# Nate Mazonson

> Nate Mazonson is the co-founder and CEO of Alara Imaging (Alara Gateway), a San Francisco health-tech startup building a secure gateway-as-a-service that moves radiology data between hospitals and the cloud in real time. A Dartmouth-trained environmental engineer turned Stanford MBA, he spent five years in venture capital at Cambridge Associates and Kleiner Perkins before co-founding the vertical-farming company Plenty in 2015 and then Alara in 2019. His through-line: take antiquated, high-stakes infrastructure - first food, now medical imaging - and rebuild it as modern, machine-learning-ready software.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Alara Imaging (Alara Gateway)
- **Organizations:** Alara Imaging, Plenty, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Cambridge Associates
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BA, environmental science and engineering (graduated with honors), Dartmouth College, MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Alara Imaging, building a HIPAA- and SOC II-compliant gateway for real-time, bidirectional medical-imaging data flow, Co-founded Plenty, one of the most prominent indoor vertical-farming companies, Secured technology relationships with AWS (Amazon HealthLake Imaging) and NVIDIA (Project MONAI)

## Career timeline

- **2009** — Graduates with honors from Dartmouth College after studying environmental science and engineering focused on climate change
- **2009-2014** — Associate Investment Director at Cambridge Associates, advising endowment portfolios worth a combined $3.5B and investing in cleantech
- **2014-2016** — Earns an MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business
- **2015** — Spends time in venture capital at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
- **2015** — Co-founds Plenty, the vertical-farming company, with Matt Barnard and Nate Storey
- **2019** — Co-founds Alara Imaging with UCSF physicians Marc Kohli and Rebecca Smith-Bindman; becomes CEO
- **2020** — Alara raises a Series A round (~$3M total funding reported)
- **2022** — Alara launches its medical imaging gateway-as-a-service as an AWS Partner alongside Amazon HealthLake Imaging
- **2023** — Alara announces collaboration with NVIDIA, integrating its Gateway with Project MONAI
- **2025** — Alara expands its executive team with senior medical-imaging hires

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Alara Imaging, building a HIPAA- and SOC II-compliant gateway for real-time, bidirectional medical-imaging data flow
- Co-founded Plenty, one of the most prominent indoor vertical-farming companies
- Secured technology relationships with AWS (Amazon HealthLake Imaging) and NVIDIA (Project MONAI)
- Alara serves as a measure steward for new radiology-focused clinical quality measures within CMS quality payment programs
- Advised institutional endowment portfolios worth a combined $3.5B at Cambridge Associates

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — Alara expands its executive team, adding Jill Spear as VP of Operations and David Mezzoprete as VP of Business Development
- **2023-11** — Alara announces a collaboration with NVIDIA, integrating its Gateway with Project MONAI's MONAI Deploy App SDK

## Links

- Website: https://alaragateway.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mazonson/

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Last updated: 2026-06-10