Bruce Armstrong

Bruce is an Operating Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he focuses on enterprise technology markets, including big data, containers, devops, security, IoT, networking, storage, and on AI-enabled breakthrough products in specific industries like Healthcare and Manufacturing. Prior to joining KV, Bruce was the president and CEO of PivotLink, a leading provider of SaaS business intelligent applications, which was acquired in 2014 by SmartFocus, a Francisco Partners-backed marketing automation company. Prior to PivotLink, he served as chairman and CEO of Kickfire, a pioneer in next-generation data warehouse appliances focused on the open source MySQL database market, which was acquired in 2010 by industry leader, Teradata. Bruce also was the president and CEO of KNOVA Software, a publicly traded company that was the leading provider of search and analytic applications for unstructured data and later merged with Onyx Software to create Consona Software. He is a volunteer at Five Keys Schools, providing individuals in traditionally underserved communities the opportunity to restart their education.