Isaac Kato

About Isaac Kato

Hi! I\'m a 3X serial entrepreneur with 3 exits and have raised $200M in capital. I\'ve also been an early stage investor for roughly two decades. I recently launched Two Ravens, a pre-seed and early seed VC firm that invests in extraordinary founders from non-obvious backgrounds.Before Two Ravens, I led the Techstars Seattle and Filecoin Techstars Accelerators, where I had the pleasure of investing in 44 founding teams, including folks like Twelve Labs, MD Ally, Olive Technologies, Retrocausal, Bild, The Folklore, Proxi, Rexby, Transcrypts, and many others who have gone on to build terrific early-stage tech companies and raise a significant amount of follow-on capital. Immediately prior to Techstars, I served as President of Mighty AI, a training data platform and service company which provided high quality training data to autonomous vehicle developers and other enterprises in the computer vision space. We were acquired by Uber in July, 2019. Before that, I co-founded and led two enterprise technology companies; one was successfully acquired, and the other is a leader in the global data center business. For 10 years, I served as Co-Founder, CFO, and EVP of Verne Global, an international growth stage green data center business based in the UK with operations in Iceland. At Verne, I conceived the business, raised $200M+ of equity and debt capital, built the team, and managed several functions of the company. Also, I have 12+ years of experience as a venture capital, growth equity, and angel technology investor with General Catalyst Partners and Summit Partners. In those roles, I sourced, led, structured, and negotiated several investments, and served as a Director on multiple boards. I have an extensive network of technology investors and entrepreneurs with concentrations in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Boston, and London. I am also an angel investor in early-stage technology startups.Key Strengths:LeadershipStrategyEntrepreneurshipVenture Capital and Growth Equity InvestingFundraisingFinanceBusiness DevelopmentCorporate DevelopmentComplex Deal StructuringNegotiationSales OperationsPricing and capacity managementInternational expansionLegal affairsGovernment affairsMachine LearningAIComputer VisionAutonomous Vehicles

Experience

1. General Partner and Founder

   Two Ravens Vc

   Dec 2023 — Present · Bellevue, WA, US

Education

• Stanford University

  BA, Quantitative Economics

  1988 — 1992

• Stanford University

  MS, Engineering Economic Systems

  1991 — 1992

• Harvard Business School

  MBA, Finance, General

  1995 — 1997