Jeff Dean

Investment Partner , Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Investment Partner,Angel
Investor Stage
Seed

Jeff Dean joined Google in 1999 and is currently a Google Senior Fellow in Google's Research Group, where he leads the Google Brain team, Google's deep learning research team in Mountain View, working on systems for speech recognition, computer vision, language understanding, and various predictive tasks.

He has co-designed / implemented five generations of Google's crawling, indexing, and query serving systems, and co-designed / implemented major pieces of Google's initial advertising and AdSense for Content systems.

He is also a co­designer and co­implementor of Google's distributed computing infrastructure, including the MapReduce, BigTable and Spanner systems, protocol buffers, LevelDB, and TensorFlow, a popular open­-source system for machine learning.

​Jeff received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1996. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the Mark Weiser Award and the ACM­-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
5
Jeff Dean has made 5 investments. Their most recent investment was on Oct 28, 2021, when Cover raised $60M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Nov 23, 2022 Harvey Seed $5M Artificial Intelligence Detail
Nov 2, 2022 Arta Finance Series A $90M Finance Detail
Mar 17, 2022 Deepcell Series B $73M Artificial Intelligence Detail
Oct 28, 2021 Cover Series B $60M Building Material Detail
Dec 7, 2020 Deepcell Series A $20M Artificial Intelligence Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
1
Jeff Dean has 1 current jobs including Advisor at Plenty , .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Plenty Advisor Detail