Monta Vista Capital

Glen has held engineering and management roles at 11 Silicon Valley companies since 1990. At Google, he built and ran the Applied Machine Intelligence team, which supported hundreds of internal teams.

Job Simon was until recently VP and CTO of Business Technology at Workday, responsible for architecture strategy for IT, Alpha Lab, Digital Strategy, and Advanced Analytics Technology. He previously held roles at Salesforce, Cymer, and VMware.

Prashant is a partner at Monta Vista Capital and has been an early-stage venture investor since 2001. Prashant held product management roles at enCommerce, Cypress Semiconductor, and AT&T.

Roger has invested for over 20 years in technology solutions focused on business productivity and efficiency. He seed-funded or helped start over 30 enterprise computing companies, including DocuSign, Acquia, and Cloud Technology Partners.

The company invests in early-stage technology companies founded by subject matter experts seeking to transform industries. It also provides founders with time, energy, commitment, and empathy, drawing on its own entrepreneurial experience.

The company says most of the founders it backed were introduced through mutual colleagues.

The company says it makes decisions quickly, supports founders, and is direct and straightforward. It believes founders are indispensable as CEOs and resists replacing them.

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BQP says IBM Ventures has invested in the physics simulation startup, though the amount was not disclosed. Its BQPhy platform’s QuantumNOW solver runs on existing CPU and GPU hardware and is in production, while QuantumMAX remains in development; BQP says contracted and committed revenue has grown eightfold since its 2025 seed round and its customer base has tripled. BQPhy is deployed with aerospace and defense customers, including under a U.S. Space Force contract to propagate more than 3,000 space objects in under a second.

Sep 2026SiliconAngleNews article