Christina Kobayashi

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Principal at Ironwood Venture Partners · Developer infrastructure · open source, developer tools

Ironwood Venture Partners
Atlanta, GA · ET (UTC-5)
10+ years experience
Stanford University
English
Investing
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Overview

Principal at Ironwood Venture Partners, backing developer infrastructure companies. Backed 38 founders at pre-seed and seed. Sit on 7 boards. Before that: Google and Zoom. Most at home with venture capital and developer tools. Board member at a local non-profit.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in developer infrastructure
  • Second opinions on open source decisions
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Skills
open sourceventure capitaldeveloper tools
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $2M cheques into seed developer infrastructure in the Nordics

Cheque size
$2M
Stages
Seed, Series A
Sectors
Developer infrastructure, AI applications
Geographies
India
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
Within a month
How I help
Hiring the first ten people

Happy to follow a strong lead. We reply to every founder.

Atlanta, GA · remote OKventure capitalopen sourcedeveloper tools
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Experience

  1. Principal
    Jan 2023 - Present
    Ironwood Venture Partners · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Backed 55 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Led or co-led 35 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Sit on 2 boards.
  2. Senior Consultant
    Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
    Google · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Designed the operating model for a 2 thousand-person transformation.
  3. Business Analyst
    Oct 2017 - Nov 2019
    Zoom · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Wrote the venture capital service that now handles 61 million requests a day.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 29 minutes to under 3.
  4. Associate Partner
    Oct 2016 - Oct 2017
    Procter & Gamble · 1 yr · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Cut p99 latency on the Android services from 698ms to 160ms.

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Education

  1. Stanford University
    BS, Finance
    2012 - 2016

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