# Matthew Gregory

> Matthew Gregory is a San Francisco founder and product builder whose route into infrastructure software began with weather analysis, telemetry, and navigation aboard elite ocean-racing yachts. After building Weather Underground's developer API, working on Heroku's developer platform, and helping Microsoft's Azure organization embrace open-source infrastructure, he co-founded Ockam to make secure communication between distributed applications easier. He now leads Autonomy, a platform for building and operating agentic AI products, carrying forward Ockam's ideas about cryptographic identity, trusted messaging, and developer-friendly abstractions.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Autonomy
- **Organizations:** Autonomy, Ockam, Microsoft, Salesforce, Heroku, Weather Underground, Stars & Stripes, America's Cup, Volvo Ocean Race
- **From:** Detroit, United States
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science in Engineering, University of Michigan College of Engineering, Master of Business Administration, University of Michigan
- **Known for:** Built Weather Underground's developer API during the early mobile-app era., Worked on developer-platform products at Heroku and cloud open-source strategy at Microsoft Azure., Co-founded Ockam and helped raise $21.4 million in reported funding across multiple rounds.

## Career timeline

- **1999-2000s** — Entered professional sailing after engineering school, working in technical navigation, weather analysis, telemetry, and data systems for America's Cup teams.
- **2008-2009** — Sailed much of the Volvo Ocean Race aboard Black Betty; the campaign ended after a keel-system structural failure in the Indian Ocean.
- **Late 2000s** — Joined Weather Underground and built a developer-facing weather API used by major consumer web and mobile products.
- **Early 2010s** — Worked on Heroku's developer platform and add-ons ecosystem after Salesforce acquired Heroku.
- **Mid-2010s** — Worked at Microsoft on Azure's shift toward open-source software, Linux, containers, and broader infrastructure support.
- **2017** — Founded Ockam with Mrinal Wadhwa to simplify identity, encryption, authorization, and secure communication for distributed applications.
- **2019** — Ockam announced a $4.9 million seed round backed by Future Ventures, Core Ventures, Okta Ventures, and SGH Capital.
- **2022** — Ockam raised a $12.5 million Series A, bringing reported total funding to $21.4 million.
- **2024-2025** — Gregory and Wadhwa developed Autonomy, carrying Ockam's trust and messaging foundation into infrastructure for autonomous AI products.
- **2025-09** — Autonomy announced general availability, with Gregory serving as founder and CEO.
- **2026-07** — Ockam's company chapter closed; its Apache-licensed open-source project and documentation remained public.

## Achievements

- Built Weather Underground's developer API during the early mobile-app era.
- Worked on developer-platform products at Heroku and cloud open-source strategy at Microsoft Azure.
- Co-founded Ockam and helped raise $21.4 million in reported funding across multiple rounds.
- Helped develop an Apache-licensed open-source secure-communications project with hundreds of contributors.
- Competed professionally in America's Cup campaigns and the 2008-2009 Volvo Ocean Race.
- Launched Autonomy's agentic AI platform into general availability in September 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Ockam's company chapter closed, while its open-source repository and documentation remained available.
- **2025-09** — Autonomy announced general availability of its platform for building and operating agentic AI products.

## Links

- Website: https://autonomy.computer
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewgregory
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/LilFortran
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX1qQwRCY60

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Last updated: 2026-08-27