Cervin

Cervin Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 and based in California, focusing exclusively on seed and early-stage investments in the B2B software sector. The firm targets opportunities in technology, specifically in areas such as enterprise software, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, and mobile applications. Cervin Ventures typically invests between $2 million and $5 million and aims to maintain a selective investment approach, limiting its portfolio to 10-12 companies. The firm does not consider B2C investments and is known for its emphasis on capital-efficient business models that can disrupt traditional enterprise software. Managing Director Preetish Nijhawan, a co-founder of Akamai Technologies, leads the firm in its mission to support innovative startups primarily in the United States.

Mila Ferrell

Partner

Neeraj Gupta

Co-Founder & General Partner

Courtney McKee

Director of Finance

Preetish Nijhawan

Co-Founder & General Partner

Rohit Rao

Investor

Samir Shah

Operating Partner

123 past transactions

Zycada

Seed Round in 2016
Zycada Networks, Inc. develops and deploys a bot-driven eCommerce acceleration platform for online retailers. The company’s Zycada platform is purpose built to accelerate content, delivering online shopping experience possible. Its Zycada bots act as a concierge, working on behalf of users to pre-assemble content before it’s requested. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Campbell, California.

Folloze

Seed Round in 2015
Folloze is a provider of an innovative Account-Based Management (ABM) Sales Platform, which enables B2B sales teams to use marketing techniques to engage, develop, and win their top target accounts. Built for scale, the platform allows marketing to empower sales to deliver account-specific content campaigns, content automation, actionable account analytics, and more, all from within their familiar sales tools. These capabilities enable salespeople to act as consultants through the selling process, delivering significantly more value to customers and drastically increasing their sales pipelines. Folloze is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with a development center in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was founded by a group of marketing, sales, and technology veterans and is backed by world-class investors. The company has dozens of customers including fortune 500 companies.

ClientSuccess

Seed Round in 2018
ClientSuccess is a customer success platform that empowers B2B SaaS companies to proactively manage post-sales customer relationships, measure customer health, maximize customer retention and growth, and drive a culture of customer success. It provides a holistic approach to managing success throughout the customer lifecycle as well as provides insights, customer analytics, and best practices that enhance the client’s company. The company also provides SuccessScore, a solution that represents the holistic health of customers; and SuccessCycle, an application that provides the framework to define, manage, and measure success throughout the entire customer lifecycle. In addition, it offers renewal management application that allows users to track customer subscriptions; customer engagement solutions; and application to helps users mitigate risk or identify opportunities for expansion and growth; an application that helps clients in tracking key contacts, users, and executive sponsors within the organization; Support View application that integrates with customer support tools to CRM, support, social, and communication platforms; and customized scorecard to track the progress of each customer. ClientSuccess was founded in 2014 and is based in Lehi, Utah.

FireCompass

Series A in 2023
FireCompass is a SaaS platform for Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART) & Attack Surface Management (ASM). It continuously indexes and monitors the deep, dark & surface web to map out an organization's digital attack surface including Shadow IT blind spots. The platform then automatically launches safe multi-stage attacks, mimicking a real attacker, to help identify attack paths before hackers do. The platform eliminates the need for multiple tools and significant manual effort while providing continuous and proactive security. The product is being used by the top 3 telecom companies, top 3 IT companies, major banks/financial services companies, and others spanning multiple industries. The use cases are : Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART) Attack Surface Management (ASM) SOC & Security Control Effectiveness Testing Digital Footprint & Shadow IT Discovery Ransomware Risk Assessment Supply Chain Risk Assessment M&A Risk Assessment

Reveel Technologies

Convertible Note in 2018
Join the media REVEELution! Reveel is the first company to allow audiences to view an interactive media experience from print, digital, video and broadcast media on any browser – without downloading an app or producing additional creative. Reveel's patent pending cloud-based platform allows brands, agencies and media outlets to increase audience engagement and revenue by seizing the moment of interest and converting it into measurable action. Consumers go to Reveel.it on their mobile browser and snap a photo of print or broadcast media or click on digital media displayed on websites or online video to explore, learn and buy. Anyone can create a custom Reveel landing page online in minutes, then publish it across media channels so it can be viewed on mobile and desktop devices.

CloudApp

Venture Round in 2017
CloudApp is the all-in-one visual sharing platform that lets you record, host, and share short videos, GIFs, and visuals (images, annotated screenshots) to make team and customer conversations faster and more succinct. Enhancing conversations visually means that messages don't get lost in translation! With CloudApp, team collaboration is a breeze.

Bid Ops, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Bid Ops, Inc. develops and provides software that automates negotiations for enterprise procurement teams using artificial intelligence. Additionally, it offers contractor outreach services. The company caters to public agencies, local governments, and Fortune 500 customers. Its clientele include USDA, City of Detroit, Ora, and Providence St. Joseph Health. Bid Ops, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Paystand

Seed Round in 2014
PayStand's mission is to use modern Internet, Blockchain, and SaaS technologies to transform B2B payments & remove % fees. PayStand's revolutionary "Payments as a Service" model creates a smart billing & payment network that can digitize receivables, automate processing, reduce time-to-cash, lower transaction costs, and enable new revenue. Enterprises from manufacturers and distributors, to software platforms and service providers use PayStand’s flexible platform to integrate digital payments into their websites, invoices, billing systems, and mobile applications.

