Gutbrain Ventures

Established in 2011 and headquartered in Boston, Gutbrain Ventures is an independent venture capital firm specializing in investments within the enterprise software sector.

Robert Davoli

Founder and Managing Director

Past deals in New England

Allure Security Technology

Series A in 2024
Allure Security Technology designs and develops online security solutions that protect enterprise and individual data from cyber threats. The company offers Novo, an active user behavioral analytics platform that combines machine learning and decoy technology to prevent data loss and intrusions inside and outside the enterprise, along with an authentication solution that uses user behavior as a biometric password. It also develops decoy technologies to mislead attackers and support forensics. Additionally, Allure supplies AI-driven anti-phishing capabilities that detect campaigns in near real time, identify affected customers, help deactivate malicious sites, and provide prioritized alerts to security teams to verify and respond to suspicious activities. The company is based in New York and traces its origins to 1996.

Datanomix

Venture Round in 2023
Datanomix, Inc. is a software company based in Nashua, New Hampshire, established in 2015. It specializes in providing a machine data analytics platform that delivers real-time insights into manufacturing productivity for industrial manufacturers. The company's software integrates machine data streams, extending its functionality beyond conventional data visualization and process productivity tools. This allows manufacturers of all sizes to access advanced decision-making resources, thereby enhancing their production efficiency, performance, and profitability. By focusing on production intelligence, Datanomix aims to support the next generation of manufacturing environments.

Elemental Machines

Series B in 2022
Founded in 2014, Elemental Machines is a technology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It specializes in revolutionizing science-based industries by offering a smart lab platform that provides data-driven insights to enhance laboratory operations, research and development, and manufacturing outcomes.

Sotero

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2017, Sotero specializes in data protection software. It offers KeepEncrypt, which enables secure data sharing and monetization without decryption, and uses machine learning to identify and protect data from thefts.

Sense

Series C in 2022
Sense Labs, Inc. is a technology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, specializing in home energy monitoring solutions. Established in 2013, the company develops and manufactures electronic devices that analyze electricity usage in households. Its flagship product, Sense, utilizes current sensors installed on main breakers to capture the electronic signatures of various appliances. This system employs advanced algorithms to identify and differentiate individual devices, providing users with insights into their energy consumption. Sense also offers a range of related products, including Sense Solar, add-on sensors, and various replacement components. The data collected by these devices is transmitted to users via a dedicated mobile application, enhancing the home automation experience.

RevenueBase

Seed Round in 2022
RevenueBase is a provider of a revenue database as a service, focused on delivering comprehensive and accurate data to help B2B companies effectively engage with prospects. Founded in May 2021 in Waltham, Massachusetts by Mark J. Feldman and Milenko Beslic, the company specializes in analyzing clients' go-to-market opportunities and supplying essential account and contact information through a user-friendly and continuously updated database. This enables business executives to access high-quality data that can be efficiently transformed into revenue growth.

Allure Security Technology

Seed Round in 2022
Allure Security Technology designs and develops online security solutions that protect enterprise and individual data from cyber threats. The company offers Novo, an active user behavioral analytics platform that combines machine learning and decoy technology to prevent data loss and intrusions inside and outside the enterprise, along with an authentication solution that uses user behavior as a biometric password. It also develops decoy technologies to mislead attackers and support forensics. Additionally, Allure supplies AI-driven anti-phishing capabilities that detect campaigns in near real time, identify affected customers, help deactivate malicious sites, and provide prioritized alerts to security teams to verify and respond to suspicious activities. The company is based in New York and traces its origins to 1996.

ClearGov

Venture Round in 2022
ClearGov Inc. is a financial transparency and budgeting platform dedicated to local governments and their residents, primarily serving communities in California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts, ClearGov develops a Software-as-a-Service platform that transforms complex financial statements into interactive infographics. Its offerings include modules for financial forecasting, peer-to-peer financial benchmarking, collaborative budgeting, and enhanced public accountability. The platform is designed to streamline the budget process by automating workflows, increasing collaboration, and centralizing data, making it accessible and effective for local governments of all sizes. ClearGov's solutions empower municipalities to compare their spending with similar communities, fostering better decision-making and transparency. The company has gained recognition in the GovTech sector and has been acknowledged for its innovative culture and workplace environment.

