Boldstart Ventures

Boldstart Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2010 and based in Miami, Florida. It specializes in partnering with technical founders at the inception of their companies, often serving as the first investor before product development begins. The firm focuses on sectors such as enterprise infrastructure, software-as-a-service, cybersecurity, and developer technologies. Boldstart Ventures leverages its extensive network of early adopters to help founders achieve product-market fit and build category-defining companies. Notable investments include companies like Snyk, BigID, Kustomer, and Superhuman. The firm is led by founding partner Ed Sim, who has over 24 years of experience in the venture capital space.

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Kustomer

Venture Round in 2023
Kustomer is the omnichannel SaaS CRM platform reimagining enterprise customer service to deliver standout experiences. It scales to meet the needs of any contact center and business by unifying data from multiple sources, enabling companies to deliver service and support through a single timeline view. Kustomer is the core platform of some of the leading customer service brands like Ring, Glovo, Glossier, Sweetgreen, Away, Rent the Runway, and UNTUCKit. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.

Dylibso

Seed Round in 2023
Dylibso provides software, devtools, and applications to assist in the deployment of WebAssembly. Dylibso delivers secure, isolated execution paired with a universal binary format to make plug-ins a natural fit for WebAssembly. It was founded in 2022 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

Easop

Seed Round in 2022
Fast & cost-efficient solution to compliantly offer and manage equity incentives to your employees, contractors and advisors all around the world.

Jeli.io

Series A in 2022
Jeli is an incident analysis platform that combines more comprehensive data to deliver more proactive solutions and identify problems. It goes beyond technical errors and collects data on contributors that are so often overlooked, like team coordination and human factors.

Tres

Seed Round in 2022
Tres is the creator of a financial platform for managing and monitoring Web3 Finance. The platform supports financial procedures such as reconciliation, balance computation, audit, and reporting for Web3 assets from on-ramp to off-ramp, reducing manual spreadsheet work for finance teams.

Robin

Series C in 2022
Robin develops a hybrid workplace platform designed for connecting people with rooms, desks, and each other. It is used by businesses of all sizes to successfully manage hybrid work. Robin empowers people to choose how and where they work while providing organizations with the tools and insights needed to succeed.

Front

Series D in 2022
Front is a communication hub for building strong customer relationships on digital channels. For many businesses, almost every customer conversation can make or break the relationship — the stakes are that high. Front puts these conversations at the center of a team’s attention and surrounds them with collaboration capabilities and contextual data from multiple systems. This lets teams stay focused on delivering timely, accurate, and deeply personalized communications. More than 7,500 businesses, including Shopify, Airbnb, Hulu, Lyft, and Mailchimp, use Front to build better customer relationships, one conversation at a time. To learn more, visit front.com.

Cloudquery

Series A in 2022
CloudQuery is the open-source cloud asset inventory powered by SQL.

Jit

Seed Round in 2022
JIT is the platform that allows dev organizations to adopt the MVS mindset and progress iteratively in a just-in-time manner

Stellate

Seed Round in 2022
Stellate provides cloud-based solutions to cache, analyze, and protect GraphQL API. Their solutions include catching and shielding APIs, handling traffic spikes, avoiding downtime, and saving costs by lightening the load. They also provide sending of clients' queries as post requests, and completion of cached requests and enable companies to reduce origin traffic.

Reco

Series A in 2022
Reco is a dynamic SaaS security company that provides a security platform to help organizations monitor and secure their cloud applications. The platform employs AI agents to identify unsanctioned applications, evaluate their usage, and mitigate associated risks. These agents are trained on Reco’s metadata, enhancing speed and security compared to market competitors. It also features a real-time interaction graph that maps user behaviors, application activities, and potential threats, providing a unified intelligence layer. This contextual understanding allows Reco's AI to detect complex threats that would otherwise remain hidden in traditional security tools.

Smallstep

Series A in 2022
Smallstep develops an identity authority for dev/sec/ops teams that integrate with delivery pipelines, making code identity-aware to secure connected apps across clouds, containers, serverless, and devices. By converting security best practices into an open-source toolkit, it’s designed to allow developers or operators to safeguard their infrastructure.

Liveblocks

Seed Round in 2022
The best apps in the AI era aren’t solo experiences—they’re collaborative. Liveblocks provides customizable pre‑built features to make your product multiplayer, engaging, and AI‑ready. All without derailing your roadmap.

Upstream App

Series A in 2022
Upstream is the best place to grow your professional community.

TopCoat Data

Seed Round in 2022
TopCoat Data is a data analytics consultancy.

