Marianna Tessel

Active Investor

Chief Technology Officer & Executive Vice President

Palo Alto, California

Marianna Tessel, Chief Technology Officer & Executive Vice President is an active investor based in Palo Alto, California. This profile covers what Marianna Tessel backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Ms. Marianna Tessel serves as Chief Technology Officer & Executive Vice President at Intuit. She is an Angel Investor. She also serves as a Board Member & Chair of the Acquisition Committee at Cisco Systems. She has been a member of the Board of Directors since March 2021. She has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Intuit Inc. ("Intuit"), a financial software company, since January 2019. From June 2017 to December 2018, she served as Chief Product Development Officer of Intuit's Small Business & Self-Employed Group. Before joining Intuit, she served as Senior Vice President of Engineering and Executive Vice President of Strategic Development for Docker Inc., a software containerization platform. She also previously served as Vice President of Engineering with VMware Inc. She brings to the Board of Directors her deep expertise in enterprise software and a track record of delivering software solutions that solve challenges for businesses. She is also a transformational leader in the software technology industry with a strong engineering background.

Investor type: Angel
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Invests in: SaaS & Enterprise
Location: Palo Alto, California
Typical check: $500K
Past investments: 2

Notable investments

MondooMomento (Business/Productivity Software)

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