Punchh

Venture Round in 2013
Punchh Inc. develops a mobile solution that allows restaurants to drive more repeat customers, word of mouth, referrals, and return on investment on marketing campaigns. The company offers Punchh, a mobile solution and mobile phone based referral and loyalty program that allows users to win rewards at restaurants for their loyalty and referrals. Its mobile solution includes branded mobile applications for campaigns, games, gift cards, loyalty, online ordering, payments, referrals, and surveys, as well as integrates with social networks, operators’ existing point-of-sale systems, email solutions, and analytics tools to gather insights about their customers. The company’s mobile solution interfaces with Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, Yelp, MailChimp, and SendGrid. It serves the restaurant industry in the United States. Punchh Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Anvilogic

Series A in 2021
Anvilogic operates as a VC-funded, Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup. Its flagship product is a collaborative SOC Content Platform that provides a streaming content service and a framework-led, code-less content-builder environment to accelerate the development of content by SOC teams by managing their entire content lifecycle end-to-end. The platform also enables secure collaboration with peer organizations to share actual content, best practices, and techniques that have been proven in real-world SOC environments.

Bright Pattern

Seed Round in 2012
If you expect fast set-up, ease of use, and scaling, from a Cloud Contact Center software you should not have to compromise on capabilities, channels, integrations, or reliability with your contact center solution. At Bright Pattern, we set a new standard for what can be expected from a Cloud Contact Center Solution. Don't settle for poor customer service!

CloudPlus, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
CloudPlus, Inc. develops a video and image sharing platform for professionals. It offers CloudApp, a platform that allows users to capture and embed videos, graphics interchange formats, screen casts, and marked up images throughout their business workflows. The company’s solutions include designers, developers, executives, marketing, product, sales, and support CloudPlus, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Spotzot

Series A in 2011
FOR ADVERTISERS Spotzot is a rapidly growing network of 30 million high-intent mobile shoppers who regularly make their purchases offline at brick and mortar retailers. Spotzot reaches these shoppers by providing a location based in-app shopping service to high traffic shopping, search and game applications. Spotzot provides a rich in-store shopping experience for retailers and brands where consumers can discover the hottest trends, best offers and coupons and find a store nearby. On average, 40% of Spotzot's visitors return on a monthly basis, and more than half a million shoppers are active on the network on any given day. Retailers and brands realize significant value in driving shoppers to stores since more than 60% of consumers on the network are on their path to purchase, 30% are spotted in the vicinity of stores and up to 15% are tracked making in-store purchases. FOR PUBLISHERS Spotzot is the #1 source for monetization through in-store coupons and promotions from the top 1,000 retail chains, valid at 500,000 store locations in the US. Publishers can access Spotzot’s free APIs designed to support a wide range of smartphone, tablet and web-based shopping, search, game and other experiences.

Privacera

Private Placement in 2020
Privacera enables secure data sharing across mulitple on-prem and cloud services. It is leading disruption and innovation in the governance space by enabling data democratization without compromising data privacy, or compliance. Data is the fuel for the next set of growth in enterprises. Data should be democratized and shared to facilitate better decision making. Data sharing should happen without compromising on individual rights to privacy.

Celona

Series A in 2019
Celona, Inc. develops cloud-based networking platform to bridge the divide between 5G and enterprise infrastructure. The company’s artificial intelligence (AI) powered integrated application helps to overcome the need to purchase, install, and operate multiple disparate products and supports each business critical service on a cellular wireless network. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Cupertino. California.

Lightlytics

Series A in 2022
Lightlytics enables your SRE/DevOps team to automatically predict, pre-empt, and prevent failures, downtime, or business disruption caused by infrastructure development or updates by simulating all possible dependencies and impact on operations before deployment.

Paystand

Series B in 2020
PayStand's mission is to use modern Internet, Blockchain, and SaaS technologies to transform B2B payments & remove % fees. PayStand's revolutionary "Payments as a Service" model creates a smart billing & payment network that can digitize receivables, automate processing, reduce time-to-cash, lower transaction costs, and enable new revenue. Enterprises from manufacturers and distributors, to software platforms and service providers use PayStand’s flexible platform to integrate digital payments into their websites, invoices, billing systems, and mobile applications.

SOHA SYSTEMS

Series A in 2015
Soha Systems, Inc. provides cloud-based enterprise-grade application security services to developers, IT/security teams, and CIOs. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. As of October 4, 2016, Soha Systems, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Akamai Technologies, Inc.
StackShare, Inc. develops a cloud-based discovery platform that lets users to find software development tools and cloud infrastructure services. It offers solutions in the areas of application and data, including libraries, application hosting, languages and frameworks, data stores, and assets and media; mobile, payments, analytics, application utilities, and communications; DevOps for monitoring build, test, and deployment solutions; and business tools for back office support, sales, and marketing design collaboration. The company allows startup companies to describe about the technology they use. StackShare, Inc. was formerly known as Leanstack, Inc. and changed its name to StackShare, Inc. in March 2015. StackShare, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in San Jose, California.

Privacera

Series A in 2020
Privacera enables secure data sharing across mulitple on-prem and cloud services. It is leading disruption and innovation in the governance space by enabling data democratization without compromising data privacy, or compliance. Data is the fuel for the next set of growth in enterprises. Data should be democratized and shared to facilitate better decision making. Data sharing should happen without compromising on individual rights to privacy.

