Acero Capital

Acero Capital is a stage agnostic and actively pursuing investments in business software, mobile, cloud, and security They are just getting started, but after they complete investing their inaugural fund and look back at their investments, they want the unifying themes across their investments to be (a) a relentless search for new approaches to large and established markets, (b) management teams with exceptional foresight and resourcefulness and, (c) an emphasis on capital-efficient business models that can turn capital efficiency into a competitive advantage.

Elkhatib, Rami

Founder and General Partner

17 past transactions

Contrast Security

Series E in 2021
Contrast Security is a code security tool developer that embeds code analysis and attacks prevention directly into the software. Its patented deep security instrumentation completely disrupts traditional application security approaches with integrated, comprehensive security observability that delivers accurate assessment and continuous protection of an entire application portfolio. This eliminates the need for disruptive scanning, expensive infrastructure workloads, and specialized security experts. The Contrast Application Security Platform accelerates development cycles, improves efficiencies and cost, and enables rapid scale while protecting applications from known and unknown threats.

Contrast Security

Series D in 2019
Contrast Security is a code security tool developer that embeds code analysis and attacks prevention directly into the software. Its patented deep security instrumentation completely disrupts traditional application security approaches with integrated, comprehensive security observability that delivers accurate assessment and continuous protection of an entire application portfolio. This eliminates the need for disruptive scanning, expensive infrastructure workloads, and specialized security experts. The Contrast Application Security Platform accelerates development cycles, improves efficiencies and cost, and enables rapid scale while protecting applications from known and unknown threats.

Contrast Security

Series C in 2017
Contrast Security is a code security tool developer that embeds code analysis and attacks prevention directly into the software. Its patented deep security instrumentation completely disrupts traditional application security approaches with integrated, comprehensive security observability that delivers accurate assessment and continuous protection of an entire application portfolio. This eliminates the need for disruptive scanning, expensive infrastructure workloads, and specialized security experts. The Contrast Application Security Platform accelerates development cycles, improves efficiencies and cost, and enables rapid scale while protecting applications from known and unknown threats.

HyperGrid™

Seed Round in 2017
HyperCloud enables businesses to embrace public clouds and drive their digital transformation via the broadest set of functionalities to discover and plan cloud migrations, optimize costs, secure resource and scale operations in the public cloud. HyperCloud has a unique app-centric, modular approach that enables businesses to scale their cloud management capabilities within a common framework that provides centralized control and management of all private and public clouds and eliminates the need for ongoing training. HyperCloud analytics is powered by its massive database of more than 400 million data points across the major public clouds enabling instantaneous recommendations for optimizing new and existing applications using multi-dimensional analysis of factors such as cost, performance, and compliance. HyperCloud also analyzes past cloud usage to understand customer needs and speed service delivery by eliminating manual processes. As a result, enterprise IT and MSPs can deliver customized services across any private or public cloud, improving business performance while minimizing cloud management complexities.

Contrast Security

Series B in 2016
Contrast Security is a code security tool developer that embeds code analysis and attacks prevention directly into the software. Its patented deep security instrumentation completely disrupts traditional application security approaches with integrated, comprehensive security observability that delivers accurate assessment and continuous protection of an entire application portfolio. This eliminates the need for disruptive scanning, expensive infrastructure workloads, and specialized security experts. The Contrast Application Security Platform accelerates development cycles, improves efficiencies and cost, and enables rapid scale while protecting applications from known and unknown threats.

Siva Power

Series D in 2016
Siva Power develops third-generation thin-film PV technologies which increase solar cell efficiency and reduce manufacturing costs, therefore enabling the commercialization of solar modules that generate electricity at competitive rates without depending on government subsidies. Siva Power was founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Jose, California.

Gridstore

Series B in 2016
Gridstore™ is the leader in HyperConverged All-Flash Infrastructure for the Microsoft Cloud-Inspired Data Center. Our customers gain a 10X performance improvement over traditional storage as we put all-flash as close to the workload as possible. They realize 4X lower TCO by consolidation of three layers of infrastructure into one scalable layer built on X86 hardware and 10X less management effort due to less management points and less infrastructure to manage. Gridstore's HyperConverged Appliances include both compute and storage in a single system, and provide external storage and work with any Windows servers and the HyperConverged Appliance, all driven by Gridstore's patented software. Gridstore software architecture delivers native Windows integration, per-VM I/O control, and elastic and independent scaling of resources. Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. and its products and services are available through a global network of value-added resellers.

Swrve

Series C in 2015
Swrve is the world's leading mobile marketing automation platform, pioneering the fast-growing mobile engagement marketing space. We are also proud to be the first mobile marketing company to combine predictive analytics with messaging for mobile apps in our Predictive Marketing Suite, which employs a continuously updated behavioral algorithm that determines an app user’s propensity for action or inaction. Swrve combines class-leading analytics, segmentation, AB testing and in-app messaging in a unified application that allows marketing managers to continually test their applications by tracking user behavior, targeting specific user segments, tuning in-app elements, and talking to users via in-app messages. In the first half of 2015, Swrve signed more than 40 new clients in a wide range of industries from retail, travel, hospitality, banking and insurance to sports, media, entertainment, games, and lifestyle. Among the notable customer wins were The Guardian, Condé Nast, Glamsquad, Warner Brothers, Microsoft, and Backflip. As a result, our global bookings in the second quarter of 2015 increased 33% over the previous quarter and 153% over Q4 2014. In 2015, Swrve also ranked #420 in Inc. magazine’s 34th annual Inc. 500, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was founded by Hugh Reynolds and Steven Collins in 2010.

