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Today every company is a data company. But it’s people—data teams—who unlock the power of data to drive business value.
Our mission is to empower data teams to do their jobs faster and better: less firefighting, more brilliance. That’s why we designed Unravel specifically for data teams, combining observability, AI and automation to help you understand, optimize and govern your data estate—for performance, cost, and quality.
UNRAVEL’S LEADERSHIP TEAM BRINGS A WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE TO THE DATA ECOSYSTEM
From cutting-edge academic research to proven commercial success, our deep understanding of operationalizing data operations allows us to develop innovative solutions that drive real results for your business.
Chief cheerleader and curator of Unravel’s awesome culture
Keeping us all maniacally focused on the things that matter for our customers
Tours of duty leading sales and implementation of Oracle products at several Fortune 100 organizations and helping Sun Microsystems run its Grid Computing Engine. Started his entrepreneurial journey by co-founding Yuuze.com, a pioneer in e-commerce personalization
Building the world class Unravel team and drift cars sideways around the track at 100 mph+
Not learning from mistakes
Watching the team go from strength to strength in the unselfish pursuit of a shared vision
Helping our team innovate and solve the difficult challenges enterprises face with their data
Working with customers, learning, bringing those lessons back, repeat
Tenured professor of Computer Science at Duke University doing research on the ease-of-use and manageability of data-intensive systems, automated problem diagnosis, and cluster-sizing for applications running on cloud platforms
Wrote the first lines of code that eventually became Unravel
People who don’t help one another
Our opportunity to have a lasting impact – not just on data, but on society
Helping our sales & channel teams align customer problems to solutions Unravel can provide in a mutually beneficial way
Helping our business develop a winning culture where people can be successful, meet their potential and have FUN!
Big companies, little companies and…some improv
I managed to help 2 children embody the energy of 4
Wasting the most valuable thing in the world – TIME
We help customers solve real problems that allow them to become truly data driven and change the course of their future
Telling the Unravel Story
Contributing teammate and coach
US Army Officer; Founder & CEO; Three-time CMO for SaaS companies serving the database, observability, and performance-testing markets
Two amazing kids I adore
Not showing up with your full self
Doing amazing work with amazing people that solves really difficult problems
Build a partner ecosystem and partner program for Unravel that results in rapid new ACV (annual contract value) growth and increased sales productivity
Bring on new logos and expand existing logos, leveraging the force multiplier of the partner program
Built partner programs from scratch at TIBCO Software, MongoDB, and Lacework that contributed to a rapid increase in ACV every year
Proud of my son, who is starting college this year
People taking their phone calls on speaker phone
I love that everyone at Unravel is passionate about making the customer successful
Executing the mission plan of Unravel to make its customers wildly successful
Building a world-class team that not only works hard but plays hard too
Software developer by day, jet-setting DJ by night
Performed a live DJ set in front of 15,000+ burners at Burning Man
Wasting people’s time – time is short
Being inspired with the dedication and hard work each team member has at Unravel
Building strategic partnerships to amplify the collective value delivered to customers
Teaming with others across the company to support opportunities and help solve any challenge
Small business owner; enterprise sales leadership roles at IBM and Microsoft; builder of new business units in the small, mid-market, and partner arena
Mother of sweet-hearted 12-year-old twin boys and a husband who always has my back
Not fulfilling a commitment made
Working hard with incredibly passionate people who care deeply about our customers’ and partners’ success, leveraging the value of Unravel Data
Envisioning and defining our product roadmap
Lead the product engineering team to build a high-quality product addressing customers’ needs
Computer science PhD, product manager for the cloud, software engineer in big data
I’ve worked in every stage of the product cycle during my time at Unravel – from feature conception to research, talking to customers, prototype, spec, coding, testing, creating marketing content, and giving talks in conferences
People speaking in mumbo jumbo
The passion to solve customers’ problems
Bringing in the operational rigor to delivering a world-class AI-powered observability product
Coach teams to tap into their full potential! Applying my deep DataOps experience to build a product that DataOps teams love
A result-oriented Big Data & eCommerce leader with extensive experience in leading engineering and operations teams for SaaS & online marketplace platforms. The breadth of my experience includes managing Big Data platforms, DataOps, database engineering, SRE, and automation teams in on-prem & multi-cloud technologies
Team multiplier
Continue to perform tasks manually that can be automated
Combining technology innovation & customer-focused operational rigor
Chief cheerleader and curator of Unravel’s awesome culture
Keeping us all maniacally focused on the things that matter for our customers
Tours of duty leading sales and implementation of Oracle products at several Fortune 100 organizations and helping Sun Microsystems run its Grid Computing Engine. Started his entrepreneurial journey by co-founding Yuuze.com, a pioneer in e-commerce personalization
Building the world class Unravel team and drift cars sideways around the track at 100 mph+
Not learning from mistakes
Watching the team go from strength to strength in the unselfish pursuit of a shared vision
Helping our team innovate and solve the difficult challenges enterprises face with their data
Working with customers, learning, bringing those lessons back, repeat
Tenured professor of Computer Science at Duke University doing research on the ease-of-use and manageability of data-intensive systems, automated problem diagnosis, and cluster-sizing for applications running on cloud platforms
Wrote the first lines of code that eventually became Unravel
People who don’t help one another
Our opportunity to have a lasting impact – not just on data, but on society
Helping our sales & channel teams align customer problems to solutions Unravel can provide in a mutually beneficial way
Helping our business develop a winning culture where people can be successful, meet their potential and have FUN!