Catch+Release

Seed Round in 2017
Catch&Release is end-to-end content licensing platform that enables brands and advertisers to license content from anywhere on the internet. Streamline the clearance and licensing process within the Content Exchange, a licensing platform where users can organize shots from anywhere on the internet, receive Clearance Ratings to understand what content is licensable, and initiate clearances and licensing at the click of a button. Catch&Release negotiates copyright and model clearances on your behalf, provides indemnification, and keeps track of all documentation, transactions, and license data, so licensing content from the internet is painless, easy, and risk-free.

Paystand

Private Placement in 2020
PayStand's mission is to use modern Internet, Blockchain, and SaaS technologies to transform B2B payments & remove % fees. PayStand's revolutionary "Payments as a Service" model creates a smart billing & payment network that can digitize receivables, automate processing, reduce time-to-cash, lower transaction costs, and enable new revenue. Enterprises from manufacturers and distributors, to software platforms and service providers use PayStand’s flexible platform to integrate digital payments into their websites, invoices, billing systems, and mobile applications.

StackShare

Series A in 2018
StackShare, Inc. develops a cloud-based discovery platform that lets users to find software development tools and cloud infrastructure services. It offers solutions in the areas of application and data, including libraries, application hosting, languages and frameworks, data stores, and assets and media; mobile, payments, analytics, application utilities, and communications; DevOps for monitoring build, test, and deployment solutions; and business tools for back office support, sales, and marketing design collaboration. The company allows startup companies to describe about the technology they use. StackShare, Inc. was formerly known as Leanstack, Inc. and changed its name to StackShare, Inc. in March 2015. StackShare, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in San Jose, California.

Involver

Series C in 2010
Involver is the web's most trusted social marketing platform, supporting 700,000 brands and agencies who manage audiences of more than 1.6 Billion fans. Involver provides marketers with everything they need to create rich experiences across the social web. Involver SML is the World's First Markup Language For Social Media, enabling front-end developers to create rich social experiences. Our Audience Management Platform is the most effective way for agencies and their clients to publish, monitor, measure, and manage social media content across multiple social networks from one central dashboard. Involver also has over two dozen applications built specifically to help marketers engage their audiences across the social web. Involver is a Facebook Preferred Developer and a technology provider for Facebook's internal marketing team (having built campaigns for the World Cup, Stories, US Elections, and many other projects). We're helping many of the world's biggest brands expand their influence through social media. Learn more at www.involver.com.

EdCast

Private Placement in 2018
EdCast is an AI-powered knowledge cloud for unified discovery, knowledge management, and personalized learning. EdCast aggregates all learning content including those from LMS, intranet, external providers, subject matter experts, and preferred resources on the web. The company's machine learning curation engine ensures that only the highest quality, most relevant, and contextual content is presented to your team. EdCast’s AI-based targeting engine learns about your team and makes continuous learning recommendations directly to where they are working – including Slack and Salesforce.

Ampool

Seed Round in 2015
Ampool is on a mission to enable real-time data-intensive applications and to reduce time to actionable insights through a distributed, memory-centric active data store. In the last decade, Hadoop and NoSQL data stores have deconstructed the database, separating persistence, metadata management, query engines, resource scheduling, cluster management, and monitoring. In a similar way, Ampool aims to democratize in-memory multi-modal analytical processing, paving way to a unified real-time analytics platform. Ampool Active Data Store is designed to support stream ingestion and analytics, analytical/batch processing, transactions, and interactive/ad-hoc queries, all from a single memory-centric store. Powered by Apache Geode™, it offers low overhead, lightning fast, in-memory performance for data-driven applications without compromising on reliability and availability.

ArmorCode

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a security platform designed to simplify application security. The company develops a platform that offers network and customer data encryption using algorithms, data leak protection, password protection, key management, and real-time issue identification, helping users with security tools and protection from third-party attacks.

StackShare

Seed Round in 2016
StackShare, Inc. develops a cloud-based discovery platform that lets users to find software development tools and cloud infrastructure services. It offers solutions in the areas of application and data, including libraries, application hosting, languages and frameworks, data stores, and assets and media; mobile, payments, analytics, application utilities, and communications; DevOps for monitoring build, test, and deployment solutions; and business tools for back office support, sales, and marketing design collaboration. The company allows startup companies to describe about the technology they use. StackShare, Inc. was formerly known as Leanstack, Inc. and changed its name to StackShare, Inc. in March 2015. StackShare, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in San Jose, California.

Folloze

Series A in 2021
Folloze is a provider of an innovative Account-Based Management (ABM) Sales Platform, which enables B2B sales teams to use marketing techniques to engage, develop, and win their top target accounts. Built for scale, the platform allows marketing to empower sales to deliver account-specific content campaigns, content automation, actionable account analytics, and more, all from within their familiar sales tools. These capabilities enable salespeople to act as consultants through the selling process, delivering significantly more value to customers and drastically increasing their sales pipelines. Folloze is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with a development center in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was founded by a group of marketing, sales, and technology veterans and is backed by world-class investors. The company has dozens of customers including fortune 500 companies.

