Mustafa Neemuchwala

Youngest & fastest partner in 5 decades of NEA Active: - Singularity (Seed) - next gen air defense & low cost interceptors (kinetic) - Martian (Seed, Series A) - model router & LLM infra - Union.ai (Seed, Series A) - data/ML workflow orchestration built on open source Flyte - Kaizen Labs (Series A) - software & fintech for resident services (county, state, fed) - Zania (Series A) - AI agents for cybersecurity governance, risk, & compliance - Aurelian (Series A) - AI x public safety & police dispatch centers - Firestorm Labs (Series A) - flexible manufacturing platform + attritible UAS - Flox (Series A) - devops platform built around the popular open source Nix ecosystem - Granica (Series A, B) - AI efficiency platform - Second Front (Series B, C) - DevSecOps platform for government to buy commercial software - Together AI (Series A, B, C) - AI training, finetuning, & inference infra - Mashgin (Series B) - autonomous checkout for retail - Chaos Industries (Series C & D) - next-gen sensing for defense (+ some commercial apps) - Uniphore (Series E & F) - AI x conversational automation - Branch (NEA from Seed to Series F) - deep linking + mobile search & ads Exited: - Veza (Series D - acq'd by ServiceNow) - human & AI identity security - SafeBase (Series A - acq'd by Drata) - enterprise security/GRC/trust center - Orby (Seed, Series A, Series B - acq’d by Uniphore) - action models & agent RPA Lead investments first check through late stage - defense, AI & agents (apps & infra), public safety, frontier tech, cybersecurity, underserved markets Email: mneemuchwala@nea.com NEA stats: 48+ years, $27B+ committed capital, 280+ portco IPOs, 470+ M&A exits. Led early & growth rounds in Salesforce, Workday, Databricks, Perplexity, MongoDB, Elastic, Cloudflare, Robinhood, Plaid, MuleSoft, Tableau, Uber, Snap, Jet.com among 675+ IPOs & M&A. nea.com/portfolio

$58B+ M&A experience across developer, security, data, infra & fintech (incl. 2 largest fintech deals ever + 2 most expensive SaaS deals of scale) Developer / security / data / infra: - Auth0's $6.5B sale to Okta (highest multiple software deal ever of scale) - Segment's $3.2B sale to Twilio (one of the highest multiple software deals ever of scale) - Hortonworks' $5.2B merger with Cloudera - Talend’s $2.4B sale process - Pluralsight's $3.5B sale process Fintech & Internet: - Afterpay’s $29B sale to Square (largest Internet or FinTech deal ever) - Intuit's $8.1B acquisition of Credit Karma (largest VC-backed Fintech deal ever at the time) - HotelTonight's sale to Airbnb + unannounced workflows in defense tech/drones, marketplaces/classifieds, adtech, & other tech areas

Middle market private equity

Early-stage investing in AI/ML + application & infra cloud software

Small-cap long/short equity hedge fund

Two disparate research topics crossing computer science, quantitative finance, and political science

Thesis advisors: 4-star Admiral & Ex-NSA Director Bobby Inman + Dr. Joshua Eisenman Thesis on Chinese geostrategic & economic execution in maritime, trade, ports, and logistics Elected President of Computational Finance Team - AI/ML, quant derivatives trading & fundamental investing Ernest W. Walker Outstanding Finance Student Award Special Honors in Plan II Distinguished College Scholar 195 credit hours undertaken