Matt Cain is a technology executive who served as Chair, President, and CEO of Couchbase from April 2017 through September 2025, guiding the company from a growth-stage NoSQL database startup through a 2021 NASDAQ IPO and ultimately a $1.5 billion acquisition by Haveli Investments. With an engineering degree from Northwestern and an MBA from Stanford, Cain built his career across a decade at Cisco Systems, senior roles at Symantec, and the presidency of Veritas Technologies' worldwide field operations before joining Couchbase. Under his leadership, Couchbase expanded from pure NoSQL into a multi-model developer data platform powering AI-enabled applications for global enterprises.
Peter Levine is an advisor at Andreessen Horowitz, where he focuses on enterprise investing with a track record of backing transformative developer tools and infrastructure companies. An engineer turned executive turned investor, he scaled Veritas Software to $1.5 billion in revenue as EVP, sold XenSource to Citrix for $500 million as CEO, and led a16z's investments in GitHub (acquired by Microsoft for $7.5B), Figma (IPO 2025), and DigitalOcean (IPO 2021). He brings an unusual combination of deep technical expertise and business acumen, teaching management at Stanford GSB while serving on the boards of Apollo GraphQL, PlanetScale, Shield AI, Mixpanel, and Udacity.