Privacera

Seed Round in 2017
Privacera enables secure data sharing across mulitple on-prem and cloud services. It is leading disruption and innovation in the governance space by enabling data democratization without compromising data privacy, or compliance. Data is the fuel for the next set of growth in enterprises. Data should be democratized and shared to facilitate better decision making. Data sharing should happen without compromising on individual rights to privacy.
CloudPlus, Inc. develops a video and image sharing platform for professionals. It offers CloudApp, a platform that allows users to capture and embed videos, graphics interchange formats, screen casts, and marked up images throughout their business workflows. The company’s solutions include designers, developers, executives, marketing, product, sales, and support CloudPlus, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Tynker

Series A in 2016
Tynker is a creative computing platform where millions of kids have learned to program and built games, apps and more. Tynker's mission is to provide every child with solid foundations in Computer Science, programming, and critical thinking skills to prepare them to become better architects of their future world. Tynker offers self-paced online courses for children to learn coding at home, as well as an engaging programming curriculum for schools. Tynker’s intuitive visual programming language enables kids to build web and mobile apps, design RPG and platformer games, control robots, program drones, and even modify Minecraft worlds.
Catch&Release is end-to-end content licensing platform that enables brands and advertisers to license content from anywhere on the internet. Streamline the clearance and licensing process within the Content Exchange, a licensing platform where users can organize shots from anywhere on the internet, receive Clearance Ratings to understand what content is licensable, and initiate clearances and licensing at the click of a button. Catch&Release negotiates copyright and model clearances on your behalf, provides indemnification, and keeps track of all documentation, transactions, and license data, so licensing content from the internet is painless, easy, and risk-free.
Good Money is a digital banking platform that provides banking and financial services that will be owned by its customers and will invest 50% of profits to actively protect the environment and fight for social justice.

Zephyr

Series A in 2008
Zephyr provides on-demand enterprise test management software. The company provides end-to-end management of the testing life-cycle in the test department that includes resources, releases and sprints, test cases, scheduling, test execution, defects, documents, collaboration, and all aspects of reporting and metrics in real-time. Its feature-rich products help more than a million users address today's dynamic and global software test management needs across a variety of industries that includes finance, healthcare, media, automotive, IT services, and enterprise software.
Zycada Networks, Inc. develops and deploys a bot-driven eCommerce acceleration platform for online retailers. The company’s Zycada platform is purpose built to accelerate content, delivering online shopping experience possible. Its Zycada bots act as a concierge, working on behalf of users to pre-assemble content before it’s requested. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Campbell, California.

Punchh

Private Placement in 2018
Punchh Inc. develops a mobile solution that allows restaurants to drive more repeat customers, word of mouth, referrals, and return on investment on marketing campaigns. The company offers Punchh, a mobile solution and mobile phone based referral and loyalty program that allows users to win rewards at restaurants for their loyalty and referrals. Its mobile solution includes branded mobile applications for campaigns, games, gift cards, loyalty, online ordering, payments, referrals, and surveys, as well as integrates with social networks, operators’ existing point-of-sale systems, email solutions, and analytics tools to gather insights about their customers. The company’s mobile solution interfaces with Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, Yelp, MailChimp, and SendGrid. It serves the restaurant industry in the United States. Punchh Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Celona

Private Placement in 2020
Celona, Inc. develops cloud-based networking platform to bridge the divide between 5G and enterprise infrastructure. The company’s artificial intelligence (AI) powered integrated application helps to overcome the need to purchase, install, and operate multiple disparate products and supports each business critical service on a cellular wireless network. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Cupertino. California.

Zycada

Private Placement in 2020
Zycada Networks, Inc. develops and deploys a bot-driven eCommerce acceleration platform for online retailers. The company’s Zycada platform is purpose built to accelerate content, delivering online shopping experience possible. Its Zycada bots act as a concierge, working on behalf of users to pre-assemble content before it’s requested. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Campbell, California.

Celona

Private Placement in 2019
Celona, Inc. develops cloud-based networking platform to bridge the divide between 5G and enterprise infrastructure. The company’s artificial intelligence (AI) powered integrated application helps to overcome the need to purchase, install, and operate multiple disparate products and supports each business critical service on a cellular wireless network. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Cupertino. California.

Folloze

Private Placement in 2019
Folloze is a provider of an innovative Account-Based Management (ABM) Sales Platform, which enables B2B sales teams to use marketing techniques to engage, develop, and win their top target accounts. Built for scale, the platform allows marketing to empower sales to deliver account-specific content campaigns, content automation, actionable account analytics, and more, all from within their familiar sales tools. These capabilities enable salespeople to act as consultants through the selling process, delivering significantly more value to customers and drastically increasing their sales pipelines. Folloze is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with a development center in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was founded by a group of marketing, sales, and technology veterans and is backed by world-class investors. The company has dozens of customers including fortune 500 companies.
Bungee Tech Corporation designs and develops geolocation data mining software. It enables data collection that provides recommendations to e-commerce businesses, such as retailers, airlines, and hotels and competes in real-time on price, selection, promotions, and ad listing. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Bellevue, Washington.
AiFi Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based cashier-free software for retailers. Its software uses a sensor and camera networks and helps to track shoppers as they move through the store, fill their carts, and debit their accounts during checkout. It helps retailers in capturing data on inventory management, consumer shopping habits, and product preferences. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Dark

Private Placement in 2018
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.