StakeWise

Venture Round in 2022
StakeWise is an open-source protocol for capital-efficient staking on Ethereum 2.0. The protocol abstracts away the technical complexity of running staking infrastructure and removes entry barriers for the users, allowing to generate yield from Eth2 staking with just a couple of clicks. All Ether staked through the protocol is tokenized, enabling users to apply their staked capital across other Decentralized Finance Applications and making their stake liquid. StakeWise was founded in 2018.

Common Paper

Seed Round in 2022
Common Paper is a contract-tech startup that helps companies build, negotiate, and sign contracts faster. Common Paper standardizes contracts and the language they use, converting them into APIs and automating the contracting process. Common Paper also provides a solution for managing contract workflow in order to shorten sales cycles and make data easily accessible through computer programming.

Wallaroo

Series A in 2022
Wallaroo is a purpose-built platform for last-mile ML. It provides a simple, secure, and scalable deployment capability that fits an end-to-end workflow.

Root

Series A in 2022
Root gets software containers to Zero Vulns in minutes; no base image changes. We integrate into your pipeline, where we assess, triage, patch automatically & transparently.

Blockdaemon

Series C in 2022
Blockdaemon is a blockchain deployment facilitator that manages nodes and payment rails for blockchain networks. Their solution is fully portable, it allows its user to switch networks and chains with the click of a button, so they don't have to worry about picking the perfect network configuration from day one. They support the blockchain developer ecosystem with best-of-breed dev-ops advice. Blockdaemon was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

CodeSee

Seed Round in 2022
CodeSee is a developer of cloud-based data visualization software to help everyone master the understanding of code. Its software delivers the tools to continuously understand the codebase at every step of the development process, helping developers and development teams to understand how all of the code and functionality map to each other. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Kumospace

Venture Round in 2021
Kumospace is a developer of an online immersive video chat platform intended to provide remote video conferencing. Kumospace's platform facilitates users to connect people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing and provides a security of video conferencing, enabling users to host face-to-face video and connect friends across various devices and locations in a single meeting.

Cloudquery

Seed Round in 2021
CloudQuery is the open-source cloud asset inventory powered by SQL.

CodeSee

Seed Round in 2021
CodeSee is a developer of cloud-based data visualization software to help everyone master the understanding of code. Its software delivers the tools to continuously understand the codebase at every step of the development process, helping developers and development teams to understand how all of the code and functionality map to each other. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Liveblocks

Pre Seed Round in 2021
The best apps in the AI era aren’t solo experiences—they’re collaborative. Liveblocks provides customizable pre‑built features to make your product multiplayer, engaging, and AI‑ready. All without derailing your roadmap.

Snyk

Series F in 2021
Snyk empowers the world’s developers to build secure applications and equip security teams to meet the demands of the digital world. Its developer-first approach ensures organizations can secure all of the critical components of their applications from code to cloud, increase developer productivity, revenue growth, customer satisfaction, cost savings, and an overall improved security posture. Snyk’s Developer Security Platform automatically integrates with a developer’s workflow and is purpose-built for security teams to collaborate with their development teams. Snyk is used by 1,200 customers worldwide today, including industry leaders such as Asurion, Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut, and Salesforce. Snyk is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2021.

Replicated

Series C in 2021
Replicated is the modern way to ship multi-prem software. Replicated gives software vendors the tooling needed to deliver and manage cloud native applications inside customers'​ environments to provide greater security and control.

dope.security

Venture Round in 2021
Dope.security is a cybersecurity company that provides endpoint-based web and cloud security. The company eliminates the data center stopover and performs all security checks directly on the endpoint, providing stronger privacy, reliability, and performance speeds up to 4X faster, all with enterprise-grade security.

Spectro Cloud

Series A in 2021
Spectro Cloud uniquely enables organizations to deploy and manage Kubernetes in production, at scale. Its Palette enterprise Kubernetes management platform gives Platform Engineering, IT Operations and DevOps teams effortless control of the full Kubernetes lifecycle. With support for both VM and container workloads, Palette is a truly unified management platform across clouds, data centers, bare metal and edge environments. IT Operations teams are empowered to support their developers with curated Kubernetes stacks and tools based on their specific needs, with granular governance and enterprise-grade security. Spectro Cloud is a Gartner Cool Vendor, CRN Tech Innovator, and a ‘leader’ and ‘outperformer’ in GigaOm’s 2024 Radars for Edge Kubernetes and Managed Kubernetes.

AtomicJar

Seed Round in 2021
AtomicJar is an integration testing platform that enables developers to build databases and web frameworks. The company creates and engineers developer tools. AtomicJar was established on March 2, 2021 in Newark, New Jersey by Sergei Egorov.

env0

Series A in 2021
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.

