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Database Optimization on Autopilot: Our Investment in OtterTune
Talks about Database, Machine Learning and Database Administration
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Nick Washburn
Managing Director at Intel Capital
Denver Metropolitan Area
Overview
Nick Washburn is a Senior Managing Director at Intel Capital, overseeing investments in companies like Fly.io and Moderne. With a J.D. from Villanova University and experience as a board member for various tech startups, he has successfully led funding rounds for companies in sectors like Enterprise Applications and AI, making significant contributions to the tech industry.
Work Experience
Intel Capital Board Observer
2024 - Current
Since December 2024 I have served as Intel Capital’s designee as an observer to the board of directors of RouteThis. RouteThis is transforming WiFi customer experience by empowering Service Providers and Smart Home brands to deliver exceptional in-home WiFi installation, repair and support with CPE-agnostic software solutions and remote service platforms. RouteThis has served over 175 companies globally, with key value driven by reducing average handle time, deploying fewer truck rolls, and increasing average revenue per user.
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
2022
Co-partner on Intel Capital’s Series A lead investment and subsequent Series B investment in Freshpaint. Intel Capital’s designee as a member on the board of directors of Freshpaint at the Series A round. Freshpaint helps healthcare marketers unlock high-performance marketing in a privacy-first way through its Healthcare Privacy Platform. Freshpaint's privacy-first approach to data sharing allows healthcare marketers to continue to use the most advanced ads, analytics, and marketing personalization tools – without heavy engineering or long implementation times.
Freshpaint is a data platform that facilitates marketing by collecting customer data.
Raised $46,850,000.00 from Zero Prime Ventures, Intel Capital, Y Combinator, SignalFire and Threshold.
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
2021
Co-partner on Intel Capital’s Series A lead investment and subsequent Series B investment in Moderne. Intel Capital’s designee as a member on the board of directors of Moderne at the Series A round. Moderne is a developer platform for automatically migrating, securing, and analyzing source code with speed and accuracy across multiple repositories. Moderne was founded with a singular mission—do the work for software developers that is often the most tedious, time-consuming, and neglected. And solve this problem at the scale needed to improve business productivity across the enterprise.
Moderne automates code remediation.
Raised $19,700,000.00 from Mango Capital, Intel Capital, True Ventures and Allstate Strategic Ventures.
Intel Capital Investor
2021
Co-partner on Intel Capital’s Series B investment in Upbound. Upbound is the leading provider of self-service cloud platforms based on control planes. With control planes like Crossplane, cloud engineers can create custom APIs unhindered by configuration drift. By utilizing the Upbound platform to host their control planes, platform engineers can provide the centralized control, governance, and stability they must meet while giving developers the freedom of self-service.
Upbound is an infrastructure management platform that runs, scales, and optimizes services across multiple cloud environments.
Raised $69,000,000.00 from Titanium Ventures, Google Ventures, Intel Capital and Altimeter Capital.
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
2021
Co-partner on Intel Capital’s Series A lead investment and subsequent Series B and C investments in Fly.io. Intel Capital’s designee as an observer to the board of directors of Fly.io from August 2021 until April 2022, and then Intel Capital’s designee as a member on the board of directors of Fly.io from April 2022 onward. Fly.io is a new, developer-focused public cloud: Easy to deploy on, powerful to grow on. Over 3 million apps have launched on Fly.io, leveraging global Anycast load-balancing, zero-config private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections, with push-button deployments scaling to thousands of instances.
Board Member
2021
The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) empowers the next generation of American companies that will fuel the economy of tomorrow. As the voice of the U.S. venture capital and startup community, NVCA advocates for public policy that supports the American entrepreneurial ecosystem. Serving the venture community as the preeminent trade association, NVCA arms the venture community for success, serving as the leading resource for venture capital data, practical education, peer-led initiatives, and networking.
National Venture Capital Association advocates for policies that promote long-term investment and encourage innovation.
Intel Capital Investor
2019
Co-partner on Intel Capital’s Series A investment and subsequent Series B and C investments in Anyscale. Anyscale provides a Unified AI Platform powered by Ray, enabling organizations to scale their AI and ML workloads efficiently across any infrastructure. Anyscale's platform powers everything from training large language models to real-time data processing, helping teams of all sizes build, deploy, and manage AI workloads effortlessly.
Anyscale accelerates the development and productionization of any AI app, on any cloud, at any scale.
Raised $259,000,000.00 from Sancus Ventures, Addition, Foundation Capital, Intel Capital, Addition, Foundation Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Andreessen Horowitz and Intel Capital.
Intel Capital Investor & Board Observer
2019
Co-partner on Intel Capital’s Series A investment and subsequent Series B investment in Tetrate. Intel Capital's designee as an observer to the board of directors of Tetrate. Rooted in open source, Tetrate was founded to solve the application networking and security challenges created by modern computing so enterprises can innovate with speed and safety in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. As applications evolve into collections of decentralized microservices, monitoring and managing the network communications and security among those myriad services becomes challenging. This is why some of the largest financial institutions, governments and other enterprises rely on Tetrate to deliver modern application networking and security.
Tetrate provides enterprise-ready service mesh for all workloads and all environments.
Raised $52,500,000.00 from 8VC, Dell Technologies Capital, Scale Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Samsung NEXT, NTT Venture Capital and Intel Capital.
Senior Managing Director, Intel Capital
2018
I am a Senior Managing Director of Intel Capital. I am a voting member of Intel Capital’s investment committee and co-manage Intel Capital’s cloud investment domain. I focus on early-stage investments in cloud-native infrastructure, developer tools, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and data platforms.
Managing Counsel, Intel Capital (North America)
2017 - 2018
I managed team of five attorneys and three paralegals supporting Intel Capital’s North American investment activities, including new and follow-on equity and debt venture capital investments and post-investment portfolio management matters (M&As, IPOs, etc.). I oversaw development and implementation of legal policies and procedures governing worldwide Intel Capital legal operations together with colleagues in APAC and EMEA.
Senior Attorney, Intel Capital
2014 - 2017
I supported Intel Capital’s North American investment activities, including new and follow-on equity and debt venture capital investments and post-investment portfolio management matters (M&As, IPOs, etc.).
Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and other disruptive technologies.
Raised $650,000.00 from Raj Sareen.
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
2022 - 2024
Co-partner on Intel Capital’s Series A lead investment in OtterTune. Intel Capital’s designee as a member on the board of directors of OtterTune at the Series A round. OtterTune is a database automation and optimization platform that observes your database's runtime metrics and then carries out machine learning to recommend and deploy configuration settings, improving its performance, uptime, and efficiency. It works for cloud-based PostgreSQL and MySQL databases (Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora).
OtterTune is an automated perfector of databases.
Raised $14,500,000.00 from Intel Capital, Koa Labs, Race Capital and Accel.
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