boldstart ventures

Boldstart Ventures, founded in 2010 and based in New York, is a private equity firm specializing in early-stage investments in technology companies within the United States. The firm positions itself as a day one partner for founders in the enterprise infrastructure and SaaS sectors, often serving as the first investor at the inception of a company. Boldstart Ventures actively collaborates with technical founders to expedite their journey toward achieving product-market fit. The firm's investment focus includes areas such as developer-first solutions, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and SaaS. Notable early investments include companies like Snyk, Kustomer, BigID, Superhuman, Front, and Security Scorecard, showcasing its commitment to supporting innovative technology ventures from their inception. Founding partner Ed Sim brings over 24 years of investment experience, having participated in the early rounds of several successful companies.

Ernest Addison

Associate

Eliot Durbin

General Partner

Munu Gandhi

Advisor

Shomik Ghosh

Partner

Jeffrey Leventhal

Partner

Guy Podjarny

Advisor

Edward G. Sim

Founder & General Partner

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Kustomer

Venture Round in 2023
Kustomer, Inc. is a customer service software company that specializes in customer relationship management (CRM). Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York City, Kustomer offers an omnichannel platform that consolidates data from various sources, enabling businesses to manage customer inquiries efficiently. The software provides a unified view of customers' buying history and previous interactions, allowing service agents to address issues such as refund requests or recurring questions with greater context. Kustomer's platform is utilized by prominent brands, enhancing their customer service capabilities by delivering seamless support experiences. The company also has an office in Durham, North Carolina.

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

Series A in 2022
Jeli, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2019 that specializes in incident analysis through its innovative platform. This platform automatically aggregates data from various sources, including emails, Slack channels, PagerDuty, Zoom recordings, and logs, providing engineers with valuable insights to better understand and address incidents. Jeli's approach transcends the traditional focus on technical errors by also considering critical aspects such as team coordination and human factors, which are often neglected in incident analysis. By integrating seamlessly with existing tools, Jeli aims to enhance collaboration and communication between engineering and business units, ultimately delivering more proactive solutions to identify and resolve problems.

Tres

Seed Round in 2022
Tres is a financial platform that streamlines financial workflows for Web3 assets, including reconciliation, balance calculation, auditing, and reporting. By aggregating data from various wallets, accounts, and platforms, Tres empowers financial teams within crypto entities to gain insights into their operations without requiring extensive crypto knowledge. The platform's data engine processes tens of millions of transactions monthly from both on-chain and off-chain sources, significantly surpassing the capabilities of competing tools while ensuring data integrity. Additionally, Tres supports the developer community with an open-source Chrome extension, enabling users to access data in any decentralized application wallet without needing private keys. This functionality reduces reliance on manual spreadsheet work, enhancing efficiency in managing and monitoring Web3 finance.

Robin

Series C in 2022
Robin is a software company that modernizes the open office and maximizes employee productivity and engagement by reducing friction. It helps employees secure the ideal space and resources for whatever project they’re working on at any given time while equipping facilities leaders with the insights they need to continually optimize the workplace. The solution to the open office isn’t more walls. It’s activity-based working. Robin schedules meetings, desks, and people in thousands of offices around the world. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusettes.

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

GraphCDN

Seed Round in 2022
Peace of mind for your GraphQL API. Reduce your origin traffic by up to 95% with our GraphQL edge cache and never worry about scaling again. Our GraphQL edge cache serves cached query results to your users all around the world in milliseconds. If a mutation changes some data, the smart purging automatically invalidates any cached query that contains that data. Scaling, inspecting and securing GraphQL APIs has always been a struggle in projects we worked on. As much as we love GraphQL for allowing us to ship good products very quickly, no traditional CDN can cache GraphQL APIs. We had to build custom caching solutions from scratch, which distracted us for weeks and the caches never worked as well as we needed them to.

Reco

Series A in 2022
Reco is a cloud collaboration tool that allows secure collaboration at the speed of business. It uses business context to protect sensitive assets shared via Slack, Jira, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and other platforms. The company develops tools that help organizations secure sensitive assets by mapping and monitoring contextual metadata. Reco monitors data sharing within and outside of an organization to detect potential problems.

Smallstep

Series A in 2022
Smallstep Labs, Inc. builds and operates the step command line interface for working with zero trust technologies. The company provides the step toolchain, a suite of services and command line components that allow to manage credentials and orchestrate security at agile devopsy shops in cloud-ish environments. It enables software teams connect and operate apps running across clouds, containers, serverless, and connected devices. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

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
Developer of contract collaboration software designed to improve the process of commercial contracting. The company's platform builds an integrated web and creates open-source versions of commonly used agreements and contracts designed to help move deals forward and faster, enabling clients to build trusted templates using standard agreements, then negotiate, sign, and manage contracts in a single workflow.

Wallaroo

Series A in 2022
Our mission is to provide an Enterprise AI Platform to enable clients to deploy ML & Analytics projects into production quickly, at scale, and at low cost.

