Appian Ventures

Appian Ventures Inc. is a venture capital firm based in Littleton, Colorado, that focuses on investing in early to late-stage technology and software companies. The firm specializes in real-time enterprise applications and virtual enterprise management software, targeting sectors such as knowledge management, eCommerce, business process optimization, and supply chain management. Additionally, it invests in areas related to application management and network management. Appian Ventures typically invests between $500,000 and $5 million, with initial investments generally ranging from $1 million to $2 million. The firm primarily focuses on companies located in the Western United States, aiming to enhance business performance through the strategic use of network connectivity.

Stacey McKittrick

Managing Director, Operations

Mark Soane

Managing Director

36 past transactions

Ping Identity

Series G in 2014
Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations. They help enterprises achieve Zero Trust identity-defined security & more personalized, streamlined user experiences. The Ping Intelligent Identity Platform provides customers, employees, partners, and, increasingly, IoT, with access to the cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs, while also managing identity and profile data at scale. Ping Identity was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Ping Identity

Series F in 2013
Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations. They help enterprises achieve Zero Trust identity-defined security & more personalized, streamlined user experiences. The Ping Intelligent Identity Platform provides customers, employees, partners, and, increasingly, IoT, with access to the cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs, while also managing identity and profile data at scale. Ping Identity was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

OpenLogic

Venture Round in 2011
OpenLogic helps enterprises maximize these benefits and safely use open source software by providing support, governance, provisioning, consulting, and training solutions.

Ping Identity

Series D in 2011
Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations. They help enterprises achieve Zero Trust identity-defined security & more personalized, streamlined user experiences. The Ping Intelligent Identity Platform provides customers, employees, partners, and, increasingly, IoT, with access to the cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs, while also managing identity and profile data at scale. Ping Identity was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Univa

Venture Round in 2011
Univa is the innovator of workload management solutions that optimize throughput and performance of applications, containers and services. Univa manages workloads automatically by maximizing shared resources and enabling enterprises to scale compute resources across on-premise, hybrid and cloud infrastructures. Univa's solutions help hundreds of companies to manage thousands of applications and run billions of tasks every day to obtain actionable insights and achieve faster time-to-results. Univa is headquartered in Chicago, USA, with offices in Canada and Germany.

OneRiot

Series C in 2009
OneRiot delivers socially-targeted mobile media campaigns for clients such as The Gap, Toyota and AT&T. With OneRiot, clients can target media to audiences with specific interests and demographics in defined geo-locations. The company analyzes masses of publicly-available mobile social media activity to determine audience characteristics. Clients can execute media campaigns directly with OneRiot across its own network of mobile apps, or leverage its targeting data for use across other sources of mobile inventory. OneRiot is a privately held company. Investors include Spark Capital, Appian Ventures and Commonwealth Capital Ventures.

mPay Gateway

Venture Round in 2008
mPay Gateway is a PCI certified acquiring card processor, delivering bankcard solutions with integrated web based management software to Providers that addresses the increased cost of collecting from consumers enrolled in consumer directed health care plans. They enable Providers to collect patient payment obligations at the point of service in real time when the service is delivered. Their payment technology allows Providers to transact payments for all members regardless of payer or card type.

Selero

Venture Round in 2008
Selero provides highly automated trade execution solutions spanning the equities trading supply chain. The Company’s offerings include Smart Order Routing, Trading Systems for market makers and internalization traders, intra and inter-organization System Integration, and a FIX Engine. Included in Selero Smart Order Routing is a wide array of configurable routing capabilities that allow each trader to achieve his unique definition of Best Execution. It is particularly useful for Reg NMS, MiFID, and the Best Execution Obligation. In addition, the Company makes order routing services available to its customers through its agency broker dealer Nunami Services, LLC, Member FINRA, www.nunami.net. Selero’s mission is to give its customers the tools they need to achieve best execution and to maximize profits. Its solutions are designed to be fast to implement, fast to operate, and fast to change in response to real-time market dynamics. Its customers include asset managers, broker dealers, exchanges, ECNs, ATSs, dark pools, and regulators.

