Irregular Expressions (IrregEx for short), backed by a group of seasoned software engineering and product leaders, invests in and advises early stage infrastructure, data, and machine learning startups.
We’ve spent many cumulative decades bringing high-growth software products to market, and are focused on helping founders scale their own teams, products and businesses faster, leveraging both our know-how and our network.
Having co-founded, built and scaled hundreds of companies, primarily in the San Francisco and New York ecosystems, we love working closely with the founders and teams we back, and thinking together through thorny challenges on the product, engineering, and business fronts alike.
CRO @Axiom Space, Executive Engagement & Thought Leadership @Google, COO @Explain Everything
Co-Founder & CEO @Fathom, Co-Founder & CEO @Uplevel Security, Senior Director Product Development @Akamai Technologies
CTO @Thirty Madison, General Partner @Operator Partners, CTO @Flatiron Health, Startup Mentor @First Round Capital, Software Engineer @Facebook, @Microsoft, R&D manager @IDF
CEO @SaaSy Sales Leadership, Co-Founder & CEO @Revenue Chemists, Head Coach @ScaleWise
Head of Engineering & Architecture @JPMorgan Chase, Head of Platform Engineering @Two Sigma, CTO @Rent The Runway
Co-Founder, President, and CTO @Inductive Bio, Senior Engineering Director @Flatiron Health, Senior Software Engineer @Google
4D Sight creates virtual billboards for e-sports leagues. Audiences see ads, gamers do not. As such, the company acts as a stream monetization platform for e-sports and streamers. The company’s technology inserts ads into the game environment in real-time but doesn’t require any integration with the game engine, and doesn’t interfere with gamers’ experience either.
Erhan Ciris is the co-founder and CEO of 4D Sight. Previsouly he was a member of IAB Tech Lab, and President of the VR AR Association.
Bubble is a no-code software development platform that empowers people without programming skills to design, develop, and launch their own applications, tech products, or tools for solving their business problems.
Emmanuel Straschnov is the co-founder of Bubble. Born in Paris, he studied computer science and mathematics at Ecole Polytechnique and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. He is committed to breaking the economic limits of technology and devising solutions that enable innovation and product development without coding software.
Joshua Haas is the co-founder and lead engineer of Bubble. After studying at Harvard, he worked for Bridgewater Associates, an asset management firm; and then founded a company called KeywordSmart, a platform to help photographers organize their photo libraries.
People.ai delivers the industry’s leading ROI platform. It transforms business activity data into recommendations that increase the impact of Sales, Marketing, and Operations.
Oleg is the cofounder and CEO and at People.ai. Previously, he helped start and scale three AI/machine learning companies, two of which, including Oleg's own Semantria, were subsequently acquired. He has a strong interest in data science, machine learning, and NLP.
Canva is a simple-to-use online design and publishing platform that allows everyone to create professional quality designs.
Melanie is the co-founder and CEO at Canva, an innovative online design and publishing tool. As CEO, she raised one of Australia’s largest early stage investment rounds. Canva has been growing rapidly since its launch in August 2013 and is now empowering millions of people from every corner of the globe to create great designs and reach their goals, whether that's landing a job with a stylish resume, getting their business off the ground by creating great marketing materials or connecting with their community by designing great social media graphics.
Cliff is the co-founder and COO at Canva, founded with Melanie in 2013. Cliff helped to build the company into the largest school yearbook company in Australia, then expanding it internationally. Since its inception, Canva has grown to have more than 10 million users in 179 countries and a team of more than 150 people across two offices. With Melanie, he has raised over $US 42 million in funding from top US and Australian investors such as Matrix Partners, Felicis Ventures & Blackbird alongside Hollywood celebrities Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson.
Cameron is the co-founder and CPO at Canva. He leads the design and product teams there, focusing on future product directions and innovative experiences. Cameron started his own design agency before working with Lars and Jens Rasmussen — co-founders of Google Maps — to realise the design vision for their groundbreaking communication tool, Google Wave. He then founded an ambitious email startup with two other Google alumni before meeting Melanie Perkins & Cliff Obrecht, and deciding to help them build the beginnings of Canva.