Slim.AI

Series A in 2022
Slim.AI helps application developers create, build, deploy and run their cloud native apps with zero friction, complexity, and waste. The company's solutions automatically optimize the composition and construction of containerized applications, improve build and deploy cycles, and provide deep insight to application behavior and performance. With Slim, developers can gain control over containerized app size, performance, cost, security and deployment times without specialized knowledge. Developers can focus on writing great code, maintain high velocity and easily “build, run and own” their apps with low overhead and DevOps burden. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Boxborough, MA, USA.

Blockdaemon

Series C in 2022
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.

Kumospace

Venture Round in 2021
Developer of a video chat and workspace platform intended to serve event organizers and remote businesses. The company's platform facilitates users to connect people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing and provides the security of video conferencing, enabling clients to host and participate in immersive virtual events and also bringing teams together to do their best work.

CodeSee

Seed Round in 2021
CodeSee analyzes the data flowing through your system to maintain an updated map of your system architecture, its components, and the connections between them. Developers can explore at a high level, or dive in and see the data right next to the code. In other words...We make grokking a codebase easy. Developers stop feeling like outsiders and start feeling like high performers. Faster.

Snyk

Series F in 2021
Snyk Ltd. is a software as a service company that assists organizations in identifying and addressing vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies and container images. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, Snyk offers a developer-first security platform that includes Snyk Code, which provides static application security testing to enhance security visibility and remediation across various components of modern applications. The platform empowers developers to scan their code for vulnerabilities, offering alerts and guidance on remediation within their existing code editors. Snyk also provides tools for container vulnerability management, application security management, licensing compliance, and infrastructure as code security. By leveraging an internal database of software security flaws, Snyk helps organizations secure their applications throughout the development lifecycle. The company has established a strategic partnership with Rapid7 and operates additional offices in Tel Aviv, Boston, and Ontario.

Replicated

Series C in 2021
Replicated extends an existing cloud based SaaS product into a version that is easily installed, licensed, managed & supported in their customers' private environment (on-prem data center or private cloud). Unlike current substitutes (VMs), we do this without the SaaS vendor needing to maintain a secondary product/code base, or build licensing/updating/support features unnecessary for the public cloud version.

dope.security

Venture Round in 2021
Dope Security is a stealth technology company.

env0

Series A in 2021
env0 is a developer of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management software based in Giv'atayim, Israel. The company offers a cloud management platform that allows businesses to efficiently manage their cloud infrastructure through environment provisioning, governance, and workflow tools. The platform is designed to empower a range of users, including developers, site reliability engineers, data scientists, and support staff, by providing a self-service environment that facilitates the handling of complex workloads. With capabilities for creating custom environments and running end-to-end tests on each pull request, env0 enables organizations to enhance productivity while maintaining cost control across major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

Dooly

Series B in 2021
Dooly Research Ltd. is a Canadian company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-driven sales enablement platform designed to enhance the efficiency of sales teams. Founded in 2015, the Vancouver-based company offers software that automates the customer relationship management process by capturing, sharing, and organizing essential customer information. The platform facilitates the synchronization of digital notes, fields, and tasks directly with Salesforce, allowing sales and customer success teams to minimize time spent on administrative duties. By streamlining the flow of information from meetings and customer interactions, Dooly enables teams to focus more on closing sales and achieving core business objectives.

Kumospace

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a video chat and workspace platform intended to serve event organizers and remote businesses. The company's platform facilitates users to connect people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing and provides the security of video conferencing, enabling clients to host and participate in immersive virtual events and also bringing teams together to do their best work.

HYPR

Series C in 2021
HYPR is The Passwordless Company backed by Comcast, Samsung, and Mastercard. The HYPR Cloud Platform makes it easy to go Passwordless across the enterprise by combining the security of a smart card with the convenience of a smartphone. With HYPR, businesses are finally able to solve the desktop MFA gap, eliminate customer passwords, and deliver lightning-fast login experiences their users love.

SecurityScorecard

Series E in 2021
SecurityScorecard, Inc. is a cybersecurity ratings and continuous monitoring platform that evaluates the cybersecurity strength of businesses and third-party vendors. Founded in 2013, the company has developed a patented technology that provides instant risk ratings for over a million companies, helping organizations manage their cybersecurity risks more effectively. Its offerings include ThreatMarket, a cloud-based vulnerability search engine that assesses security posture across various risk categories, and Score Planner, which allows companies to explore remediation strategies. Additionally, SecurityScorecard provides tools for vendor risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting through its Scorecard Event Log and Atlas platform for questionnaire management. The company serves a global clientele, including Fortune 1000 organizations, and collaborates with value-added resellers and service partners to deliver its solutions. Based in New York, SecurityScorecard aims to enhance organizational resilience by facilitating the identification and mitigation of cybersecurity risks.

Snyk

Series E in 2021
Snyk Ltd. is a software as a service company that assists organizations in identifying and addressing vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies and container images. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, Snyk offers a developer-first security platform that includes Snyk Code, which provides static application security testing to enhance security visibility and remediation across various components of modern applications. The platform empowers developers to scan their code for vulnerabilities, offering alerts and guidance on remediation within their existing code editors. Snyk also provides tools for container vulnerability management, application security management, licensing compliance, and infrastructure as code security. By leveraging an internal database of software security flaws, Snyk helps organizations secure their applications throughout the development lifecycle. The company has established a strategic partnership with Rapid7 and operates additional offices in Tel Aviv, Boston, and Ontario.

