Martin Casado
Director/Board Member at Pindrop Security, Inc.
Profile
Martin Casado is a general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz where he focuses on enterprise investing.
He was previously the cofounder and chief technology officer at Nicira, which was acquired by VMware for $1.26 billion in 2012.
While at VMware, Martin was a fellow, and served as senior vice president and general manager of the Networking and Security Business Unit, which he scaled to a $600 million run-rate business by the time he left VMware in 2016.
Martin started his career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he worked on large-scale simulations for the Department of Defense before moving over to work with the intelligence community on networking and cybersecurity.
These experiences inspired his work at Stanford where he created the software-defined networking (SDN) movement, leading to a new paradigm of network virtualization.
While at Stanford he also cofounded Illuminics Systems, an IP analytics company, which was acquired by Quova Inc. in 2006.
For his work, Martin was awarded both the ACM Grace Murray Hopper award and the NEC C&C award, and he’s an inductee of the Lawrence Livermore Lab’s Entrepreneur’s Hall of Fame.
He holds both a PhD and Masters degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Martin Casado active positions
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AH Capital Management LLC
 AH Capital Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance AH Capital Management LLC (Andreessen Horowitz) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Lowell Andreessen and Ben A. Horowitz. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. | Private Equity Investor | 2016-03-31 |
Pindrop Security, Inc.
 Pindrop Security, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Pindrop Security, Inc. provides enterprise solutions that help prevent phone-based fraud. Its products include phone reputation service, fraud detection system, call forward protection, and phone fraud solutions for high risk industries. The firm?s solution combines authentication and anti-fraud detection technology to verify legitimate callers while detecting malicious callers. Its Phoneprinting technology is the first of its kind to analyze and fingerprint individual phone calls, providing the caller?s true location and calling device. It operates through its offices located in Atlanta and Toronto. The company was founded by Vijay A. Balasubramaniyan, Mustaque Ahamad, Patrick Traynor and Paul Q. Judge in 2011 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. | Director/Board Member | 2017-02-22 |
R Software, Inc.
 R Software, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services R Software, Inc. operates an API Marketplace for developers on cloud based platform. It enables developers to create applications, games and websites. The company was founded by Iddo Gino and Mickey Haslavsky in 2015 and is headquartered in Sacramento, CA. | Director/Board Member | - |
ActionIQ, Inc.
 ActionIQ, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services ActionIQ, Inc. engages as a customer data platform. The company was founded by Tasso Argyros and Nitay Joffe on July 11, 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Director/Board Member | - |
Netlify, Inc.
 Netlify, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Netlify, Inc. develops websites and apps. It specializes in static web hosting, continuous deployment, CDN and web hosting, build automation, web performance and content management. The company was founded by Mathias Biilmann Christensen and Christian Bach in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Director/Board Member | - |
Imply Data, Inc.
 Imply Data, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Imply Data, Inc. provides druid and interactive analytics services. It offers enterprise-class support and services to imply analytics platform deployments run as smoothly as possible in production. The company was founded by Fangjin Yang, Gian Merlino and Vadim Ogievetsky in June 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Director/Board Member | - |
Tackle.io, Inc.
 Tackle.io, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Tackle.io, Inc. engages in the development of a cloud marketplace subscription platform. It offers in Tackle downstream and upstream. The company was founded by Dillon Woods and Brian Denker and is headquartered in Boise, ID. | Director/Board Member | - |
dbt Labs, Inc.
 dbt Labs, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services dbt Labs, Inc. provides analytics engineering services to venture-funded startups. The company was founded by Tristan Handy, Drew Banin and Connor McArthur and is company is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA. | Director/Board Member | - |
Kong, Inc.
 Kong, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Kong, Inc. provides a marketplace to manage, distribute and consume both private and public application programming interfaces. It allows developers to search its directory to find appropriate applications for specific projects. The firm's applications are used by cloud proxies. The company was founded by Marco Palladino, Augusto Marietti and Michele Zonca in July 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Director/Board Member | - |
Former positions of Martin Casado
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Training of Martin Casado
| Stanford University | Doctorate Degree |
| Northern Arizona University | Undergraduate Degree |
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| Private companies | 13 |
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Nicira, Inc.