IP Commerce

Series C in 2008
IP Commerce is a privately held software company serving small and medium sized businesses (SMBs). Its flagship solution, Commerce Sync, simplifies accounting for thousands of SMBs, helping business owners realize valuable time savings, increased accuracy, and complete business visibility. The Company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Univa

Series B in 2008
Univa is the innovator of workload management solutions that optimize throughput and performance of applications, containers and services. Univa manages workloads automatically by maximizing shared resources and enabling enterprises to scale compute resources across on-premise, hybrid and cloud infrastructures. Univa's solutions help hundreds of companies to manage thousands of applications and run billions of tasks every day to obtain actionable insights and achieve faster time-to-results. Univa is headquartered in Chicago, USA, with offices in Canada and Germany.

Collective Intellect

Series B in 2008
Collective Intellect produces real time market intelligence, using the most advanced digital communications analytics platform available to address the most critical needs that marketing professionals face. Collective Intellect's technology enables it to answer any question and address problem that marketers and researchers have, and produce the most relevant and actionable intelligence faster, more cost effectively, and with better data purity than any other method.

Tendril

Series B in 2008
Tendril enables utilities to drive customer engagement via a rich and tailored experience for the home energy consumer. Energy and service providers rely on Tendril’s customizable software solutions to engage consumers to meet efficiency goals and improve customer service operations. All solutions are powered by an open, cloud-based, secure, and scalable platform that seamlessly supports numerous other utility-grade applications.

Valen Analytics

Series C in 2007
Valen Analytics provides proprietary data, analytics, and predictive modeling to help carriers manage and segment their portfolios. Valen Analytics partners with insurance carriers to improve underwriting performance. The company's InsureRight Platform is the only industry solution with proprietary insight into portfolio metrics and risk characteristics to identify pockets of pricing inadequacy and profitability. A dynamic portfolio management tool provides access to Valen’s contributory database containing industry comparisons and predictive scores on over 20 million policies for property and casualty insurance carriers. Founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Denver, CO, USA.

SkyeTek

Series C in 2007
SkyeTek delivers a turn-key RFID application that enables real-time management of field-based inventory and resources. This capability allows manufacturers and service providers to track the movement of inventory, assets, and workers in real-time from the factory, through the field, and ultimately to the customer site enabling significant increases in revenue, efficiency, productivity, and compliance. In addition to its MetaFi application service, SkyeTek also provides RFID reader modules as well as comprehensive professional and support services. SkyeTek is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, with sales operations in North America, Europe and Asia.

OneRiot

Series B in 2007
OneRiot delivers socially-targeted mobile media campaigns for clients such as The Gap, Toyota and AT&T. With OneRiot, clients can target media to audiences with specific interests and demographics in defined geo-locations. The company analyzes masses of publicly-available mobile social media activity to determine audience characteristics. Clients can execute media campaigns directly with OneRiot across its own network of mobile apps, or leverage its targeting data for use across other sources of mobile inventory. OneRiot is a privately held company. Investors include Spark Capital, Appian Ventures and Commonwealth Capital Ventures.

IP Commerce

Series B in 2007
IP Commerce is a privately held software company serving small and medium sized businesses (SMBs). Its flagship solution, Commerce Sync, simplifies accounting for thousands of SMBs, helping business owners realize valuable time savings, increased accuracy, and complete business visibility. The Company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Collective Intellect

Series A in 2007
Collective Intellect produces real time market intelligence, using the most advanced digital communications analytics platform available to address the most critical needs that marketing professionals face. Collective Intellect's technology enables it to answer any question and address problem that marketers and researchers have, and produce the most relevant and actionable intelligence faster, more cost effectively, and with better data purity than any other method.

Ping Identity

Series C in 2006
Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations. They help enterprises achieve Zero Trust identity-defined security & more personalized, streamlined user experiences. The Ping Intelligent Identity Platform provides customers, employees, partners, and, increasingly, IoT, with access to the cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs, while also managing identity and profile data at scale. Ping Identity was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

OpenLogic

Venture Round in 2006
OpenLogic helps enterprises maximize these benefits and safely use open source software by providing support, governance, provisioning, consulting, and training solutions.

