Venture Guides

Venture Guides is an early-stage investment firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, established in 2022. The firm specializes in infrastructure software and security, with a focus on sectors such as cloud applications, data, and security. Venture Guides employs a team-based approach to investment, which has contributed to a significant portion of its portfolio companies generating positive returns, with 45% achieving unicorn status. The firm aims to identify and support innovative startups in the technology landscape, leveraging its expertise to foster growth and success in the competitive market.

Benjamin Nye

Managing Partner

9 past transactions

Precog

Venture Round in 2025
Precog is a data analysis platform designed to help companies productize their data assets by enabling them to store, integrate, and analyze substantial volumes of measured data. The platform features an implementation of Quirrel, a statistical language adept at handling big data, allowing businesses to create analytics and predictive models that can be incorporated into existing products or launched as new offerings. Precog empowers companies to enhance their applications with integrated analytics, transform existing data into resalable products, and develop advanced features such as recommendations and personalizations. Founded by John A. De Goes, Precog emerged from ReportGrid and aims to simplify data access for end users and business teams, addressing the complexities of modern data environments. The company utilizes a unique mathematical foundation known as Multi-dimensional Relational Algebra (MRA), which facilitates the transformation of complex data into usable analytic tables. Precog is backed by notable investors and emphasizes usability and performance in its technology solutions.

Precog Data

Venture Round in 2025
Data has become increasingly large and complex, end users have been cutoff, and the data engineer has become paramount. Precog is changing this and giving access and control back to the end users and business teams. Our solution is a huge leap forward in data transformation and preparation. It’s not just another variation of some open source project, It’s the biggest change in data thinking in 30 years. Our team of world class developers and mathematicians is building technology unlike anything else in the market today. Based on our unique and powerful mathematical foundation, MRA (Multi-dimensional Relational Algebra), our solutions are changing how users gain value from data. Funded by the best technology investors in the world, and supported by our customers and partners we will continue to push the boundaries of both ease of use and hyper performance for transforming massive complex data sets into ready to use analytic data tables for any application.

Odigos

Series A in 2024
Odigos is a technology company that specializes in enhancing application performance through its innovative eBPF technology. This open-source service allows for the generation of distributed traces, metrics, and logs without requiring extensive engineering effort. By providing tools for monitoring and an observability control plane, Odigos enables developers to gain insights into their applications more effectively. In addition to its core focus on performance monitoring, the company also offers a range of creative services, including audio jingles, recruitment, visual effects, 2D and 3D graphics and animation, and broadcasting. This diverse portfolio positions Odigos as a valuable partner for both developers seeking to optimize their applications and businesses looking for creative solutions.

ElastiFlow

Seed Round in 2023
ElastiFlow is a developer of a network performance and security platform that enhances visibility and analysis of network traffic. The platform provides detailed insights into network flows, including information on source and destination IP addresses, ports, protocols, and data transmission volumes. This comprehensive visibility allows network administrators to identify performance issues, improve security measures, detect threats more effectively, and maintain compliance with regulatory standards. By integrating seamlessly with major big data tools such as Elastic, Kibana, and OpenSearch, ElastiFlow transforms open data platforms into powerful network analytics solutions. This integration supports extensive exploration and discovery, enabling enterprises to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning for better network observability and security.

AppMap

Venture Round in 2023
AppMap is a developer-focused software company that offers dynamic runtime code analysis and visualization tools to enhance application observability. Its platform enables developers to observe and map their application's behavior seamlessly within their coding environment, providing real-time insights into performance, security, and stability issues before code is deployed. By facilitating collaboration, AppMap allows team members to address application behavior problems without replicating environments, and it supports automated generation of observability reports in continuous integration (CI) environments. The software is designed for ease of use within existing workflows, delivering comprehensive insights that help software engineers understand complex applications and accelerate the development of high-quality, secure code. This enables teams to maintain alignment and clarity in their software projects while proactively identifying and mitigating potential defects.

Tromzo

Seed Round in 2023
Developer-first AppSec management platform that eliminates friction between developers and security so you can scale your application security program.

Elastio

Series A in 2023
Elastio has redefined modern data protection with its cloud-native platform for protecting cloud applications from risk caused by ransomware, application failures, deployment mistakes, data errors and security vulnerabilities. Powered by Elastio’s application-aware ScaleZ(™) storage with inline active ransomware intelligence, applications can be safely protected and recovered to a last known clean state with integrated tooling for fast application specific backups, automated scanning for ransomware and malware, fast application specific recoveries, flexible data movement and automation into your existing CI/CD pipelines. Purpose built for the cloud with both agentless and lightweight agent architectures, Elastio delivers easy and fast deployments, industry-leading application protection and recovery and immediate time-to-value.

Memcyco

Seed Round in 2023
Memcyco provides an AI-driven, cloud-based digital risk protection platform designed to safeguard businesses and their customers from various online threats, including phishing, digital impersonation scams, account takeover fraud, and man-in-the-middle attacks. The platform is distinguished by its real-time victim identification and proactive prevention measures, which enhance visibility into emerging threats. Memcyco’s innovative, agentless technology enables seamless deployment across industries, allowing organizations to detect and respond to digital impersonation attacks promptly. This solution effectively addresses vulnerabilities that other systems may overlook, while also offering personalized authentication services. By minimizing fraud-related losses and bolstering compliance readiness, Memcyco delivers significant value to its clients, achieving a notable return on investment.

env0

Series A in 2023
env0 is a developer of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management software that helps businesses master cloud infrastructure with environment provisioning, cloud governance, and workflow tools. Built to empower the entire team, env0 provides developers, SREs, data scientists, and even sales and support staff with a way to shift complex workloads into manageable cloud environments. The env0 platform is the first cloud management platform built to enable self-service with complete governance and cost control in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
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