Ethan Batraski

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States22 yrs 6 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Partner at Venrock focusing on AI and frontier technologies.
  • Led investments in multiple data infrastructure and hard engineering companies.
  • Inventor on 12 patents in technology and engineering.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a venture capital expert with a focus on AI, data infrastructure, and hard engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Venture CapitalData InfrastructureProduct Development

Other Skills

Product ManagementInnovationEntrepreneurshipLeadershipDesignSaaSNatural Language ProcessingSemantic WebSearchiOS developmentmobile developmenttablet developmentmobile applicationmobile designiOS design

About

Ethan is a Partner at Venrock where he focuses on data infrastructure, developer tools, and hard engineering including space and computing. He led the investments and serve on the boards of data infrastructure companies: Astronomer, Decodable, Dgraph, Meltano, and hard engineering companies: ABL Space, Astranis, Atom Computing, and Skyryse. Prior to Venrock, Ethan was an active angel/seed investor and spend 15+ years as a founder & operator. Ethan held leadership roles at Facebook, Box (IPO 2015), and Yahoo! Ethan is the lead or co-lead inventor on 12 patents. In and out of the office, he is a passionate builder, space geek, and competitive athlete. You can usually find Ethan outdoors with his kids building things that launch or propel.

Experience

Euclid power

Board Director

Jun 2025 – Present · 9 mos

  • AI operating system for renewable energy projects

Long wall

Board Director

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Bringing Missile Defense into the 21st century

Oumi

Board Member

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Open source platform to build, evaluate, and deploy AI

Archetype ai

Board Member

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • The Physical AI company

Astronomer

Board Director

Apr 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 11 mos

  • Commercial developers of Apache Airflow

Astranis

Board Director

Aug 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

  • Advanced satellites for high orbits

Atom computing

Board Director

Aug 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 7 mos

  • The most powerful quantum computer in the world

Skyryse

Board Director

Jan 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 2 mos

  • Bringing expert AI systems into general aviation

Venrock

Partner

Sep 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 6 mos · Palo Alto

  • Early-stage investor in AI and the frontier
Product ManagementInnovationEntrepreneurshipLeadershipVenture CapitalData Infrastructure

Facebook

Product Group Leader

Jul 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Menlo Park, CA

  • Leading a +$15B revenue business for Facebook.
Product ManagementLeadershipProduct Development

Profounder collective

Partner

Sep 2014 – Oct 2017 · 3 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Founding Partner at Profounder, a pre-seed syndicate of ex-founder operators investing in special founders with breakthrough ideas in AI and advanced research.
Product ManagementEntrepreneurshipVenture Capital

Box

VP Product & Design

Sep 2014 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • IPO'd in 2015.
  • Led new products and user growth from $150M to $400M ARR through IPO.
Product ManagementLeadershipProduct Development

Adchemy (acquired)

VP Product & Design

Jul 2012 – Sep 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Acquired by @WalmartLabs in 2014.
Product ManagementDesignProduct Development

Yahoo

Group Director, Search

Nov 2009 – Jul 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Led consumer search experience, revenue, growth across Product, Design, Engineering, and Data Science.
Product ManagementDesignProduct Development

Risesmart (acquired)

Director Product & Design

Jan 2009 – Nov 2009 · 10 mos

  • Acquired by Randstad for $100M.
Product ManagementLeadershipProduct Development

Headcase labs (acquired)

Founding Products & Design, Director

Jan 2007 – Apr 2008 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Acquired March 2008.
Product ManagementDesignProduct Development

Symantec

Consumer Products Lead

Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr

  • Led transition from 'boxed software' to SaaS
Product ManagementDesignProduct Development

Visage

Product Lead

Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Visage Mobile was acquired by Convergys in 2008.
Product ManagementSaaSProduct Development

Various venture-backed start-ups

Product & Engineering

Jan 2002 – Jan 2004 · 2 yrs

  • Various early-stage companies, freelance software engineer / PM
Product ManagementDesignProduct Development

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