Big companies, little companies and…some improv
I managed to help 2 children embody the energy of 4
Wasting the most valuable thing in the world – TIME
We help customers solve real problems that allow them to become truly data driven and change the course of their future
Telling the Unravel Story
Contributing teammate and coach
US Army Officer; Founder & CEO; Three-time CMO for SaaS companies serving the database, observability, and performance-testing markets
Two amazing kids I adore
Not showing up with your full self
Doing amazing work with amazing people that solves really difficult problems
Build a partner ecosystem and partner program for Unravel that results in rapid new ACV (annual contract value) growth and increased sales productivity
Bring on new logos and expand existing logos, leveraging the force multiplier of the partner program
Built partner programs from scratch at TIBCO Software, MongoDB, and Lacework that contributed to a rapid increase in ACV every year
Proud of my son, who is starting college this year
People taking their phone calls on speaker phone
I love that everyone at Unravel is passionate about making the customer successful
Executing the mission plan of Unravel to make its customers wildly successful
Building a world-class team that not only works hard but plays hard too
Software developer by day, jet-setting DJ by night
Performed a live DJ set in front of 15,000+ burners at Burning Man
Wasting people’s time – time is short
Being inspired with the dedication and hard work each team member has at Unravel
Building strategic partnerships to amplify the collective value delivered to customers
Teaming with others across the company to support opportunities and help solve any challenge
Small business owner; enterprise sales leadership roles at IBM and Microsoft; builder of new business units in the small, mid-market, and partner arena
Mother of sweet-hearted 12-year-old twin boys and a husband who always has my back
Not fulfilling a commitment made
Working hard with incredibly passionate people who care deeply about our customers’ and partners’ success, leveraging the value of Unravel Data
Envisioning and defining our product roadmap
Lead the product engineering team to build a high-quality product addressing customers’ needs
Computer science PhD, product manager for the cloud, software engineer in big data
I’ve worked in every stage of the product cycle during my time at Unravel – from feature conception to research, talking to customers, prototype, spec, coding, testing, creating marketing content, and giving talks in conferences
People speaking in mumbo jumbo
The passion to solve customers’ problems
Bringing in the operational rigor to delivering a world-class AI-powered observability product
Coach teams to tap into their full potential! Applying my deep DataOps experience to build a product that DataOps teams love
A result-oriented Big Data & eCommerce leader with extensive experience in leading engineering and operations teams for SaaS & online marketplace platforms. The breadth of my experience includes managing Big Data platforms, DataOps, database engineering, SRE, and automation teams in on-prem & multi-cloud technologies
Team multiplier
Continue to perform tasks manually that can be automated
Combining technology innovation & customer-focused operational rigor
Every day at Unravel, we strive to solve data’s challenges. We’re proud to partner with our seasoned investors to work towards achieving this vision.
Menlo invests in and partners with promising entrepreneurial ventures. The firm has been helping steer portfolio companies to successful exits for decades, with 70 IPOs and more than 100 mergers and acquisitions since 1976. Its big data and storage portfolio includes 3PAR, Avere Systems, BeyondCore, BitSight Technologies, Gild, Nexenta Systems, ParAccel, PernixData, Pliant Technology, Pluribus Networks, Scality, Spinnaker Networks, Takipi, Tintri, and Waterline Data Science.
GGV Capital is a multi-stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, and Beijing. The firm has been partnering with leading technology entrepreneurs from seed to pre-IPO since 2000. With $3.8 billion in capital managed across eight funds, GGV invests in globally minded entrepreneurs in the consumer internet, e-commerce, frontier tech, and enterprise and cloud sectors. GGV has invested in over 200 companies including Airbnb, Alibaba, Ctrip, Didi, DOMO, Hashicorp, Hellobike, Houzz, Keep, Slack, Square, Toutiao, Wish, Xiaohongshu, and...
Point72 Ventures is a global venture capital firm led by a diverse set of domain experts with the capital to lead rounds through all stages of company growth. We invest primarily in Fintech, AI/ML, and Enterprise technologies. As an independent arm of Point72, the global asset management firm led by Steven Cohen, Point72 Ventures offers well-informed insights into the global economy. Point72 Ventures has offices in New York City, Palo Alto, San Francisco, and Stamford, Connecticut.
Third Point Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Founded by Daniel Loeb as the venture capital arm of hedge fund and wealth advisor Third Point, LLC, it invests early stage growth capital in companies in the technology industry. With $5 billion in assets, Third Point Ventures has pursued enterprise technology, financial technology, mobile, and healthcare innovation with hands-on investments in young companies created by exceptional entrepreneurs.
M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures) is the corporate venture arm of Microsoft, the leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world. M12 partners with visionary entrepreneurs looking to drive digital transformation. As part of its promise to portfolio companies, M12 offers unrivaled access to go-to-market resources and strategic global relationships. M12 currently operates in London, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Tel Aviv.