Tynker

Venture Round in 2013
Tynker is a creative computing platform where millions of kids have learned to program and built games, apps and more. Tynker's mission is to provide every child with solid foundations in Computer Science, programming, and critical thinking skills to prepare them to become better architects of their future world. Tynker offers self-paced online courses for children to learn coding at home, as well as an engaging programming curriculum for schools. Tynker’s intuitive visual programming language enables kids to build web and mobile apps, design RPG and platformer games, control robots, program drones, and even modify Minecraft worlds.

Akridata

Venture Round in 2018
Akridata solves AI Data Logistics challenges of Autonomous Vehicles. Its cloud-managed, scale-out platform spans edge (high speed ingest, prep and prioritization) to core (tiered storage and access). Benefits include global data access (anywhere, anytime), shorter training times, and upto 10x lower storage costs. Backed by Accel and Menlo Ventures.

Reveel Technologies

Seed Round in 2015
Join the media REVEELution! Reveel is the first company to allow audiences to view an interactive media experience from print, digital, video and broadcast media on any browser – without downloading an app or producing additional creative. Reveel's patent pending cloud-based platform allows brands, agencies and media outlets to increase audience engagement and revenue by seizing the moment of interest and converting it into measurable action. Consumers go to Reveel.it on their mobile browser and snap a photo of print or broadcast media or click on digital media displayed on websites or online video to explore, learn and buy. Anyone can create a custom Reveel landing page online in minutes, then publish it across media channels so it can be viewed on mobile and desktop devices.

Bungee Tech

Seed Round in 2019
Bungee Tech Corporation designs and develops geolocation data mining software. It enables data collection that provides recommendations to e-commerce businesses, such as retailers, airlines, and hotels and competes in real-time on price, selection, promotions, and ad listing. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Bellevue, Washington.

Bedrock Analytics

Venture Round in 2018
Bedrock Analytics Corporation develops a cloud based analytics and visualization platform for the consumer packaged goods industry. Its platform allows analytics, sales, and marketing teams to focus on growing sales and brands, instead of wasting hours manipulating spreadsheets and creating charts. The company’s platform also provides visualization, data security and protection, data segregation, data access control, data backup, and data transfer solutions. Bedrock Analytics Corporation was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

QuanticMind

Series B in 2017
QuanticMind Inc. provides a software-as-a-service predictive advertising management software for paid search, social, display, and mobile. The company offers QuanticMind Shopping, a solution that unifies cross-channel and third-party data, as well as extracts relevant data and insights to inform and perform advertising decisions. It also offers services that include data quality; resolving issues on-site, and phone and Web support; and training and certification. QuanticMind Inc. was formerly known as InsideVault Inc. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Carlos, California.

AiFi

Private Placement in 2019
AiFi Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based cashier-free software for retailers. Its software uses a sensor and camera networks and helps to track shoppers as they move through the store, fill their carts, and debit their accounts during checkout. It helps retailers in capturing data on inventory management, consumer shopping habits, and product preferences. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Anvilogic

Series C in 2024
Anvilogic operates as a VC-funded, Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup. Its flagship product is a collaborative SOC Content Platform that provides a streaming content service and a framework-led, code-less content-builder environment to accelerate the development of content by SOC teams by managing their entire content lifecycle end-to-end. The platform also enables secure collaboration with peer organizations to share actual content, best practices, and techniques that have been proven in real-world SOC environments.

Vendelux

Series A in 2023
Vendelux is the leading Event Intelligence Platform that helps marketers make more data-driven decisions around event attendance, sponsorship, and hosting. Customers match CRM data against a proprietary database of over 30,000 events, including speaker, sponsor, and attendee information, to easily find their prospects, customers, and competitors everywhere they are going to be.

Kapital

Series B in 2023
Kapital SmartBank provides Mexican small and medium businesses and their employees with next generation mobile banking and financial services in smart banking. Its line of products include online loans directly through its website and money ready in client's account in seconds, online payroll systems to send paychecks to employees with one click, and accounts receivables accounting displayed in an easy-to-use and 100% secure web and mobile dashboard, so that its clients can see and have control of all their finances in one single place. Its loans, payroll cards for employees, and corporate expenses cards have the support of Visa® and Mastercard® international technology.

ArmorCode

Series A in 2022
Developer of a security platform designed to simplify application security. The company develops a platform that offers network and customer data encryption using algorithms, data leak protection, password protection, key management, and real-time issue identification, helping users with security tools and protection from third-party attacks.

Anvilogic

Series B in 2022
Anvilogic operates as a VC-funded, Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup. Its flagship product is a collaborative SOC Content Platform that provides a streaming content service and a framework-led, code-less content-builder environment to accelerate the development of content by SOC teams by managing their entire content lifecycle end-to-end. The platform also enables secure collaboration with peer organizations to share actual content, best practices, and techniques that have been proven in real-world SOC environments.
Blink Technologies, Inc. designs and develops artificial intelligence software based eye tracking technology. Its software is used in cameras found on phones, laptops, ATMs, and shops. The company sells its software to food retailers and computer and mobile manufacturers. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Palo Alto, California with a research and development center in Haifa, Israel.