UtilizeCore

Seed Round in 2021
UtilizeCore is an AI-powered marketplace that matches assets with service brokers and service providers. The Marketplace is run by SaaS subscribers who procure service providers and deliver quality service anytime, anywhere. Service requesters and service provider users download the app to buy or sell services to SaaS subscribers. They offer subscribers the ability to integrate any accounting, CRM, payroll, CMMS, IoT device, or industry-specific application through a self-serve interface (i.e., Quickbooks, ServiceChannel, Stripe, Plaid, SalesForce, Hubspot, Vetty, FM Pilot, Corrigo, EquipID, etc.). Founded in 2020, UtilizeCore is headquartered in New York, United States.

Dooly

Series B in 2021
Dooly is a provider of sales enablement platform that collects customer information essential to close business sales.

BigID

Series D in 2021
BigID develops software that helps companies have secure customer data and satisfy privacy regulations. It uses advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help enterprises better protect their customer and employee data at a petabyte scale. The company helps organizations manage and protect their customer data, meet data privacy and protection regulations like the CCPA and GDPR, and leverage unmatched coverage for all data across all data stores. BigID aims to give enterprises the software to safeguard and steward customer data, by bringing data science to data privacy. BigID has offices in the US and Israel and is founded in 2016 by security industry veterans spanning the identity, data security, big data, and governance markets.

Kumospace

Seed Round in 2021
Kumospace is a developer of an online immersive video chat platform intended to provide remote video conferencing. Kumospace's platform facilitates users to connect people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing and provides a security of video conferencing, enabling users to host face-to-face video and connect friends across various devices and locations in a single meeting.

HYPR

Series C in 2021
HYPR is a cybersecurity company that provides passwordless authentication for users. The HYPR Cloud Platform makes it easy to eliminate passwords and deliver lightning-fast login experiences. HYPR aims to reduce the risks associated with password-based authentication by replacing passwords with biometrics, security keys, and other strong authentication factors.

SecurityScorecard

Series E in 2021
SecurityScorecard is a global leader in cybersecurity ratings and the only service with over a million companies continuously rated. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, SecurityScorecard’s patented rating technology is used by over 1,000 organizations for self-monitoring, third-party risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting; making all organizations more resilient by allowing them to easily find and fix cybersecurity risks across their externally facing digital footprint. SecurityScorecard is the only provider of instant risk ratings that automatically map to vendor cybersecurity questionnaire responses - providing a true 360-degree view of risk. SecurityScorecard continues to make the world a safer place by transforming the way companies understand, improve, and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees, and vendors.

Snyk

Series E in 2021
Snyk empowers the world’s developers to build secure applications and equip security teams to meet the demands of the digital world. Its developer-first approach ensures organizations can secure all of the critical components of their applications from code to cloud, increase developer productivity, revenue growth, customer satisfaction, cost savings, and an overall improved security posture. Snyk’s Developer Security Platform automatically integrates with a developer’s workflow and is purpose-built for security teams to collaborate with their development teams. Snyk is used by 1,200 customers worldwide today, including industry leaders such as Asurion, Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut, and Salesforce. Snyk is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2021.

Dooly

Series A in 2021
Dooly is a provider of sales enablement platform that collects customer information essential to close business sales.

Dooly

Seed Round in 2021
Dooly is a provider of sales enablement platform that collects customer information essential to close business sales.

Steadybit

Seed Round in 2021
Your business deserves the best possible preventive action, no matter how complex your system-landscape is. steadybit adds that little extra certainty to your development and testing-workflow. Easy to install. Choose between SaaS or on-prem.

Root

Seed Round in 2021
Root gets software containers to Zero Vulns in minutes; no base image changes. We integrate into your pipeline, where we assess, triage, patch automatically & transparently.

BigID

Series D in 2020
BigID develops software that helps companies have secure customer data and satisfy privacy regulations. It uses advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help enterprises better protect their customer and employee data at a petabyte scale. The company helps organizations manage and protect their customer data, meet data privacy and protection regulations like the CCPA and GDPR, and leverage unmatched coverage for all data across all data stores. BigID aims to give enterprises the software to safeguard and steward customer data, by bringing data science to data privacy. BigID has offices in the US and Israel and is founded in 2016 by security industry veterans spanning the identity, data security, big data, and governance markets.

Jeli.io

Seed Round in 2020
Jeli is an incident analysis platform that combines more comprehensive data to deliver more proactive solutions and identify problems. It goes beyond technical errors and collects data on contributors that are so often overlooked, like team coordination and human factors.

