Ran Ma

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Superblocks

Last Reviewed: September 29, 2026

Executive Summary

Ran Ma is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Superblocks, which sells enterprises a platform for building internal applications, now with AI generating the code under the controls that IT and security teams require. He and chief executive Brad Menezes launched the company publicly in 2022 with $37 million from Kleiner Perkins, Greenoaks, Spark and Meritech, and it has since raised a further $23 million, taking total funding to about $60 million. His background is in infrastructure engineering: he was an engineering lead at Confluent, the data streaming company, after a spell as a startup co-founder and an earlier role as a senior engineer at Morgan Stanley.

Career Highlights

• Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Superblocks.
• Superblocks announced $37 million in funding at launch in August 2022 and a $23 million Series A extension in 2025, for about $60 million in total.
• Engineering lead at Confluent before Superblocks.
• Co-founded Supportive, a help desk software-as-a-service startup.
• Senior engineer at Morgan Stanley.
• Spoke at the Ai4 Summit in Las Vegas in 2025 on taking AI-built applications from prototype to production.

Professional Journey

Ma started out as a senior engineer at Morgan Stanley, then left to co-found Supportive, a help desk software-as-a-service startup. He moved next to Confluent, the data streaming company, as an engineering lead.

He co-founded Superblocks with Brad Menezes, a former product leader at Yelp and Datadog. In Menezes’ words, the pair “saw a huge, overlooked opportunity in internal software”: the dashboards, admin panels and workflows that every company builds for its own staff and that absorb a large share of engineering time. Superblocks came out publicly in August 2022 with $37 million from Kleiner Perkins, Greenoaks, Spark and Meritech, backed also by founders of Airtable, Twilio, Okta, Confluent and others.

As generative AI arrived, the company repositioned around what it calls enterprise vibe coding. In 2025 it raised a $23 million Series A extension and introduced Clark, an AI agent that turns natural-language prompts into applications, with the pitch that consumer AI app builders get non-engineers most of the way but leave security, governance and integration with company data unsolved. Ma, as CTO, has made that argument publicly, including at the Ai4 Summit in Las Vegas in 2025, where he described enterprises moving towards far more builders outside engineering creating far more AI applications and agents. Superblocks names SoFi, Carrier, Instacart and Cvent among its customers.

Education

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