Airgap Networks

Series A in 2022
Airgap Networks Inc., a cloud enterprise campus network security company, implements security in the enterprise network. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Celona

Series C in 2022
Celona, Inc. develops cloud-based networking platform to bridge the divide between 5G and enterprise infrastructure. The company’s artificial intelligence (AI) powered integrated application helps to overcome the need to purchase, install, and operate multiple disparate products and supports each business critical service on a cellular wireless network. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Cupertino. California.

ArmorText

Venture Round in 2015
ArmorText provides secure text messaging for mobile enterprises to boost collaboration, ensure security, and help meet compliance standards. It enables regulated industries to maximize the potential of cloud computing and storage for collaboration by eliminating the possibility of data-mining, bulk-hacks, invoicing scams and third-party access that bypasses a customer’s legal counsel via subpoenas.

Catch+Release

Series A in 2021
Catch&Release is end-to-end content licensing platform that enables brands and advertisers to license content from anywhere on the internet. Streamline the clearance and licensing process within the Content Exchange, a licensing platform where users can organize shots from anywhere on the internet, receive Clearance Ratings to understand what content is licensable, and initiate clearances and licensing at the click of a button. Catch&Release negotiates copyright and model clearances on your behalf, provides indemnification, and keeps track of all documentation, transactions, and license data, so licensing content from the internet is painless, easy, and risk-free.
EdCast is an AI-powered knowledge cloud for unified discovery, knowledge management, and personalized learning. EdCast aggregates all learning content including those from LMS, intranet, external providers, subject matter experts, and preferred resources on the web. The company's machine learning curation engine ensures that only the highest quality, most relevant, and contextual content is presented to your team. EdCast’s AI-based targeting engine learns about your team and makes continuous learning recommendations directly to where they are working – including Slack and Salesforce.
Airgap Networks Inc., a cloud enterprise campus network security company, implements security in the enterprise network. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

WEVO

Angel Round in 2020
Wevo, Inc. provides a marketing technology platform to optimize digital experiences before going live. It offers Wevo, an artificial intelligence and crowd sourcing online platform for digital marketers that tests and improves website conversion before going live. The company’s Wevo Pinpoints why visitors aren't converting; compares which page will do best before launching; provides actionable recommendations to increase conversion; and diagnoses webpages by pinpointing the reasons preventing more customers from converting. Wevo, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Reveel Technologies, Inc. provides a visual media recognition platform. It offers Reveel that is used by brands and media outlets to create a new revenue stream, build brand relationships, and keep customers coming back for more. The company also provides Reveel-it for iOS and Reveel-it for Android that turns magazines, circulars, catalogs, online videos, and TV shows into interactive mobile experiences. In addition, it offers Reveel Studio to create and launch mobile media experiences. Reveel Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Punchh

Series A in 2014
Punchh Inc. develops a mobile solution that allows restaurants to drive more repeat customers, word of mouth, referrals, and return on investment on marketing campaigns. The company offers Punchh, a mobile solution and mobile phone based referral and loyalty program that allows users to win rewards at restaurants for their loyalty and referrals. Its mobile solution includes branded mobile applications for campaigns, games, gift cards, loyalty, online ordering, payments, referrals, and surveys, as well as integrates with social networks, operators’ existing point-of-sale systems, email solutions, and analytics tools to gather insights about their customers. The company’s mobile solution interfaces with Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, Yelp, MailChimp, and SendGrid. It serves the restaurant industry in the United States. Punchh Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Bedrock Analytics

Seed Round in 2015
Bedrock Analytics Corporation develops a cloud based analytics and visualization platform for the consumer packaged goods industry. Its platform allows analytics, sales, and marketing teams to focus on growing sales and brands, instead of wasting hours manipulating spreadsheets and creating charts. The company’s platform also provides visualization, data security and protection, data segregation, data access control, data backup, and data transfer solutions. Bedrock Analytics Corporation was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.
Privacera enables secure data sharing across mulitple on-prem and cloud services. It is leading disruption and innovation in the governance space by enabling data democratization without compromising data privacy, or compliance. Data is the fuel for the next set of growth in enterprises. Data should be democratized and shared to facilitate better decision making. Data sharing should happen without compromising on individual rights to privacy.
Gryphn Corp. develops software to secure text messages. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in McLean, Virginia.
Celona, Inc. develops cloud-based networking platform to bridge the divide between 5G and enterprise infrastructure. The company’s artificial intelligence (AI) powered integrated application helps to overcome the need to purchase, install, and operate multiple disparate products and supports each business critical service on a cellular wireless network. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Cupertino. California.

