Tomas Barreto

Founder of Okay

San Francisco, California

Overview

Tomas Barreto is the Co-Founder and CTO of Okay, a company that was acquired by Stripe, showcasing his success in building and scaling a tech startup to acquisition. With a background in leadership and software development, he has held various advisory roles at reputable companies like Runa and Blameless Inc, and has also served as a VP at Checkr, Inc. and Box, demonstrating his expertise in driving product and engineering teams to success.

Work Experience

Kleiner Perkins

Operating Partner, Engineering
2024 - Current

Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage, incubation, and growth companies.

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Various Startups

Advisor and Angel Investor
2013
Advised and invested in 20+ companies including Loom, Modern Treasury and Oura.

Okay (acquired by Stripe)

Co-Founder and CTO
2019 - 2023
Okay was an analytics platform for engineering leaders, dedicated to surfacing the bottlenecks affecting engineers in their day-to-day activities. We provided leaders with the ability to query dozens of datasources (Git, Calendars, CI tools, Paging systems, etc.) and build signals on what's getting in the way of their teams' engineering effectiveness: meeting load, interruptions caused by on-call, slow CI systems, etc. Our customers included companies such as Brex, Plaid and Intercom, and Okay raised $6.6M led by YCombinator, Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins. Stripe acquired Okay in June 2023.

Okay is a run high-performing teams with dashboards and user-friendly workflows.

Raised $6,630,000.00 from Irregular Expressions, Kleiner Perkins, Patrick Collison and Sequoia Capital.

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