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Rob McDonald is a General Partner at Felicis Ventures based in San Francisco, California, where he focuses on Seed to Series B investments in enterprise software and developer tools. Before joining the firm, which manages over $3 billion in assets, he co-founded and led investments at Crosslink Capital and held engineering roles at Trilogy Software. McDonald holds bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from Stanford University and has built a portfolio of more than 50 companies with multiple public offerings and acquisitions. His investment track record includes backing prominent technology companies such as Snowflake, Notion, Figma, and Airtable, and he recently led a $25 million Series A funding round for Observe.ai in March 2026. McDonald currently concentrates his capital allocation on early-stage startups developing artificial intelligence infrastructure, cybersecurity solutions, and frontier technologies.