AiFi

Private Placement in 2020
AiFi Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based cashier-free software for retailers. Its software uses a sensor and camera networks and helps to track shoppers as they move through the store, fill their carts, and debit their accounts during checkout. It helps retailers in capturing data on inventory management, consumer shopping habits, and product preferences. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Santa Clara, California.
Punchh Inc. develops a mobile solution that allows restaurants to drive more repeat customers, word of mouth, referrals, and return on investment on marketing campaigns. The company offers Punchh, a mobile solution and mobile phone based referral and loyalty program that allows users to win rewards at restaurants for their loyalty and referrals. Its mobile solution includes branded mobile applications for campaigns, games, gift cards, loyalty, online ordering, payments, referrals, and surveys, as well as integrates with social networks, operators’ existing point-of-sale systems, email solutions, and analytics tools to gather insights about their customers. The company’s mobile solution interfaces with Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, Yelp, MailChimp, and SendGrid. It serves the restaurant industry in the United States. Punchh Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in San Mateo, California.
Neuron Fuel, Inc., doing business as Tynker, operates a computing platform that teaches computational learning and programming skills for children. It serves teachers and schools in the United States and Canada. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Mountain View, California.
Folloze is a provider of an innovative Account-Based Management (ABM) Sales Platform, which enables B2B sales teams to use marketing techniques to engage, develop, and win their top target accounts. Built for scale, the platform allows marketing to empower sales to deliver account-specific content campaigns, content automation, actionable account analytics, and more, all from within their familiar sales tools. These capabilities enable salespeople to act as consultants through the selling process, delivering significantly more value to customers and drastically increasing their sales pipelines. Folloze is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with a development center in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was founded by a group of marketing, sales, and technology veterans and is backed by world-class investors. The company has dozens of customers including fortune 500 companies.

Folloze

Series A in 2016
Folloze is a provider of an innovative Account-Based Management (ABM) Sales Platform, which enables B2B sales teams to use marketing techniques to engage, develop, and win their top target accounts. Built for scale, the platform allows marketing to empower sales to deliver account-specific content campaigns, content automation, actionable account analytics, and more, all from within their familiar sales tools. These capabilities enable salespeople to act as consultants through the selling process, delivering significantly more value to customers and drastically increasing their sales pipelines. Folloze is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with a development center in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was founded by a group of marketing, sales, and technology veterans and is backed by world-class investors. The company has dozens of customers including fortune 500 companies.

AllyO

Series B in 2019
As the most funded and highest valued AI for HR company worldwide; AllyO has partnered with 15% of Fortune 50 to automate talent acquisition and management. Backed by tier 1 investors such as Google, SAP, Randstad, Bain and Cervin Ventures, we’ve demonstrated hyper-growth of 4.5X year over year. AllyO’s whip-smart technology delivers smart experiences to HR teams and the audiences they serve. HR Communication is burdened with administrative routines, complicated and outdated systems, and lack of assistive resources — leaving both HR and the workforce frustrated. AllyO offers the world’s first HR Communications Platform with AI powered chatbots that help companies reduce manual work, time, and cost to engage candidates and employees, driving employee happiness, increased retention and higher and predictable staffing levels. Employers can choose across the spectrum from having manual conversations via AllyO Connect Platform to automating end-to-end Human Capital Management using AI powered Chatbots. Recruiting Automation Bots *Text to apply *Screen & Assess talent *Scheduling interviews *Talent pool engagement *Video interviewing *Employee referrals HR Automation Bots *Onboarding & training *Pulse check-ins *Ethics hotline *Internal mobility *Exit interviews AllyO utilizes deep workflow conversational AI by intelligently engaging with the workforce through texting, website chatboxes, WhatsApp, voice, and email. End results include a 91% conversation completion rate, 94% Talent satisfaction score, 3X more talent-at-risk or ethics violation cases reported, and 80% reduction in human effort. Our proprietary AI platform is purpose-built for enterprise organizations as AllyO actively supports 92% of systems of records for talent acquisition and HR. Plus, we implement the most robust security safeguards to comply with the latest standards and regulations like SOC2 and GDPR. For more information, please visit www.AllyO.com or contact hello@allyo.com

Sass Labs, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Sass Labs, Inc., doing business as AllyO, develops an artificial intelligence based HR communications platform to engage employees and candidates. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California. As of October 6, 2020, Sass Labs, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of HireVue, Inc.
PayStand's mission is to use modern Internet, Blockchain, and SaaS technologies to transform B2B payments & remove % fees. PayStand's revolutionary "Payments as a Service" model creates a smart billing & payment network that can digitize receivables, automate processing, reduce time-to-cash, lower transaction costs, and enable new revenue. Enterprises from manufacturers and distributors, to software platforms and service providers use PayStand’s flexible platform to integrate digital payments into their websites, invoices, billing systems, and mobile applications.
QuanticMind Inc. provides a software-as-a-service predictive advertising management software for paid search, social, display, and mobile. The company offers QuanticMind Shopping, a solution that unifies cross-channel and third-party data, as well as extracts relevant data and insights to inform and perform advertising decisions. It also offers services that include data quality; resolving issues on-site, and phone and Web support; and training and certification. QuanticMind Inc. was formerly known as InsideVault Inc. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Carlos, California.

Celona

Series B in 2020
Celona, Inc. develops cloud-based networking platform to bridge the divide between 5G and enterprise infrastructure. The company’s artificial intelligence (AI) powered integrated application helps to overcome the need to purchase, install, and operate multiple disparate products and supports each business critical service on a cellular wireless network. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Cupertino. California.

CloudApp

Series A in 2022
CloudApp is the all-in-one visual sharing platform that lets you record, host, and share short videos, GIFs, and visuals (images, annotated screenshots) to make team and customer conversations faster and more succinct. Enhancing conversations visually means that messages don't get lost in translation! With CloudApp, team collaboration is a breeze.

