Kevin Coleman
Co-founder of Ravenna. Seattle, WA-based GTM and product leader with deep AWS cloud-infrastructure experience. Halliday’s co-founder for the second time (after Mesh Studio, 2016).
Career
| Period | Role | Company |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 – present | Co-founder | Ravenna |
| 2024 | Head of GTM, Containers and Serverless | AWS |
| 2020 – 2024 | Head of GTM, Kubernetes | AWS |
| 2016 – 2020 | Founder/Partner | Mesh Studio (Seattle software consultancy; YC Fellowship 2016) |
| 2014 – 2016 | Software Engineer | Layer |
| 2012 – 2014 | Product Manager | Napster Latin America |
| 2008 – 2011 | Interest Rate Derivatives Broker | ICAP |
Education
- BS Finance, Boston College (Carroll School of Management), 2004–2008
- Università Bocconi (Milan), 2006–2007 — Finance / International Business / Italian
- Y Combinator Fellowship, 2016
Why Coleman’s Background Matters
Most direct AI-native ITSM peers (Stauch/McLeod at Serval; Solberg/Confer/Paul at Risotto; Serban/Chandra at Console) have operator/IT-leader/security-product backgrounds. Coleman’s stack is unusual: cloud-channel GTM + Wall-Street finance. Implications:
- AWS Marketplace + cloud-channel motion is plausible for Ravenna’s distribution. ^[inferred]
- Pre-existing AWS GTM relationships likely informed Ravenna’s appearance on the AWS GenAI Accelerator investor list. ^[inferred]
- Fluency in enterprise procurement and cloud commercial models is unusual for a $15M-seed-stage AI ITSM cap table.
Quotes
- (Apr 22, 2025 LinkedIn): “Building an AI-powered help desk to help companies deliver fast, seamless internal support.”
- Per Madrona podcast: Moveworks represents “previous generation AI intelligence layer” while Ravenna builds “foundational platform plus intelligence layer.”
Public Profile
- LinkedIn: ravenna-kev (current); kevin-coleman-a3737326
- Location: Seattle, WA
Related
- ravenna
- taylor-halliday — co-founder
- aws
- madrona
- khosla-ventures