Martin Casado

About

Martin Casado is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he leads the firm’s infrastructure practice. He first joined the firm in 2016 and currently serves on the boards of Ambient.ai, Astranis, Braintrust, Coactive, Convex, Cursor, Distributional, Fivetran, Ideogram, Imply, Kong, Material Security, Netlify, Pindrop Security, Preset, Truffle Security, and World Labs. He previously served on the boards of dbt Labs (acquired by Fivetran), DeepMap.ai (acquired by NVIDIA), Isovalent (acquired by Cisco), Metronome (acquired by Stripe), Orbit (acquired by Postman), Parsec Gaming (acquired by Unity), Tabular (acquired by Databricks) and Yubico (IPO $YUBICO).

Martin was previously the cofounder and chief technology officer at Nicira, which was acquired by VMware for $1.26 billion in 2012. While at VMware, Martin was a fellow and served as a senior vice president and general manager of the networking and security business unit, which he scaled to a $600 million run-rate business by the time he left VMware in 2016.

Martin started his career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he worked on large-scale simulations for the Department of Defense before moving over to work with the intelligence community on networking and cybersecurity. These experiences inspired his work at Stanford where he helped pioneer the software-defined networking (SDN) movement. While at Stanford he also co-founded Illuminics Systems, an IP analytics company, which was acquired by Quova Inc. in 2006.

For his work, Martin was awarded both the ACM Grace Murray Hopper award and the NEC C&C award, and he’s an inductee of the Lawrence Livermore Lab’s Entrepreneur’s Hall of Fame. He holds both a PhD and Masters degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.