Salma Bakouk is the CEO and co-founder of Sifflet, a Full Data Stack Observability platform. Before Sifflet, Salma was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs in Sales & Trading in Asia, leading key Data & Analytics initiatives. Salma holds an Engineering Degree from École Centrale Paris in Applied Mathematics and a Master's in Statistics and Data Science.
Datacast Episode 124: The Open-Source Cloud Playbook, The Modular Future of Data and AI Infrastructure, and Meta-Learning as a VC with Casber Wang
Casber Wang is Partner at Sapphire Ventures. He focuses primarily on security, enterprise infrastructure, and data analytics.
He is on the boards of Huntress, JumpCloud, StarTree, Tetrate, Upytcs, and Zesty. For his work, Insider listed Casber as an Enterprise VC Rising Star Investor and as an emerging investor charting the industry’s future on the 2022 EVC List.
Prior to Sapphire, he was part of the technology investment banking group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he worked on a number of high-profile IPO and M&A transactions. He also spent time at Wish, a leading mobile commerce platform in North America and Europe.
Datacast Episode 109: Developer Productivity, Real-Time Data Infrastructure, and The Fat-Tailed Nature of Enterprise Software with Nnamdi Iregbulem
Nnamdi Iregbulem, a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, is a self-taught programmer and lifelong technology nerd. His mission is to increase total software output by supporting entrepreneurs building technical tools for technical people. He focuses on investments in technical enterprise software such as developer tools, application infrastructure, and machine learning.
Datacast Episode 78: Open-Source Investing and Data Product Management with Julia Schottenstein
Julia Schottenstein is a Product Manager at dbt Labs, the maker of the popular open-source project dbt. Before joining dbt Labs, Julia was an investor at New Enterprise Associates, where she invested in infrastructure, developer tools, open-source, and data startups. She currently sits on the boards of Sentry and Metabase while being an active angel investor. Julia graduated from Stanford University with degrees in Computer Science and Management Science & Engineering.