David Cheriton

Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Angel
Investor Stage
Seed

David Cheriton is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, head of the Distributed Systems Group in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and a co-founder, investor and Chief Scientist at Apstra, Inc. Cheriton also co-founded Arista Networks, Inc., Kealia, Inc. (acquired by Sun Microsystems) and Granite Systems (acquired by Cisco), and was also an early investor in Google, Inc and VMware. He was presented with the SIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement award by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) “…for his contributions in data networking and systems, and for his keen talent for questioning the assumptions behind all our work.” Professor Cheriton was listed on the Forbes Midas List, a roster of the best dealmakers in technology venture capital published yearly by Forbes Magazine.

Blog posts:
http://blog.apstra.com/transtion-to-vendor-agnostic-intent-based-networking

http://blog.apstra.com/bamboozled_by_the_cloud

http://blog.apstra.com/public-cloud-as-a-black-hole-there-are-choices-before-the-event-horizon

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
1
David Cheriton has made 1 investments. Their most recent investment was on Sep 10, 2015, when ThreatSTOP raised $10.75M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Sep 10, 2015 ThreatSTOP Series B $10.75M Cloud Computing Detail