Treasure Data is a global leader in Customer Data Platforms (CDP) and enterprise data management. Providing the ability to aggregate and translate massive volumes of scattered and siloed data.
Hiro is the founding CEO of Treasure Data, a SaaS company focussed on CDP (Customer Data Platform). His vision of delivering data warehousing as a cloud-based service drives all aspects of the company’s service and business development. Hiro is a long-time open source advocate, and at Red Hat was a catalyst in bringing together open source innovation and enterprise computing.
Software Engineer @NextDoor, Principal @Irregular Expressions, Software Engineer - Developer Productivity @MongoDB
Quantitative Portfolio Manager @Point 72 Cubist Systematic Strategies, Quantitative Investigator Intern @AMF France, Co-Head of Directional Strategies @Capital Fund Management
Director of Data @Remote, Director of Data & Analytics @Brooklyn Data Co., Head of Data & Analytics @Nested
VP of Engineering @Thirty Madison, VP of Engineering @Flatiron Health, Sr. Software Engineer @Bazaarvoice, Software Engineer @Goldman Sachs
Co-Founder & CEO (former CTO) @DataDome, COO @Linkfluence, Co-Founder & CTO @TrendyBuzz
Head of Developer APIs @FIS, Senior Product Manager @DriveWealth, Developer Relations Lead @Gusto, Engineer @Pinterest, @Micrsoft
Head of Engineering Frame.io @Adobe, VP of Engineering @Dropbox, SVP of Engineering @Blink Health, CTO @Etsy
Head of API Engineering @ Anthropic, Engineering Leader @Stripe, Senior Director of Engineering @Betterment
Founder @Generative Alpha, AI Researcher @MosaicML, Principal Engineer @SambaNova Systems, Software Engineer @Groq
VP of AI @Replit, Head of Applied Research @Google Labs, Head of Applied Research @X, the moonshot factory
Advisor @Wombat Invest, VP of Product @Stash, VP of Product @GPShopper (Synchrony), Head of Product @comiXology (Amazon)
Founding Partner @Slate Venture Capital, Co-Founder & CTO @Eventbrite, Venture Partner @Point Nine, Venture Partner @Index Ventures
VP of Engineering @Column Tax, VP of Engineering @Shortcut, Director of Engineering @Compass, Tech lead @JW Player
CRO @Axiom Space, Executive Engagement & Thought Leadership @Google, COO @Explain Everything
Senior VP, Head of Engineering @Better Life Partners, Senior Engineering Manager @Google, VP of Engineering @Cityblock Health, SVP of Engineering @Turbonomic
SVP of Engineering @BriteCore, SVP of Engineering @Demandbase, VP IoT & Big Data Applications @Oracle
Co-Founder & CEO @Luro Health, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Culina Health, Director @NYU Center for Responsible AI, Managing Director @NYU Tandon Future Labs
CTO @Zelis, Co-Founder, Fractional CTO/CPO @WorldClass Health, CTO/Advisor @Kutan Technology Partners, CTO @Amwell, CTO @Haven, CTO @Zocdoc
Founder @Brooklyn Data Co., Co-Founder @LocallyOptimistic, VP Data & Analytics @Casper, Consultant @L.E.K
SVP of Advertising Technology & Technical Advisor @Warner Bros. Discovery, CTO @CNN, CTO @Mashable
CTO @Engineer Access, Founder & CTO @CTO Connection, Senior Director @The Flatiron School, SVP of Engineering @General Assembly
Vice President of Engineering, Core Product @Reddit, Director of Engineering @Facebook, VP of Engineering @Zocdoc, Global Head of Technology @Thomson Reuters
Chief Product & Technology Officer @Alto, SVP of Engineering @Skillsoft, CTO @Codeacademy, Head of People Engineering @Uber, Director of Engineering @Anaplan
CTO @Pipe, VP of Product Management @Intuit, Founder @Amazon San Diego Tech Hub, Head of Specialist Solutions Architects @AWS, Director of Engineering @Playstation