Dooly

Series A in 2021
Dooly Research Ltd. is a Canadian company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-driven sales enablement platform designed to enhance the efficiency of sales teams. Founded in 2015, the Vancouver-based company offers software that automates the customer relationship management process by capturing, sharing, and organizing essential customer information. The platform facilitates the synchronization of digital notes, fields, and tasks directly with Salesforce, allowing sales and customer success teams to minimize time spent on administrative duties. By streamlining the flow of information from meetings and customer interactions, Dooly enables teams to focus more on closing sales and achieving core business objectives.

Dooly

Seed Round in 2021
Dooly Research Ltd. is a Canadian company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-driven sales enablement platform designed to enhance the efficiency of sales teams. Founded in 2015, the Vancouver-based company offers software that automates the customer relationship management process by capturing, sharing, and organizing essential customer information. The platform facilitates the synchronization of digital notes, fields, and tasks directly with Salesforce, allowing sales and customer success teams to minimize time spent on administrative duties. By streamlining the flow of information from meetings and customer interactions, Dooly enables teams to focus more on closing sales and achieving core business objectives.

Slim.AI

Seed Round in 2021
Slim.AI helps application developers create, build, deploy and run their cloud native apps with zero friction, complexity, and waste. The company's solutions automatically optimize the composition and construction of containerized applications, improve build and deploy cycles, and provide deep insight to application behavior and performance. With Slim, developers can gain control over containerized app size, performance, cost, security and deployment times without specialized knowledge. Developers can focus on writing great code, maintain high velocity and easily “build, run and own” their apps with low overhead and DevOps burden. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Boxborough, MA, USA.

BigID

Series D in 2020
BigID, Inc. is a software company focused on personal data protection and privacy compliance. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Tel Aviv and London, BigID offers a platform that employs advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help organizations protect and manage customer data. The company's solutions enable enterprises to discover and inventory personal information across diverse data types, automate access rights fulfillment, map data flows, and comply with privacy regulations such as the GDPR and CCPA. By providing tools for data minimization, consent management, and risk assessment, BigID aims to enhance data privacy practices and reduce breach risks for businesses operating at scale.

Jeli

Seed Round in 2020
Jeli, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2019 that specializes in incident analysis through its innovative platform. This platform automatically aggregates data from various sources, including emails, Slack channels, PagerDuty, Zoom recordings, and logs, providing engineers with valuable insights to better understand and address incidents. Jeli's approach transcends the traditional focus on technical errors by also considering critical aspects such as team coordination and human factors, which are often neglected in incident analysis. By integrating seamlessly with existing tools, Jeli aims to enhance collaboration and communication between engineering and business units, ultimately delivering more proactive solutions to identify and resolve problems.

Harbr

Series A in 2020
Harbr’s enterprise data exchange platform empowers organizations to unlock more value from their data and to accelerate data-driven business models through its secure, custom-branded data sharing and collaboration platform (delivered as a service). It turns data and models into self-service digital products and provides granular control of sharing and collaborating on them with internal and external stakeholders. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, England.

Replicated

Series B in 2020
Replicated extends an existing cloud based SaaS product into a version that is easily installed, licensed, managed & supported in their customers' private environment (on-prem data center or private cloud). Unlike current substitutes (VMs), we do this without the SaaS vendor needing to maintain a secondary product/code base, or build licensing/updating/support features unnecessary for the public cloud version.

Replicated

Series B in 2020
Replicated extends an existing cloud based SaaS product into a version that is easily installed, licensed, managed & supported in their customers' private environment (on-prem data center or private cloud). Unlike current substitutes (VMs), we do this without the SaaS vendor needing to maintain a secondary product/code base, or build licensing/updating/support features unnecessary for the public cloud version.

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.

env0

Funding Round in 2020
env0 is a developer of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management software based in Giv'atayim, Israel. The company offers a cloud management platform that allows businesses to efficiently manage their cloud infrastructure through environment provisioning, governance, and workflow tools. The platform is designed to empower a range of users, including developers, site reliability engineers, data scientists, and support staff, by providing a self-service environment that facilitates the handling of complex workloads. With capabilities for creating custom environments and running end-to-end tests on each pull request, env0 enables organizations to enhance productivity while maintaining cost control across major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

Cape Privacy

Seed Round in 2020
Empowering data scientists and data owners to collaborate in a secure and trusted way

Harbr

Funding Round in 2020
Harbr’s enterprise data exchange platform empowers organizations to unlock more value from their data and to accelerate data-driven business models through its secure, custom-branded data sharing and collaboration platform (delivered as a service). It turns data and models into self-service digital products and provides granular control of sharing and collaborating on them with internal and external stakeholders. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, England.