Mightier

Series B in 2021
Mightier is a Boston-based company that develops bioresponsive video games and a family program designed to help children regulate emotions. The platform pairs gameplay with a biofeedback heart rate monitor to adjust game difficulty, encouraging kids to stay calm and in control while learning to recognize and manage emotions in daily life. Created through collaboration with Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Mightier aims to address behavioral and emotional challenges by teaching real-time emotion regulation skills. Founded in 2016, the company offers a program that integrates mind-body signals into interactive experiences, enabling children to practice emotional control through engaging, age-appropriate games.

Wise Systems

Series C in 2021
Wise Systems develops autonomous dispatch and routing software for last-mile delivery, using machine learning to automatically schedule, monitor, and adjust routes in real time to improve fleet efficiency and customer service. The platform analyzes orders, optimizes routes, tracks progress and ETAs, and evaluates driver performance, while providing a customer portal with real-time order visibility. It also includes Smart Reservation Management that lets customers select delivery dates and times. Serving industries such as food and beverage, parcel and courier, retail, field service, and other logistics sectors, Wise Systems processes millions of data points to deliver thousands of decisions daily. The company originated from MIT research and operates from Massachusetts, delivering scalable solutions that reduce mileage, boost fleet utilization, and minimize late deliveries.

Lambent

Series A in 2021
Lambent is a Boston-based software company that provides an AI-powered platform for facilities management and space planning, leveraging existing data sources such as Wi-Fi to deliver occupancy analytics and utilization insights that enable corporate and higher education campuses to make data-driven decisions about workplace use, planning, scheduling, and maintenance while offering an alternative to sensor deployments and helping organizations reduce costs and optimize space and operations.

Blustream

Venture Round in 2021
Blustream is a SaaS-based customer engagement company that helps physical goods brands build after-sale connections between products and end users. The platform integrates with sensors on tangible items to collect aggregated usage, environment and performance analytics, and it delivers automated education, alerts and purchase recommendations to customers. It enables brands to manage contacts, products and touchpoints and to create a direct channel with customers, supporting digital post-purchase experiences and helping improve revenue, profitability and customer satisfaction. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Pliant.io

Series A in 2021
Pliant.io, Inc. is a Boston-based company that specializes in developing an infrastructure automation platform designed for IT operations. Founded in 2017, Pliant offers an orchestration, automation, and response (OAR) platform that enables users to plan, build, and deploy API-level automations. This platform provides endpoints, graphical representations, and uniform building blocks that facilitate the automation of complex cross-domain processes. Pliant's solutions cater to various use cases, including virtual machine provisioning, server audit and remediation, IT service management orchestration, hybrid network configuration, and application delivery and security. By providing a unified API-driven platform, Pliant aims to empower digital enterprises to modernize and transform their operations efficiently.

Datanomix

Series A in 2021
Datanomix, Inc. is a software company based in Nashua, New Hampshire, established in 2015. It specializes in providing a machine data analytics platform that delivers real-time insights into manufacturing productivity for industrial manufacturers. The company's software integrates machine data streams, extending its functionality beyond conventional data visualization and process productivity tools. This allows manufacturers of all sizes to access advanced decision-making resources, thereby enhancing their production efficiency, performance, and profitability. By focusing on production intelligence, Datanomix aims to support the next generation of manufacturing environments.

Crayon

Series B in 2021
Crayon, Inc. is a market intelligence platform that helps businesses track, analyze, and act on their digital footprints. It provides tools for intelligence analysis, marketing insights, and website inspiration, enabling organizations to gain competitive advantages in their industries. Founded in 2014 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Crayon serves mid-market and enterprise clients, allowing them to capture and utilize insights that drive measurable business impact. Originally known as M80 Labs, Inc., the company rebranded to Crayon in June 2017.

aPriori

Series C in 2021
aPriori Technologies Inc. develops and markets product cost management software solutions aimed at enhancing profitability and accelerating time to market for manufacturers. Founded in 2003 and based in Concord, Massachusetts, with an additional office in Belfast, Northern Ireland, aPriori's enterprise platform assists manufacturers and their suppliers in managing and controlling product costs throughout their organizations. By utilizing digital manufacturing simulation and digital twin technologies, aPriori provides insights into design for manufacturability and design to cost, facilitating collaboration across the product development process. The company's offerings include strategy development, deployment planning, process implementation, education and training, and technical support. aPriori serves a diverse range of sectors, including industrial machinery, aerospace and defense, automotive, and high technology. Its solutions enable clients to make informed design, sourcing, and manufacturing decisions, leading to significant cost reductions both before and after production.