Zycada

Series B in 2020
Zycada Networks, Inc. develops and deploys a bot-driven eCommerce acceleration platform for online retailers. The company’s Zycada platform is purpose built to accelerate content, delivering online shopping experience possible. Its Zycada bots act as a concierge, working on behalf of users to pre-assemble content before it’s requested. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Campbell, California.

Ampool

Seed Round in 2018
Ampool is on a mission to enable real-time data-intensive applications and to reduce time to actionable insights through a distributed, memory-centric active data store. In the last decade, Hadoop and NoSQL data stores have deconstructed the database, separating persistence, metadata management, query engines, resource scheduling, cluster management, and monitoring. In a similar way, Ampool aims to democratize in-memory multi-modal analytical processing, paving way to a unified real-time analytics platform. Ampool Active Data Store is designed to support stream ingestion and analytics, analytical/batch processing, transactions, and interactive/ad-hoc queries, all from a single memory-centric store. Powered by Apache Geode™, it offers low overhead, lightning fast, in-memory performance for data-driven applications without compromising on reliability and availability.
Bedrock Analytics Corporation develops a cloud based analytics and visualization platform for the consumer packaged goods industry. Its platform allows analytics, sales, and marketing teams to focus on growing sales and brands, instead of wasting hours manipulating spreadsheets and creating charts. The company’s platform also provides visualization, data security and protection, data segregation, data access control, data backup, and data transfer solutions. Bedrock Analytics Corporation was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.
The Muse is an internet company that offers an online career platform that provides job listings and advice to people. It offers expert advice, including work relationships, job switch, work-life balance, as well as working abroad. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Punchh

Series B in 2018
Punchh Inc. develops a mobile solution that allows restaurants to drive more repeat customers, word of mouth, referrals, and return on investment on marketing campaigns. The company offers Punchh, a mobile solution and mobile phone based referral and loyalty program that allows users to win rewards at restaurants for their loyalty and referrals. Its mobile solution includes branded mobile applications for campaigns, games, gift cards, loyalty, online ordering, payments, referrals, and surveys, as well as integrates with social networks, operators’ existing point-of-sale systems, email solutions, and analytics tools to gather insights about their customers. The company’s mobile solution interfaces with Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, Yelp, MailChimp, and SendGrid. It serves the restaurant industry in the United States. Punchh Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in San Mateo, California.
Connects big data, cloud, and on-prem applications
Bid Ops, Inc. develops and provides software that automates negotiations for enterprise procurement teams using artificial intelligence. Additionally, it offers contractor outreach services. The company caters to public agencies, local governments, and Fortune 500 customers. Its clientele include USDA, City of Detroit, Ora, and Providence St. Joseph Health. Bid Ops, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Paystand

Series A in 2017
PayStand's mission is to use modern Internet, Blockchain, and SaaS technologies to transform B2B payments & remove % fees. PayStand's revolutionary "Payments as a Service" model creates a smart billing & payment network that can digitize receivables, automate processing, reduce time-to-cash, lower transaction costs, and enable new revenue. Enterprises from manufacturers and distributors, to software platforms and service providers use PayStand’s flexible platform to integrate digital payments into their websites, invoices, billing systems, and mobile applications.

Slapdash

Seed Round in 2021
Slapdash is a re-imagining of how we work with cloud applications with a focus on speed. Use the Slapdash Command Bar (kind of like Spotlight) to achieve day-to-day work tasks (find a document, join a meeting, create a lead, find out who's who) order of magnitudes faster.
Ampool, Inc. develops an extensible in-memory platform that accelerates analytic insights combining streaming and historical data. It offers Ampool Enterprise that enables users to store, scan, and retrieve data; store and manage data, load balance, and maintain consistency; and analyze transactional and historical data in real-time and enable streaming analytics, batch processing, and machine learning. The company serves financial, telecom, retail, media, anomaly detection, Internet of things (IoT) analytics, customer analytics, and public sectors. Ampool, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Los Altos, California.

Folloze

Series B in 2019
Folloze is a provider of an innovative Account-Based Management (ABM) Sales Platform, which enables B2B sales teams to use marketing techniques to engage, develop, and win their top target accounts. Built for scale, the platform allows marketing to empower sales to deliver account-specific content campaigns, content automation, actionable account analytics, and more, all from within their familiar sales tools. These capabilities enable salespeople to act as consultants through the selling process, delivering significantly more value to customers and drastically increasing their sales pipelines. Folloze is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with a development center in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was founded by a group of marketing, sales, and technology veterans and is backed by world-class investors. The company has dozens of customers including fortune 500 companies.

Ratio

Venture Round in 2022
Ratio is a technology-enabled finance firm that provides non-dilutive funding such as recurring revenues, growth fueling, and cash services.
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.

AiFi

Series A in 2019
AiFi Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based cashier-free software for retailers. Its software uses a sensor and camera networks and helps to track shoppers as they move through the store, fill their carts, and debit their accounts during checkout. It helps retailers in capturing data on inventory management, consumer shopping habits, and product preferences. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Santa Clara, California.
Catamorphic Co., doing business as LaunchDarkly, develops a feature management platform that allows software teams to deliver, measure, and control their features. It offers LaunchDarkly to launch and control application features in real-time; and create, organize, and maintain flags. Its solution is used by teams to innovate, reduce risk, and break down the barriers between developer, product, marketing, and sales. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Oakland, California.