Harbr

Series A in 2020
The Harbr data commerce platform powers new revenue streams and accelerates data businesses. It provides a branded data storefront, to deliver a refined customer experience, and the ability to collaboratively build high-value, customized data products. Build and scale your data business with Harbr. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, England.

Replicated

Series B in 2020
Replicated is the modern way to ship multi-prem software. Replicated gives software vendors the tooling needed to deliver and manage cloud native applications inside customers'​ environments to provide greater security and control.

Steadybit

Seed Round in 2020
Your business deserves the best possible preventive action, no matter how complex your system-landscape is. steadybit adds that little extra certainty to your development and testing-workflow. Easy to install. Choose between SaaS or on-prem.

Snyk

Series D in 2020
Snyk empowers the world’s developers to build secure applications and equip security teams to meet the demands of the digital world. Its developer-first approach ensures organizations can secure all of the critical components of their applications from code to cloud, increase developer productivity, revenue growth, customer satisfaction, cost savings, and an overall improved security posture. Snyk’s Developer Security Platform automatically integrates with a developer’s workflow and is purpose-built for security teams to collaborate with their development teams. Snyk is used by 1,200 customers worldwide today, including industry leaders such as Asurion, Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut, and Salesforce. Snyk is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2021.

env0

Funding Round in 2020
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.

Cape

Seed Round in 2020
Agentic Workflow Automation across all of Your Data. Cape, Inc. was founded in 2018, based in New York City and Halifax Canada, and is backed by Evolution Equity Partners, Tiger Global Management, boldstart ventures, Version One Ventures, Ridgeline Partners, Haystack, and Radical Ventures. Visit capeprivacy.com for more information.

Harbr

Funding Round in 2020
The Harbr data commerce platform powers new revenue streams and accelerates data businesses. It provides a branded data storefront, to deliver a refined customer experience, and the ability to collaboratively build high-value, customized data products. Build and scale your data business with Harbr. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, England.

FortressIQ

Series B in 2020
FortressIQ defines security, insights, and governance in enterprise business automation and AI. It is on a mission to unlock the limitless potential of the global workforce by accelerating the responsible and ethical use of AI in the enterprise. FortressIQ is a meta-learning company, focused on techniques that allow deep neural networks to scalably acquire training data by observing the world around us. The company was founded by Pankaj Chowdhry in 2017, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California.

Blockdaemon

Venture Round in 2020
Blockdaemon is a blockchain deployment facilitator that manages nodes and payment rails for blockchain networks. Their solution is fully portable, it allows its user to switch networks and chains with the click of a button, so they don't have to worry about picking the perfect network configuration from day one. They support the blockchain developer ecosystem with best-of-breed dev-ops advice. Blockdaemon was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

env0

Seed Round in 2020
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.

Spectro Cloud

Seed Round in 2020
Spectro Cloud uniquely enables organizations to deploy and manage Kubernetes in production, at scale. Its Palette enterprise Kubernetes management platform gives Platform Engineering, IT Operations and DevOps teams effortless control of the full Kubernetes lifecycle. With support for both VM and container workloads, Palette is a truly unified management platform across clouds, data centers, bare metal and edge environments. IT Operations teams are empowered to support their developers with curated Kubernetes stacks and tools based on their specific needs, with granular governance and enterprise-grade security. Spectro Cloud is a Gartner Cool Vendor, CRN Tech Innovator, and a ‘leader’ and ‘outperformer’ in GigaOm’s 2024 Radars for Edge Kubernetes and Managed Kubernetes.

BackboneAI

Seed Round in 2020
BackboneAI builds frictionless data networks through intercompany automation, a completely new category of automation. It transforms supplier and customer relationships through real-time data synchronization, fast API connectivity, and third-party application and database integration. Based in New York City and founded in 2019 by serial entrepreneur Rob Bailey, BackboneAI helps companies work together more efficiently by automating their intercompany data processes and optimizing communication through technology. The company’s investors include Fika Ventures, Boldstart Ventures, Cendana Capital, Dynamo Ventures, GGV Capital, MetaProp, Spider VC, and several notable angel investors.

WorkRails

Seed Round in 2020
WorkRails Services CPQ helps companies build professional services quotes quickly and easily. WorkRails is ideal for teams who sell complex services but struggle with accuracy and timeliness. WorkRails services CPQ platform standardizes how services are sold, allowing for repeatability, scale and revenue acceleration. WorkRails breaks down the silos between Sales, Professional Services, and their Clients, connect to other systems of record, eliminate double entry and errors , and makes selling easy.

