# Tristan Handy > Tristan Handy. 1 investment on record. The rounds they were named in and the filings that name them, each with its source. Source: https://millionrounds.com/person/tristan-handy (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article) US · Angel # Tristan Handy Latest rounds - **Bespoke Labs** Series A · $40M Jul 2026 Backs *AI* *Engineering* Profile summary - **Rounds named:** 1 last Jul 2026 - **Filings:** - with regulators - **Podcasts:** 2 +2 mentions What this record rests on - ✓ **Named in rounds** 1 round name them - **On filings** No filing names them - ✓ **Own investor record** Their cheques, held under their name - **Claimed** Not claimed yet Titles come from the investor lists this database was built from, so read them as of their date. [Correct or remove](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?person=tristan-handy)[Is this you? Claim it](https://millionrounds.com/claim?person=tristan-handy) ## Their investor record [**Tristan Handy, investing** Every cheque we watched them write, on one record **1** cheques in 12 months **1** all time **0** led deploying](https://millionrounds.com/fund/tristan-handy) ## Rounds they were named in - **Rounds:** 1 - **Led:** 0 - **Disclosed:** $40M - **Active:** 2026 2026 - [Bespoke Labs](https://millionrounds.com/company/bespoke-labs) *Series A* **$40M** *US* Jul 2026 Joined · +8 investors By stage - Series A **1** What they backed AI **1** Engineering **1** Alongside - [8VC *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/8vc) - [Executive angels from Anthropic *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/executive-angels-from-anthropic) - [Executive angels from Meta *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/executive-angels-from-meta) - [Executive angels from OpenAI *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/executive-angels-from-openai) - [Jeff Dean *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/jeff-dean) - [Mayfield Fund *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/mayfield) - [The House Fund *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/the-house-fund) - [Wing VC *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/wing-venture-capital) Rounds where a report named this person rather than a firm, matched on name: read it as a strong hint, not proof, since people share names. ## Hear them before you pitch them - [In Depth](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/in-depth) · 19 Dec 2024 · 55 min Building a 4 billion dollar data platform: Inside dbt Labs’ unconventional path | Tristan Handy (Co-founder and CEO, ex-RJMetrics, Squarespace) With [Tristan Handy](https://millionrounds.com/person/tristan-handy) Mentions [Jerry Colonna](https://millionrounds.com/fund/jerry-colonna)[Bob Moore](https://millionrounds.com/person/bob-moore) About this episode Tristan Handy is the Founder and CEO at dbt Labs, a cloud-based data management platform that has raised over $400M to date, and was last valued at $4.2B in 2022. Dbt Labs has grown from just three companies using its free tool in 2016 to an ecosystem of 30,000+ enterprise users. Before founding… Listen on Apple Podcasts - [The Twenty Minute VC](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/20vc) · 14 Oct 2022 · 43 min 20VC: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible, The Trade-Off Between Freedom and Raising Big From VCs & Why Our Jobs Are Not As Hard As We Think and How To Assess Talent and Potential As a Result with Tristan Handy, Founder & CEO @ dbt Labs With [Tristan Handy](https://millionrounds.com/person/tristan-handy) Mentions [Altimeter](https://millionrounds.com/fund/altimeter-capital)[Anthony Casalena](https://millionrounds.com/fund/anthony-casalena)[Coatue](https://millionrounds.com/fund/coatue-management) About this episode Tristan Handy is the Founder and CEO @ dbt, a data transformation tool that enables data analysts and engineers to transform, test and document data in the cloud data warehouse. To date, Tristan has raised over $400M from the likes of Sequoia, Altimeter, Coatue, ICONIQ and GV with the latest… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page ### Mentioned in Episodes that name Tristan Handy in their description, which is not the same as being on them. - [The a16z Show](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/a16z) · 24 Mar 2022 · 28 min The Great Data Debate Mentions [Bob Muglia](https://millionrounds.com/person/bob-muglia)[Martin Casado](https://millionrounds.com/person/martin-casado)[Tristan Handy](https://millionrounds.com/person/tristan-handy) About this episode Over a decade after the idea of “big data'' was first born, data has become the central nervous system for decision-making in organizations of all sizes. But the modern data stack is evolving and which infrastructure trends and technologies will ultimately win out remains to be decided. In this… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page - [The a16z Show](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/a16z) · 13 Nov 2020 · 26 min The Great Data Debate Mentions [Bob Muglia](https://millionrounds.com/person/bob-muglia)[Martin Casado](https://millionrounds.com/person/martin-casado)[Tristan Handy](https://millionrounds.com/person/tristan-handy) About this episode Lakes v. warehouses, analytics v. AI/ML, SQL v. everything else... As the technical capabilities of data lakes and data warehouses converge, are the separate tools and teams that run AI/ML and analytics converging as well? In this podcast, originally recorded as part of Fivetran's Modern Data… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page Episodes of [the shows we follow](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts), matched by name. Not them? 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