 Nicira, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Nicira, Inc. engages in the development of software platform for data transition. The company was founded by Martin Casado, Nick Mckeown and Scott Shenker in 2007 and and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. | Technology Services |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory provides nuclear testing services. The Laboratory's security needs include countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and strengthening homeland security against the terrorist use of such weapons. The company was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Livermore, CA. | Commercial Services |
VMware, Inc.
 VMware, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services VMware, Inc. engages in the provision of cloud infrastructure and business mobility. Its products include Software-Defined Data Center, Hybrid Cloud Computing, and End-User Computing. It supports modernizing data centers, integrating public clouds, empowering digital workspaces and transforming security. The company was founded by Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion in 1998 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. | Technology Services |
AH Capital Management LLC
AH Capital Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance AH Capital Management LLC (Andreessen Horowitz) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Lowell Andreessen and Ben A. Horowitz. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. | Finance |
Pindrop Security, Inc.
Pindrop Security, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Pindrop Security, Inc. provides enterprise solutions that help prevent phone-based fraud. Its products include phone reputation service, fraud detection system, call forward protection, and phone fraud solutions for high risk industries. The firm?s solution combines authentication and anti-fraud detection technology to verify legitimate callers while detecting malicious callers. Its Phoneprinting technology is the first of its kind to analyze and fingerprint individual phone calls, providing the caller?s true location and calling device. It operates through its offices located in Atlanta and Toronto. The company was founded by Vijay A. Balasubramaniyan, Mustaque Ahamad, Patrick Traynor and Paul Q. Judge in 2011 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. | Commercial Services |
Unmanned Innovation, Inc.
 Unmanned Innovation, Inc. Aerospace & DefenseElectronic Technology Unmanned Innovation, Inc. develops autopilots for unmanned aircraft systems. The firm operates aerial information platform for the operation of commercial drones, providing hardware, software and cloud services. It enables customers to tailor drones to any commercial application by seamlessly connecting aircraft, sensors, payloads, and application-specific software. The company was founded by Jonathan Downey in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Electronic Technology |
R Software, Inc.
R Software, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services R Software, Inc. operates an API Marketplace for developers on cloud based platform. It enables developers to create applications, games and websites. The company was founded by Iddo Gino and Mickey Haslavsky in 2015 and is headquartered in Sacramento, CA. | Technology Services |
ActionIQ, Inc.
ActionIQ, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services ActionIQ, Inc. engages as a customer data platform. The company was founded by Tasso Argyros and Nitay Joffe on July 11, 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Technology Services |
Netlify, Inc.
Netlify, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Netlify, Inc. develops websites and apps. It specializes in static web hosting, continuous deployment, CDN and web hosting, build automation, web performance and content management. The company was founded by Mathias Biilmann Christensen and Christian Bach in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Technology Services |
Imply Data, Inc.
Imply Data, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Imply Data, Inc. provides druid and interactive analytics services. It offers enterprise-class support and services to imply analytics platform deployments run as smoothly as possible in production. The company was founded by Fangjin Yang, Gian Merlino and Vadim Ogievetsky in June 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Commercial Services |
Tackle.io, Inc.
Tackle.io, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Tackle.io, Inc. engages in the development of a cloud marketplace subscription platform. It offers in Tackle downstream and upstream. The company was founded by Dillon Woods and Brian Denker and is headquartered in Boise, ID. | Technology Services |
dbt Labs, Inc.
dbt Labs, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services dbt Labs, Inc. provides analytics engineering services to venture-funded startups. The company was founded by Tristan Handy, Drew Banin and Connor McArthur and is company is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA. | Technology Services |
Kong, Inc.
Kong, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Kong, Inc. provides a marketplace to manage, distribute and consume both private and public application programming interfaces. It allows developers to search its directory to find appropriate applications for specific projects. The firm's applications are used by cloud proxies. The company was founded by Marco Palladino, Augusto Marietti and Michele Zonca in July 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Technology Services |
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