Cisco Investments

Cisco Investments is the investment arm of Cisco Systems, focusing on direct and fund of funds investments primarily in the technology sector. It targets a range of companies, including start-ups, early-stage, later-stage, and pre-IPO firms, with particular emphasis on areas such as big data, the Internet of Things (IoT), and security. Operating globally, with a presence in key regions including the United States, Canada, China, India, and Israel, Cisco Investments aims to invest between $0.5 million and $15 million per opportunity. The firm has a specific interest in Indian markets, where it supports early-stage and growth-stage companies in next-generation technologies like cloud services and smart city solutions. Cisco Investments currently manages an active portfolio valued at $2 billion, consisting of over 80 direct investments and Limited Partner positions in more than 35 funds worldwide, leveraging the expertise of over 40 investment professionals.

Roger Biscay

Senior Vice President, Finance

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Senior Director

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Vice President

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Senior Vice President

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Investment Manager

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Investor Relations

160 past transactions

Tidelift

Series C in 2022
Tidelift makes open source work better—for everyone. Through the Tidelift Subscription and in direct partnership with maintainers, Tidelift is a single source for proactively managed open source components and professional assurances around those components. Tidelift makes it possible for open source projects to thrive, so we can all create even more incredible software, even faster.

HYCU

Series B in 2022
HYCU provides application focused data protection and monitoring software to support hyperconverged datacenters.

JupiterOne

Series C in 2022
JupiterOne, Inc. develops cloud-based cybersecurity asset management and automation software aimed at enhancing the security and compliance of organizations' cloud infrastructures. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina, with additional offices in Charlotte, Salt Lake City, and Seattle, the company provides tools for chief information security officers and security operations teams to automate asset discovery, visibility, and compliance. Its primary offering, the JupiterOne software, facilitates risk analysis, vulnerability management, threat hunting, and incident response through continuous data aggregation and relationship modeling of cyber assets. Additionally, the JupiterOne Insights application allows users to create customized reporting dashboards and visualizations for monitoring code commits and repository activities. JupiterOne operates as a subsidiary of LifeOmic Security, LLC.

Theta Lake

Series B in 2022
Theta Lake provides security and compliance for modern collaboration platforms. Empowering enterprises to manage compliance, data exposure, security, and acceptable use risks in what is shared, shown, spoken, and typed during video conferences, collaboration chat, audio calls, and any other unified communications from Cisco Webex, Zoom, RingCentral, Microsoft Teams, Slack, BlueJeans, and more.

Hunters

Series C in 2022
Cyber Hunters Ltd. develops an artificial intelligence (AI) based software solution for the detection of cyber attack. The company offers a platform, Hunters.AI, which provides detection, prevention, and autonomous hunting cyber threats and breaches. It connects the digital traces to generate actionable visualized attack stories, and optimizes response time. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Dremio

Series E in 2022
Dremio Corporation, founded in 2015 and based in Santa Clara, California, develops a structured query language engine designed to enhance data accessibility and processing speed. Its flagship product, Dremio, serves as a data lake engine that enables users to perform queries directly on data lake storage while providing a self-service semantic layer. The platform empowers business users to curate and analyze data from various sources, thereby facilitating processes for business intelligence, data science, machine learning, and SQL clients. By streamlining analytical processing and improving productivity for data engineers, analysts, and scientists, Dremio enhances the self-sufficiency of data consumers in their decision-making processes.

WEKA

Series C in 2022
WekaIO has built the world's fastest parallel file system, designed to solve the performance challenges in AI deep learning and technical computing. Matrix, WekaIO’s flagship product, leapfrogs legacy storage infrastructures by delivering the highest performance, lowest latency storage at a fraction of the cost or traditional NAS. WekaIO's software provides a seamless hybrid cloud solution between on-premises data centers and the public cloud. WekaIO has customers in several high performance markets including autonomous vehicle AI training, genomics, financial modeling, EDA, software development, satellite imaging and media and entertainment.

Corellium

Series A in 2021
Corellium specializes in ARM-based mobile device virtualization, providing a unique platform that supports both on-site and cloud environments. The company develops security research software aimed at enhancing mobile security research, mobile app testing, and IoT device modeling. Its offerings feature native performance combined with the convenience of cloud access, equipping developers with advanced tools to foster scalability, efficiency, and innovation in the creation of ARM-based devices. By focusing on these capabilities, Corellium plays a crucial role in the evolving landscape of mobile technology and security.

