Investments
11Portfolio Exits
3About Paul Maritz
Paul Maritz joined VMware in July 2008 as President and CEO. Prior to joining VMware, he was President of the Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division at EMC after the company's February 2008 acquisition of Pi, where he was the founder and CEO. Before founding Pi, he spent 14 years working at Microsoft, where he served as a member of the five-person Executive Committee that managed the overall company. As Vice President of the Platform Strategy and Developer Group, among other roles, he oversaw the development and marketing of System Software Products (including Windows 95, Windows NT, and Windows 2000), Development Tools (Visual Studio) and Database Products (SQL Server) and the complete Office and Exchange Product Lines. Prior to Microsoft, he spent five years working at Intel as a software and tools developer.Born and raised in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Paul is a graduate in Mathematics and Computer Science of the Universities of Cape Town and Natal in South Africa. He serves on the board of VMware and several privately-held software companies. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of the Grameen Foundation, which sponsors third-world development projects and provides microfinance support around the world. He has an active interest in wildlife issues and in using technology to improve life in developing countries.
Paul Maritz Headquarter Location
55 Francisco Street Suite 400
San Francisco, California, 94133,
United States
Latest Paul Maritz News
May 13, 2022
Tignis , a Seattle, WA-based innovator in AI process control for semiconductor manufacturing, raised $7.2M in Series A funding. The round was led by DN Capital with participation from Clear Ventures, Paul Maritz and Harel Kodesh. The company intends to use the funds to expand its sales team and execute on current contracts. Led by CEO Jon Herlocker, Tignis sells innovative software solutions that use AI and Machine Learning to enable next generation semiconductor manufacturing (physics-driven AI process control) processes, increase manufacturing yield, and decrease process downtime. The company’s products equip process and operations engineers with the tools necessary to design, test and implement AI projects, and ensure the implementation of AI process control and monitoring initiatives. Its technology is deployed in hundreds of facilities worldwide. Launched in 2021, Tignis’ PAICe Product Suite accelerates the ability to build, validate and deploy physics-driven, machine learning-enabled solutions in semiconductor manufacturing. PAICe Monitor allows process engineers to quickly harness data using the proprietary low-code language to find and investigate problems with production, while PAICe Maker speeds up simulations, enabling semiconductor manufacturers to adaptively control complex OEM machinery in real time. In addition to today’s funding announcement, the company has raised $7.4 million in angel and seed funding since 2017, not including a $1 million investment in 2021 from innovation company BMNT. It also completed the enterprise accelerator program H4XLabs to accelerate the growth of its first commercial product. FinSMEs
Paul Maritz Investments
11 Investments
Paul Maritz has made 11 investments. Their latest investment was in Tignis as part of their Series A on May 5, 2022.
Paul Maritz Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
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5/12/2022 | Series A | Tignis | $7.2M | No | 4 | |
11/17/2021 | Series A | QuEra Computing | $17M | Yes | 11 | |
5/10/2019 | Seed VC | Tignis | $4.65M | Yes | 2 | |
1/8/2018 | Series A | |||||
10/6/2016 | Angel |
Date | 5/12/2022 | 11/17/2021 | 5/10/2019 | 1/8/2018 | 10/6/2016 |
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Round | Series A | Series A | Seed VC | Series A | Angel |
Company | Tignis | QuEra Computing | Tignis | ||
Amount | $7.2M | $17M | $4.65M | ||
New? | No | Yes | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | |||||
Sources | 4 | 11 | 2 |
Paul Maritz Portfolio Exits
3 Portfolio Exits
Paul Maritz has 3 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Colabo on April 13, 2022.
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