Snyk

Series C in 2020
Snyk empowers the world’s developers to build secure applications and equip security teams to meet the demands of the digital world. Its developer-first approach ensures organizations can secure all of the critical components of their applications from code to cloud, increase developer productivity, revenue growth, customer satisfaction, cost savings, and an overall improved security posture. Snyk’s Developer Security Platform automatically integrates with a developer’s workflow and is purpose-built for security teams to collaborate with their development teams. Snyk is used by 1,200 customers worldwide today, including industry leaders such as Asurion, Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut, and Salesforce. Snyk is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2021.

HYPR

Series B in 2019
HYPR is a cybersecurity company that provides passwordless authentication for users. The HYPR Cloud Platform makes it easy to eliminate passwords and deliver lightning-fast login experiences. HYPR aims to reduce the risks associated with password-based authentication by replacing passwords with biometrics, security keys, and other strong authentication factors.

Snyk

Series B in 2019
Snyk empowers the world’s developers to build secure applications and equip security teams to meet the demands of the digital world. Its developer-first approach ensures organizations can secure all of the critical components of their applications from code to cloud, increase developer productivity, revenue growth, customer satisfaction, cost savings, and an overall improved security posture. Snyk’s Developer Security Platform automatically integrates with a developer’s workflow and is purpose-built for security teams to collaborate with their development teams. Snyk is used by 1,200 customers worldwide today, including industry leaders such as Asurion, Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut, and Salesforce. Snyk is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2021.
NALEJ is a software company that develops and operates a mosaic OS and platform. The company's mosaic OS/Platform and Tools enable IT/OT teams, operators, developers, and analysts to integrate and interoperate heterogeneous distributed resources, as well as dynamically leverage software-defined, composable open services, cloud to-edge/edge to-cloud (C2E/E2C) workloads, and effects. NALEJ is offering a flexible architecture to enable edge-optimized programmable solutions in response to increasingly complex requirements and the demanding global, national, and local environments in which the industry operates. It supports multiple storage models, including distributed replication, system failure recovery with minimal data loss at the edge, and forward deployment of stateful application services

Spectro Cloud

Seed Round in 2019
Spectro Cloud uniquely enables organizations to deploy and manage Kubernetes in production, at scale. Its Palette enterprise Kubernetes management platform gives Platform Engineering, IT Operations and DevOps teams effortless control of the full Kubernetes lifecycle. With support for both VM and container workloads, Palette is a truly unified management platform across clouds, data centers, bare metal and edge environments. IT Operations teams are empowered to support their developers with curated Kubernetes stacks and tools based on their specific needs, with granular governance and enterprise-grade security. Spectro Cloud is a Gartner Cool Vendor, CRN Tech Innovator, and a ‘leader’ and ‘outperformer’ in GigaOm’s 2024 Radars for Edge Kubernetes and Managed Kubernetes.

Superhuman

Series B in 2019
Superhuman is a software platform that weaves social insights into a workflow. The platform supports Gmail shortcuts and more allowing its users to snooze a conversation at any time so they focus on what matters, and enjoy a more productive inbox.

Harbr

Seed Round in 2019
The Harbr data commerce platform powers new revenue streams and accelerates data businesses. It provides a branded data storefront, to deliver a refined customer experience, and the ability to collaboratively build high-value, customized data products. Build and scale your data business with Harbr. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, England.

Auxon

Venture Round in 2019
Auxon is the maker of Modality, a software test platform which provides automated root-cause and risk analysis for autonomous systems of systems. The company’s mission is to provide engineers with automation to help them deliver complex software systems on predictable timelines with predictable results. Auxon serves organizations in the transportation, robotics, and defense industries.

Blockdaemon

Seed Round in 2019
Blockdaemon is a blockchain deployment facilitator that manages nodes and payment rails for blockchain networks. Their solution is fully portable, it allows its user to switch networks and chains with the click of a button, so they don't have to worry about picking the perfect network configuration from day one. They support the blockchain developer ecosystem with best-of-breed dev-ops advice. Blockdaemon was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Pinpoint.com

Series A in 2019
Pinpoint.com their platform enables product marketers and managers to build a product for their users by providing a best-in-class product communication platform that streamlines product updates to users and collects their feedback all in one place.

Catalytic

Series B in 2019
Catalytic is the easiest path to break through corporate inertia. Many companies’ employees are overworked and their skills are under-utilized, resulting in an unrewarding employee experience and a costly missed opportunity for the business. Catalytic’s cloud-based, AI-powered automation platform bridges the gap between people, data and existing technologies, providing configurable automated actions that replace routine office work, like gathering data and creating documents. Business users can create their own process-driven solutions, which can be scaled throughout their business, leading to unprecedented efficiency and competitive edge. Clients like Bosch, Dentsu Aegis Network and UL have used Catalytic to better execute on their companies’ core purpose and mission, deliver high-quality customer experiences, and realize greater profitability.

