Madison Faulkner, NEA Partner on Data Infra, Dev Tools & Applied AI

Madison is a Partner at NEA investing in early-stage data, infrastructure, developer tools, data science, and AI and she also leads the data and AI initiative internally for data-driven investment decision-making. She has invested in and works with companies including Factory, Datafold, Metabase, Foresight Data, Delphina, Fixify, World Labs, Sakana and more. Prior to investing, Madison was Head of Data Science and Machine Learning at growth startup Thrasio, Head of Data Science at Greycroft, and led a data science team at Facebook focused on the ad auction and deep learning with FAIR. Madison received a BS in Engineering from Stanford and grew up in Colorado performing in rodeos. She spends free time advising entrepreneurship organizations at Columbia, UWashington and Stanford. Topics: How AI and data tools are changing the way every company builds softwareWhat makes a technical founder stand out todayWhere AI infra is headed next #VentureCapital #AIInfrastructure #DeveloperTools #DataScience #MachineLearning