# Levi Malott

> Levi Malott is a Missouri-native software engineer turned startup operator and venture capitalist who tested Falcon 9 rocket systems at SpaceX, built ML infrastructure at BetterUp, scaled Pachama's engineering team from 7 to 40 people as VP of Engineering through a $700M valuation, then co-founded Weave Bio as CTO - an AI platform accelerating pharmaceutical regulatory filings that raised a $10M seed round in 2023. Today he serves as Venture Partner at Redbud VC in Columbia, Missouri, backing early-stage tech founders from the heartland.

- **Role:** Venture Partner at Redbud VC
- **Organizations:** Redbud VC, Weave Bio, Pachama, BetterUp, SpaceX, Missouri University of Science and Technology
- **From:** Missouri, USA
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BS Computer Science, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Research Assistant / PhD Fellow (internet usage, mental health, ML research), Missouri University of Science and Technology
- **Known for:** Joined Pachama as employee #7 and helped scale the company to a ~$700M valuation at Series B, Led engineering at BetterUp as one of the first 80 employees; company later valued at ~$4.5B, Co-founded/led Weave Bio as CTO, raising $10M seed round to automate pharma regulatory filings with LLMs

## Career timeline

- **2010-2013** — BS Computer Science, Missouri S&T
- **2013-2015** — Research Assistant / PhD Fellow at Missouri S&T - studied links between internet usage and depression/anxiety/stress using ML tools
- **2015-2016** — Software Engineer at WindNinja - built C API and visualization tools for terrain-specific wind modeling; developed Fire Weather Alert Service
- **2016-2018** — Flight Software Engineer at SpaceX - started testing Falcon 9 subsystems, moved to crew capsule hardware-software integration testing, ended building internal software team services
- **2018-2019** — Data Engineer at BetterUp - among first 80 employees post-Series B; built ML and AI infrastructure (company later valued at ~$4.5B)
- **2019-2022** — VP of Engineering at Pachama - joined as employee #7; scaled engineering team to ~40 people; company reached ~$700M valuation at Series B
- **2022-2024** — CTO at Weave Bio - led development of LLM-powered platform to accelerate pharmaceutical regulatory filings; raised $10M seed round (end of 2023)
- **2024-present** — Venture Partner at Redbud VC, Columbia, MO - supporting early-stage tech founders from Middle America

## Achievements

- Joined Pachama as employee #7 and helped scale the company to a ~$700M valuation at Series B
- Led engineering at BetterUp as one of the first 80 employees; company later valued at ~$4.5B
- Co-founded/led Weave Bio as CTO, raising $10M seed round to automate pharma regulatory filings with LLMs
- Contributed to SpaceX Falcon 9 flight systems and crew capsule hardware-software integration
- Scaled Pachama's engineering team from 7 to approximately 40 engineers
- Published academic research on internet usage correlations with depression, anxiety, and stress at Missouri S&T
- Built FireWeatherAlert Service and C API for WindNinja wind modeling software

## Latest updates

- **2024-01** — Joined Redbud VC as Venture Partner in Columbia, Missouri
- **2023-12** — Weave Bio raised $10M seed round while Levi served as CTO
- **2025-05** — Active as Venture Partner at Redbud VC, supporting early-stage tech founders from the heartland

## Links

- Website: https://www.malott.co
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/levi-malott-a4b04a85
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/levi_malott
- GitHub: https://github.com/wranglerr

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Last updated: 2026-05-06