FortressIQ

Series B in 2020
FortressIQ, Inc. is a company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based robotic process automation, offering a platform designed to provide real-time and comprehensive insights into enterprise processes. Established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company focuses on automated process discovery, enabling organizations to gain valuable insights and analytics. Its solutions encompass a range of areas, including employee experience, system optimization, process redesign, and value engineering. FortressIQ aims to enhance business automation and AI governance, with a mission to unlock the potential of the global workforce through the responsible and ethical application of AI technologies. The company's innovative approach involves utilizing meta-learning techniques that allow deep neural networks to effectively gather training data by observing their environments.

Blockdaemon

Venture Round in 2020
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.

env0

Seed Round in 2020
env0 is a developer of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management software based in Giv'atayim, Israel. The company offers a cloud management platform that allows businesses to efficiently manage their cloud infrastructure through environment provisioning, governance, and workflow tools. The platform is designed to empower a range of users, including developers, site reliability engineers, data scientists, and support staff, by providing a self-service environment that facilitates the handling of complex workloads. With capabilities for creating custom environments and running end-to-end tests on each pull request, env0 enables organizations to enhance productivity while maintaining cost control across major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

Spectro Cloud

Seed Round in 2020
Spectro Cloud, Inc. is an infrastructure company that specializes in providing a Cloud-as-a-Service platform designed for managing Kubernetes clusters across public clouds, private clouds, and bare metal environments. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company offers scalable, policy-based cluster management solutions for enterprises. Its platform automates the deployment, maintenance, and compliance monitoring of Kubernetes clusters, utilizing declarative models that encompass the entire infrastructure stack, including operating systems, networking frameworks, and storage subsystems. This approach enables operations teams to maintain control while benefiting from automated processes for routine tasks and upgrades.

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, Inc. is a company that provides cloud-based platforms designed to enhance the organization and connectivity of professional services teams, partners, and freelancers within software companies. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Lloyd Harbor, New York, WorkRails has developed the first Service Sales Platform, which automates the entire selling process. This platform streamlines essential tasks such as portfolio creation, service configuration, pricing, and quoting, thereby improving efficiency and accuracy in service sales.

Snyk

Series C in 2020
Snyk Ltd. is a software as a service company that assists organizations in identifying and addressing vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies and container images. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, Snyk offers a developer-first security platform that includes Snyk Code, which provides static application security testing to enhance security visibility and remediation across various components of modern applications. The platform empowers developers to scan their code for vulnerabilities, offering alerts and guidance on remediation within their existing code editors. Snyk also provides tools for container vulnerability management, application security management, licensing compliance, and infrastructure as code security. By leveraging an internal database of software security flaws, Snyk helps organizations secure their applications throughout the development lifecycle. The company has established a strategic partnership with Rapid7 and operates additional offices in Tel Aviv, Boston, and Ontario.

HYPR

Series B in 2019
HYPR is The Passwordless Company backed by Comcast, Samsung, and Mastercard. The HYPR Cloud Platform makes it easy to go Passwordless across the enterprise by combining the security of a smart card with the convenience of a smartphone. With HYPR, businesses are finally able to solve the desktop MFA gap, eliminate customer passwords, and deliver lightning-fast login experiences their users love.

Snyk

Series B in 2019
Snyk Ltd. is a software as a service company that assists organizations in identifying and addressing vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies and container images. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, Snyk offers a developer-first security platform that includes Snyk Code, which provides static application security testing to enhance security visibility and remediation across various components of modern applications. The platform empowers developers to scan their code for vulnerabilities, offering alerts and guidance on remediation within their existing code editors. Snyk also provides tools for container vulnerability management, application security management, licensing compliance, and infrastructure as code security. By leveraging an internal database of software security flaws, Snyk helps organizations secure their applications throughout the development lifecycle. The company has established a strategic partnership with Rapid7 and operates additional offices in Tel Aviv, Boston, and Ontario.

Nalej

Seed Round in 2019
Nalej operates an edge computing platform designed to facilitate the end-to-end lifecycle management of distributed infrastructure, networks, multi-cloud environments, and applications. The platform empowers organizations by enabling the secure development, deployment, and management of applications and data across various servers and devices, optimizing resources based on geographic distribution and specific operational parameters. Nalej's software integrates advanced technologies such as Kubernetes, serverless computing, and machine learning, allowing for seamless automation of application deployment and workload management. This capability significantly reduces the complexity and cost associated with edge computing by providing developers and analysts with comprehensive monitoring and operational tools. Furthermore, Nalej's platform continuously analyzes optimization opportunities, ensuring that resources are utilized effectively while addressing security and compliance needs across the enterprise.

Harbr

Seed Round in 2019
Harbr’s enterprise data exchange platform empowers organizations to unlock more value from their data and to accelerate data-driven business models through its secure, custom-branded data sharing and collaboration platform (delivered as a service). It turns data and models into self-service digital products and provides granular control of sharing and collaborating on them with internal and external stakeholders. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, England.