Harmony Partners is a bi-coastal boutique venture capital firm whose mission is to enable software entrepreneurs to optimize expansion stage financings. With offices in New York City and Silicon Valley, Harmony fills a gap in the market for flexible entrepreneur-friendly expansion stage capital, eliminating the deal constraints of traditional growth equity firms. Since 1993 Harmony’s Founding Partner has invested in over $750 million in 80 technology-driven companies including Anaplan, AppDynamics, Aveksa, Coremetrics, E*Trade, InfluxData, Intersect ENT, Natera, Postmates, Priceline, Scopus,...
Data Elite provides early-stage funding, mentorship, and office space to big data startups. Investors in Data Elite include Andreessen Horowitz, Formation 8, The Social+Capital Partnership, Anand Rajaraman, and Ron Conway. Data Elite is located in San Francisco.
OUR ADVISORY GROUP BELIEVES IN THE PROMISE OF BIG DATA
Big data holds potential, but there’s an urgent need to manage its complexity and demand more from the applications that leverage it. An experienced group of entrepreneurs and big data category-creators, our advisors understand these opportunities and challenges, and we’re thankful for their faith and support as we work to address them.
Co-Founder, Harness, BIG Labs, and Unusual Ventures
Jyoti Bansal is a serial entrepreneur and a Silicon Valley technology visionary. Jyoti believes passionately in software’s ability to change the world for the better. He is the founder of AppDynamics, an application intelligence company that was acquired by Cisco for $3.7 billion in 2017. He also launched a startup studio named BIG Labs in 2017. Jyoti has been the recipient of many leadership awards, including Forbes’ “Best Cloud Computing CEO to Work For”, and “Best CEO” by the San Francisco Business Times at their Annual Tech & Innovation Awards. He was named Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur Of The Year™ for Northern California in 2016. Jyoti received his BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and is the lead inventor on 20+ US patents.
Owner, AccelG2M
Herb Cunitz is a successful software executive who has grown and managed every aspect of go-to-market operations for a variety of emerging software companies, including sales, marketing, services, channels, and operations. He has grown global field operations for multiple private venture-funded technology companies, going from little revenue and few employees to $250M or more in billings, with three companies going public – Hortonworks, Vitria and Viasoft, and two companies being acquired – SpringSource and Savvion. He is experienced in mergers and acquisitions for being both the acquirer and the acquiree. He serves on boards of directors where his skills can assist in their growth and currently advising companies on how to achieve hyper acceleration in their business.
CEO, ActionIQ
Tasso Argyros is currently the Founder & CEO of ActionIQ, a company bridging the gap between Marketing & Data for Global 2000 organizations. Prior to ActionIQ, Tasso co-founded Aster Data, an early Big Data pioneer, in 2005 after dropping out of the PhD program at Stanford. After 5 years of exponential growth, Aster Data was sold to Teradata in 2011 where Tasso became the co-president and GM of Teradata’s Big Data division. He is also a Venture Partner at First Mark capital and a co-founder of DataElite Ventures, a San Francisco-based seed-stage fund focused on Big Data companies. Tasso has received several awards and recognitions, including BusinessWeek’s “Best Young Tech Entrepreneur” for 2009, World Economic Forum’s “Technology Pioneer” in 2010, and Forbes’ “NextGen Innovator” in 2013. He holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Diploma in Computer Engineering from Technical University of Athens.
CTO, 8VC
Bhaskar is VP of Engineering and Operations at Nerdwallet. Previously, he was Senior Director of Engineering at LinkedIn, where he oversaw the development of data infrastructure platforms, driving unprecedented growth in membership and business products. Before that, Bhaskar led the Serving and Marketplaces team of the Yahoo! Right Media Exchange, which built one of the first real-time display-ads bidding engines. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Yale University, and is passionate about open-source projects forming the core of Big Data democracy in industry and government. Bhaskar is a Data Elite advisor.
VP, Data Platform, Stitch Fix
As Director of Data Platform at Stitch Fix, Jeff Magnusson leads the team responsible for building a robust and scalable algorithms platform that leverages machines and expert human resources to generate innovative recommendations and insights.
Previously, Jeff managed the Data Platform Architecture group at Netflix, where he helped lead the design and implementation of the Big Data platform Netflix uses for batch computation in the AWS cloud. He holds a PhD from the University of Florida. Jeff is a Data Elite advisor.
VP, Data and Analytics, The Climate Corporation
Daniel is VP of Engineering, Data and Analytics at Teespring. Previously, he was CTO at Reputation.com; GM of Platform and Analytics at Zynga; Cofounder and Managing Partner at Breadboard BI; Software Engineer–Bioinformatics at Genentech; and Software Engineer at Incyte Pharmaceuticals. He holds a BA in Biochemistry from Vassar College and a Master’s in Information Systems Management and Computer Science from Golden Gate University. Daniel is a Data Elite advisor.
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Unravel is hiring at all of our locations in Palo Alto, New York, Bangalore, and the UK — as well as field offices worldwide.
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