Mio

Series A in 2021
Based in Austin, Texas, Mio is the leading provider of messaging interoperability solutions. Mio Universal Channels enable intercompany collaboration by connecting users on Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Webex Teams. By enabling external contacts to chat in Universal Channels, everyone can share files, reply to threads, and edit messages—all from their tool of choice. The company, founded by Tom Hadfield and James Cundle, has raised $12m from investors including Goldcrest Capital, Eniac Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, and Capital Factory. Ready to chat better, together? Install directly at www.m.io

Luma Health

Series C in 2021
Luma Health Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in developing a patient engagement platform designed to enhance the connection between patients and healthcare providers. The platform facilitates smart scheduling, referral management, and appointment reminders, as well as mobile patient intake and care pathways. It also supports patient communications and integrates with electronic health records (EHR) while providing insights and analytics. By focusing on modern, mobile-first solutions, Luma Health aims to improve the patient experience and optimize appointment utilization for healthcare providers and health systems.

Expel

Series E in 2021
Expel, Inc. is a managed security software company that specializes in providing SOC-as-a-service, which includes security monitoring and response for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Founded in 2016 and based in Herndon, Virginia, Expel leverages existing security signals from its customers to enhance the value of their current security investments. By connecting to customer technology remotely via APIs rather than agents, Expel can initiate monitoring within hours, allowing internal teams to concentrate on their unique security priorities. The company aims to streamline and improve the security operations of organizations, enabling them to respond effectively to emerging threats.

Cogniac

Series B in 2021
Cogniac Corporation designs and develops an enterprise platform for AI-grade visual observation. It offers Cogniac, an enterprise platform that enables easy automation of various visual tasks The company’s platform also enables users to connect their machine vision cameras, security cameras, drone images, mobile images, and other sources; define uses cases and objects of interest relevant to their media; monitor and improve the performance of their application by providing feedback; and connect their application to real-time alerts and notifications. Its platform is used in industrial, manufacturing, and safety and security applications. Cogniac Corporation was founded in 2015 and is based in San Jose, California.

Sealights

Series B in 2021
SeaLights Technologies Ltd. operates a cloud-based testing platform. Its products includes, test impact analysis, test gap, analysis, and release quality analysis. It enables to measure functional test code coverage; track various build quality metrics and test statuses across various testing tools and environments; and prevent untested code changes from reaching production. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Arlington, Virginia.

Qwilt

Series E in 2021
Addressing a new generation of content with a new delivery architecture, Qwilt’s Edge Cloud Platform targets the dramatic growth of streaming media on service provider networks. Our low-latency content delivery solution, built for web-scale and deployed deep in last mile networks, supports live and on-demand streaming of managed, partner and third party content to massive audiences. Open and cloud-managed, Qwilt’s distributed edge cloud delivers with exceptional quality. The company, based in Redwood Shores, Calif., is founded and staffed by veterans from Cisco and Juniper and backed by leading investors including Accel Partners and Redpoint Ventures.

Triggermesh

Seed Round in 2021
Triggermesh Inc. is a software company that specializes in serverless solutions, enabling developers to deploy and manage functions-as-a-service (FaaS) and serverless infrastructure. The company's offerings include EveryBridge, a serverless event bus that integrates applications through events from various sources, and TriggerMesh, a cloud and on-premise serverless platform based on Knative. Additionally, Triggermesh provides TriggerMesh Aktion, an open-source project that allows users to run GitHub Actions within Kubernetes clusters using Tekton pipelines and Knative. The company also offers TriggerMesh Knative Lambda Sources and Runtimes, which facilitate the migration of AWS Lambda functions to Knative-enabled clusters without requiring code modifications. Beyond its core products, Triggermesh provides open-source development services and expertise in Kubernetes and Knative projects. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, Triggermesh aims to simplify the deployment and orchestration of serverless workloads across multiple cloud environments.

Whatfix

Series D in 2021
Quicko Technosoft Labs Private Limited (also known as Whatfix) is a digital adoption platform that helps enterprises and businesses simplify their training and support efforts with easily accessible contextual information. Its platform is built with real-time interactive guidance technology at its core which helps users achieve optimal performance by providing just-in-time guidance that enables them to perform tasks quickly and efficiently.

Styra

Series B in 2021
Styra, Inc. develops a clod tool for security and compliance. It offers Styra Declarative Authorization Service, a solution that provides context-based admission control policy to mitigate risks, reduce human errors, and accelerate Kubernetes deployments. The company’s solution is also used for policy design and validation, policy distribution, policy monitoring and auditing, Compliance-as-Code, and shift security. Its solutions include applications, multi-cloud, micro services, containers, databases, and servers. Styra, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Panaseer

Series B in 2021
Panaseer Limited develops a cloud-based cybersecurity intelligence platform that assists enterprise security teams in making informed risk decisions. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, with an office in New York, the company offers the Panaseer Security Data Lake, which provides real-time insights into an organization's assets, applications, users, and data sets. This platform identifies gaps in security controls and aligns them with industry standards while facilitating regulatory compliance. By ingesting data from various sources, both cloud-based and on-premises, Panaseer enables organizations to monitor and analyze their cybersecurity posture effectively. The platform automates reporting processes, tailoring insights for stakeholders at different levels, thereby enhancing decision-making across the organization. Security leaders utilize Panaseer’s capabilities to prioritize risks based on their potential impact on the business and optimize overall cyber hygiene practices.

