Bryan Offutt

Partner at Index Ventures

Santa Cruz, California

Overview

Bryan Offutt is a Partner at Index Ventures in Santa Cruz, California, with a Bachelor of Science degree from Stanford University. He has made significant investments in companies like Superlinked, Adaptive ML, Lightning AI, ReadySet Technology, and Deepnote, focusing on sectors such as Analytics, Developer Tools, Future of Work, Data Services, and AI. Offutt's career highlights include serving as a Board Director at Transcend, Temporal Technologies, Starburst Data, and Adaptive ML, as well as being a Lead Investor at Superlinked and Ollama, showcasing his expertise in investment strategy and board governance within the tech industry.

Work Experience

Hanabi Capital

Partner
2024 - Current
Co-founded with Mike Volpi and Ishani Thakur.

LiveKit

Investor
2025

The Realtime Cloud. Build and scale voice and video applications.

Raised $36,022,468.00 from Aravind Srinivas, Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Altimeter Capital, Amjad Masad, Redpoint and Guillermo Rauch.

livekit.io

Index Ventures

Partner
2018 - 2024
Infra + AI

Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps the entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.

indexventures.com

Temporal Technologies

Board Director
2021 - 2024
Led Series B

Temporal Technologies enables its users to build and operate resilient applications using developer-friendly primitives.

Raised $203,500,000.00 from Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Madrona, Amplify Partners, Addition, Greenoaks, Addition, Index Ventures, Madrona and Amplify Partners.

temporal.io

Ollama

Lead Investor
2021 - 2024
Co-led Seed

Starburst Data

Board Director
2019 - 2024
Creators of Trino (fka Presto). Led Series A

Starburst Data is an analytics platform for data.

Raised $414,000,000.00 from B Capital, Alkeon Capital, Index Ventures, Ethos VC, Salesforce Ventures, Altimeter Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Coatue.

starburst.io