# Natalie Vais

> Natalie Vais is a General Partner at Spark Capital in San Francisco, where she backs early-stage founders building developer-first tools, platforms, and infrastructure. A former Oracle engineer, Google Cloud product lead, and Amplify Partners principal, she brings rare technical depth to VC - having personally shipped databases and distributed systems before writing checks. Her portfolio includes TigerBeetle, MotherDuck, Polar Signals, and ElectricSQL. While at Google, her team's carbon-monitoring satellite imagery project was named one of TIME Magazine's 100 Best Inventions of 2020.

- **Role:** General Partner at Spark Capital
- **Organizations:** Spark Capital, Amplify Partners (former), Google (former), Oracle (former)
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California
- **Known for:** Named General Partner at Spark Capital, one of the most storied early-stage VC firms in the US, TIME Magazine 100 Best Inventions of 2020 - for carbon emissions monitoring project via Google.org fellowship, Led investments in TigerBeetle, MotherDuck, Polar Signals, ElectricSQL, PostgresML, and Eppo

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Software engineer at Oracle, working on databases and distributed systems
- **Mid career** — Director of Product at an analytics startup later acquired by Twitter
- **Mid career** — Product Lead, Core Infrastructure at Google; helped launch Google Cloud Firestore
- **2020** — Google.org fellowship - carbon emissions monitoring via computer vision and satellite imagery, named TIME Magazine 100 Best Inventions of 2020
- **~2021-2022** — Principal at Amplify Partners, investing in early-stage enterprise companies
- **2022** — Led investments in MotherDuck and Eppo from Amplify Partners
- **2023** — Led investment in PostgresML ($4.7M seed round)
- **2023** — Joined Spark Capital as General Partner
- **2024** — Led investments in Polar Signals and TigerBeetle at Spark Capital
- **2024** — Speaker at CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024 - 'The $100B Opportunity for the Cloud-Native Ecosystem: A VC Perspective'

## Achievements

- Named General Partner at Spark Capital, one of the most storied early-stage VC firms in the US
- TIME Magazine 100 Best Inventions of 2020 - for carbon emissions monitoring project via Google.org fellowship
- Led investments in TigerBeetle, MotherDuck, Polar Signals, ElectricSQL, PostgresML, and Eppo
- Board Member at TigerBeetle and Polar Signals
- Helped launch Google Cloud Firestore as Product Lead on Core Infrastructure
- Helped build databases and distributed systems at Oracle early in her career

## Latest updates

- **2024-07** — Announced Spark Capital's investment in TigerBeetle, a financial database for the next generation of payment systems
- **2024-03** — Announced Spark Capital's investment in Polar Signals, an observability platform for systems management
- **2024-11** — Spoke at CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024 on the $100B opportunity for the cloud-native ecosystem from a VC perspective

## Links

- Website: https://sparkcapital.com/team-members/natalie-vais
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/natalievais
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/natalievais

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Last updated: 2026-05-17