Siva Power

Series D in 2015
Siva Power develops third-generation thin-film PV technologies which increase solar cell efficiency and reduce manufacturing costs, therefore enabling the commercialization of solar modules that generate electricity at competitive rates without depending on government subsidies. Siva Power was founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Jose, California.

Swrve

Series B in 2014
Swrve is the world's leading mobile marketing automation platform, pioneering the fast-growing mobile engagement marketing space. We are also proud to be the first mobile marketing company to combine predictive analytics with messaging for mobile apps in our Predictive Marketing Suite, which employs a continuously updated behavioral algorithm that determines an app user’s propensity for action or inaction. Swrve combines class-leading analytics, segmentation, AB testing and in-app messaging in a unified application that allows marketing managers to continually test their applications by tracking user behavior, targeting specific user segments, tuning in-app elements, and talking to users via in-app messages. In the first half of 2015, Swrve signed more than 40 new clients in a wide range of industries from retail, travel, hospitality, banking and insurance to sports, media, entertainment, games, and lifestyle. Among the notable customer wins were The Guardian, Condé Nast, Glamsquad, Warner Brothers, Microsoft, and Backflip. As a result, our global bookings in the second quarter of 2015 increased 33% over the previous quarter and 153% over Q4 2014. In 2015, Swrve also ranked #420 in Inc. magazine’s 34th annual Inc. 500, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was founded by Hugh Reynolds and Steven Collins in 2010.

Contrast Security

Series A in 2014
Contrast Security is a code security tool developer that embeds code analysis and attacks prevention directly into the software. Its patented deep security instrumentation completely disrupts traditional application security approaches with integrated, comprehensive security observability that delivers accurate assessment and continuous protection of an entire application portfolio. This eliminates the need for disruptive scanning, expensive infrastructure workloads, and specialized security experts. The Contrast Application Security Platform accelerates development cycles, improves efficiencies and cost, and enables rapid scale while protecting applications from known and unknown threats.

Siva Power

Venture Round in 2014
Siva Power develops third-generation thin-film PV technologies which increase solar cell efficiency and reduce manufacturing costs, therefore enabling the commercialization of solar modules that generate electricity at competitive rates without depending on government subsidies. Siva Power was founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Jose, California.

Gridstore

Series B in 2013
Gridstore™ is the leader in HyperConverged All-Flash Infrastructure for the Microsoft Cloud-Inspired Data Center. Our customers gain a 10X performance improvement over traditional storage as we put all-flash as close to the workload as possible. They realize 4X lower TCO by consolidation of three layers of infrastructure into one scalable layer built on X86 hardware and 10X less management effort due to less management points and less infrastructure to manage. Gridstore's HyperConverged Appliances include both compute and storage in a single system, and provide external storage and work with any Windows servers and the HyperConverged Appliance, all driven by Gridstore's patented software. Gridstore software architecture delivers native Windows integration, per-VM I/O control, and elastic and independent scaling of resources. Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. and its products and services are available through a global network of value-added resellers.

Argyle Data

Series C in 2013
Argyle Data is used by the world’s leading mobile operators to detect fraud, profit, and SLA threats that cost the industry $38 billion per year. Argyle Data’s industry-leading native Hadoop application suite uses the latest machine learning technologies against a unique, comprehensive data lake to give communications service providers a 360-degree view of user activities, allowing them to detect in real time the previously undiscoverable revenue threats and attack patterns being waged against their networks.

LiveHive

Venture Round in 2012
Headquartered in San Jose, California, LiveHive, Inc. is an open and extensible sales acceleration platform that powers businesses to drive higher sales growth and deliver greater customer value. LiveHive combines deep buyer-based engagement analytics and advanced sales force automation on a single, scalable platform to optimize a company’s sales operations and drive faster time-to-revenue. Seamlessly integrated with best-in-class sales tools, LiveHive enables greater organizational efficiencies to give reps more time in the day to sell and provides management with real-time insight to keep sales on course to achieve revenue goals.

Siva Power

Venture Round in 2012
Siva Power develops third-generation thin-film PV technologies which increase solar cell efficiency and reduce manufacturing costs, therefore enabling the commercialization of solar modules that generate electricity at competitive rates without depending on government subsidies. Siva Power was founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Jose, California.

Bitzer Mobile

Series A in 2011
Bitzer Mobile, Inc. is a provider of infrastructure software for enterprises to use on-premise or as part of cloud computing environments. CIOs and IT managers use Bitzer to securely extend enterprise application access on mobile devices and support consumerization by allowing employees to use their personally purchased device in the enterprise. Bitzer technology has been under development since mid- 2009. The company was founded in mid-2010. Bitzer is located in the heart of Silicon Valley in Sunnyvale, CA.
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