Co-Founder @Istari Co., Engineering Manager @Clubhouse, Engineering Manager @Novi Financial, Head of Identity Engineering @Coinbase, Senior Engineering Manager @Twitter, Founder of 2 companies that were sold to Twitter & Coinbase
Co-Founder & CEO @Otti, CTO @Greenhouse, Software Developer @Thomson Reuters, Independent Consultant @LendingTree
Software Architect @Huntress, CTO @Publicist, Strategic Technology Advisor @ThriveFantasy, VP of Engineering @Knotch
Executive Coach and Advisor, Trustee and Advisor Council Chair @UC Berkeley SkyDeck, Founder @Tibco
Co-Founder & CEO @Fathom, Co-Founder & CEO @Uplevel Security, Senior Director Product Development @Akamai Technologies
SVP of Engineering @Datadog, SVP of R&D @Astronomer, Co-Founder & CEO @Datakin, CTO @WeWork
Senior Director of Engineering @1Password, VP of Engineering @ChartHop, VP of Engineering @Capsule, Director of Engineering @Blue Apron
Data Science @Meta, Head of Data @Rec Room, Data Science Manager @Facebook, Head of Data Engineering & Analytics @Venmo, Data Engineering @SquareSpace
CTO & Co-Founder @Stealth, Senior Manager of Engineering @Etsy, VP of Engineering @Altana, VP Content Engineering @Disney Media
SVP, Data Strat & Insights @Brooklyn Data, Head of Data Science @Lokavant, Head of Data @TrialSpark & @Paperless Post, Data Science @Squarespace
CTO @Thirty Madison, General Partner @Operator Partners, CTO @Flatiron Health, Startup Mentor @First Round Capital, Software Engineer @Facebook, @Microsoft, R&D manager @IDF
Chief Product and Strategy Officer @Canopy, SVP Product Management & Operations @Flatiron Health, Consultant @Bain & Company
CTO @Paradigm, CTO @Orchard, VP Engineering @Flatiron Health, Engineering Manager @AppNexus
Co-Founder @Syntracts, Head of Engineering @Redesign Health, CTO @Optoro, Co-Founder & CTO @Uber
Co-Founder & CPO @fiveonefour, Head of Product @Datalogue (acquired by Nike), GM & VP Product @Sysdig, Associate @Bain Capital Ventures
Founder & CEO @Hashboard, VP of Data Insights Engineering @Flatiron Health, Systems Engineer @Amazon Robotics
Head of Engineering & Architecture @JPMorgan Chase, Head of Platform Engineering @Two Sigma, CTO @Rent The Runway
Co-Founder, President, and CTO @Inductive Bio, Senior Engineering Director @Flatiron Health, Senior Software Engineer @Google
Managing Director @GrowthCurve Capital, CTO @Petal, SVP of Engineering @Two Sigma, EIR @NYU
Co-Founder & CEO @Norbert Health, Founder & CEO @LTU Technologies, Founder & CEO @Placemeter
Co-Founder @Zest, Co-Founder @Sunlight Health, Director of Product Management @Flatiron Health
Global Head of Engineering @ Moon Creative Lab, Founder @ Axle Medical, Tech Lead & Manager @ Verily Life Sciences
4D Sight creates virtual billboards for e-sports leagues. Audiences see ads, gamers do not. As such, the company acts as a stream monetization platform for e-sports and streamers. The company’s technology inserts ads into the game environment in real-time but doesn’t require any integration with the game engine, and doesn’t interfere with gamers’ experience either.
Bubble is a no-code software development platform that empowers people without programming skills to design, develop, and launch their own applications, tech products, or tools for solving their business problems.
People.ai delivers the industry’s leading ROI platform. It transforms business activity data into recommendations that increase the impact of Sales, Marketing, and Operations.
Canva is a simple-to-use online design and publishing platform that allows everyone to create professional quality designs.
Treasure Data is a global leader in Customer Data Platforms (CDP) and enterprise data management. Providing the ability to aggregate and translate massive volumes of scattered and siloed data.
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