AuctionPay

Series B in 2006
Auctionpay offers a variety of technology solutions and services specifically designed to meet the fundraising needs of schools and nonprofit organizations. Clients use Auctionpay products ranging from event management software to event registration to donation payment processing to online auctions, in order to automate and streamline their fundraising efforts so they can raise more money.

Tendril

Series B in 2006
Tendril enables utilities to drive customer engagement via a rich and tailored experience for the home energy consumer. Energy and service providers rely on Tendril’s customizable software solutions to engage consumers to meet efficiency goals and improve customer service operations. All solutions are powered by an open, cloud-based, secure, and scalable platform that seamlessly supports numerous other utility-grade applications.

ETI International

Series A in 2006
ETI International Inc., also known as Evolutionary Technologies International, Inc., provides enterprise data integration solutions. Its products include ETI Solution, a data integration platform that enables data integration from Java/XML to legacy COBOL, proprietary, or multibyte data; and Built-to-Order Integration that provides built-to-order connectors, which integrate mainframe, legacy, and proprietary applications with current business intelligence, data warehousing, and SOA-based infrastructures. The company also provides data quality solutions, such as Data Profiler that includes counts, advanced statistics, pattern recognition, inconsistency identification, anomalies, possible key values, and data relationships for analysis to discover the content, structure, and quality of data sources before the start of information technology project; Data Monitor that helps to remove the hidden business costs attributable to bad data by examining the data quality of vital business processes, applications, and information technology projects; and Data Cleanser that enables to design, manage, and deploy cleansing processes, which run in line with production systems or offline for batch-based projects. In addition, it offers Pre-Built High Performance Connectors to load Teradata, Oracle, DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server data sources. Further, the company provides implementation and consulting, education and training, and customer support services. It offers solutions for synchronization, migration, data quality, and SOA needs of companies and government information technology organizations. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. As of May 19, 2008, ETI International Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Versata Inc.

Collective Intellect

Series A in 2006
Collective Intellect produces real time market intelligence, using the most advanced digital communications analytics platform available to address the most critical needs that marketing professionals face. Collective Intellect's technology enables it to answer any question and address problem that marketers and researchers have, and produce the most relevant and actionable intelligence faster, more cost effectively, and with better data purity than any other method.

OneRiot

Series A in 2006
OneRiot delivers socially-targeted mobile media campaigns for clients such as The Gap, Toyota and AT&T. With OneRiot, clients can target media to audiences with specific interests and demographics in defined geo-locations. The company analyzes masses of publicly-available mobile social media activity to determine audience characteristics. Clients can execute media campaigns directly with OneRiot across its own network of mobile apps, or leverage its targeting data for use across other sources of mobile inventory. OneRiot is a privately held company. Investors include Spark Capital, Appian Ventures and Commonwealth Capital Ventures.

Carefx

Series B in 2005
Carefx's main solution "Fusionfx" helps close information gaps between hospital/IDN CIO and CMIO and healthcare IT departments. Fusionfx is able to help "synthesize disparate data into clinically relevant, user-centric workflows." The solution aims to connect the data points and make it comprehensive/understandable fo patients, payers, clinicians, and the compliance agencies who seek such information.

Carefx

Series B in 2005
Carefx's main solution "Fusionfx" helps close information gaps between hospital/IDN CIO and CMIO and healthcare IT departments. Fusionfx is able to help "synthesize disparate data into clinically relevant, user-centric workflows." The solution aims to connect the data points and make it comprehensive/understandable fo patients, payers, clinicians, and the compliance agencies who seek such information.

SkyeTek

Series B in 2005
SkyeTek delivers a turn-key RFID application that enables real-time management of field-based inventory and resources. This capability allows manufacturers and service providers to track the movement of inventory, assets, and workers in real-time from the factory, through the field, and ultimately to the customer site enabling significant increases in revenue, efficiency, productivity, and compliance. In addition to its MetaFi application service, SkyeTek also provides RFID reader modules as well as comprehensive professional and support services. SkyeTek is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, with sales operations in North America, Europe and Asia.

