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Magnus Christerson

Investor Investor

Greater Seattle Area

Overview 

Magnus Christerson is an accomplished Angel Investor based in the Greater Seattle Area, specializing in new business development and deals within sectors like MarketingTech and SaaS. With a strong background in software development and product management, he has held executive roles at notable companies like Neo4j, where he served as an Angel Investor, Board of Directors member, Chairman, and Advisory Board member. Christerson's career highlights include his leadership role as Co-Chair of the AI Committee at the Alliance of Angels and his experience as the Co-Founder and CTO of Fizikl, showcasing his expertise in enterprise software, management consulting, and cloud computing.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Chair AI Committee

    2023 - Current

    Screen, fund, and build AI companies

  • Screening Committee

    2020

    Screening companies for Alliance of Angels members

  • Angel Investor

    2017

    Alliance of Angels is the largest and most active angel group in the Pacific Northwest. Each year, we invest $10M+ into 20+ companies. Our network of 150+ active angel investors is further augmented by an annual Innovation Fund.

We are a group of 140+ active angel investors. Each year, we invest $10M+ into 20+ startups and provide mentorship to help them succeed.

  • Angel Investor, Board of Directors, Chairman, Advisory Board

    2008

    GenAI leader in knowledge graphs and GraphRAG, built on the world's leading graph database with analytics @ www.neo4j.com; open source @ neo4j.org.

Neo4j is the leader in graph technology. We help global brands to reveal and predict how people, processes & systems are interrelated.

Raised $805,100,000.00 from Noteus Partners.

  • Co-Founder and CTO

    2018 - 2020

    Fizikl is developing a warehouse inventory cycle count system, flying autonomous drones in warehouses and using visual inputs from cameras with machine learning to daily cycle count items in inventory.

  • Executive VP, Products

    2004 - 2017

    Knowledge capture and representation from domain experts to generate domain specific applications and languages. Founded by Charles Simonyi of Microsoft fame, every application is built on a team-based productivity platform. Technology is based on the "Intentional Programming" project from Microsoft Research. Responsibilities included: Product and program management, engineering, quality assurance, customer success, marketing. Owned all customer facing projects including DARPA projects valued at $6M+ as Principal Investigator (PI). Acquired by Microsoft for undisclosed amount in May, 2017.

  • Consulting Executive

    2004 - 2004

    Worked with CEO to streamline Product Development, Program/Product Management, and Marketing.

Edifecs develops information technology solutions to transform the healthcare marketplace.

Raised $525,000.00 from TA Associates and Francisco Partners.

  • Product Director - CTO Office

    2003 - 2004

    IBM Software CTO office; model driven development.

IBM is an IT technology and consulting firm providing computer hardware, software, infrastructure, and hosting services.

  • Director, Product Management

    1995 - 2003

    Led product management for the worlds leading model-driven development tools Rational Rose/RoseRT, Rational XDE, and Rational Developer Suite. Acquired by IBM for $2.1B in February 2003.

  • Software Engineer, Consultant, Product Manager

    1990 - 1995

    The startup that created the concept of "Use Case". Built and delivered object-oriented software engineering tools and processes to Fortune 500 companies. Co-author with Ivar Jacobson of Object-Oriented Software Engineering - A Use Case Driven Approach, Addison-Wesley. Acquired by Rational Software.

  • Graduate Student, Artificial Intelligence Lab

    1988 - 1990

    Created PLANKEE, an artificial intelligence planner with replanning learning capability implemented in Lisp and IntelliCorp's Knowledge Engineering Environment (KEE) on a Symbolics machine.

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