Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Martin Casado is a general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz where he focuses on enterprise investing and a Board Member of Rasa. He was previously the co-founder and CTO Nicira (acquired by VMware for $1.26B in 2012). While at VMware, Martin served as SVP and GM of the Networking and Security Business Unit, which he scaled to a $600 million run-rate business by the time he left 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 Ph.D. and a Masters degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Martin serves on the board of the following Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies: ActionIQ, Astranis, DeepMap, Imply, Kong, Pindrop Security, RapidAPI, SigOpt, and Yubico.