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Nate Boyd
Founder of Plus Plus
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Nate Boyd is a Founder, Investor, and Advisor to AI startups in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a background in leading companies like Nomic as CEO and Co-Founder and serving as a Talent Partner at Pivotal Software, Inc. He specializes in investing in sectors such as Generative Tech/AI, Pharmaceuticals, and DeepTech, with a focus on diverse founders and investors who support female entrepreneurs.
Boyd's career highlights include founding Plus Plus and advising companies like Astronomer and Yugabyte, showcasing his expertise in the AI and tech industry while actively supporting and investing in underrepresented founders and diverse startups.
Work Experience
Founder
2016 - Current
Plus Plus helps founders hire the research and engineering talent to build the coming generation of AI-first businesses. We see both near-term (e.g., AI for code, AI to augment intelligence) and long-term (e.g. AI for biology, Embodied AI) opportunities to create foundational new businesses amidst all the hype. We build companies with exceptionally high talent density. We are technical recruiters who are actually technical. We can hold an intelligent conversation with anyone. We geek out on startups, products, markets, research papers, leadership, all of it. We operate with integrity, curiosity and excellence. Addepar • Ahana (IBM) • Astronomer • Augment • Axiom • BedRock • Chai Discovery • Coinbase • Cruise • Culture • Datometry • Gladly • Harmonic • Herophilus • mLab (MongoDB) • Pivotal (VMware) • Reve • Rill • Sift • Slash • Spring • The Yes (Pinterest) • Yugabyte • Wevr
Plus Plus helps founders build early-stage R&D teams, and expand their leadership team as the business grows.
Talent Partner
2024
Developer AI startup focused on helping engineering teams build & maintain real systems at scale, that takes pride and finds joy in helping developers move faster, stay in the flow longer and have more impact.
The most context-aware Developer AI. With Augment, dev teams get up to speed and get more done.
Raised $252,000,000.00 from Evolution Equity Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Innovation Endeavors, Sutter Hill Ventures, Index Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Talent Partner
2024
Superintelliigence for math + code startup co-founded by Vlad Tenev (Robinhood) and Tudor Achim (Helm.ai). Building AI with formal methods/Lean verifiers, language models and reinforcement learning.
Investor & Advisor
2023
AI for science startup building a platform to predict drug + chemical safety, a huge blocker for biochemical R&D. Backed by Jeff Dean, Amplify, Dimension and others.
Investor & Advisor
2023
Autonomous bug finding platform for complex software systems, from the founders of FoundationDB. A "by and for developers" kind of company with a distinct culture and belief systems.
Antithesis develops quality assurance software to facilitate autonomous software testing.
Raised $47,000,000.00 from Michael Walrath, First In Ventures, Tamarack Global, Howard Lerman and Amplify Partners.
Investor & Advisor
2021
Astronomer is the company behind Apache Airflow, the emerging data observability and orchestration open source standard.
Astronomer develops a data orchestration platform that helps with the deployment, management, and scaling of distributed airflow services.
Raised $282,900,000.00 from Meritech Capital Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Insight Partners, Sierra Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, JP Morgan, K5 Global, Venrock and FirstMark.
Investor & Advisor
2020 - 2023
YugabyteDB is a distributed SQL database build around PostgreSQL for mission-critical, cloud-native transactional workloads and applications.
Yugabyte is an open-source distributed SQL database for customers in industries such as cybersecurity, financial markets, and IoT.
Raised $291,000,000.00 from Dell Technologies Capital, Alkeon Capital, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, 8VC, Sapphire Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Wipro Ventures.
Investor & Advisor
2019 - 2023
Spring is on a mission to build the definitive no-code analysis toolkit for high-dimensional bio data.
Spring Science is a software platform that offers image analysis services for researchers.
Investor & Advisor
2019 - 2022
formerly BedRock Systems
Investor & Advisor
2017 - 2020
Technology platform & team acquired by Genentech 2023.
Herophilus is a neurotherapeutics discovery company based on next-generation scaled complex in vitro models.
Raised $16,000,000.00 from KF Ventures, Kinled Holding, Luxor Capital Group, 515 Ventures and Liquid 2 Ventures.