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Michael Driscoll

Co-founder at Rill Data, fast operational BI. Previously started Metamarkets (acq'd by Snap) and CustomInk.com. Founding partner at DCVC.

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $25,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $15,000,000.00

Education

Work Experience

2020

  • Co-Founder, CEO

    2020

    Dashboards that move as fast as your business.

  • Founding Partner

    2011

    Partner of a venture fund supporting innovative entrepreneurs building big data, deep compute, and IT infrastructure companies. Now on its seventh fund having raised $1B+ of capital and invested in hundreds of firms.

2017 - 2019

  • General Manager, Metamarkets

    2017 - 2019

    Metamarkets is a SaaS analytics platform for digital media marketplaces, whose clients include Twitter, Verizon (Oath), and Microsoft. Our technology platform processes trillions of real-time transactions monthly, and was named Inc's 292nd fastest-growing firm in 2016. Metamarkets was acquired by Snap Inc. in November 2017.

2010 - 2017

  • Co-Founder, CEO

    2012 - 2017

    Metamarkets is a SaaS analytics platform for digital media marketplaces, whose clients include Twitter, Verizon (Oath), and Microsoft. Our technology platform processes trillions of real-time transactions monthly, and was named Inc's 292nd fastest-growing firm in 2016. Metamarkets was acquired by Snap, Inc. in November 2017.

  • Co-Founder, CTO

    2010 - 2012

    As CTO, I hired and led a team of engineers to innovate a real-time analytics stack that eventually scaled to process 100s of billions of events daily across 1000s of servers. We leveraged a suite of leading frameworks (Kafka, Spark, Node/React) and invented and open-sourced an award-winning distributed database called Druid.

2008 - 2011

  • Founder

    2008 - 2011

    Dataspora was a predictive analytics software and services firm whose clients included banks, telcos, and digital media companies. We were a team of data scientists with Ph.D.s in everything from theoretical physics, mathematics, to computational biology and helped firms accelerate their data strategies. Dataspora was acquired by Via Science in 2011.

1999 - 2008

  • Founder, Board Director

    1999 - 2008

    Conceived CustomInk.com in 1999, and was lucky enough to hand it off to my college roommate and former Wall Street banker Marc Katz who scaled it to the thousands of employees and hundreds of millions of revenue business it is today.

  • Software Engineer

    2001 - 2002

2000 - 2001

  • Software Engineer

    2000 - 2001

    Gentech was acquired by Sanofi.