Suono Bio

Series A in 2021
Suono Bio, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Medford, Massachusetts, that focuses on designing and developing innovative therapeutic products with a unique delivery technology. Established in 2016, the company specializes in enabling ultra-rapid, localized delivery of small molecules, biologics, nucleic acids, and gene therapies directly to the gastrointestinal tract without the need for encapsulation. Suono Bio aims to transform the treatment landscape for difficult-to-treat diseases, particularly those mediated by inflammatory processes, by facilitating effective therapy delivery that enhances patient recovery from gastrointestinal conditions.

Aliro Technologies

Seed Round in 2021
Aliro Technologies, Inc. specializes in developing a cloud-based software-as-a-service platform designed for coding within quantum environments. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company provides a hardware-independent toolkit aimed at developers of quantum algorithms and applications for quantum computers. Known as AliroNet™, this platform facilitates the emulation, piloting, and deployment of entanglement-based quantum networks, which can support a wide range of applications from secure communications to clustered quantum computing and distributed quantum sensing. With a foundation rooted in research from Harvard University, Aliro Technologies comprises experts in both quantum and classical networking, positioning itself as a leader in quantum network development. Its user base spans utility companies, telecommunications providers, public sector organizations, enterprises, and researchers engaged in building the first entanglement-based quantum networks. The company also collaborates with industry and academic partners through various consortiums and is actively involved in quantum networking standards groups.

ClearGov

Seed Round in 2020
ClearGov Inc. is a financial transparency and budgeting platform dedicated to local governments and their residents, primarily serving communities in California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts, ClearGov develops a Software-as-a-Service platform that transforms complex financial statements into interactive infographics. Its offerings include modules for financial forecasting, peer-to-peer financial benchmarking, collaborative budgeting, and enhanced public accountability. The platform is designed to streamline the budget process by automating workflows, increasing collaboration, and centralizing data, making it accessible and effective for local governments of all sizes. ClearGov's solutions empower municipalities to compare their spending with similar communities, fostering better decision-making and transparency. The company has gained recognition in the GovTech sector and has been acknowledged for its innovative culture and workplace environment.

Elemental Machines

Series A in 2020
Founded in 2014, Elemental Machines is a technology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It specializes in revolutionizing science-based industries by offering a smart lab platform that provides data-driven insights to enhance laboratory operations, research and development, and manufacturing outcomes.

Pliant.io

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Pliant.io, Inc. is a Boston-based company that specializes in developing an infrastructure automation platform designed for IT operations. Founded in 2017, Pliant offers an orchestration, automation, and response (OAR) platform that enables users to plan, build, and deploy API-level automations. This platform provides endpoints, graphical representations, and uniform building blocks that facilitate the automation of complex cross-domain processes. Pliant's solutions cater to various use cases, including virtual machine provisioning, server audit and remediation, IT service management orchestration, hybrid network configuration, and application delivery and security. By providing a unified API-driven platform, Pliant aims to empower digital enterprises to modernize and transform their operations efficiently.

TVision

Series B in 2020
Founded in 2014, TVision is a New York-based company with offices in Boston and Tokyo. It specializes in audience measurement for television and cable viewing, providing second-by-second, person-level data on viewer engagement, including who watches what and how much attention they pay to both linear and streaming content. This data empowers advertisers, agencies, networks, and other stakeholders to make informed media decisions.

Sotero

Seed Round in 2020
Founded in 2017, Sotero specializes in data protection software. It offers KeepEncrypt, which enables secure data sharing and monetization without decryption, and uses machine learning to identify and protect data from thefts.

Nasuni

Venture Round in 2020
Nasuni Corporation is a provider of enterprise cloud file storage solutions, designed to address the challenges associated with the growth of unstructured file data. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional offices in the United Kingdom and North Carolina, Nasuni offers its proprietary Nasuni UniFS, a cloud-native global file system that consolidates and protects file data in an easily expandable cloud infrastructure. This platform serves as a modern replacement for traditional network-attached storage and file server systems, simplifying IT administration by eliminating the need for complex legacy backup and disaster recovery solutions. Nasuni’s services cater to various industries, including architecture, engineering, healthcare, manufacturing, and financial services, enabling organizations to efficiently store, share, and access their files from anywhere, whether in the office or remotely.

