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Maria Karaivanova

Co-founder & COO at WhyLabs, the AI Observability company

Seattle, Washington

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Digital Media
Business Development
Investments
Strategy
Corporate Development
Emerging Markets
Strategic Partnerships
Product Management
Venture Capital
SaaS
Entrepreneurship
Management
Start-ups
New Business Development
Mergers
Analysis
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Financial Modeling

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Investments

Pulse Labs - The Best Insights Have a Pulse

Seed

Total Funding: $3.1M

Pulse Labs

Seed Round

Total Funding: $5M

Work Experience

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WhyLabs, Inc.

2019

  • Co-founder & COO

    2019

    WhyLabs is on a mission to prevent AI failure. As teams across industries adopt AI, WhyLabs enables them to operate with certainty by providing model monitoring, preventing costly model failures, and facilitating cross-functional collaboration. Incubated at the Allen Institute for AI, WhyLabs is a privately-held, venture-funded company based in Seattle.

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Kauffman Fellows

2019

  • Kauffman Fellow - Class 24

    2019

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Eclypsium, Inc.

2018 - 2020

  • Board Observer

    2018 - 2020

    Eclypsium is a firmware security company that protects organizations from the foundation of their computing infrastructure upward, controlling the risk and stopping threats inside firmware of laptops, servers, and networking infrastructure. Eclypsium was founded by two of the world's leading security researchers who pioneered the open source project CHIPSEC while at Intel.

Pulse Labs

2018 - 2020

  • Board Member

    2018 - 2020

    Pulse Labs helps brands understand how real people interact with their voice apps through a rigorous process of live testing and data analysis. Using Pulse, voice app developers can quickly see how consumers want to interact with their app and get data on which prompts work and which don’t.

Wicket Labs Inc.

2017 - 2020

  • Board Observer

    2017 - 2020

    Audience insights platform unifying key data from the entire video ecosystem for actionable KPIs.

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Pulumi

2017 - 2020

  • Board Observer

    2017 - 2020

    Pulumi makes it easy to build cloud applications that use a combination of containers, lambdas, and connected data services and infrastructure.

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Madrona Venture Group

2017 - 2020

  • Principal

    2017 - 2020

ExtraHop

2017 - 2020

  • Board Observer

    2017 - 2020

    Provider of IT operations and wire data analytics platform designed to transform the scale and complexity of modern IT into a powerful source of intelligence for business operations.

Heptio

2017 - 2018

  • Board Observer

    2017 - 2018

    Heptio was co-founded by Joe Beda and Craig McLuckie, two of the creators of Google's Kubernetes project. Heptio aims to advance and support the open Kubernetes ecosystem. The company was acquired by VMware (VMW) after two years.

Cedexis

2017 - 2018

  • Board Observer

    2017 - 2018

    Software-defined application delivery platform, acquired by Citrix (CTXS). Cedexis provides a real-time, data-driven service for dynamically optimizing the flow of traffic across public clouds, data centers, CDNs, and ISPs. Cedexis technology intelligently routes traffic across dozens of CDNs, and hundreds of data centers and POPs globally. https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2018/02/12/citrix-acquires-cedexis/