Superhuman

Series B in 2019
Superhuman Labs Inc., founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, develops an advanced email application designed to enhance productivity and user experience. Unlike traditional email clients, Superhuman aims to revolutionize the inbox with features that promote efficiency and organization. Its offerings include A.I. triage, undo send, social network insights, follow-up reminders, scheduled messages, and read statuses, all contributing to a fast and intuitive user interface. The application is tailored for users seeking a premium experience, allowing them to manage their email with greater ease and effectiveness. Superhuman's team has a strong background in technology, having previously founded successful ventures such as Rapportive and Rapleaf, and the company is backed by prominent investors from Silicon Valley and New York City.

Auxon

Venture Round in 2019
Auxon is a software company that enables AI & systems engineers to build safe, resilient systems. It is a highly-automated system that requires tight integration of complex hardware & software that must interact predictably and safely with the physical world. This increasing complexity has led to expensive production delays, safety recalls, and cyber-security breaches as emergent failures become increasingly commonplace. Auxon’s advanced software tools provide users with continuous, intelligent analysis of potential system problems during development and after deployment, so they can get to market faster with safer, more resilient, and more secure products. The company's continuous verification & validation platform proactively expose hidden system flaws to help you avoid systematic failures while engineering for resilience against random faults.

Blockdaemon

Seed Round in 2019
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.

Pinpoint

Series A in 2019
Pinpoint is a technology company founded in 2016 that specializes in enhancing software delivery through data science and engineering performance management. Its platform integrates work activity from various software delivery tools and employs proprietary artificial intelligence to evaluate impact, foresee risks, and unlock potential within engineering teams. Additionally, Pinpoint has developed innovative search technologies that improve web navigation for both wired and wireless platforms. Their private-label search solutions allow clients, including vertical portals and mobile carriers, to create customized search experiences tailored to their specific content and user interests. By establishing a SearchProfile for each client, Pinpoint's technology delivers highly relevant search results that enhance site traffic, boost user loyalty, and generate new e-commerce opportunities. The company serves notable clients such as Golf.com and the American Kennel Club, and is recognized for its contributions to next-generation search infrastructure. Based in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina, with an office in San Francisco, Pinpoint is privately held and backed by venture capital.

Catalytic

Series B in 2019
Catalytic Inc. operates a SaaS based automation platform to remove data processing tasks. The product enable business users to rapidly build an intelligent automation layer to process data, documents, emails, web sites, and systems by coordinating people, bots, and AI. It can be used to automate tasks such as, scanning and generating documents & spreadsheets, automated response to triggers, and collection of data; connect to systems to push and pull data and to create custom integrations with APIs and SFTP; and to automate cognitive tasks with machine learning. Catalytic Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with an additional office in Naperville, Illinois.

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, Inc. is a customer service software company that specializes in customer relationship management (CRM). Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York City, Kustomer offers an omnichannel platform that consolidates data from various sources, enabling businesses to manage customer inquiries efficiently. The software provides a unified view of customers' buying history and previous interactions, allowing service agents to address issues such as refund requests or recurring questions with greater context. Kustomer's platform is utilized by prominent brands, enhancing their customer service capabilities by delivering seamless support experiences. The company also has an office in Durham, North Carolina.

Jyve

Series A in 2019
Jyve Corporation is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that focuses on connecting businesses with on-demand labor through its mobile application. Founded in 2015, Jyve serves grocery stores, brands, and retailers by providing access to a network of certified workers, known as Jyvers. This platform allows brands to efficiently meet their in-store execution needs by matching them with skilled labor capable of performing various tasks such as stocking, auditing, ordering, and building displays. Operating primarily across the United States, Jyve enhances operational efficiency for its clients by ensuring the right workforce is available at the right time.

FortressIQ

Series A in 2018
FortressIQ, Inc. is a company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based robotic process automation, offering a platform designed to provide real-time and comprehensive insights into enterprise processes. Established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company focuses on automated process discovery, enabling organizations to gain valuable insights and analytics. Its solutions encompass a range of areas, including employee experience, system optimization, process redesign, and value engineering. FortressIQ aims to enhance business automation and AI governance, with a mission to unlock the potential of the global workforce through the responsible and ethical application of AI technologies. The company's innovative approach involves utilizing meta-learning techniques that allow deep neural networks to effectively gather training data by observing their environments.

Snyk

Series A in 2018
Snyk Ltd. is a software as a service company that assists organizations in identifying and addressing vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies and container images. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, Snyk offers a developer-first security platform that includes Snyk Code, which provides static application security testing to enhance security visibility and remediation across various components of modern applications. The platform empowers developers to scan their code for vulnerabilities, offering alerts and guidance on remediation within their existing code editors. Snyk also provides tools for container vulnerability management, application security management, licensing compliance, and infrastructure as code security. By leveraging an internal database of software security flaws, Snyk helps organizations secure their applications throughout the development lifecycle. The company has established a strategic partnership with Rapid7 and operates additional offices in Tel Aviv, Boston, and Ontario.

