Investing in and helping amazing founders solving hard technology problems in big markets.

Seed round investors in teams and ideas.Morado Venture Partners provides the resources entrepreneurs need to launch successful enterprises. Our partnership with our portfolio companies goes far beyond simply offering seed funding. We offer companies insights gained from experience, share their passion, and connect them to industry leaders who can help them Morado Venture Partners provides the resources entrepreneurs need to launch successful enterprises. Our partnership with our portfolio companies goes far beyond simply offering seed funding. We offer companies insights gained from experience, share their passion, and connect them to industry leaders who can help them

I'm now an E but not IR.

I made an angel investment in gene network sciences when systems biology was still in its infancy. You can see their website at http://www.gnsbiotech.com

Looking for engineers with experience in front-end, stream processing, distributed systems, operating systems and data science. Two blocks from the Caltrain in Mountain View. Currently less than 10 people.

Founded in 2005, Nexenta is the developer of NexentaStor, the leading OpenStorage, enterprise-class storage solution available today. NexentaStor uses open standards and protocols that have been accepted across industries and, with its open architecture, the system can be upgraded easily, significantly reducing costs by sidestepping proprietary hardware that only can be sourced from a single vendor.

Acquired by Rakuten. Curbside makes it easy to find, buy and pickup products at nearby stores.

Wavefront was acquired by VMWare.Wavefront provides companies with unparalleled visibility into the operations of their applications and systems through real-time analytics. Join our growing list of customers which include Box, Workday, First Data and Microsoft Yammer or join our team. Looking for strong front-end engineering candidates interested in data visualization.

Optimizing your mobile email workflow. Acquired by VMWare.

100% flash storage arrayLess than the cost of spinning disk.Flash memory is on pace to replace the spinning hard drive in performance storage, but to date it has been too expensive to deploy broadly. Pure Storage designed an all-flash storage array to overcome these challenges, delivering 100s of TBs of high-performance flash in a highly-available, plug- compatible array form-factor, all for less than the cost of spinning disk.

(Acquired)FoundationDB's mission is to provide data storage technology that frees engineers and companies to focus on problems other than building their data stack. To that end, FoundationDB is creating a new generation of database technology that combines the advantages of modern NoSQL databases with the power and reliability of ACID transactions.

Advising Twitter's engineering and corporate development teams.

Bagcheck was acquired by Twitter and I joined the engineering team. Helped slay the fail whale.

Awesome way to organize your non-personal email right in your Yahoo! (and Google) inbox. Sold to ReturnPath.

Whether it's cooking, photography, parenting, or sports —we all have a set of favorite items for doing what we love. Bagcheck is a fun and easy way to share these sets of items with people you know or share interests with. Here is what we built it with:http://bagcheck.com/bag/382-bagcheck-technology

I'm responsible for ensuring the products we develop across Yahoo! deliver competitive and truly compelling customer experiences, by driving a dialogue across internal product groups, Y!Labs, and business leaders; evaluating internal and external technologies; and driving improvements into our products. I also work closely with our M&A team, champion new technology initiatives, and evangelize Yahoo! technology both inside and outside of Yahoo!.

Head of the Yahoo! Application Platform, Yahoo! Query Language, Yahoo! Pipes and representative on the OpenSocial Foundation Board. As is typical at Yahoo!, I still have all my previous jobs as well.

I've moved from strategizing about platforms, web services and opening Yahoo to helping it become a reality.

Long term technology strategy and short term tactical technology recommendations across the breadth of Yahoo.

I was on the technical advisory board of 3Tera, an early stage enterprise software company. 3Tera was acquired by CA.

Gauntlet Systems was acquired by Borland in January. At Borland we will integrate the Gauntlet technology into their ALM/LQM solutions.As a Chief Architect at Borland I am responsible both for the developer quality products and ensuring that we move towards a common technology platform across the company.

Due diligence work, mostly in the consumer internet and enterprise software spaces.

Gauntlet Systems developed the first Intelligent Continuous Integration system that not only filters bad changes from being integrated into your software but also provides full visibility into the software development process.

I am an EIR (entrepreneur in residence) at Accel Partners. In addition to developing an idea to found a company, I also evaluate possible investments, and consult for Accel's portfolio companies.

I work in the technology advancement group. We stay on top of bleeding edge technologies and make recommendations and prototypes for new platform features.

This company merged with Visualize, Inc. and is still making its way in the online art market.

An early entry into the grid computing space that didn't quite make it. Eventually a company that does this will succeed.

Helped develop the WebLogic Application Server. WebLogic was sold to BEA Systems.

Worked for Searle Corporation building a relation database to OLTP conversion system for their direct sales force.

Worked at TransUnion building the next generation credit bureau data processing system using DCE, VB, Sybase, DB/2 Parallel Edition and a cluster of RS/6000 SP2s.