Heidi Roizen
“I consider myself incredibly lucky to work with amazing people building world-changing companies. For me, a great day at work is better than a great day on vacation.”
In addition, Heidi is the co-lead of Stanford’s Threshold Venture Fellows Program in the Management Science and Engineering department at Stanford University and serves on the advisory council of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI).
Heidi started her career as co-founder of software company T/Maker and served as its CEO for over a dozen years until its acquisition by Deluxe Corporation. In 1999, after a year as VP of worldwide developer relations at Apple, she became a venture capitalist. Heidi has undergraduate and MBA degrees from Stanford and is the proud mother of two kids and two rescue dogs.
Investments
EdgeQ
EdgeQ develops open and programmable system-on-a-chip for next-generation 5G edge networks.
Elementary
Elementary automates QA and traceability with visual AI.
Freeform
Freeform creates metal 3D printing at any scale for all industries.
Moonlake
Moonlake is an applied AI research lab that lets anyone vibe code interactive worlds in minutes.
OpsLevel
OpsLevel is the internal developer portal for teams to own, operate, and understand their production infrastructure.
Parasail
Parasail is the first AI Deployment Network built for the new era of open and scalable AI.
Tia Health
Tia offers integrative female healthcare on and offline.
Upside Foods
Upside Foods develops meat produced directly from animal cells without the need to raise and slaughter livestock.