Aligned Partners

Aligned Partners is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2011 by Jodi Sherman Jahic and Susan Mason. The firm specializes in investing in early-stage information technology companies that have shown initial product traction and prioritize capital efficiency. Aligned Partners is known for being hands-on and active in its investment approach, often serving as the lead investor in its portfolio companies. The firm focuses on mobile and cloud-delivered software and services tailored for enterprise solutions, rather than consumer applications. By promoting capital efficiency, Aligned Partners enables startups to maintain greater degrees of freedom, allowing founders and employees to retain higher ownership stakes in their companies throughout their growth stages.

Mason, Susan A.

Managing Partner, General Partner and Co-Founder

14 past transactions

SavvyFi

Series A in 2022
SavvyFi facilitates students and employees by providing student loans, employee benefits, savings, and financial services.

Freshsound

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Freshsound is an entire new wave for professional storytellers and agencies to license original music using AI and human creativity.

Bit Discovery

Venture Round in 2021
Bit Discovery develops and operates a platform for website asset inventory and portfolio management. Bit Discovery's product automates the continuous scanning of Internet-connected assets, flagging security issues and alerting security teams in real-time whenever a portfolio changes.

AnChain.ai

Seed Round in 2020
AnChain.AI (www.anchain.ai) is an AI-powered cybersecurity company enhancing blockchain security, risk, and compliance strategies. AnChain.AI, San Jose California, was founded in 2018 by cybersecurity and enterprise software veterans. It is invested by both Silicon Valley and Wall Street VC’s: Amino and SIG; and selected in the Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator. We are trusted by 100+ customers from over 10+ countries in these sectors: VASP, financial institutions and government, including the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission). Featured by Forbes, CBS News, MIT Tech Review, Coindesk and DEFCON. Our AML engine screens over $1 billion daily crypto transactions.

Accrualify

Series A in 2018
Accrualify offers mid- and enterprise-level companies cloud-based automation solutions to better manage their Procure-to-Pay and accounts payable processes. Accrualify’s products enable more efficient and automated management of purchase orders, accruals, invoices, payments, vendor management, and budgeting. Their mission is to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to address the many pain points corporate finance organizations face on a daily basis. It was this principle that led Accrualify to develop a product that automates month-end accrual processes.

Quivers

Series A in 2018
Quivers develops an omnichannel e-commerce platform designed to control the brand beyond the domain, resolve channel conflict with retailers, and deliver the products through a better customer experience. The platform offers order flow controller and quivers syndicated product information management service and thereby lets specialty brands to manage orders from online channels while selectively distributing order fulfillment to local retailers, enabling brands to leverage their existing retailer network to offer a more personalized omnichannel experience.

TrueData

Series B in 2018
TrueData is the gold standard for addressability-as-a-service. Our identity graph connects every notion of a person and household to every digital device, all in a privacy first framework. The largest advertising and data players rely on TrueData to help them enable omni-channel addressability.

CloudLex

Series B in 2018
About CloudLex: CloudLex® is a personal injury case management software developed exclusively for personal injury law firms that lets them take control of their practice from intake through closure and beyond with one comprehensive law firm software. CloudLex’s unified software, backed by Microsoft Azure’s HIPAA-certified data security, handles productivity, accountability, communication, collaboration, and insights across the firm from case intake to settlement and negotiation, including storage and archival. Plaintiff personal injury law solutions built specifically for you - Matter Manager - Intake Manager - Client Portal Messenger - Digital Archiver - Referral Engine - Microsoft Office Online® - CloudLex for Word - CloudLex for Gmail and Outlook - App Integrator - E-Signature - PDF Editor - Microsoft 365 - Expense Manager - Uber - Advanced AI Search

TrueData

Series A in 2017
TrueData is the gold standard for addressability-as-a-service. Our identity graph connects every notion of a person and household to every digital device, all in a privacy first framework. The largest advertising and data players rely on TrueData to help them enable omni-channel addressability.

CloudLex

Series A in 2016
About CloudLex: CloudLex® is a personal injury case management software developed exclusively for personal injury law firms that lets them take control of their practice from intake through closure and beyond with one comprehensive law firm software. CloudLex’s unified software, backed by Microsoft Azure’s HIPAA-certified data security, handles productivity, accountability, communication, collaboration, and insights across the firm from case intake to settlement and negotiation, including storage and archival. Plaintiff personal injury law solutions built specifically for you - Matter Manager - Intake Manager - Client Portal Messenger - Digital Archiver - Referral Engine - Microsoft Office Online® - CloudLex for Word - CloudLex for Gmail and Outlook - App Integrator - E-Signature - PDF Editor - Microsoft 365 - Expense Manager - Uber - Advanced AI Search

Full Circle Insights

Series B in 2015
Full Circle Insights gives marketers powerful marketing performance management solutions, ensuring every deal is attributed to the right campaign so you can get accurate ROI, and answers all their marketing questions in one place. Their products are built 100% on Salesforce.com and are compatible with the leading marketing automation solutions. All their marketing data is in one place and so are the answers. Founded by former salesforce.com executives, product managers, and marketing automation specialists – they know what it takes to run a successful marketing organization. They are passionate about giving all marketers the answers they need to plan with confidence and grow revenue.

Zumigo

Series B in 2014
Zumigo leverages mobile network data to secure financial transactions, identify devices, authenticate access, validate device ownership, and prevent fraud. The Zumigo solution is a device-agnostic, cross-carrier platform that allows institutions to instantly access and delivers critical financial and identity information to and from their subscriber’s mobile devices. Zumigo solutions are designed to operate on the network, and in most cases support any phone including smart and feature phones. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Jose, California.

BrightPoint Security

Series A in 2014
The BrightPoint Sentinel can help solve one of the biggest challenges facing security and fraud prevention teams today, that challenge is the overwhelming amount of information that they need to analyze and digest on a daily basis to understand if they are currently a victim of a specific cyber threat or if they will be a victim of a specific cyber threat. BrightPoint Security provides an automation and collaboration platform that automates the process of collecting, analyzing, correlating and sharing information on current and emerging cyber-threats and fraud intelligence. BrightPoint Security's platform increases operational efficiency by automating the tasks of discovering if you have been breached by correlating external and internal threat information against your network infrastructure data, and allowing you to quickly move into incident response. The time to resolution and prevention of a security incident is dramatically reduced through secure and anonymous collaboration ensuring control, privacy and protection of your shared information. BrightPoint Security understands that the security of your data is critical and your data should not leave your controlled environment. All of the proprietary information that you need to analyse to understand if you are or will be vulnerable to a security threat, stays within your network. You have control of all the data that you wish to share and only a STIX/TAXII message is used to transfer information in the collaboration environment. With BrightPoint Security you can reduce discovery time, reduce remediation time and reduce your overall risk to cyber-threats by receiving early warning of emerging cyber threats and fraud intelligence within an automated and collaborative environment.

SA Ignite

Series A in 2012
SA Ignite’s compliance management and predictive analytics platform that simplifies the complexities of evolving value-based initiatives, optimizing quality scores through actionable insights that help healthcare organizations improve revenue and reputation. It was founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
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