# Todd Blaschka

> Todd Blaschka is a Pleasanton-based enterprise software operator and advisor whose career includes sales leadership at Clustrix and Dataguise and a COO role at TigerGraph. Through Accelerate Revenue, he offers CEO coaching, go-to-market advisory and fractional revenue leadership, with a focus on AI businesses. He is also publicly listed as CEO Coach | Partner at Alchemist Accelerator.

- **Role:** GTM Advisor and CEO Coach at Accelerate Revenue; listed CEO Coach | Partner at Alchemist Accelerator
- **Organizations:** Accelerate Revenue, Alchemist Accelerator, Graphwise, Ontotext, TigerGraph, Clustrix, Dataguise, IBM, Electric Cloud, Sendmail
- **Education:** B.A., University of California, San Diego, M.B.A., University of San Francisco
- **Known for:** TigerGraph’s 2017 appointment announcement credits him with more than doubling Clustrix customer count and revenue in under 18 months., Reports helping TigerGraph reach $30 million annual recurring revenue over five years and participating in its first 130 enterprise deals., Reports fundraising work alongside CEOs totaling over $130 million.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2017** — Held sales and marketing leadership positions at IBM, Electric Cloud and Sendmail; served as VP of sales at Dataguise and VP of worldwide sales at Clustrix.
- **2017** — Appointed COO of TigerGraph on October 18.
- **2018** — Discussed graph databases at the Open Data Science Conference in a Data Engineering Podcast interview published May 14.
- **2020** — Discussed contextual AI, digital twins and analytics accessibility in an August TDWI interview.
- **2021** — Published a Forbes Business Council introduction to graph analytics.
- **2022** — Says he chose to pursue advisory work rather than return to an in-house operator role.
- **2024** — Listed as SVP Sales Graphwise and Executive Advisor Ontotext for a November 19 webinar.
- **2025** — Interviewed by Alan Morrison about enterprise AI data context; published October 31.
- **2026** — Published essays on pipeline qualification, open-source commercialization and organizational scaling in September.

## Achievements

- TigerGraph’s 2017 appointment announcement credits him with more than doubling Clustrix customer count and revenue in under 18 months.
- Reports helping TigerGraph reach $30 million annual recurring revenue over five years and participating in its first 130 enterprise deals.
- Reports fundraising work alongside CEOs totaling over $130 million.
- Published graph analytics commentary in Forbes Business Council and other industry outlets.
- Reports supporting the Graphwise management team through its Oakley Capital transaction; Oakley announced an agreement to acquire a majority stake on August 19, 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — On September 24 published three essays about qualified pipeline, open-source users and commercial buyers, and organizational scaling beyond $15 million ARR.
- **2026-08** — On August 20 published an essay about executive relationships and customer expansion.
- **2026-08** — Oakley announced an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Graphwise on August 19; Blaschka publicly describes his participation in the management team’s transaction work.

## Links

- Website: https://accelerate-rev.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddblaschka/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/toddblaschka

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Last updated: 2026-10-08