Brittany Walker is a general partner at CRV investing in the databases, developer tools, and data-processing systems behind modern AI. Her investments in LanceDB and Eventual reflect a conviction that useful AI products require infrastructure built for complex, multimodal data.
Walker worked in driver operations at Uber before entering venture capital through Dorm Room Fund, where she led investments in four pre-seed companies. She attended the Wharton School as a Joseph Wharton Fellow and later worked at Crosscut Ventures, where she co-created Interchange, a free Los Angeles startup job board supported by PledgeLA. With Justine Humenansky, she also started The Table, a community for women in enterprise technology.
Walker joined CRV in 2020, working with founders at companies including Doppler, Meilisearch, Impart Security, and Lokalise. The firm promoted her to general partner in February 2024, seven years after she decided to pursue venture capital.
Her investment perspective
- Multimodal data infrastructure: Walker co-authored CRV’s investment case for LanceDB, arguing that conventional tabular formats and existing vector databases struggle with workloads spanning images, video, audio, text, and embeddings. CRV led LanceDB’s seed round, backing its vector database and open-source Lance format. Walker subsequently helped lead the firm’s investment in Eventual, whose Daft engine processes the complex data that LanceDB stores.
- Workflow-centered AI products: In a co-authored analysis of generative AI adoption, Walker identified industry expertise, distribution, integration into existing workflows, and proprietary usage data as stronger competitive advantages than access to foundation models alone.
- Production discipline: Moderating a conversation with Prefect’s Chris White and Hex’s Bryan Bischof, Walker focused on practical adoption decisions: allocating scarce engineering resources, choosing what to build versus buy, introducing AI safely to enterprise customers, and measuring whether model improvements actually improve the product. She contrasted Prefect’s standalone Marvin project with Hex’s embedded Magic features without claiming either company’s work as her own.
