Matt Turck is a venture capital investor at FirstMark who has spent over a decade building Data Driven NYC and Hardwired NYC communities with 25,000+ members, while personally creating and maintaining the widely-used MAD (Machine Learning, AI & Data) Landscape that maps the entire ML/AI/data ecosystem. He combines rare experience as both a startup founder (TripleHop Technologies, acquired by Oracle) and corporate venture builder (helped start Bloomberg Ventures) with early conviction bets on foundational data infrastructure companies like Dataiku, Cockroach Labs, and ClickHouse. Matt Turck is a venture capital investor at FirstMark who has spent over a decade building Data Driven NYC and Hardwired NYC communities with 25,000+ members, while personally creating and maintaining the widely-used MAD (Machine Learning, AI & Data) Landscape that maps the entire ML/AI/data ecosystem. He combines rare experience as both a startup founder (TripleHop Technologies, acquired by Oracle) and corporate venture builder (helped start Bloomberg Ventures) with early conviction bets on foundational data infrastructure companies like Dataiku, Cockroach Labs, and ClickHouse.