northwest. Each year, we invest $10M+ into 20+ companies. Our network of 150+ active angel investors is further augmented by an annual Innovation Fund.

2008

  • Angel Investor, Board of Directors, Chairman, Advisory Board

    2008

    The world's leading graph database www.neo4j.com Open source neo4j.org

2018 - 2020

  • Co-Founder and CTO

    2018 - 2020

    Fizikl is developing an automated physical inventory counting solution, flying autonomous drones in warehouses and fusing inputs from cameras and other sensors with machine learning to continuously cycle count items in inventory.

  • Executive VP, Products

    2004 - 2017

    Company founded by Charles Simonyi to build a team-based productivity platform for domain specific applications and languages using the Intentional Programming paradigm. Product/program management, engineering, quality assurance, marketing. • Product Manager • Owned all customer facing projects • Led DARPA projects valued at $6M+ as Principal Investigator (PI) Acquired by Microsoft - May, 2017

2004 - 2004

  • Consulting Executive

    2004 - 2004

    Worked with CEO to streamline Product Development, Program/Product Management, and Marketing.

2003 - 2004

  • Product Director - CTO Office

    2003 - 2004

    IBM Software CTO office; model driven development.

1995 - 2003

  • Director, Product Management

    1995 - 2003

    Led product management for the worlds leading model-driven development tools Rational Rose/RoseRT, Rational XDE, and Rational Developer Suite. Acquired by IBM for $2.1B in February 2003.

1990 - 1995

  • Software Engineer, Consultant, Product Manager

    1990 - 1995

    The startup which coined the term "Use Case". Built and delivered object-oriented software engineering tools and processes to Fortune 500 companies. Co-author with Ivar Jacobson of Object-Oriented Software Engineering - A Use Case Driven Approach, Addison-Wesley. Acquired by Rational Software.

  • Graduate Student, Artificial Intelligence Lab

    1988 - 1990

    Created PLANKEE, an artificial intelligence planner with replanning learning capability implemented in Lisp and IntelliCorp's Knowledge Engineering Environment (KEE) on a Symbolics machine.