Snyk

Series B in 2018
Snyk Ltd. is a software as a service company that assists organizations in identifying and addressing vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies and container images. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, Snyk offers a developer-first security platform that includes Snyk Code, which provides static application security testing to enhance security visibility and remediation across various components of modern applications. The platform empowers developers to scan their code for vulnerabilities, offering alerts and guidance on remediation within their existing code editors. Snyk also provides tools for container vulnerability management, application security management, licensing compliance, and infrastructure as code security. By leveraging an internal database of software security flaws, Snyk helps organizations secure their applications throughout the development lifecycle. The company has established a strategic partnership with Rapid7 and operates additional offices in Tel Aviv, Boston, and Ontario.

IOpipe

Seed Round in 2018
IOpipe is a DevOps platform specifically designed for serverless applications, managing billions of events monthly. It offers a comprehensive toolbox for developing, monitoring, and operating these applications, addressing the unique challenges that arise from the shift towards serverless computing. The platform features an open-source module that enables real-time telemetry, tracing, profiling, alerts, logs, and error tracking, allowing developers to gain insights into the performance and operations of their serverless functions, such as those running on Amazon Lambda. By adopting a customer-centric approach, IOpipe collaborates closely with users to resolve challenges effectively. The company emphasizes building a remote-first, diverse team committed to delivering a top-tier product for serverless development and operations.

BigID

Series B in 2018
BigID, Inc. is a software company focused on personal data protection and privacy compliance. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Tel Aviv and London, BigID offers a platform that employs advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help organizations protect and manage customer data. The company's solutions enable enterprises to discover and inventory personal information across diverse data types, automate access rights fulfillment, map data flows, and comply with privacy regulations such as the GDPR and CCPA. By providing tools for data minimization, consent management, and risk assessment, BigID aims to enhance data privacy practices and reduce breach risks for businesses operating at scale.

Kustomer

Series B in 2018
Kustomer, Inc. is a customer service software company that specializes in customer relationship management (CRM). Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York City, Kustomer offers an omnichannel platform that consolidates data from various sources, enabling businesses to manage customer inquiries efficiently. The software provides a unified view of customers' buying history and previous interactions, allowing service agents to address issues such as refund requests or recurring questions with greater context. Kustomer's platform is utilized by prominent brands, enhancing their customer service capabilities by delivering seamless support experiences. The company also has an office in Durham, North Carolina.

Wallaroo

Venture Round in 2018
Our mission is to provide an Enterprise AI Platform to enable clients to deploy ML & Analytics projects into production quickly, at scale, and at low cost.

Snyk

Series A in 2018
Snyk Ltd. is a software as a service company that assists organizations in identifying and addressing vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies and container images. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, Snyk offers a developer-first security platform that includes Snyk Code, which provides static application security testing to enhance security visibility and remediation across various components of modern applications. The platform empowers developers to scan their code for vulnerabilities, offering alerts and guidance on remediation within their existing code editors. Snyk also provides tools for container vulnerability management, application security management, licensing compliance, and infrastructure as code security. By leveraging an internal database of software security flaws, Snyk helps organizations secure their applications throughout the development lifecycle. The company has established a strategic partnership with Rapid7 and operates additional offices in Tel Aviv, Boston, and Ontario.

Blockdaemon

Seed Round in 2018
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.

BigID

Series A in 2018
BigID, Inc. is a software company focused on personal data protection and privacy compliance. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Tel Aviv and London, BigID offers a platform that employs advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help organizations protect and manage customer data. The company's solutions enable enterprises to discover and inventory personal information across diverse data types, automate access rights fulfillment, map data flows, and comply with privacy regulations such as the GDPR and CCPA. By providing tools for data minimization, consent management, and risk assessment, BigID aims to enhance data privacy practices and reduce breach risks for businesses operating at scale.

Front

Series B in 2018
Front is a collaborative customer communication platform that integrates email and applications to enhance interactions between teams and customers. By offering a shared inbox, Front enables businesses to manage communications efficiently and foster meaningful relationships. The platform is utilized by over 6,000 organizations to scale personalized customer engagement and streamline workflows, ultimately driving significant business impact. Through its focus on facilitating natural conversations, Front helps companies cultivate enduring customer relationships and transform their operational effectiveness.

FortressIQ

Seed Round in 2018
FortressIQ, Inc. is a company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based robotic process automation, offering a platform designed to provide real-time and comprehensive insights into enterprise processes. Established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company focuses on automated process discovery, enabling organizations to gain valuable insights and analytics. Its solutions encompass a range of areas, including employee experience, system optimization, process redesign, and value engineering. FortressIQ aims to enhance business automation and AI governance, with a mission to unlock the potential of the global workforce through the responsible and ethical application of AI technologies. The company's innovative approach involves utilizing meta-learning techniques that allow deep neural networks to effectively gather training data by observing their environments.

WorkRails

Convertible Note in 2017
WorkRails, Inc. is a company that provides cloud-based platforms designed to enhance the organization and connectivity of professional services teams, partners, and freelancers within software companies. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Lloyd Harbor, New York, WorkRails has developed the first Service Sales Platform, which automates the entire selling process. This platform streamlines essential tasks such as portfolio creation, service configuration, pricing, and quoting, thereby improving efficiency and accuracy in service sales.

