Mustafa Neemuchwala

Partner

New Enterprise Associates (NEA) · New York & San Francisco

Present

Youngest & fastest partner in 5 decades of NEA Active: - Singularity (Seed) - next gen air defense & low cost interceptors (kinetic) - Martian (Seed, Series A) - model router & LLM infra - Union.ai (Seed, Series A) - data/ML workflow orchestration built on open source Flyte - Kaizen Labs (Series A) - software & fintech for resident services (county, state, fed) - Zania (Series A) - AI agents for cybersecurity governance, risk, & compliance - Aurelian (Series A) - AI x public safety & police dispatch centers - Firestorm Labs (Series A) - flexible manufacturing platform + attritible UAS - Flox (Series A) - devops platform built around the popular open source Nix ecosystem - Granica (Series A, B) - AI efficiency platform - Second Front (Series B, C) - DevSecOps platform for government to buy commercial software - Together AI (Series A, B, C) - AI training, finetuning, & inference infra - Mashgin (Series B) - autonomous checkout for retail - Chaos Industries (Series C & D) - next-gen sensi…

Principal

New Enterprise Associates (NEA) · New York & San Francisco

Senior Associate

New Enterprise Associates (NEA) · New York & San Francisco

Associate

New Enterprise Associates (NEA) · San Francisco Bay Area

Infra & App Software, Fintech, Consumer, Frontier Tech M&a Advisory

Qatalyst Partners · San Francisco Bay Area

$58B+ M&A experience across developer, security, data, infra & fintech (incl. 2 largest fintech deals ever + 2 most expensive SaaS deals of scale) Developer / security / data / infra: - Auth0's $6.5B sale to Okta (highest multiple software deal ever of scale) - Segment's $3.2B sale to Twilio (one of the highest multiple software deals ever of scale) - Hortonworks' $5.2B merger with Cloudera - Talend’s $2.4B sale process - Pluralsight's $3.5B sale process Fintech & Internet: - Afterpay’s $29B sale to Square (largest Internet or FinTech deal ever) - Intuit's $8.1B acquisition of Credit Karma (largest VC-backed Fintech deal ever at the time) - HotelTonight's sale to Airbnb + unannounced workflows in defense tech/drones, marketplaces/classifieds, adtech, & other tech areas

Private Equity

Rosewood Private Investments · Dallas, Texas, United States

Middle market private equity

Early Stage Tech Investing

Dallas Venture Capital · Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Early-stage investing in AI/ML + application & infra cloud software

Long/Short Public Equities

Liberty Park Capital Management · Austin, Texas Area

Small-cap long/short equity hedge fund

Research

The University of Texas at Austin

Two disparate research topics crossing computer science, quantitative finance, and political science