Nate Boyd

Investor & Advisor

2023

Looking for a handful of AI/ML researchers & engineers to round out the founding team of one of the most promising AI for science companies I have come across. In a sea of AI startups, here are a few things that separate us: 1/ Pushing the frontier of multimodal learning beyond text + image. 2/ A mission that matters, in a massive market. Not just exciting tech + science. 3/ Building an environment that attracts the very best people to come and do seminal work.

Founder

2016

Plus Plus helps founders identify and hire the scientific, research and engineering talent to build the coming generation of AI-first businesses. We choose clients with a mission we find inspiring, a market we believe in, and hard problems that attract deep thinkers. We invest in our clients, aligning long-term interests. We take a high-touch, research-intensive approach. We are infinitely curious, allowing us to go where others cannot. We are passionate about organizational design and everything that goes into crafting high-performing teams. People we work with attest that we operate at a different level. Addepar • Ahana (IBM) • Astronomer • Axiom • BedRock • Coinbase • Cruise • Culture • Datometry • Gladly • System1 / Herophilus • mLab (MongoDB) • Pivotal (VMware) • Rill • Sift • Spring • The Yes (Pinterest) • Yugabyte • Wevr

Investor & Advisor

2021

Astronomer is the company behind Apache Airflow, the emerging data observability and orchestration open source standard.

Investor & Advisor

2020 - 2023

YugabyteDB is a distributed SQL database build around PostgreSQL for mission-critical, cloud-native transactional workloads and applications.

Investor & Advisor

2019 - 2023

Spring is on a mission to build the definitive no-code analysis toolkit for high-dimensional bio data.

Investor & Advisor

2019 - 2022

Investor & Advisor

2017 - 2020

Technology platform & team acquired by Genentech 2023.

Talent Partner

2017 - 2019

Acquired by VMware 2019.

Talent Partner

2016 - 2018

Acquired by MongoDB 2018.

CEO and Co-Founder

2010 - 2016

A tale of many pivots, from "Yelp for people," to a local business messaging platform, to a service industry recruiting network :) We had many amazing people on our team, whom I hold in high regard and care about deeply. Finding and working alongside them was one of my great privileges and successes. I learned a ton about consumer app design, marketing, and engineering, and had a lot of fun working different muscles after many years in enterprise software. We had the great fortune to work with sharp and supportive backers from Greylock and Sierra, alongside an outstanding cast of angel investors.