BackboneAI

Pre Seed Round in 2019
BackboneAI builds frictionless data networks through intercompany automation, a completely new category of automation. It transforms supplier and customer relationships through real-time data synchronization, fast API connectivity, and third-party application and database integration. Based in New York City and founded in 2019 by serial entrepreneur Rob Bailey, BackboneAI helps companies work together more efficiently by automating their intercompany data processes and optimizing communication through technology. The company’s investors include Fika Ventures, Boldstart Ventures, Cendana Capital, Dynamo Ventures, GGV Capital, MetaProp, Spider VC, and several notable angel investors.

Kustomer

Series C in 2019
Kustomer is the omnichannel SaaS CRM platform reimagining enterprise customer service to deliver standout experiences. It scales to meet the needs of any contact center and business by unifying data from multiple sources, enabling companies to deliver service and support through a single timeline view. Kustomer is the core platform of some of the leading customer service brands like Ring, Glovo, Glossier, Sweetgreen, Away, Rent the Runway, and UNTUCKit. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.

Jyve

Series A in 2019
Jyve is a tech platform that matches brands’ in-store execution needs with the right skilled labor, at the right time. Operational in most of America, Jyve offers brands access to certified skilled Jyvers who are complete asks to handle tasks including stocking, auditing, ordering and display building.

FortressIQ

Series A in 2018
FortressIQ defines security, insights, and governance in enterprise business automation and AI. It is on a mission to unlock the limitless potential of the global workforce by accelerating the responsible and ethical use of AI in the enterprise. FortressIQ is a meta-learning company, focused on techniques that allow deep neural networks to scalably acquire training data by observing the world around us. The company was founded by Pankaj Chowdhry in 2017, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California.

Snyk

Series A in 2018
Snyk empowers the world’s developers to build secure applications and equip security teams to meet the demands of the digital world. Its developer-first approach ensures organizations can secure all of the critical components of their applications from code to cloud, increase developer productivity, revenue growth, customer satisfaction, cost savings, and an overall improved security posture. Snyk’s Developer Security Platform automatically integrates with a developer’s workflow and is purpose-built for security teams to collaborate with their development teams. Snyk is used by 1,200 customers worldwide today, including industry leaders such as Asurion, Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut, and Salesforce. Snyk is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2021.

IOpipe

Seed Round in 2018
IOpipe is a serverless DevOps platform handling billions of events monthly to help teams build serverless applications better, faster, and stronger. With a shift in computing moving towards a serverless world, there are new challenges that emerge. They take a customer-centric approach to product building by working closely with their users to solve challenges together. They are building a remote-first, diverse team that is friendly, works hard, and is laser focused on building a great product that is best of breed for serverless application development and operations.

BigID

Series B in 2018
BigID develops software that helps companies have secure customer data and satisfy privacy regulations. It uses advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help enterprises better protect their customer and employee data at a petabyte scale. The company helps organizations manage and protect their customer data, meet data privacy and protection regulations like the CCPA and GDPR, and leverage unmatched coverage for all data across all data stores. BigID aims to give enterprises the software to safeguard and steward customer data, by bringing data science to data privacy. BigID has offices in the US and Israel and is founded in 2016 by security industry veterans spanning the identity, data security, big data, and governance markets.

Kustomer

Series B in 2018
Kustomer is the omnichannel SaaS CRM platform reimagining enterprise customer service to deliver standout experiences. It scales to meet the needs of any contact center and business by unifying data from multiple sources, enabling companies to deliver service and support through a single timeline view. Kustomer is the core platform of some of the leading customer service brands like Ring, Glovo, Glossier, Sweetgreen, Away, Rent the Runway, and UNTUCKit. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.

Wallaroo

Venture Round in 2018
Wallaroo is a purpose-built platform for last-mile ML. It provides a simple, secure, and scalable deployment capability that fits an end-to-end workflow.

BigID

Series A in 2018
BigID develops software that helps companies have secure customer data and satisfy privacy regulations. It uses advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help enterprises better protect their customer and employee data at a petabyte scale. The company helps organizations manage and protect their customer data, meet data privacy and protection regulations like the CCPA and GDPR, and leverage unmatched coverage for all data across all data stores. BigID aims to give enterprises the software to safeguard and steward customer data, by bringing data science to data privacy. BigID has offices in the US and Israel and is founded in 2016 by security industry veterans spanning the identity, data security, big data, and governance markets.

