Materialized View Capital
Venture capitalPre-Seed–Series A · 2 people tracked
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Investment thesis
Materialized View Capital focuses on early-stage infrastructure and developer tooling companies, backing startups from pre-seed through Series A. Its first fund (2024-2026) operates as a microfund, following a prior decade (2014-2024) of personal angel investing in data infrastructure, developer tools, and related technical companies.
Source: firm website, verified Oct 2, 2026.
Team · 2 people
from public directoriesWhat they invest in
from 47 of 58 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×35Data & Infrastructure ×32Developer Tools ×32Enterprise Software ×17SaaS ×15Cloud Computing ×14Cybersecurity ×3Fintech ×2
HQs:United States×29Germany×2
Who they back
founder profiles across 37 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×62 founders×143 founders×114+ founders×6
Where their founders studiedfrom 57 founders with education data
Harvard University ×4Libera Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele ×3Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay ×2Oregon State University ×2Stanford University Graduate School of Business ×2The Wharton School ×2Tsinghua University ×2UC Santa Barbara ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 50 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×30Engineering ×8Mathematics & Statistics ×6Business & Management ×4Humanities ×4Economics ×3Finance & Accounting ×3Life Sciences ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 58 founders with career history
Microsoft ×9Google ×7LinkedIn ×6Uber ×6Airbnb ×4Standard Metrics ×4Etsy ×3Bain & Company ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
5 founders hold a PhD · 5 hold an MBA (of 57 with degree data)
Investments · 58 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 12024 · 42017 · 16 dated
Anomalo provides AI-based data quality monitoring that detects anomalies and data issues in large data warehouses and lakehouses.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Elliot Shmukler(Founder)inJeremy Stanley(Founder)in
Co-investorsFirst Round CapitalFoundation CapitalNextView VenturesNorwest Venture PartnersSignalFireSmith Point Capital+4 more
Arlo provides on-demand healthcare access through an AI agent that connects users to providers for consultations, prescriptions, labs, and referrals, integrating personal health data (such as WHOOP sleep and stress metrics) into the clinical process.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtech
Bauplan is an execution layer that lets AI agents and engineers build, validate, and ship data pipelines on production data using isolated branches, atomic publishes, and rollback.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Jacopo Tagliabue(President)inMattia Pavoni(Chief Financial Officer)inCiro Greco(Chief Executive Officer)in
Co-investorsPruVen Capital PartnersAditya AgarwalInnovation EndeavorsSouth Park Commons
Bemi provides an automatic audit trail for PostgreSQL databases, capturing and storing data changes and enriching them with application context through integrations with ORMs like Prisma and TypeORM.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaSSan Francisco, US
Evgeny Li(Executive Officer, Director)Arjun Lall(Executive Officer, Director)
Bruin is a data platform that connects to databases, CRMs, analytics, and billing systems to provide instant insights and dashboards.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaSBerlin, DE
Burak Karakan(Founder)inSabri Karagönen(Founder)
Co-investorsLunar VenturesTechstars
San Francisco, US
Subrata (Subu) Biswas(Founder)Vishal D(Founder)
Co-investorsBreakwater VenturesSpider Capital
Confluent provides a cloud-native platform for real-time data streaming and movement, enabling organizations to connect applications and respond to business events as they occur.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMountain View, US
Neha Narkhede(Founder)inJay Kreps(Founder)inJun Rao(Founder)inEdward (Jay) Kreps(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardMatthew Miller(Director)Eric Vishria(Director)in
Co-investorsAlkeon InnovationAltimeter CapitalArtisanal VenturesAxevil CapitalBattery VenturesCoatue Management+17 more
Donobu is a local-first testing platform that explores a website, detects issues, and automatically writes and maintains Playwright browser tests.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaSRedwood City, US
Vasusen Patil(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inJustin Fraize(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Co-investorsGaruda VenturesSwift Ventures
Dosu provides knowledge infrastructure that automatically captures and maintains documentation for engineering teams and their AI coding agents.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaSSan Francisco, US
Devin Stein(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardDavis Treybig(Director)in
Co-investorsVarion VenturesInnovation Endeavors
Empathic builds Pathbase, a tool for inspecting, sharing, and continuing AI agent sessions by making an agent's hidden work visible.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsIrregular Expressions
Eventual is a San Francisco startup founded in 2022 that builds Daft, a high-performance data engine for processing multimodal AI data (images, video, audio, text) at scale, and sells Eventual Cloud, a commercial platform based on it.
