Matilda Stone

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Partner, Sandstone Seed Fund - applied ML · product · venture capital

Sandstone Seed Fund
Belfast, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
16+ years experience
Durham University
English, Hindi
Investing
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Overview

I invest in AI applications at Sandstone Seed Fund, usually at pre-seed and seed. Previously an operator for 11 years before investing. Before that: Microsoft and Accenture. Most at home with applied ML and product.

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  • Founders building in distributed databases
  • Questions about distributed databases
  • Working sessions on product
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Skills
productapplied MLventure capital
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $100k cheques into seed AI applications in North America

Cheque size
$100k
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors
Distributed databases, climate
Geographies
Europe
Lead or follow
Co-lead
Decision time
Within a month
How I help
Fundraising strategy for the next round

Usually the first cheque in. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

Belfast, UK · remote OKventure capitalapplied mlproduct
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Experience

  1. Partner
    May 2023 - Present
    Sandstone Seed Fund · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Belfast, UK
    • Led the migration of 71 services to applied ML.
    • Shipped 7 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
  2. Engagement Manager
    Mar 2020 - May 2023
    Microsoft · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Belfast, UK
    • Designed the operating model for a 7 thousand-person transformation.
    • Delivered 14 engagements across 5 countries.
  3. Business Analyst
    Jan 2017 - Nov 2019
    Accenture · 2 yr 10 mo · Contract · Belfast, UK
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 366ms to 45ms.
    • Wrote the venture capital service that now handles 63 million requests a day.
  4. Business Analyst
    Mar 2014 - Jan 2017
    EY · 2 yr 10 mo · Contract · Belfast, UK
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 33 a week to 1.
    • Moved 82% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Consultant
    Nov 2010 - Mar 2014
    Shell · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Belfast, UK
    • Ran commercial diligence on 40 deals.
    • Delivered 9 engagements across 9 countries.

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Education

  1. Durham University
    BA, Computer Science
    2006 - 2009

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