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Tyler Jewell

CEO & President at Lightbend

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Tyler Jewell is the CEO at Lightbend, overseeing the company's success in developing applications that remain responsive to change. With a background in executive roles at companies like Oracle and Symantec, he has successfully led Lightbend through significant growth and secured investments in notable companies like Orion Labs and Sauce Labs.

Work Experience 

  • CEO & President

    2023 - Current

    Akka lets you build and run apps that are elastic, agile, and guaranteed resilient. F500 and at-scale startups have downloaded Akka over 1 billion times creating apps experienced by 2 billion people daily. We are backed by Dell Tech Capital, Intel Capital, Juniper Networks, IBM, and Greylock.

  • Partner

    2012 - 2024

    Board: - Sauce Labs (exited to PE, 2017) - WSO2 (acquired by EQT, Q2 '24) - Codenvy (acquired by RHT, Q2 '17) - Cloudant (acquired by IBM, Q1 '14) Angel: - SourceGraph (exited in 2015 secondary) - ZeroTurnaround (acq. by Roguewave, Q4 '17) - InfoQ.com (exited in 2017 secondary) - AppHarbor (acquired by MSFT, Q4 '14) Advisor: - Security Compass (acquired by PE, Q4 '19) - Tomitribe (apache support) Toba Capital's partners are proven operators with expertise in IT infrastructure. Many of our partners continue as active CEOs, bringing a unique blend of market depth and support to our portfolio companies.

Toba Capital is an investment firm committed to helping create incredible technology companies.

  • Managing Director

    2019 - 2023

    I am a geek in developer tools, dev{sec|net|git}ops, infrastructure, dev platforms, and open-source licensing. I'm knowledgeably dangerous in analytics, business intelligence, big data, cloud computing, and systems management. Board / Observer: - NS1 (smart network services acq. by IBM) - Oxeye Security (cloud native app sec acq. by Gitlab) - Orion Labs (dev push-to-talk acq. by Modaxo) - Akka (build and run responsive apps) - Loops.ai (operational intelligence) - CUE Labs (CUE configuration language) - AppMap (personalized dev observability) - Archipelo (developer security posture management) - Zingly (rethinking the contact us box) Advisor: Yugabyte, Tetrate, Minio, Fly.io.

Dell Technologies Capital is a VC arm of Dell Technologies that invests in enterprise and cloud infrastructure.

  • CEO

    2017 - 2019

    WSO2 was acquired by EQT for $650M in 2024. 10 years as WSO2 board director and 2 years as its CEO. Founded in 2005, WSO2 is the world's #1 open-source integration vendor, helping digitally-driven organizations become integration agile. Brand name customers choose WSO2 for their broad, integrated platform, approach to open source, and agile transformation methodology. With offices in Australia, Brazil, Sri Lanka, UK, Germany and USA, WSO2 employs over 1000 professionals.

WSO2 enables organizations to create awesome digital experiences quickly, easily, and securely

Raised $133,500,000.00 from Redstart Labs and Goldman Sachs.

  • CEO & Founder

    2012 - 2017

    Codenvy was acquired by Red Hat in June 2017! Codenvy makes cloud workspaces for development teams. 45 employees and $10M in venture capital raised from Toba Capital and Auriga Ventures.

Codenvy is a provider of a cloud development platform designed for coding, building and testing applications.

Raised $9,000,000.00 from Toba Capital and Heavybit.

  • VP, Oracle Public Cloud

    2011 - 2012

    A combination of SAAS and PAAS businesses that are offered in a self-service, elastic environment on a subscription basis generating more than $1B in annual revenue.

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

  • VP & Investment Manager

    2005 - 2011

    Investment and product leader for Quest's app dev, app server, cloud, and DevOps portfolio representing ~$150M ARR. Investments include WSO2, ZeroTurnaround, AppHarbor, AwayFind, rule.fm and Skydera.

we building the software that makes the benefits of new technology real while empowering users and data, m the inside out.

  • COO/CEO

    2003 - 2004

    A media subsidiary that published TheServerSide.com, a tabloid and research community for enterprise Java and .NET devs with 1M subscribers. Divested from Veritas in a sale to TechTarget where TSS still operates today!

Email Filtering Company

Raised $35,000,000.00 from TCV, Crosslink Capital, NortonLifeLock, Critical Path, Accel, Opportunity Capital Partners, Esther Dyson, Bill Joy and Thomas Weisel Partners.

  • Director

    1997 - 2003

    Various technical positions in marketing, products and services.

BEA provides enterprise application and service infrastructure software enabling companies to streamline operations and cut costs.

Raised $50,000,000.00 from Alfred Chuang and Warburg Pincus.

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