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Natalie Vais

General Partner at Spark Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2023

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

  • Board Member

    2024

  • Board Member

    2023

2020 - 2023

  • Principal

    2020 - 2023

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

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.

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

2013 - 2014

  • Solutions Engineer

    2013 - 2014