The Investment Team
Managing Partner at Akave Capital since founding the firm in 2009, leading investments in cloud infrastructure and platform companies. Marcus has led over $400M in investments, holds board seats at fourteen portfolio companies, and focuses on companies where technical depth creates durable competitive moats — including Tectrix and Crestdata. Previously spent a decade operating enterprise software companies, including six years as VP of Engineering at a publicly traded infrastructure firm.
General Partner at Akave since 2013, leading the firm's enterprise SaaS portfolio and working closely with founders on revenue architecture, pricing strategy, and sales team structure in the zero-to-ten enterprise contract phase. Diana has backed and actively supports companies including Novaframe and four other portfolio companies in regulated verticals. Previously founded a B2B SaaS company acquired in 2011 and ran go-to-market at two enterprise software firms.
Partner at Akave since 2017, leading the firm's DevOps and developer tools investments. Tobias evaluates architecture decisions, security posture, and engineering team scalability at a depth most investors cannot match, and holds board seats across several portfolio companies in the DevOps and infrastructure security space. Previously spent eight years as a developer tools engineer and infrastructure architect before transitioning to venture.
Partner at Akave since 2019, focused on data infrastructure and AI/ML platform investments. Priya evaluates both technical architecture and enterprise buyer procurement processes with equal fluency, making her one of the firm's sharpest analysts on pipeline-stage deals in the data stack. She tracks and backs teams building in distributed storage, ML orchestration, and analytics infrastructure. Previously a research practitioner in distributed systems and a data engineer at scale for five years.
Principal at Akave since 2022, leading deal sourcing and portfolio operations across enterprise software and cloud. Cameron manages the firm's founder network, tracks emerging companies across the investment landscape, and is the first point of contact for all inbound pitches — every submission gets a partner read. Previously spent three years in growth equity at a later-stage fund. Holds an engineering degree from Stanford.