Michael Stoppelman

@stopman

Investor in: @Flexport, @TrustVanta, and @Benchling, Former SVP of Engineering at @Yelp & ex-Google Software Engineer, Boards: @students_matter & @EdVoice

Santa Monica

stopman.yelp.com

Joined May 2007

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Michael Stoppelman
@stopman
Aug 1, 2023
We won! Starting in the 2025 school year all K-2 children in California public schools will be screened for dyslexia! Huge win by: @edvoice @DDCalifornia @GavinNewsom @Portantino
IT’S OFFICIAL: Governor Newsom Signs Bill Requiring K-2 Screening! - Decoding Dyslexia CA
From decodingdyslexiaca.org
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Michael Stoppelman
@stopman
Aug 18, 2025
Foundational models will come and go. The leverage is in context. Chroma Cloud lets devs use the best model - OpenAI, Anthropic, or local while owning the vector + text + metadata layer. Proud to have backed @jeffreyhuber + team early.
Chroma
@trychroma
Aug 18, 2025
Introducing Chroma Cloud: an open-source serverless search database that is fast, cost-effective, scalable, and reliable.
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Michael Stoppelman
@stopman
Dec 18, 2024
Excited to join the party.
Sumanyu Sharma 🍫
@sumanyu
Dec 18, 2024
Announcing Our $3.8M Seed Round to Make Voice AI Agents Reliable 🎙 If 2024 was the year of demos, 2025 is the year of reliable voice agents. We’re excited to share that @HammingAI has raised $3.8M in seed funding led by @MischiefVC, with participation from @ycombinator,
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Michael Stoppelman
@stopman
Jun 27, 2024
.@paradedb is announcing a new Postgres analytics extension called 𝐩𝐠_𝐥𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞. It is designed for fast analytics from Postgres over cloud object storage file formats (Parquet) and table formats (Iceberg). You can query tables stored in S3, Google, Azure from Postgres
Philippe Noël
@philippemnoel
Jun 27, 2024
1/18 I'm incredibly excited to announce @duckdb in @PostgreSQL in the latest version of @paradedb. When we set to bring fast analytics to Postgres earlier this year, we did not expect the journey to take us here. Here's what happened 🧵
Michael Stoppelman
@stopman
Feb 5, 2024
When I met @aboodman on the Google bus in 2007, he had this crazy idea to put a database in the browser, now it’s happening, listen to this podcast to hear more.
Aaron Boodman
@aboodman
Jan 30, 2024
In 2007 I joined a team at Google with the crazy idea to put a database in the browser. That database: SQLite. The Gears project was killed, as was the next attempt to put SQLite in the browser, and the two after that. Nearly two decades later, the dream is finally
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localfirst.fm Podcast
@localfirstfm
Jan 30, 2024
Episode #2 is out. @aboodman shares his local-first journey starting with Google Gears in 2008 (bringing SQLite to the browser the first time) until today with devtool products such as @replicache and @hello_reflect. localfirst.fm/2