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Natalie Vais

General Partner at Spark Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Natalie Vais is a General Partner at Spark Capital in San Francisco Bay Area, with a background in enterprise software, product management, and sales. She has made significant investments in various sectors including Supply Chain Tech and AI, and has held key roles at Google and Oracle prior to her current position at Spark Capital. Natalie Vais has a strong track record of investing in early-stage companies like PostgresML, and her diverse experience in product management and solution architecture has contributed to her success as a General Partner at Spark Capital.

Work Experience 

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Spark Capital

  • General Partner

    2023 - Current

    General Partner at Spark Capital leading Seed and Series A investments in infrastructure, developer tools, enterprise software, and AI.

Spark Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in the consumer, commerce, FinTech, software, frontier, and media sectors.

sparkcapital.com
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TigerBeetle

  • Board Member

    2024

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Polar Signals

  • Board Member

    2023

Polar Signals is a profiling platform designed to measure and understand performance over time.

Raised $10,774,936.00 from Monica Sarbu, Spark Capital, Nikhil Benesch, Haystack, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Guillermo Rauch, Google Ventures, Lorimer Ventures, Julius Volz and Jimmy Zelinskie.

polarsignals.com
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Amplify Partners

  • Principal

    2020 - 2023

    Partner to MotherDuck (seed), TigerBeetle (seed), Eppo (acquired by Datadog), ReadySet (seed), SpiralDB (seed), Motif Analytics (acquired by Airbnb), PostgresML (seed), and other unannounced companies.

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Google

  • Product Manager

    2017 - 2020

    PM on core infrastructure team serving Alphabet's internal developers (batch/stream processing, experimentation, logging). Later joined Google Cloud as lead PM for Cloud Firestore.

  • Google.org Fellow

    2019 - 2020

    Using AI and satellite imaging to measure global emissions from space.

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

google.com
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Interana

  • Director of Product Management

    2016 - 2017

    Fast columnar database for event and time series data. Acquired by Twitter in 2020.

  • Solutions Architect

    2014 - 2016

Collaborative Decision Intelligence Platform providing in-the-moment decision intelligence and activation without compromising privacy.

Raised $46,320,000.00 from Vertex Ventures, Fuel Capital, Index Ventures, Vertex Ventures US, Battery Ventures, DCVC, Ruchi Sanghvi, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund and Allen & Company.

scuba.io
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Oracle

  • Solutions Engineer

    2013 - 2014

Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.

oracle.com

Education 

Investments 

PostgresML

Seed

Total funding: $5M

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