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Natalie Vais

General Partner at Spark Capital

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Natalie Vais is a General Partner at Spark Capital (sparkcapital.com), where she leads Seed and Series A investments across infrastructure, developer tools, and AI. A former engineer and product leader, she helped launch Google Cloud Firestore and directed product at Interana (acquired by Twitter), with earlier roles in core infrastructure at Google and in databases and distributed systems. Her investing track record includes partnerships with TigerBeetle, Polar Signals, and ElectricSQL, and she previously backed companies like MotherDuck and Eppo at Amplify Partners. Natalie’s work has also intersected with climate tech through a Google.org fellowship that used computer vision and satellite imagery to track emissions—recognized among TIME’s 100 Best Inventions of 2020. Learn more on her LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalievais.

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