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesBasis Set VenturesAlleyCorpArray Ventures Management LlcCaffeinated CapitalCRV (Charles River Ventures)+5 more
Fiveonefour builds tooling focused on agent experience (AX), helping developers ship software that AI agents can use effectively.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaSPortland, US
Timote Gelinas Delisle(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Chris Crane(Founder)inNicolas Joseph(Founder)in
Co-investorsFlybridge Capital PartnersVermilion Cliffs Ventures6 Dimensions CapitalDimension CapitalRidge VenturesStage 2 Capital
Gable builds a data collaboration platform centered on data contracts, integration and unit testing, diffs, and monitoring to catch data quality issues at upstream sources before they reach analytical environments.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Daniel Dicker(Founding Engineer)inChad Sanderson(Co-founder & CEO)inJames Frost(Co-founder & CPO)inAdrian(Co-founder & CTO)
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundB Capital GroupB4 CapitalCrane Venture PartnersIn-Q-TelInvest In Data+4 more
Gauge provides tools and analytics for monitoring and measuring brand presence and performance within AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Caelean Barnes(CEO)inEvan Doyle(CTO)inGrantinEthaninFarbodinGrant Evans(Founding Eng)
Co-investorsAscend Venture CapitalPioneerY CombinatorAndreessen HorowitzGopher US VentureHG Ventures+2 more
Greybeam builds a compute layer that optimizes query costs for data warehouses, reducing expensive cloud database usage by routing queries away from data warehouses when more efficient alternatives exist.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureSaaS
Kyle Cheung(Founder)in
Co-investorsFounder CollectiveComposed Ventures LPSignalFire
Drata provides a GRC platform that uses autonomous AI agents to automate compliance, manage internal and third-party risk, and continuously monitor and prove an organization's security posture.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaS
Co-investorsRipple Ventures
Kevin Van Gundy(Founder)Ryan Fox Tyler(Founder)
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesSignalFire8-Bit CapitalCRV (Charles River Ventures)Uncorrelated Ventures
Kenn builds agentic development and knowledge systems for software engineers working with AI coding agents.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Wes McKinney(Founder / Lead)
Co-investorsEval Ventures Fund
LaserData provides data infrastructure for real-time and AI-native systems, letting developers stream, store, query, and coordinate distributed systems and AI agents on a durable log-based foundation through a typed SDK.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Loophole Labs is a systems infrastructure company that builds Architect, a Kubernetes platform for pod hibernation and live migration of workloads across nodes, zones, and clouds to avoid spot instance preemption and cold starts.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsCervinDeep AcrePeak XV PartnersHaystack
Meroxa builds real-time data integration and streaming tools to help organizations liberate data from silos and create data-driven applications.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
DeVaris Brown(Founder)inAli Hamidi(Founder)
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersDrive CapitalRoot Ventures Manager, LlcWellington ManagementAdditionHatzimemos/Libby+5 more
Modal provides a cloud platform that lets developers define compute, hardware, and application logic in Python and deploy to the cloud, with fast-booting containers and autoscaling GPUs.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsNew York, US
Erik Bernhardsson(Founder)inAkshat Bubna(Founder)inSeth Zelnick(Executive Officer)inAaron Krane(Founder)in
BoardPatrick Chase(Director)inSarah Catanzaro(Director)in
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersGeneral CatalystLux CapitalRedpoint VenturesCreandumAbstraction Capital+22 more
Nile is a Postgres database re-engineered for B2B and multi-tenant applications, offering virtual per-tenant databases on a single Postgres instance with built-in tenant isolation, autoscaling, and support for vector embeddings via pgvector.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Gwen (Chen) Shapira(Founder)inSriram Subramanian(Founder)inGwen Shapira(Founder)
Co-investors8VCAfricInvest
Nuon is a platform that lets software developers run their applications natively inside their customers' cloud accounts, supporting the BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) deployment model for B2B applications.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareBeverly Hills, US
Jon Morehouse(Founder)inJames Wu(Director)in
BoardAndrew McLoughlin(Director)in
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesDeep AcreHawk Hill VenturesImpossible FinanceMantis CapitalNKECHI IREGBULEM+6 more
Oleander is a serverless data platform that separates data storage from compute, keeping tables in Apache Iceberg (or connected catalogs) while automatically selecting the engine and capacity for each workload across DuckDB, Polars, Spark, and its native DataFusion engine.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & Infrastructure
ParadeDB is a Postgres extension that adds full-text search, vector retrieval, and aggregation capabilities to PostgreSQL databases.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Philippe Noël(Founder)inMing Ying(Founder)in
Co-investorsCraft VenturesTeam Ignite VenturesY CombinatorGeneral CatalystLynett Capital PartnersSusa Ventures+2 more
Prefect builds intelligent workflow orchestration infrastructure that manages mission-critical automated workflows for teams balancing flexibility with reliability.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareWashington, US
Jeremiah Lowin(Founder)in
BoardPatrick W. OShaughnessy(Director)
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersGreen Meadow VenturesPositive Sum CapitalRachel Zoe VenturesValor Equity PartnersChemistry+1 more