Front

Series B in 2018
Front is a communication hub for building strong customer relationships on digital channels. For many businesses, almost every customer conversation can make or break the relationship — the stakes are that high. Front puts these conversations at the center of a team’s attention and surrounds them with collaboration capabilities and contextual data from multiple systems. This lets teams stay focused on delivering timely, accurate, and deeply personalized communications. More than 7,500 businesses, including Shopify, Airbnb, Hulu, Lyft, and Mailchimp, use Front to build better customer relationships, one conversation at a time. To learn more, visit front.com.

FortressIQ

Seed Round in 2018
FortressIQ defines security, insights, and governance in enterprise business automation and AI. It is on a mission to unlock the limitless potential of the global workforce by accelerating the responsible and ethical use of AI in the enterprise. FortressIQ is a meta-learning company, focused on techniques that allow deep neural networks to scalably acquire training data by observing the world around us. The company was founded by Pankaj Chowdhry in 2017, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California.

WorkRails

Convertible Note in 2017
WorkRails Services CPQ helps companies build professional services quotes quickly and easily. WorkRails is ideal for teams who sell complex services but struggle with accuracy and timeliness. WorkRails services CPQ platform standardizes how services are sold, allowing for repeatability, scale and revenue acceleration. WorkRails breaks down the silos between Sales, Professional Services, and their Clients, connect to other systems of record, eliminate double entry and errors , and makes selling easy.

Blockdaemon

Seed Round in 2017
Blockdaemon Inc. is a blockchain node management platform that enables businesses, enterprises, and developers to efficiently deploy and manage blockchain applications. The company provides tools for exchanges, custodians, financial institutions, and developers to operate nodes across more than 30 blockchain protocols, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Polkadot. Blockdaemon's solution is designed for easy portability, allowing users to switch between networks seamlessly without the need for complex configurations. Founded in 2013 and originally known as Trak Inc., Blockdaemon has its headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, with additional offices in Los Angeles, California, and Ireland. The company supports the blockchain developer ecosystem by offering expert advice in development operations.

SecurityScorecard

Series C in 2017
SecurityScorecard is a global leader in cybersecurity ratings and the only service with over a million companies continuously rated. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, SecurityScorecard’s patented rating technology is used by over 1,000 organizations for self-monitoring, third-party risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting; making all organizations more resilient by allowing them to easily find and fix cybersecurity risks across their externally facing digital footprint. SecurityScorecard is the only provider of instant risk ratings that automatically map to vendor cybersecurity questionnaire responses - providing a true 360-degree view of risk. SecurityScorecard continues to make the world a safer place by transforming the way companies understand, improve, and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees, and vendors.

HYPR

Series A in 2017
HYPR is a cybersecurity company that provides passwordless authentication for users. The HYPR Cloud Platform makes it easy to eliminate passwords and deliver lightning-fast login experiences. HYPR aims to reduce the risks associated with password-based authentication by replacing passwords with biometrics, security keys, and other strong authentication factors.

Manifold.co

Series A in 2017
Manifold allows you to discover, buy, and manage the best developer services for your application, regardless of cloud. Manifold is on a mission to reduce the complexity of building and deploying applications with micro-services and third-party infrastructure services.

IOpipe

Seed Round in 2017
IOpipe is a serverless DevOps platform handling billions of events monthly to help teams build serverless applications better, faster, and stronger. With a shift in computing moving towards a serverless world, there are new challenges that emerge. They take a customer-centric approach to product building by working closely with their users to solve challenges together. They are building a remote-first, diverse team that is friendly, works hard, and is laser focused on building a great product that is best of breed for serverless application development and operations.

Dark

Seed Round in 2017
Dark is holistic programming language, editor, and hosted infrastructure.

Wallaroo

Seed Round in 2017
Wallaroo is a purpose-built platform for last-mile ML. It provides a simple, secure, and scalable deployment capability that fits an end-to-end workflow.

Clay

Seed Round in 2017
Clay provides innovative tools that combine various data sources to support growth teams in reaching their ideal customers. The platform enables deep customer research by integrating first-party, intent, and third-party data from over 100 sources.

Pinpoint.com

Seed Round in 2017
Pinpoint.com their platform enables product marketers and managers to build a product for their users by providing a best-in-class product communication platform that streamlines product updates to users and collects their feedback all in one place.

