Pamela Vagata

Pamela Vagata is a computer scientist and venture capitalist who co-founded the venture capital firm Pebblebed, where she is a managing partner. She created FBLearner Flow, Facebook's internal machine learning platform, was a founding member of OpenAI, and led AI engineering at Stripe.

Career

Vagata began her career as a software development engineer at Microsoft. At Facebook she built FBLearner Flow, which her Pebblebed profile describes as the backbone of machine learning across the company. Her biographies say she then joined OpenAI as a founding team member, working on its early engineering infrastructure and first product, before leading AI engineering at Stripe.

With Keith Adams, who founded Facebook AI Research, she co-founded Pebblebed, which backs technical founders working on hard problems; its portfolio includes Krea and ArtCraft.