# Michael Boufford

> Michael Boufford is a seed investor backing DevOps and Agentic AI. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Chevy Chase, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Sep 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boufford
- X (Twitter): https://x.com/mboufford
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michael.boufford

Michael Boufford is a seed investor in Chevy Chase focused on DevOps and Agentic AI. Michael Boufford is based out of Chevy Chase, Maryland and is the Member of Technical Staff & Manager of Anthropic. Michael previously worked at Otti as a Co-founder & CEO. Michael Boufford attended the University of Oxford. Michael Boufford received the Best Engineering Department Leader Award.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| DevOps | 1 | 100% |
| Agentic AI | 1 | 100% |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 100% |
| AI Infrastructure | 1 | 100% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TrueFoundry | TrueFoundry is an Enterprise Platform as a service that enables companies to build, ship and govern Agentic AI applications securely, at scale and with reliability through its AI Gateway and Agentic Deployment platform. Its AI Gateway encompasses a combination of - LLM Gateway, MCP Gateway and Agent Gateway - enabling enterprises to manage,observe, and govern access to all components of a Gen AI Application from a single control plane while ensuring proper FinOps controls. Its Agentic Deployment platform enables organizations to deploy models on GPUs using best practices, run and scale AI agents, and host MCP servers - all within the same Kubernetes-native platform. It supports on-premise, multi-cloud or Hybrid installation for both the AI Gateway and deployment environments, offers data residency and ensures enterprise-grade compliance with SOC 2, HIPAA, EU AI Act and ITAR standards. Leading Fortune 1000 companies like Resmed, Siemens Healthineers, Automation Anywhere, Zscaler, Nvidia and others trust TrueFoundry to accelerate innovation and deliver AI at scale, with 10Bn + requests per month processed via its AI Gateway and more than 1000+ clusters managed by its Agentic deployment platform. TrueFoundry’s vision is to become the Central control plane for running Agentic AI at scale within enterprises and empowering it with intelligence so that the multi-agent systems become a self-sustaining ecosystem driving unparalleled speed and innovation for businesses. To learn more about TrueFoundry, visit truefoundry.com. | $2.3M | Seed | Sep 19, 2022 | https://www.truefoundry.com/ |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Trajectory Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trajectory-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Eniac Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eniac-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mana Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mana-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Peak XV Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-india-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Surge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/surge-ahead) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [z21 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/z21-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Boufford invest in?

Michael Boufford invests primarily in DevOps, Agentic AI and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Michael Boufford last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Boufford closed in Sep 2022. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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