Snyk

Seed Round in 2017
Snyk empowers the world’s developers to build secure applications and equip security teams to meet the demands of the digital world. Its developer-first approach ensures organizations can secure all of the critical components of their applications from code to cloud, increase developer productivity, revenue growth, customer satisfaction, cost savings, and an overall improved security posture. Snyk’s Developer Security Platform automatically integrates with a developer’s workflow and is purpose-built for security teams to collaborate with their development teams. Snyk is used by 1,200 customers worldwide today, including industry leaders such as Asurion, Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut, and Salesforce. Snyk is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2021.

Klipfolio

Series B in 2017
Our mission is to help people succeed with data. We believe in empowering you to make better decisions by eliminating the unknown. Take control of your data and be stronger, better, and more competitive every day. Klipfolio is the new way people and their teams make informed decisions leveraging team-based BI, dashboards, and reporting. From startups to Fortune 500 teams, Klipfolio provides the power and flexibility you always wanted. Succeed with data and start for free.
NALEJ is a software company that develops and operates a mosaic OS and platform. The company's mosaic OS/Platform and Tools enable IT/OT teams, operators, developers, and analysts to integrate and interoperate heterogeneous distributed resources, as well as dynamically leverage software-defined, composable open services, cloud to-edge/edge to-cloud (C2E/E2C) workloads, and effects. NALEJ is offering a flexible architecture to enable edge-optimized programmable solutions in response to increasingly complex requirements and the demanding global, national, and local environments in which the industry operates. It supports multiple storage models, including distributed replication, system failure recovery with minimal data loss at the edge, and forward deployment of stateful application services

Replicated

Series A in 2016
Replicated is the modern way to ship multi-prem software. Replicated gives software vendors the tooling needed to deliver and manage cloud native applications inside customers'​ environments to provide greater security and control.

Emissary

Series A in 2016
Emissary's platform pairs sales professionals with former executives at the companies they are targeting. Emissary is a hybrid SaaS marketplace that connects sales teams on one side with people (called emissaries, naturally) who can guide them through the sales process at companies they are familiar with. The best emissaries are generally ex-executives and employees who have recently left the target company and therefore understand the decision-making processes and the politics of the organization. These Emissaries provide unprecedented insight into the people, the culture, and the politics of the target organization, allowing their clients to close key opportunities faster.

HYPR

Seed Round in 2016
HYPR is a cybersecurity company that provides passwordless authentication for users. The HYPR Cloud Platform makes it easy to eliminate passwords and deliver lightning-fast login experiences. HYPR aims to reduce the risks associated with password-based authentication by replacing passwords with biometrics, security keys, and other strong authentication factors.

WorkRails

Seed Round in 2016
WorkRails Services CPQ helps companies build professional services quotes quickly and easily. WorkRails is ideal for teams who sell complex services but struggle with accuracy and timeliness. WorkRails services CPQ platform standardizes how services are sold, allowing for repeatability, scale and revenue acceleration. WorkRails breaks down the silos between Sales, Professional Services, and their Clients, connect to other systems of record, eliminate double entry and errors , and makes selling easy.

Wove

Seed Round in 2016
Wove Technologies, Inc. specializes in developing customized software solutions that facilitate inter-brand collaboration, enabling companies to expand their customer bases through partnerships. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, Wove aims to create the world's largest network for marketing partnerships, allowing trusted brands to connect and share access to each other's loyal customers while ensuring consumer privacy is maintained. The company leverages AI-powered recommendations to help complementary brands form strategic alliances that promote significant customer growth. Wove operates as a subsidiary of Samba TV and is backed by investors including August Capital, Partech, and Origin Ventures.

Kustomer

Series A in 2016
Kustomer is the omnichannel SaaS CRM platform reimagining enterprise customer service to deliver standout experiences. It scales to meet the needs of any contact center and business by unifying data from multiple sources, enabling companies to deliver service and support through a single timeline view. Kustomer is the core platform of some of the leading customer service brands like Ring, Glovo, Glossier, Sweetgreen, Away, Rent the Runway, and UNTUCKit. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.

Catalytic

Series A in 2016
Catalytic is the easiest path to break through corporate inertia. Many companies’ employees are overworked and their skills are under-utilized, resulting in an unrewarding employee experience and a costly missed opportunity for the business. Catalytic’s cloud-based, AI-powered automation platform bridges the gap between people, data and existing technologies, providing configurable automated actions that replace routine office work, like gathering data and creating documents. Business users can create their own process-driven solutions, which can be scaled throughout their business, leading to unprecedented efficiency and competitive edge. Clients like Bosch, Dentsu Aegis Network and UL have used Catalytic to better execute on their companies’ core purpose and mission, deliver high-quality customer experiences, and realize greater profitability.
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