Univa

Series A in 2005
Univa is the innovator of workload management solutions that optimize throughput and performance of applications, containers and services. Univa manages workloads automatically by maximizing shared resources and enabling enterprises to scale compute resources across on-premise, hybrid and cloud infrastructures. Univa's solutions help hundreds of companies to manage thousands of applications and run billions of tasks every day to obtain actionable insights and achieve faster time-to-results. Univa is headquartered in Chicago, USA, with offices in Canada and Germany.

Oxlo Systems

Series B in 2005
Oxlo Systems, Inc., located in Broomfield, Colorado, specializes in developing data exchange and integration software solutions tailored for the healthcare and automotive retail sectors. The company offers critical data for individual and small group health insurance, which aids in product design, pricing, and marketing. Additionally, Oxlo provides health insurance exchange integration solutions that enable carriers to lower costs and streamline processes related to public and private insurance exchanges. In the automotive sector, the company delivers integration solutions for manufacturers, lenders, and dealers, facilitating efficient operations and enhancing the launch of new products. Its Open Dealer Integration Network ensures continuous real-time bi-directional integrations for point-of-sale processes, helping automakers and lenders reduce risk and IT costs while improving customer loyalty. Oxlo Systems serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 1000 companies and small businesses, across automotive, insurance, financial services, and healthcare markets. The company was founded in 2003.

Valen Analytics

Series B in 2005
Valen Analytics provides proprietary data, analytics, and predictive modeling to help carriers manage and segment their portfolios. Valen Analytics partners with insurance carriers to improve underwriting performance. The company's InsureRight Platform is the only industry solution with proprietary insight into portfolio metrics and risk characteristics to identify pockets of pricing inadequacy and profitability. A dynamic portfolio management tool provides access to Valen’s contributory database containing industry comparisons and predictive scores on over 20 million policies for property and casualty insurance carriers. Founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Denver, CO, USA.

OpenLogic

Series A in 2005
OpenLogic helps enterprises maximize these benefits and safely use open source software by providing support, governance, provisioning, consulting, and training solutions.

Roving Planet

Series C in 2005
Roving Planet, Inc. provides network access control and management solutions for enterprise networks. Its products provide a secure network environment by managing and controlling users, endpoints, connections, and sessions. The company serves enterprise, manufacturing, health, higher education, k-12, and aerospace government industries. Roving Planet, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Westminster, Colorado.

AdPay

Series A in 2004
Adpay, Inc. develops online and mobile software solutions for advertising and media companies. It offers classified solutions; mobile apps, such as mobile order entry, news synergy, and news synergy deals; and obituary order entry solutions. Adpay, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Englewood, Colorado. As of May 31, 2016, Adpay, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Ancestry.Com Operations Inc..

IBSN

Series A in 2004
IBSN focuses on enabling the financial services industry to quickly and cost-effectively integrate internal applications.

Oxlo Systems

Series A in 2004
Oxlo Systems, Inc., located in Broomfield, Colorado, specializes in developing data exchange and integration software solutions tailored for the healthcare and automotive retail sectors. The company offers critical data for individual and small group health insurance, which aids in product design, pricing, and marketing. Additionally, Oxlo provides health insurance exchange integration solutions that enable carriers to lower costs and streamline processes related to public and private insurance exchanges. In the automotive sector, the company delivers integration solutions for manufacturers, lenders, and dealers, facilitating efficient operations and enhancing the launch of new products. Its Open Dealer Integration Network ensures continuous real-time bi-directional integrations for point-of-sale processes, helping automakers and lenders reduce risk and IT costs while improving customer loyalty. Oxlo Systems serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 1000 companies and small businesses, across automotive, insurance, financial services, and healthcare markets. The company was founded in 2003.

Roving Planet

Venture Round in 2004
Roving Planet, Inc. provides network access control and management solutions for enterprise networks. Its products provide a secure network environment by managing and controlling users, endpoints, connections, and sessions. The company serves enterprise, manufacturing, health, higher education, k-12, and aerospace government industries. Roving Planet, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Westminster, Colorado.