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, Inc. is a cybersecurity ratings and continuous monitoring platform that evaluates the cybersecurity strength of businesses and third-party vendors. Founded in 2013, the company has developed a patented technology that provides instant risk ratings for over a million companies, helping organizations manage their cybersecurity risks more effectively. Its offerings include ThreatMarket, a cloud-based vulnerability search engine that assesses security posture across various risk categories, and Score Planner, which allows companies to explore remediation strategies. Additionally, SecurityScorecard provides tools for vendor risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting through its Scorecard Event Log and Atlas platform for questionnaire management. The company serves a global clientele, including Fortune 1000 organizations, and collaborates with value-added resellers and service partners to deliver its solutions. Based in New York, SecurityScorecard aims to enhance organizational resilience by facilitating the identification and mitigation of cybersecurity risks.

HYPR

Series A in 2017
HYPR is The Passwordless Company backed by Comcast, Samsung, and Mastercard. The HYPR Cloud Platform makes it easy to go Passwordless across the enterprise by combining the security of a smart card with the convenience of a smartphone. With HYPR, businesses are finally able to solve the desktop MFA gap, eliminate customer passwords, and deliver lightning-fast login experiences their users love.

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 DevOps platform specifically designed for serverless applications, managing billions of events monthly. It offers a comprehensive toolbox for developing, monitoring, and operating these applications, addressing the unique challenges that arise from the shift towards serverless computing. The platform features an open-source module that enables real-time telemetry, tracing, profiling, alerts, logs, and error tracking, allowing developers to gain insights into the performance and operations of their serverless functions, such as those running on Amazon Lambda. By adopting a customer-centric approach, IOpipe collaborates closely with users to resolve challenges effectively. The company emphasizes building a remote-first, diverse team committed to delivering a top-tier product for serverless development and operations.

Dark

Seed Round in 2017
Dark Inc. engages in creating a new programming language, tightly integrated with an editor, compiler, and PaaS that allow engineers to build distributed applications using high-level primitives. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Wallaroo

Seed Round in 2017
Our mission is to provide an Enterprise AI Platform to enable clients to deploy ML & Analytics projects into production quickly, at scale, and at low cost.

Clay

Seed Round in 2017
Clay Labs Inc. operates a platform that facilitates the creation of functions as a service (FaaS), enabling the development of Alexa skills, data analysis pipelines, and reusable microservices. The platform supports the processing of webhooks and integrates with third-party SaaS APIs, allowing for pre and post-processing tasks. Additionally, it offers a toolkit for rapid prototyping, enabling developers to create serverless HTTPS functions quickly. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, Clay Labs aims to combine the functionalities of spreadsheets, coding, and automation into a cohesive tool that enhances productivity and innovation.

Pinpoint

Seed Round in 2017
Pinpoint is a technology company founded in 2016 that specializes in enhancing software delivery through data science and engineering performance management. Its platform integrates work activity from various software delivery tools and employs proprietary artificial intelligence to evaluate impact, foresee risks, and unlock potential within engineering teams. Additionally, Pinpoint has developed innovative search technologies that improve web navigation for both wired and wireless platforms. Their private-label search solutions allow clients, including vertical portals and mobile carriers, to create customized search experiences tailored to their specific content and user interests. By establishing a SearchProfile for each client, Pinpoint's technology delivers highly relevant search results that enhance site traffic, boost user loyalty, and generate new e-commerce opportunities. The company serves notable clients such as Golf.com and the American Kennel Club, and is recognized for its contributions to next-generation search infrastructure. Based in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina, with an office in San Francisco, Pinpoint is privately held and backed by venture capital.

Snyk

Seed Round in 2017
Snyk Ltd. is a software as a service company that assists organizations in identifying and addressing vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies and container images. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, Snyk offers a developer-first security platform that includes Snyk Code, which provides static application security testing to enhance security visibility and remediation across various components of modern applications. The platform empowers developers to scan their code for vulnerabilities, offering alerts and guidance on remediation within their existing code editors. Snyk also provides tools for container vulnerability management, application security management, licensing compliance, and infrastructure as code security. By leveraging an internal database of software security flaws, Snyk helps organizations secure their applications throughout the development lifecycle. The company has established a strategic partnership with Rapid7 and operates additional offices in Tel Aviv, Boston, and Ontario.

Klipfolio

Series B in 2017
Klipfolio Inc. is a cloud-based business intelligence company that specializes in providing real-time dashboard solutions. Its flagship product, Klipfolio Dashboard, empowers users to monitor key business metrics by connecting to various data sources, allowing for data manipulation, visualization, and sharing across devices including web browsers and TV monitors. In addition to its dashboard capabilities, Klipfolio offers consulting services in design, business analysis, and data visualization, as well as technical training. The company caters to a diverse range of sectors, including technology, healthcare, financial services, and government organizations. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, Klipfolio aims to enhance decision-making by enabling users to take control of their data.

