Natalie Diggins is a founder, hands-on tech executive, investor and advisor with over two decades of engineering, global 7x24 operations and product experience in high service level environments. Using technology to drive company objectives, improve the customer experience, and increase the bottom line, Natalie is a change agent who helps startups scale like public companies and public companies think like startups. Throughout Natalie’s career, she’s worked on the practical applications of emerging technologies and methodologies including blockchain, AI/ML, IoT, DevOps, cloud, SaaS, and mobile. Now, she uses that as bedrock for investing and advising, while making sure she is well-versed in both the theory and the application of technologies that are newly emerging. She has extensive experience in evaluating companies for corporate investment or M&A, in terms of both strategic fit and robustness of technology and operations, and then integration upon transaction close. She’s lived and worked in the US, the UK, and Sweden, and has led teams globally in a “follow-the-sun” environment. In addition to being an active angel investor, Natalie is an LP in, and an advisor to, several VC firms with investment theses that focus across a broad range of emerging technologies including blockchain and distributed systems, computer vision, AI/ML, cybersecurity, and enterprise software.