Natalie Vais
@natalievais
GP @sparkcapital // databases, distributed systems, and developer tools // formerly @AmplifyPartners @GoogleCloud @Oracle // fight on 🌎🌱
Working with several seed/series A infra startups (databases, storage, distributed systems, foundational AI infra) hiring across core engineering and GTM. Small teams (<20), high-agency IC roles. DM me if interested or you have referrals!
Loved hosting this dinner with @reneeshah123! 🫶 Some other favorite takes: As building products gets easier/faster, differentiation will rely on "unreasonable hospitality" h/t @__nikitha The best general-purpose agents will come from coding agents / coding companies 👀
TBT to this Head of AI Dinner I got to co-host in SF with @natalievais. 4 ideas were discussed: 1. The big labs have budgets in the billions to buy RL simulation environments (both task-specific and generalized), though these budgets are potentially ephemeral. 2. In the future,…
PGlite (WASM Postgres) now gets over 1 million downloads a week! 🤯🚀 Absolutely incredible to see how people have embraced what we have built. Awesome work by the team!
📔Writing our Rust database from scratch gave us a golden opportunity to implement deterministic simulation testing as a core feature. Learn about the architecture that gives us full control over DST ingredients. 🧊 (link in comment)
Excited to release a new starter! Sync-first, production-ready, and blazing fast - @tan_stack Start - @tan_stack DB for blazing fast client-side queries & optimistic mutations - @ElectricSQL for real-time sync from PG - @better_auth - @DrizzleORM - @tailwindcss - Hono OpenAPI
The @TigerBeetleDB team runs a conference like they build their database — with artful craftsmanship, technical precision, and a sprinkle of magic. Kudos to an amazing SD ‘25 🤩⚡️
We at @sparkcapital are thrilled to support @GeneralistAI_. The team is simultaneously advancing the frontiers of data, models, and hardware as they work to make general purpose robots a reality. They're sharing a glimpse of where things are today. More to come.
Today we're excited to share a glimpse of what we're building at Generalist. As a first step towards our mission of making general-purpose robots a reality, we're pushing the frontiers of what end-to-end AI models can achieve in the real world. Here's a preview of our early…
Interested in building on sync? In London or SF? Come along to Sync London on July 1st lu.ma/sync-london -- we're co-organising with @anselm_io and @devYonz, great speakers including @irlTopper and @mattaitken Early-bird tickets and CFP both still open for Sync Conf in…
Sync engines are an incremental improvement to the "centralised server + client" model - the minimal possible step towards the real-time nature of apps today. But we can do much better 🧵
See you in Amsterdam June 19-20th @TigerBeetleDB! 😎 Perfect timing if you’re headed to Berlin for @SIGMODConf on the 22nd 🇩🇪 👀
One month until Systems... Distributed!
🚨 Big news! We’ve been collaborating with the legendary @tannerlinsley and the TanStack team to build something new: TanStack DB — a reactive, normalized, transactional state engine that extends TanStack Query.
The world’s businesses needed a better way to connect and grow. Nuvo is making it happen. Congratulations to them for $45M raised and their launch today! I'm thrilled to share us at @sparkcapital leading their last round alongside our friends @sequoia - @schreier and team:
The agenda for Systems Distributed is out now! Join us in Amsterdam for two days of talks, film references, and systems... distributed! systemsdistributed.com/agenda
Congrats @lorenc_dan, @mattomata, @kimsterv, @AikasVille, and the entire team at @chainguard_dev. It's been our pleasure @sparkcapital to get to work with you.
🎉 How D-lightful! 🎉 Chainguard has raised a $356M Series D round co-led by new investor @kleinerperkins and existing investor @IVP, with participation from @SalesforceVC, @datadoghq Ventures, and every single other existing investor. This brings our total funds raised to over…
📣Today, we’re super excited to announce our latest product addition: Continuous Profiling for GPUs! Check out the use cases and sign up for early access on the announcement post! 🔥📈