Venture Insights with Two Ravens (Members only), Isaac Kato, Two Ravens VC

Before Two Ravens, he led the Techstars Seattle and Filecoin Techstars Accelerators, where he had the pleasure of investing in 44 founding teams, including folks like Twelve Labs, MD Ally, Olive Technologies, Retrocausal, Bild, The Folklore, Proxi, Rexby, Transcrypts, and many others who have gone on to build terrific early-stage tech companies and raise a significant amount of follow-on capital.

Immediately prior to Techstars, Isaac served as President of Mighty AI, a training data platform and service company which provided high quality training data to autonomous vehicle developers and other enterprises in the computer vision space. The company was acquired by Uber in July, 2019. Before that, he co-founded and led two enterprise technology companies; one was successfully acquired, and the other is a leader in the global data center business. For 10 years, Isaac served as Co-Founder, CFO, and EVP of Verne Global, an international growth stage green data center business based in the UK with operations in Iceland. At Verne, he conceived the business, raised $200M+ of equity and debt capital, built the team, and managed several functions of the company.

Also, he has 12+ years of experience as a venture capital, growth equity, and angel technology investor with General Catalyst Partners and Summit Partners. In those roles, he sourced, led, structured, and negotiated several investments, and served as a Director on multiple boards. Isaac has an extensive network of technology investors and entrepreneurs with concentrations in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Boston, and London. He is also an angel investor in early-stage technology startups.