Nalej

Seed Round in 2016
Nalej operates an edge computing platform designed to facilitate the end-to-end lifecycle management of distributed infrastructure, networks, multi-cloud environments, and applications. The platform empowers organizations by enabling the secure development, deployment, and management of applications and data across various servers and devices, optimizing resources based on geographic distribution and specific operational parameters. Nalej's software integrates advanced technologies such as Kubernetes, serverless computing, and machine learning, allowing for seamless automation of application deployment and workload management. This capability significantly reduces the complexity and cost associated with edge computing by providing developers and analysts with comprehensive monitoring and operational tools. Furthermore, Nalej's platform continuously analyzes optimization opportunities, ensuring that resources are utilized effectively while addressing security and compliance needs across the enterprise.

Replicated

Series A in 2016
Replicated extends an existing cloud based SaaS product into a version that is easily installed, licensed, managed & supported in their customers' private environment (on-prem data center or private cloud). Unlike current substitutes (VMs), we do this without the SaaS vendor needing to maintain a secondary product/code base, or build licensing/updating/support features unnecessary for the public cloud version.

Emissary

Series A in 2016
Emissary, Inc. operates an online platform that connects sales professionals with former executives from targeted companies, facilitating the exchange of advice and introductions. This hybrid SaaS marketplace enables sales teams to access valuable insights from individuals, known as emissaries, who possess firsthand knowledge of the organization's dynamics, decision-making processes, and internal politics. By leveraging the expertise of these former executives, Emissary helps clients navigate the sales process more effectively and close opportunities more swiftly. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, Emissary was previously known as Leroy Technologies, Inc., a name it adopted in February 2017.

HYPR

Seed Round in 2016
HYPR is The Passwordless Company backed by Comcast, Samsung, and Mastercard. The HYPR Cloud Platform makes it easy to go Passwordless across the enterprise by combining the security of a smart card with the convenience of a smartphone. With HYPR, businesses are finally able to solve the desktop MFA gap, eliminate customer passwords, and deliver lightning-fast login experiences their users love.

WorkRails

Seed Round in 2016
WorkRails, Inc. is a company that provides cloud-based platforms designed to enhance the organization and connectivity of professional services teams, partners, and freelancers within software companies. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Lloyd Harbor, New York, WorkRails has developed the first Service Sales Platform, which automates the entire selling process. This platform streamlines essential tasks such as portfolio creation, service configuration, pricing, and quoting, thereby improving efficiency and accuracy in service sales.

Wove

Seed Round in 2016
Wove Technologies, Inc. specializes in developing customized software solutions that facilitate inter-brand collaboration, enabling companies to build new customer bases through partnerships. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, Wove aims to create the largest network for marketing partnerships, allowing trusted brands to connect with each other's loyal customers while ensuring consumer privacy is upheld. With support from investors such as August Capital, Partech, and Origin Ventures, Wove empowers brands to enhance their marketing strategies by leveraging the data and resources of other brands. The company operates as a subsidiary of Samba TV.

Kustomer

Series A in 2016
Kustomer, Inc. is a customer service software company that specializes in customer relationship management (CRM). Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York City, Kustomer offers an omnichannel platform that consolidates data from various sources, enabling businesses to manage customer inquiries efficiently. The software provides a unified view of customers' buying history and previous interactions, allowing service agents to address issues such as refund requests or recurring questions with greater context. Kustomer's platform is utilized by prominent brands, enhancing their customer service capabilities by delivering seamless support experiences. The company also has an office in Durham, North Carolina.

Catalytic

Series A in 2016
Catalytic Inc. operates a SaaS based automation platform to remove data processing tasks. The product enable business users to rapidly build an intelligent automation layer to process data, documents, emails, web sites, and systems by coordinating people, bots, and AI. It can be used to automate tasks such as, scanning and generating documents & spreadsheets, automated response to triggers, and collection of data; connect to systems to push and pull data and to create custom integrations with APIs and SFTP; and to automate cognitive tasks with machine learning. Catalytic Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with an additional office in Naperville, Illinois.

Smallstep

Seed Round in 2016
Smallstep Labs, Inc. builds and operates the step command line interface for working with zero trust technologies. The company provides the step toolchain, a suite of services and command line components that allow to manage credentials and orchestrate security at agile devopsy shops in cloud-ish environments. It enables software teams connect and operate apps running across clouds, containers, serverless, and connected devices. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

SecurityScorecard

Series B in 2016
SecurityScorecard, Inc. is a cybersecurity ratings and continuous monitoring platform that evaluates the cybersecurity strength of businesses and third-party vendors. Founded in 2013, the company has developed a patented technology that provides instant risk ratings for over a million companies, helping organizations manage their cybersecurity risks more effectively. Its offerings include ThreatMarket, a cloud-based vulnerability search engine that assesses security posture across various risk categories, and Score Planner, which allows companies to explore remediation strategies. Additionally, SecurityScorecard provides tools for vendor risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting through its Scorecard Event Log and Atlas platform for questionnaire management. The company serves a global clientele, including Fortune 1000 organizations, and collaborates with value-added resellers and service partners to deliver its solutions. Based in New York, SecurityScorecard aims to enhance organizational resilience by facilitating the identification and mitigation of cybersecurity risks.

Manifold.co

Seed Round in 2016
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.
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