Ron Pragides
InvestorVice President of Engineering at Trustly at PICUS CAPITAL
San Francisco, California
Writes $5K – $50K checks · typically $20K
About
VP of Engineering at Trustly with experience leading pre-IPO engineering teams at Twitter, Salesforce, BigCommerce and Carta. Focus area: software engineering.
Experience
- Blackhawk NetworkVice President of Engineeringcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- GTMfundLimited Partnercurrent2021 — present
- Various StartupsAdvisor / Investorcurrent2020 — present
- TrustlySenior Vice President, Engineering2022 — 2023San Carlos, California, United States
- TrustlyVice President of Engineering2021 — 2022San Carlos, California, United States
- CartaVice President of Engineering2019 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- AppDirectAdvisor2018 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
- AppDirectVice President of Engineering2017 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
- BigCommerceAdvisor2016 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
- BigCommerceSenior Vice President of Engineering2015 — 2016San Francisco, California
- BigCommerceVice President of Engineering2014 — 2015San Francisco, California
- TwitterDirector of Engineering2012 — 2014San Francisco, California
- SalesforceSenior Director, Mergers & Acquisitions2011 — 2012San Francisco, California
- SalesforceSenior Director, Engineering2010 — 2011San Francisco, California
- SalesforceDirector, Software Engineering2008 — 2010San Francisco, California
- SalesforceManager, Software Engineering2004 — 2008San Francisco, California
- CBCAEngineering Manager2001 — 2004San Francisco Bay Area
- WeddingChannel.com (acquired by XO Group, Inc.)Manager, Application Development1999 — 2001San Francisco, California
- Rendition, Inc. (acquired by Micron Technology, Inc.)Senior Software Engineer1998 — 1999San Francisco Bay Area
- Sun MicrosystemsMember of Technical Staff, Graphics & Imaging1995 — 1998San Francisco Bay Area
- Texas InstrumentsSoftware Design Engineer, Digital Imaging Venture Projects1992 — 1995Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
Skills & more
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)1LangChain1AI Agents2Fine TuningDue Diligence1M&A Due DiligenceArtificial Neural NetworksMachine LearningFinanceConvolutional Neural Networks (CNN)TransformersRecurrent Neural Networks (RNN)
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Natural Language Processing (NLP)Logistic RegressionBehavioral FinanceFinancial MarketsBehavioral EconomicsGenerative AILarge Language Models (LLM)TensorFlowPython (Programming Language)Enterprise SoftwareSaaSSalesforce.com- Building RAG Agents with LLMs — NVIDIA
- Getting Started with Deep Learning — NVIDIA
- Deep Learning Specialization — DeepLearning.AI
- Sequence Models — DeepLearning.AI
- Convolutional Neural Networks — DeepLearning.AI
- Structuring Machine Learning Projects — DeepLearning.AI
- Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization — DeepLearning.AI
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning — DeepLearning.AI
- Introduction to AI in the Data Center — NVIDIA
- Generative AI with Large Language Models — DeepLearning.AI
From Ron's professional profile.
Colleagues at PICUS CAPITAL
Abhijay Thacker
Investment Advisor at PICUS CAPITAL
Alex Smola
CEO and Co-Founder of Boson AI at PICUS CAPITAL
Alexander Samwer
Founding Partner at PICUS CAPITAL
Amit Jain
CEO at Rewired
Andreas Stryz
CTO at FINN at PICUS CAPITAL
Andy Cohen
SVP of Sales at Bill.com at PICUS CAPITAL
Annika in der Beek
Chief People Officer at Statista at PICUS CAPITAL
Anselm Bauer
Co-Founder at Alasco at PICUS CAPITAL
Network26
Chamath PalihapitiyaScout
Founder & CEO of Social Capital
Abby LevyScout
Managing Partner & Co-Founder at Primetime Partners
Akriti DokaniaScout
Venture Partner at Ridge Ventures
Alejandro GuerreroScout
General Partner at Act One Ventures
Alex OppenheimerScout
Founder & GP at Verissimo Ventures
Ali RosenthalScout
Managing Partner at Leadout Capital
Alok NandanScout
Managing Partner at First Rays Venture Partners
Ameet ShahScout
General Partner at Golden Ventures
Andreas HadjitofiScout
Associate at Quadri Ventures
Annelies GambleScout
Investor at Zetta Venture Partners
Ben YoskovitzScout
CPO and Founding Partner at Highline Beta
Brian HirschScout
Co-Founder and Partner at Tribeca Venture Partners
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Ron Pragides?
- VP of Engineering at Trustly with experience leading pre-IPO engineering teams at Twitter, Salesforce, BigCommerce and Carta. Focus area: software engineering.
- Where does Ron Pragides work?
- Ron Pragides is Vice President of Engineering at Trustly at PICUS CAPITAL.
- What check size does Ron Pragides write?
- Ron Pragides typically writes checks of $5K – $50K.
- Where did Ron Pragides go to school?
- Ron Pragides studied at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (Certificate of Business Excellence (COBE), Executive Education); Stanford University (Studies in Computer Graphics); University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (BS, Electrical Engineering).
Same school
Also attended University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business707
Rishi ModiInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Yibo NianInvestment Director at Intel CapitalZhenyu TangInvestment Director at Intel CapitalLauren von ReynInvestor at LightbankDennisDirector of Trading at Pantera CapitalJohnny HooperAssociate at March Capital Partners
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Also attended Stanford University2,000
Peter ThielCo-founder & Partner at Founders FundReid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at GreylockKeith RaboisManaging Director at Khosla VenturesGarry TanPresident & CEO of Y CombinatorAlfred LinPartner at Sequoia CapitalAnn Miura-KoCo-founding Partner at Floodgate
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Also attended University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign489
Max LevchinCo-founder of PayPal; founder, chairman & CEO of Affirm; partner at SciFi VCLuke NosekCo-founder of PayPal; co-founder of GigafundSundeep PeechuGeneral Partner at Felicis VenturesDeep NisharInvestment Team at General CatalystPrashant ShahPartner at Monta Vista CapitalNoorPartner at Clear Ventures
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Also attended The University of Texas at Arlington25
Julie PierceInvestor at IVP (Institutional Venture Partners)Bryan ChambersCo-Founder & President at Capital FactoryRose YipChief Financial Officer at Draper AssociatesGaurav AroraInvestor at Sand Hill AngelsDuc TranGeneral Partner and CEO at IDG Capital VietnamAnirudh KapuriaPrincipal at BlueTree Venture Capital
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Shared employers
Also worked at Blackhawk Network5
Also worked at Trustly6
Also worked at AppDirect13
Alex KolicichInvestment Team at 8VCAnthony KlineInvestments at General PartnershipSusan LinInvestor at FELIX CAPITALRegina LombardoDirector of Operations at Owl VenturesJim VieceliGeneral Counsel at Playground GlobalAlexandra FrumarGeneral Counsel at Lowercarbon
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Also worked at BigCommerce15
Steve CaseChairman & CEO of Revolution; co-founder of AOLSteve MurrayAdvisor, Revolution Growth at RevolutionJeff RichardsInvestor at GGV CapitalRay ChengManaging Partner at Millennium New HorizonsBecky FlintInvestor at Roble VenturesJames SmithChief Growth Officer at IA Global
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