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Martin Casado

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Martin Casado is a general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz where he focuses on enterprise investing. He was previously the cofounder and chief technology officer at Nicira, which was acquired by VMware for $1.26 billion in 2012. While at VMware, Martin was a fellow, and served as senior vice president and general manager of the Networking and Security Business Unit, which he scaled to a $600 million run-rate business by the time he left VMware in 2016.

Martin started his career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he worked on large-scale simulations for the Department of Defense before moving over to work with the intelligence community on networking and cybersecurity. These experiences inspired his work at Stanford where he created the software-defined networking (SDN) movement, leading to a new paradigm of network virtualization. While at Stanford he also cofounded Illuminics Systems, an IP analytics company, which was acquired by Quova Inc. in 2006.

For his work, Martin was awarded both the ACM Grace Murray Hopper award and the NEC C&C award, and he’s an inductee of the Lawrence Livermore Lab’s Entrepreneur’s Hall of Fame. He holds both a PhD and Masters degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Martin serves on the board of ActionIQ, Ambient.ai, Astranis, dbt Labs, Fivetran, Imply, Isovalent, Kong, Material Security, Netlify, Orbit, Pindrop Security, Preset, RapidAPI, Rasa, Tackle, Tecton, and Yubico.

Latest Posts

Investing in Coactive

by Martin Casado and Matt Bornstein
  • AI, machine & deep learning
  • enterprise & SaaS
  • announcements

Who Owns the Generative AI Platform?

by Matt Bornstein, Guido Appenzeller, and Martin Casado
  • AI, machine & deep learning
  • enterprise & SaaS
  • Generative AI
  • machine learning

Market Annealing: Getting to $10M ARR in Very Early Markets

by Martin Casado and Peter Levine
  • enterprise & SaaS
  • go to market
  • enterprise startups

Art Isn’t Dead, It’s Just Machine-Generated

by Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, Martin Casado, and Yoko Li
  • AI, machine & deep learning
  • Generative AI
  • machine learning

From @martin_casado

martin_casado@martin_casado

Superb analysis of @duckdb performance by @frasergeorgew ... tl;dr is that scale up can be really, really fast. https://t.co/7W6AUm24RX

MotherDuck@motherduck

How fast is @duckdb really? Interesting benchmarking by @frasergeorgew where he found a Macbook Pro laptop with DuckDB outperforming a data warehouse on a server with more cores. https://t.co/mb1JOIAvoh

Grady Booch@Grady_Booch

Then: “let’s move to the cloud!” Now: “let’s move to on prem” The pendulum swings. https://t.co/g399fqnzg4

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