Andy Konwinski backs research founders at Laude Ventures and helps turn computer science breakthroughs into open source tools through Laude Institute. He co-founded Databricks and Perplexity and helped create Apache Spark and Mesos at UC Berkeley.
Andy Konwinski backs research founders at Laude Ventures and helps turn computer science breakthroughs into open source tools through Laude Institute. He co-founded Databricks and Perplexity and helped create Apache Spark and Mesos at UC Berkeley.
Career
Andy Konwinski attended University of California, Berkeley, earning a MS (2009); PhD, Computer Science (2012) as well as University of Wisconsin–Madison, earning a Bachelor’s degree, Computer Sciences (2007).
Co-founder and General Partner at Laude Ventures from 2024-01 to Present.
Co-founder at Laude Institute from 2024-01 to Present in San Francisco, California, United States.
President and Co-founder at Perplexity from 2022-08 to Present in San Francisco, California, United States.UOCo-instructor, Research to Startups at University of California, Berkeley until Present.
Co-founder at Databricks from 2013-01 to 2019.