Abby Kearns

WHAT: OpCo’s Technical Product Showcase is by application and invite-only. The teams selected to participate will walk away with invaluable feedback, off-the-record insights, and the potential for long-term relationships with prospective customers. The half-day event will include: - Individual sessions for each participating startup to present their technology and solution to these senior technical leaders for off-the-record feedback, including @AnnFunai, IBM CIO, VP Business Platform Transformation, @pratima_arora, Chainalysis Chief Product & Technology Officer, Elissa Murphy, Cisco VP, @ab415, Alembic CTO, Claire Hough, Getlabs CTO and more. - Moderated panel with the senior technical operators from the OpCo community who will share their expertise and concrete insights - Valuable networking and relationship-building

@villi @Category_VC Congratulations!!

Today I am thrilled to announce @Category_VC, an early stage venture firm conceived to provide unparalleled strategic and technical support to founders building enterprise software startups. I am also excited to announce Category Ventures I, our $160 million debut fund dedicated to investing in the most ambitious founders. Our mission is to support founders building category defining companies in AI, infrastructure, developer tools, and applications. Category will have broad flexibility to lead pre-seed and seed rounds with investments of $1.5 - $5M. Category was created with the belief that enterprise founders can be better served by their venture investors. We aspire to build a firm that has strong technical expertise, extensive operating experience, and deep founder empathy. My vision for Category is to be an invaluable partner to founders, capable of providing architectural and technical direction, go-to-market support, as well as strategic guidance. During my career as an investor, I have seen the spectrum of the human spirit — greatness, failure, hardship, happiness, heartbreak, and tears of joy. The founder journey is lonely, hard, and unpredictable. I would like Category to be the best partner to founders, a firm built on a strong foundation of core values — authenticity, kindness, teamwork, and intensity. I am eager to build the Category team and partner with amazing founders creating their own category. Let’s go!

I am thrilled to share that I have joined @getalembic as their CTO. I am excited to join such a talented team to help deliver incredible insights for the worlds largest companies.

A new episode is here! @sramji and @ab415 discuss the betrayal source license, empowering trust, and the role open source plays in AI. Tune in: bit.ly/osdabby #OpenSourceData #AI #BSL #Trust #Transparency

DSPM: Control Your Data to Prevent Issues Later bit.ly/3K3MHeO @ab415 #data #DSPM #cybersecurity

@aronchick @ExpansoIO @BacalhauProject Congratulations! Thrilled to see this out there!

My friends, it's finally time to talk about System Initiative. You can learn all about it at systeminit.com, including a demo video with cats. youtube.com/watch?v=zyEOYl…

There is a lot of room for improvement in the DevOps space & if anyone can drive the level of change needed it is @adamhjk. I am thrilled to see @thesysteminit is finally available in private beta. Read more about it here. bit.ly/3JrN9mS

If you are starting a oss based company, listen to @ab415 as she went through a few waves / companies as an exec, has seen the challenges landing and disrupting new platforms in enterprises. @amanda_robs and I had a ton of fun interviewing on our @OssStartup pod!

Check out the latest @OssStartup Podcast featuring @ab415 who has incredible experience across the open source ecosystem 👇

This was such a great convo with @ab415 who has a wealth of experience across the open source ecosystem - from @cloudfoundry to @puppetize 💪 Check it out (esp founders 😉)

Thank you so much for having me on @amanda_robs & @tnachen to talk about one of my favorite topics, open source software.

@jasoncwarner Amazing news!

Platforms at your service: How a new group of startups hopes to make it easier to ship software - quick coverage of startups working on the PaaS idea. Fun seeing @ab415 in there! runtime.news/platforms-at-y…

@cote Thanks! Always fun to talk about PaaS. 😊

@gabemonroy @Google Congratulations!

I am thrilled to announce that I have officially joined @Google as the VP of Developer Experience for Google Cloud. linkedin.com/posts/gabemonr…

@LukasGentele 🙏

@ab415 Thank you for being such an amazing friend and mentor yourself, Abby!

I have had the distinct pleasure of working alongside and being mentored by some of the most amazing women in tech. Today I am celebrating you all! Thank you!🙏 #IWD2023

Navigating the Trade-Offs of Scaling #Kubernetes Dev Environments eu1.hubs.ly/H02WD3Y0 via @bluefug @Intellyx @thenewstack #CloudCostOptimization

With CPRA going into effect last week, data minimization is now a requirement. We explore what that means for CISOs and how to keep it from impacting engineering teams in our latest blog article. bit.ly/3vOgDUH