Theory Ventures
Circuit mix
Where Theory Ventures shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Modern data stack & practitioner100%5 events
Presence by conference and year
Each cell is one conference in one year. Fill shows the company sponsored, shaded by its best tier that year; a dot means it had speakers there. Hover for details; click to open the event.
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| Conference | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
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| Data Council | ||||||||||
| Data Outpost | ||||||||||
| Reverie | ||||||||||
| The Dive |
Activity by year
Three measures on one year axis; each panel has its own scale. 2027, 2028 is still mostly ahead, so its bars are faded and incomplete.
Conferences present at
Distinct conferences each year, split by whether the company sponsored or only had speakers there.
- Sponsored
- Speakers only
Distinct speakers
People from this company on a program that year, each counted once.
Where they've grown or pulled back
Theory Ventures has never sponsored a tracked conference, so this follows where its speakers appear instead.
UpHad speakers at 4 conferences in 2026, up from 1 in 2025.
Counted per conference. 2026 is the latest year whose conferences have mostly happened. A conference counts as no longer seen only when later events published speaker lists.
New conferences spoken at 4
First speaker in 2025 or later.
- Data Councilfirst spoke 2025, 1 speaker
- Data Outpostfirst spoke 2026, 1 speaker
- Reveriefirst spoke 2026, 1 speaker
- The Divefirst spoke 2026, 1 speaker
Lookalikes
Companies with the most similar conference footprint: they sponsor and speak at the same conferences. Bars are cosine similarity, from 0 (nothing shared) to 1 (identical).
19 Cluster: Coalesce · Modern Data Stack Conference circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 0 this company sponsored).
No co-sponsors: this company has no recorded sponsorships, or sponsored alone.
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Theory Ventures (ringed) and the 30 companies closest to it on the company map. Close together means they sponsor and speak at many of the same conferences. Distances are only meaningful locally; the axes have no meaning. Dot size: conferences present at. Color: cluster.
- Coalesce · Modern Data Stack Conference circuit 14
- Current · Data Streaming Summit circuit 6
- ODSC · MLOps World circuit 3
- PyData · posit::conf circuit 2
- Gartner Data & Analytics Summit · Snowflake Summit circuit 2
- The AI Summit · AWS re:Invent circuit 1
- QCon · MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon circuit 1
- Community Over Code · Flink Forward circuit 1
- Big Data & AI Paris · Gartner Data & Analytics Summit circuit 1
Sponsorships 0
No sponsorships recorded for Theory Ventures.
Speakers 5
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bryan Bischof | Reverie 2026 | mc | — | — |
| Tomasz Tunguz | Data Outpost 2026 | panelist | AI at Scale Inside Real Companies | — |
| Tomasz Tunguz | The Dive 2026 | panelist | Panel: Agents in Production | — |
| Bryan Bischof | AI Council 2026 | keynote | Modern Inference for Modern Workloads | — |
| Bryan Bischof | Data Council 2025 | talk | Failure Is A Funnel | — |