Spencer Kimball, Angel Investor

Spencer Kimball is Co‑Founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs, where he has led the company since 2015 in building CockroachDB, a globally distributed SQL database designed for scale and resilience. His career spans engineering leadership at Square, CTO of Viewfinder, and nearly a decade as a Staff Software Engineer at Google, where he contributed to projects including Colossus, Google’s next‑generation distributed file storage system. Earlier, he served as CTO of WeGo Systems, reflecting a long track record of technical innovation and product leadership. His career reflects deep expertise in distributed systems, open‑source development, and enterprise infrastructure. At Cockroach Labs, Kimball has positioned the company as a leader in cloud‑native databases, enabling organizations to build applications with global scale and reliability. As an angel investor, Spencer has backed around 30 startups, including Blacksmith, Continua AI, Tensor9, Bauplan, SkipLabs, WarpStream Labs, Espresso AI, Cognosys, and Chroma. His portfolio underscores a strong focus on AI, developer tools, and next‑generation infrastructure, highlighting his commitment to supporting founders building transformative technologies.