Wise Systems

Series B in 2020
Wise Systems develops autonomous dispatch and routing software for last-mile delivery, using machine learning to automatically schedule, monitor, and adjust routes in real time to improve fleet efficiency and customer service. The platform analyzes orders, optimizes routes, tracks progress and ETAs, and evaluates driver performance, while providing a customer portal with real-time order visibility. It also includes Smart Reservation Management that lets customers select delivery dates and times. Serving industries such as food and beverage, parcel and courier, retail, field service, and other logistics sectors, Wise Systems processes millions of data points to deliver thousands of decisions daily. The company originated from MIT research and operates from Massachusetts, delivering scalable solutions that reduce mileage, boost fleet utilization, and minimize late deliveries.

KindTap

Seed Round in 2020
KindTap is a digital payment platform founded in 2019 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The company focuses on providing a safe and secure environment for digital transactions. Its platform facilitates credit and loyalty-enabled cashless payments, allowing users to make payments digitally while also earning rewards. By prioritizing compliance and security, KindTap aims to enhance the user experience in the evolving landscape of digital payments.

aPriori

Series C in 2019
aPriori Technologies Inc. develops and markets product cost management software solutions aimed at enhancing profitability and accelerating time to market for manufacturers. Founded in 2003 and based in Concord, Massachusetts, with an additional office in Belfast, Northern Ireland, aPriori's enterprise platform assists manufacturers and their suppliers in managing and controlling product costs throughout their organizations. By utilizing digital manufacturing simulation and digital twin technologies, aPriori provides insights into design for manufacturability and design to cost, facilitating collaboration across the product development process. The company's offerings include strategy development, deployment planning, process implementation, education and training, and technical support. aPriori serves a diverse range of sectors, including industrial machinery, aerospace and defense, automotive, and high technology. Its solutions enable clients to make informed design, sourcing, and manufacturing decisions, leading to significant cost reductions both before and after production.

Tuono

Seed Round in 2019
Tuono is a cloud management platform that specializes in automating public cloud infrastructure, aiming to reduce the complexity and coding requirements typically associated with cloud management. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Boston, MA, the company offers a SaaS-based solution that facilitates the orchestration, automation, and management of multi-cloud environments. Its platform includes features such as role-based access control, resource locking, drift management, and audit logging, allowing users to efficiently manage their cloud resources. Tuono's technology is designed to enhance operational velocity and provide flexibility across various cloud services, enabling users to achieve significant reductions in the amount of code needed for management tasks.

CallMiner

Series D in 2015
CallMiner is a provider of speech and voice analytics technology that helps organizations extract insights from customer interactions, with a cloud-based platform that analyzes conversations across calls, chats, emails, SMS, surveys, and social channels. The software uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing to transcribe and interpret spoken interactions, enabling improvements in customer service, compliance monitoring, and workforce performance. The Eureka platform supports conversational analytics, automated quality monitoring, and performance management, with tools such as Eureka Live for real-time call monitoring and myEureka for feedback workflows. The solution is offered as Software-as-a-Service and on-premises installations, and supports services including training, certification, and implementation support. CallMiner serves industries including financial services, utilities, manufacturing, government, and travel, helping turn interaction data into business intelligence.

Tervela

Series B in 2012
Tervela, Inc. is a technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts, specializing in data movement and integration solutions. Founded in 2004, Tervela has developed a Data in Motion platform that facilitates the efficient transfer, integration, and analysis of digital content across various environments, including enterprise and cloud data sources. Its key products include Cloud FastPath, which enables seamless data migration and synchronization between on-premise and cloud infrastructures; Data Fabric, a messaging software designed for real-time data connectivity and performance-sensitive applications; and NetCharts, a suite of data visualization tools that assists users in creating dashboards for both batch and real-time data analysis. Tervela's solutions address common challenges such as data ingestion, cloud integration, and backup, making them valuable to organizations ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. The company also maintains additional locations in Brooklyn, New York, and Owings Mills, Maryland.
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