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Shawn Douglass

Founder

CEO at Amberdata · Board director at Clustrix

Miami, Florida, United States

FoundedAmberdata

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520 people in our graph share verified history with Shawn — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Kyle DohertyunlockedShawn: together at Harvard Business School (2009–2010)
×7Shawn: together at Harvard Business School
×3Shawn: together at Babson College
Shawn: together at EMC Ventures

About

Shawn Douglass is CEO and Co-Founder of Amberdata, with over 20 years of experience funding, building, acquiring, and selling technology companies. At EMC Ventures, he led, managed, or participated in more than 20 investments and was involved in approximately 40 acquisitions and integrations, including VMware, RSA Security, Data Domain, and Nicira, as well as the spin-out of Pivotal and the VCE joint venture. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and has held board and advisory roles at companies including Clustrix, Joyent, Maginatics, NoPassword, Replica Labs, and Orbitera.

CEO at Amberdata

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In turn, Shawn can intro founders to Amberdata's investors below.

Amberdata's investors · 12

AspenwoodSan Francisco · $100K – $5M checks · since 2022boldstart venturesMiami · $1M – $3M checks · since 2022Chicago Trading CompanyChicago · since 2022Coinbase VenturesStamford · $100K – $10M checksFenbushi CapitalShanghai · $1.3M – $30M checksFranklin TempletonSan Mateo · since 2022Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (HWVP)San Francisco · since 2021Knollwood Investment AdvisoryHunt Valley · since 2022Nasdaq VenturesRichmond · $2M – $5M checks · since 2022Nexosince 2022Susquehanna International GroupLondon · since 2022VU Venture PartnersSan Francisco · $200K – $1M checks

Co-founders at Amberdata

JEJoanes Espanol
Joanes EspanolExecutive Officer, Promoter
TGTongtong Gong
Tongtong GongExecutive Officer, Promoter

Board director at ClustrixYC W06

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YC

Clustrix went through Y Combinator (Winter 2006) — Shawn sits on its board, so any YC alum in your network can reach them through the company's founders.

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In turn, Shawn can intro founders to Clustrix's investors below.

Clustrix's investors · 3

HighBar PartnersMenlo ParkSequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checksY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2006

Co-founders at Clustrix

STSergei Tsarev
Sergei TsarevFounder/CTO / Vice President Engineering

Experience

  1. AmberdataCEO (Acquired by Kaiko)2017 — 2026Miami, Florida, United States
  2. Rally VenturesTechnology Partner2013 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
  3. Clustrix, Inc.Board Member: Outside Director (Acquired by MariaDB)2015 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
  4. UnifiedPresident Software / CTO (Acquired by IHeart Media)2014 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
  5. ServiceMeshChief Technology Officer (CTO) - (Acquired by CSC)2013 — 2014Silicon Valley
  6. EMC VenturesManaging Director2009 — 2013Palo Alto, Ca
  7. EMC VenturesSenior Director Advanced Technology Ventures, Office of the CTO2006 — 2009
  8. EMC VenturesDirector of Partner Engineering, Global Technology Alliances2001 — 2006
  9. Loudcloud (IPO 2001)Automated Operations Architect - Systems Engineering1999 — 2001
  10. Digital Island (IPO 1999)Systems/Network Operations Engineer1997 — 1999
  11. Voyager SubmersiblesSubmersible Pilot1996 — 1997
  12. Innovativestrategies.comCo-Founder1994 — 1997

Skills & more

Strategy90Strategic Planning12Leadership25Negotiation19Management41Cloud Computing99SaaS99Enterprise Software99Start-ups99Business Development78Venture Capital47Mergers & Acquisitions23
+12 moreCompetitive AnalysisGo-to-market StrategyProduct ManagementStrategic PartnershipsRisk ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipNew Business DevelopmentVirtualizationIntegrationBusiness AlliancesHigh AvailabilityNetworking

Languages Japanese

  • Product Management and Strategy — Emeritus
  • GDPR for Security Professionals — ISC2
  • Certified ScrumMaster — Scrum Alliance
  • CISSP — ISC2

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Who is Shawn Douglass?
Shawn Douglass is CEO and Co-Founder of Amberdata, with over 20 years of experience funding, building, acquiring, and selling technology companies. At EMC Ventures, he led, managed, or participated in more than 20 investments and was involved in approximately 40 acquisitions and integrations, including VMware, RSA Security, Data Domain, and Nicira, as well as the spin-out of Pivotal and the VCE joint venture. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and has held board and advisory roles at companies including Clustrix, Joyent, Maginatics, NoPassword, Replica Labs, and Orbitera.
Where does Shawn Douglass work?
Shawn Douglass is CEO of Amberdata and Board director at Clustrix.
What companies did Shawn Douglass found?
Shawn Douglass founded Amberdata.
Where did Shawn Douglass go to school?
Shawn Douglass studied at Harvard Business School (GMP); University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (Venture Capital Program); Babson College (Sustaining High Performance, Executive Education).

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