Martin Casado is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz focused on infrastructure and AI, who co-founded Nicira, the software-defined networking company acquired by VMware for $1.26 billion in 2012. Martincasado's Twitter Score is 263 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #1,549 (top 0.5%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Martincasado co-founded Nicira after helping pioneer the software-defined networking movement while at Stanford. He previously worked at VMware as a fellow, where his networking and security business unit scaled to a $600 million run-rate business before he departed in 2016. Earlier in his career, Martincasado co-founded Illuminics Systems, an IP analytics company that was acquired by Quova Inc. in 2006, and previously worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Martincasado serves on the board of Braintrust and has received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, the NEC C&C Award, and was inducted into Lawrence Livermore Lab's Entrepreneur's Hall of Fame. Martincasado has published 31,666 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 194 accounts a total of 470 times.
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