Quill provides a suite of tools for building customer-facing dashboards, including a React library, API, and management platform.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Shawn Magee(Founder)inRishi Raman(Founder)inMichael Daugherty(Founder)Jo Zhu Kennedy
Co-investorsBasis Set VenturesCypress Growth CapitalIndex VenturesM13Y Combinator500 Global+10 more
Responsive works on database technology aimed at reducing the complexity and cost of software by rethinking how databases are built and consumed.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsMenlo Park, US
Apurva Mehta(Founder)Rohan Desai(Founder)in
S2.dev builds infrastructure services and tools for developers.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Shikhar Bhushan(CEO)inStephen Balogh(CTO)inDwarak Govind Parthiban(Founder)inMehul ArorainCristian Caciucin
Co-investorsGrayscale VenturesOrange CollectivePioneerTranspose Platform ManagementUncorrelated VenturesY Combinator+11 more
Signadot provides a Kubernetes-native developer platform that simplifies the development of cloud-native applications by enabling faster feedback loops and collaborative testing at scale.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Arjun Iyer(Founder)inAnirudh Ramanathan(Founder)inAnthony Yeh(Senior Software Engineer)David Polstra(Marketing Director)
Co-investorsRedpoint VenturesY CombinatorAllison Pickens VenturesEssence Venture CapitalRenegade PartnersTifo+1 more
Spiral is a multimodal data platform designed for frontier AI applications that handles video, images, audio, embeddings, point clouds, sensor streams, tables, and text at machine scale.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureNew York City, US
Nicholas Gates(Founder)Robert Kruszewski(Founder)Will Manning(Founder)inNick Gates(Founder)Rob Kruszewski(Founder)
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersAngel Collective Opportunity FundBoxGroupGeneral CatalystTechstars
StarTree provides a real-time analytics platform built on Apache Pinot that enables organizations to query petabyte-scale data at speed and cost efficiency.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMountain View, US
Kishore Gopalakrishna(Founder)inXiang Fu(Founder)in
Co-investorsBain Capital VenturesBreakpoint CapitalCRV (Charles River Ventures)Invest In DataNotable CapitalSapphire Ventures+4 more
Subtrace is a tool that captures and displays HTTP traffic to and from running processes in real time without requiring code modifications or elevated permissions.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Adhityaa Chandrasekar(CEO)inSachin Sridhar(CTO)in
Co-investorsNorthside VenturesPioneerRoot Ventures Manager, LlcTranspose Platform ManagementY CombinatorLiquid Ventures+2 more
Tabsdata provides a data platform architecture built around immutable versioned tables and execution-native lineage, designed to enable AI agents to operate safely by making data changes traceable, auditable, and rollback-capable.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSunnyvale, US
Alejandro AbdelnurArvind Prabhakar
Co-investorsLaude Ventures
Open lakehouse storage platform by the creators of Apache Iceberg (Databricks)
Daniel Weeks(Founder)Jason Reid(Founder)Ryan Blue(Founder)
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzEssence Venture CapitalSunflower Capital Management FundSV AngelUnusual VenturesValkyrie Ventures Management, Llc+2 more
Tensorlake provides composable cloud infrastructure for AI agents, offering isolated microVM sandboxes, a versioned POSIX filesystem, hosted Git that scales to millions of repositories, and orchestration for long-running agentic workflows.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsHawk Hill Ventures
TigerBeetle is a specialized transactions database designed for online transaction processing (OLTP) with focus on safety and performance.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureFintechSan Francisco, US
Joran Greef(Founder & CEO)inDavid Gardiner(Director, Promoter)Joran Dirk Greef(Founder)
Co-investorsSpark CapitalAmplify PartnersCoil
Tigris provides a global, multi-cloud storage platform built on proprietary hardware for developers.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSunnyvale, US
Yevgeniy Firsov(Founder)inHimank Chaudhary(Founder)inOvais Tariq(Founder)in
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzAngel Collective Opportunity FundBasis Set VenturesGeneral CatalystAmplify PartnersSpark Capital
TopCoat Data built a data analytics platform that integrates with dbt to help data analysts and engineers create custom data reporting, visualizations, and analytical applications for external audiences.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureSaaS
Seth Rosen(Co-founder & CEO)Josh Rosen(Co-founder)
Co-investorsboldstart ventures
Tower is a fully-managed data flow orchestration platform that lets teams build Pythonic control flows and agentic workflows, with observability, logging, alerting, and metrics.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsBerlin, DE
Brad Heller(Founder)inSerhii Sokolenko(Founder)in
Co-investorsCelero Ventures Ltd.Dig Ventures Management LimitedRoosh Ventures
dbt (part of Fivetran) provides a SQL-based data transformation platform that lets data teams build modular, tested, version-controlled data pipelines with interactive lineage, automated refactoring, and orchestration.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaSSeattle, US
Nick Handel(Founder)inThomas Chiarella(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsFirebolt Ventures Management Company, LlcKeiretsu ForumLightspeed India Partners
Typedef builds a data context layer that compiles a semantic ontology of an organization's data platform — definitions, pipelines, dashboards, and systems — from code to trace lineage and verify AI-generated answers and data changes before they ship.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Kostas Pardalis(Founder)Yoni Michael(Founder)
Co-investorsPear VCTokyo BlackVerissimo Ventures
Vakamo builds and maintains Lakekeeper, an open-source Apache Iceberg REST Catalog written in Rust that enforces data access policy on every request before any data is read, serving as a governance layer across query engines and AI agents.
CybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
WarpStream is a Kafka-compatible data streaming platform purpose-built for cloud environments, offering cost-effective, scalable, and easy-to-operate infrastructure for data streaming use cases including observability, AI, and analytics.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Ryan Worl(Founder)inRichard Artoul(Founder)inJay Kreps(CEO & Co-Founder, Confluent (parent company))
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersGreylock Partners
Wild Moose builds an AI-powered on-call copilot that automates root cause analysis for production incidents, designed for engineering teams in fast-moving environments.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York City, US
Yasmin Dunsky(Founder)inRoei Schuster(Founder)inTom Tytunovich(Founder)in
Co-investorsPioneerY CombinatorF2 Venture CapitalFormulate VenturesiAngelsiAngels Capital+4 more
Wildcard helps ecommerce and retail teams monitor how their products appear in AI shopping systems, identify improvements needed, and measure the impact on commercial outcomes.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechRetail TechSan Francisco, US
Kaushik Mahorker(CEO)inKaty Drake Bettner(Founder)Paul Bettner(Founder)Yagnya Patel(CTO)
Co-investorsY CombinatorAlliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance)AltaIR CapitalBaidu VenturesFounder CapitalGood News Ventures+3 more
xFabric is an AI lab that builds "world models" of a company's production software environment—connecting code, configuration, infrastructure, and policy—to power products that can understand and act on that software.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper Tools
Xorq provides a shared, executable semantic catalog and multi-engine execution layer that lets AI agents run governed queries against enterprise data warehouses (Snowflake, Databricks, Postgres, DuckDB, S3) with verification, lineage tracing, and caching.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsLunar Ventures
Zenskar offers an AI-native platform that automates billing, invoicing, usage-based and subscription pricing, revenue recognition, and financial analytics for finance teams at growing companies.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Apurv Bansal(Founder)inSaurabh Agarwal(Cofounder & CPTO)Saurabh Agrawal(Founder)in
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesBessemer Venture PartnersConvergeFuture Back VenturesMana VenturesRho Ventures+4 more
Zipline is a data infrastructure platform built on the open-source Chronon project that lets engineering teams build, deploy, and monitor real-time data pipelines, features, and embeddings for AI agents and ML models.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsUnion City, US
Nikhil Simha Raprolu(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Nikhil Simha(Co-Founder & CTO)inVarant Zanoyan(Co-Founder & CEO)inPiyush Narang(Chief Architect)in
BoardChris Zeoli(Director)in
Co-investorsBoxGroupTwine VenturesWingAndreessen HorowitzBaillie GiffordFidelity Investments+8 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
Atomix DataCached IntelligenceJunctionRebootStemmaTrades
Exits · 5
5 acquisitions · showing 1Transform Digitalacq. by dbt Labs
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiess2.dev · economictimes.indiatimes.com · Aug 8, 2026
Modal · finsmes.com · May 22, 2026
Zenskar · pymnts.com · May 11, 2026
Gauge · ycombinator.com · Apr 21, 2026
Tower · thesaasnews.com · Mar 16, 2026
Wild Moose · finsmes.com · Oct 28, 2025
Fiveonefour · prnewswire.com · Sep 4, 2025
Zipline · finsmes.com · Aug 19, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Materialized View Capital made?
- Materialized View Capital has 58 tracked investments, 5 of which have exited, including 2 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Materialized View Capital invest at?
- Materialized View Capital invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does Materialized View Capital focus on?
- Materialized View Capital focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Data & Infrastructure, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software.
- Who does Materialized View Capital co-invest with?
- Materialized View Capital most often shares deals with Y Combinator, Amplify Partners, Pioneer, among 119 tracked co-investors.
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