CapitalG’s Post

2024 has been yet another banner year in tech–but what lies in store for 2025? All this week we’ve been asking CapitalG partners to share their highlights from 2024 and their predictions for the year ahead. Today we feature an informative Q&A with Databricks, Armis, Collibra, Cribl, and Grafana Labs investor Mo Jomaa who focuses on IT management software and data infrastructure and analytics. 5 Questions with CapitalG partner Mo Jomaa: 1. What were you most grateful for this year?  “Getting engaged to my best friend since freshman year of college.” 2. Can you share a personal win from 2024?  “I started running 25+ miles a week and lost 80 pounds in the process!” 3. What is one of your personal goals for 2025?  “I hope to run my first half marathon.” 4. What are your predictions for 2025? “I believe that we will continue to see open source technologies consume the infrastructure layer in software. We have seen this trend play out in several categories already, including data and analytics (which led to our first investment in Databricks in 2021) and observability (which drove our investment in Grafana Labs this year). Enterprises will continue to adopt open source solutions because they save businesses money, minimize vendor lock-in, and enable companies to help shape the product roadmaps of the technologies that they procure.” 5. What is your career advice to people hoping to break into venture capital?  “The best way to learn how to invest is to talk to as many smart builders, buyers, and investors as possible. They will have the most insight into the innovations that matter.” Read more insights from Mo’s colleagues Jill (Greenberg) Chase, Jane Alexander, James Luo and Alex Nichols at https://lnkd.in/eH-eVUYi