Nick McKeown

Angel Investor · Nick McKeown

Nick McKeown is an angel investor focused on **deep tech**, **artificial intelligence**, and **digital health**, typically investing at the **pre-seed** and **seed** stages [1][4]. His notable portfolio includes **Cerebras** (application-specific semiconductors), **Apropose**, **Gimlet Labs**, **Yupp**, and **HealthUnlocked**, spanning frontier research platforms and technology-enabled healthcare…

Focus: Dr. Nick McKeown is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman & Chief Scientist at Barefoot Networks. He also serves as an Advisor & Angel Investor at Kumu Networks. Nick McKeown is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Stanford University and Faculty Director of the Stanford Clean Slate Design Program. He received his bachelor's degree from Leeds University (1986), his MS (1992) and PhD (1995) from the University of California, Berkeley. From 1986-1989 he worked for Hewlett-Packard Labs in Bristol, England. In 1995, he helped architect Cisco's GSR 12000 router. In 1997 he co-founded Abrizio Inc. (acquired by PMC-Sierra), where he was CTO. He was co-founder and CEO of Nemo ("Network Memory"), which is now part of Cisco. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), the IEEE and the ACM. In 2005, he was awarded the British Computer Society Lovelace Meda, and in 2009 the IEEE Kobayashi Computer and Communications Award.
Location: Palo Alto, CA, United States

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