Pratyus Patnaik

Natoma at Snowflake

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Engineer, Entrepreneur, Angel investor, Startup advisor, Options trader, Photographer

Experience

  • Senior Director at Snowflake
    Jun 2026 - Present · 1 mo

    Bigger, better Natoma.

  • Angel Investor & Advisor at Startups Inc
    Nov 2014 - Present · 11 yrs 8 mos

    Fortunate to support 50+ exceptional founders & teams such as Parallel, Wispr Flow, Rox, Fingerprint, Dexterity, Bolt.new, Nx, Fastino, Town, and Reinforce labs since inception. I am also a member of First Round Capital's Spring 2023 Angel Track  cohort and an ex-scout for CRV & Index.

  • Co-Founder & CEO at Natoma
    Jan 2024 - May 2026 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Natoma was acquired by Snowflake in June 2026. We help organizations connect AI - Agents, Copilot, Chat, IDE, RAGs, and more - to enterprise tools and internal services centrally, securely, and at scale. Our MCP platform provides enterprise-grade authentication, fine-grained authorization, and policy-based controls - ensuring every AI client accesses only what it should, with full observability and auditability. We are based in SF, Boston, and Bengaluru and backed by Greylock, Index & Norwest, among others.

  • Senior Director at Okta
    Aug 2021 - Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    Worked with some amazing folks to: - Integrate atSpoke with Okta as a platform with a larger surface area covering Access requests, Identity workflows, Incident response, and Zero-trust access - Launch Identity Governance (IGA), Privileged Access Mgt (PAM) and Entitlement Mgt (CIEM) products - Drive Okta's over-arching Unified product strategy (IAM + IGA + PAM + CIEM.. IYKYK)

  • Co-Founder and CTO at atSpoke (Acquired by Okta)
    Jul 2016 - Jul 2021 · 5 yrs 1 mo

    atSpoke was acquired by Okta in August 2021. atSpoke was a modern service management (ITSM) platform built for the entire workplace. Customers like Mapbox, Confluent, PagerDuty, Change.org, Robinhood, Intuit, Cloudera, and Databricks used atSpoke to automate workflows and create convenient service experiences for every employee, wherever they were. We were among the first ones to deploy BERT in production to automate employee requests. atSpoke was based in SF, NYC, and India. We were backed by Accel & Greylock. Led engineering, product, design, and security. Also, helped in HR, legal, marketing, fundraising, and M&A. We were obsessed with customer needs, creating the best product, and innovating in an extremely competitive space.