Çağla Kaymaz

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States10 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Partner at Category VC with extensive investment experience.
  • Founder of a SaaS-enabled marketplace for pet care.
  • Expertise in AI and data infrastructure investments.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned investor in AI and SaaS industries.

Contact

LinkedIn

Skills

Other Skills

Product ManagementPublic SpeakingSoftware DevelopmentC++AlgorithmsJavaSoftware EngineeringObjective-CTeachingiOS DevelopmentDesignJavaScriptMatlabCData Analysis

Experience

10 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 5 mos
Current Experience

Category ventures

Partner

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  • Pre-seed and seed in infra, devtools and apps
  • https://www.categoryvc.com/

Citi

Principal at Citi Ventures

Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Partnering with early-to-growth stage AI/Data infra and application startups
  • Investments:
  • Datavolo (Series A): Multimodal data pipelines for AI (Acq. Snowflake)
  • Galileo (Series B): Evaluation and observability for AI applications
  • Glean (Series D): Enterprise search and work AI platform
  • Lexion (Series B): AI-powered contract management (Acq. Docusign)
  • Norm Ai (Series A): Regulatory AI Agent

Mba internships

Investor, Founder, PM, Chief of Staff

Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 · 3 yrs

  • MBA Investor, Maverick Ventures: Focused on B2B software and healthcare
  • Founder, PetterPaws: SaaS-enabled marketplace for pet care startup
  • Chief of Staff, Season Health: Took semester off HBS to work as CoS
  • Senior Product Manager, January Health: Pre-MBA internship

Microsoft

4 roles

Product Manager

Jan 2016 – Apr 2019 · 3 yrs 3 mos

On Leave during CS Masters

Jul 2015 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr

Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2013 – Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Software Engineer

Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 · 0 mo

Stanford university

Graduate Course Assistant

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr

  • Course assistant for CS145 (Intro to Databases), CS103 (Mathematical Foundations of Computing), and ENGR280 (From Play to Innovation at Stanford d.school)

Education for gifted youth

Head Counselor, Teaching Assistant

Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 · 0 mo · Stanford University

Education

Stanford University

B.S. in Math and Computational Science — M.S. in Computer Science

Harvard Business School

Master of Business Administration - MBA

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