about-me

I'm Erica Brescia, an investor at Redpoint Ventures. From an investment perspective, I focus on infrastructure, devops, open source and security at the seed and series A stages. I'm also on the board of the Linux Foundation. Previously, I was the Chief Operating Officer at GitHub and an investor at X Factor Ventures, a seed fund that invests in female-founded companies (all investment partners are female founders themselves). Prior to joining GitHub, I was the co-founder and COO of Bitnami (acquired by VMware).

You can find me on Twitter if you'd like to connect.

Here are a few recent talks I've given:

• GitHub Satellite India - Celebrating the Developer Community in India: Past, Present and Future
• The Economist innovation@work - Building digital bridges; what we can learn from the Open Source community to optimize the way we work
• GitHub Universe 2020 - GitHub in the enterprise: Velocity and the developer experience (Also on YouTube)
• Federal Reserve Bank of SF Panel Event - The New Future of Work
• SaaStr Keynote - What Being a Founder Taught Me About Leadership - Lessons from GitHub’s COO
• All Things Open - The Next 50 Million Developers
• Underscore.vc - Core Collective Series Fireside Chat

And some thoughts I've shared with the press or on our blog recently:

• Protocol - How GitHub COO Erica Brescia runs the coding gold mines
• Axios - The biggest gift of remote work is not commuting
• NBC Bay Area - Worried aobut returning to the office? What to ask your boss to ensure you're safe
• BBC - How asynchronous communications could change your workday
• The Economist, The World Ahead Podcast - Out of office—how will covid-19 change the world of work?
• The Times (UK) - A future where no jobs are boring
• The Economist - At software firms, many people already worked from home
• GitHub Blog - GitHub in the enterprise