Kai Backman

Kai has over three decades of experience with software, and has spent a decade of his life in San Francisco Bay Area learning from the best software engineers on how to handle massive scaling. Among other things he worked as an engineer at Google where he led the Docs server team. He also founded Tinkercad, the first browser based 3D CAD tool with 7M users globally, and Airstone, a company developing an experimental 32-dimensionally connected supercomputer. Kai joined Lifeline Ventures in 2016 and has been working with Aiven, Nanojet, Timegate, Shapr3D and Varjo. He spends his free time doing weight lifting, hunting, competitive shooting and teaching his offspring to do heavy gardening.