Seeq

Series C in 2021
Seeq is founded on the premise that companies need better solutions for quickly and easily deriving business insight from their industrial process data. It aims to provide software and services that convert industrial process data into information, enable discovery, increase collaboration, and ultimately drive better business decisions that lead to seamless execution, increased earnings, and continuous improvement. Seeq is an official partner of OSIsoft and recently sponsored its European and US user conferences, as well as US regional seminars. Seeq is also a sponsor of recent Emerson Exchange user conferences. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

SafeGuard Cyber

Funding Round in 2021
SafeGuard Cyber is a cloud-based technology company that specializes in protecting organizations' social assets from security threats and compliance risks. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia, the company offers a comprehensive platform designed to detect, prevent, and respond to various digital threats, including malware, spam, and inappropriate conduct. SafeGuard Cyber automates the identification, remediation, and archiving of risky content across social media and internal collaboration tools, ensuring compliance with corporate governance standards and industry regulations. By leveraging machine learning, the platform provides real-time threat analytics, allowing enterprises to manage their digital risks effectively while embracing social media's potential. SafeGuard Cyber empowers businesses to innovate without fear of negative publicity or legal repercussions associated with social media use.

Securiti

Venture Round in 2021
SECURITI.ai is an innovator of AI-Powered cybersecurity and data protection infrastructure. Our product suite is the world's first PrivacyOps platform that helps automate all major functions needed for privacy compliance in one place. It enables enterprises to give rights to people on their data, be responsible custodians of people’s data, comply with global privacy regulations and bolster their brands. The AI-Powered PrivacyOps platform is a full-stack solution that operationalizes and simplifies privacy compliance using robotic automation and a natural language interface. These include: - DSR (Data Subject Requests) Robotic Automation - People Data Grapher - Data Mapping Automation - Consent Management - Assessment Automation - Vendor Risk Management - AUTI, Expert Bot Assistance

ThreatQuotient

Debt Financing in 2021
ThreatQuotient is a threat intelligence platform (TIP) that centrally manages and correlates unlimited external sources with all internal security and analytics solutions for contextual, operationalized intelligence in a single pane of glass. ThreatQ is also the first TIP to provide Indicator Nurturing, which goes beyond enrichment to help customers tailor indicators of compromise (IOCs) more specifically to their infrastructure. Headquartered in Northern Virginia, ThreatQuotient was founded in 2013 by two former security operations analysts to provide organizations the ability to correlate with confidence.

ThreatQuotient

Venture Round in 2021
ThreatQuotient is a threat intelligence platform (TIP) that centrally manages and correlates unlimited external sources with all internal security and analytics solutions for contextual, operationalized intelligence in a single pane of glass. ThreatQ is also the first TIP to provide Indicator Nurturing, which goes beyond enrichment to help customers tailor indicators of compromise (IOCs) more specifically to their infrastructure. Headquartered in Northern Virginia, ThreatQuotient was founded in 2013 by two former security operations analysts to provide organizations the ability to correlate with confidence.

Uniphore

Series D in 2021
Uniphore is a global technology company that specializes in multilingual speech recognition software for speech analytics, virtual assistance, and voice biometrics. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Chennai, India, with additional offices in the U.S., Philippines, UAE, and Singapore, Uniphore aims to enhance customer service through its integrated suite of software products. Its offerings include auMina, which provides conversational analytics to transform customer interactions; akeira, an AI-enabled conversational assistant designed to improve customer engagement; and amVoice, a solution focused on preventing fraud and identity theft. Uniphore serves various sectors, including banking, insurance, retail, healthcare, and education, helping businesses leverage AI and automation technologies to improve customer engagement, build loyalty, and achieve operational efficiencies.

Valtix

Series A in 2021
Valtix Inc. develops software solutions for security of cloud networks. Valtix Inc. was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Dremio

Series D in 2021
Dremio Corporation, founded in 2015 and based in Santa Clara, California, develops a structured query language engine designed to enhance data accessibility and processing speed. Its flagship product, Dremio, serves as a data lake engine that enables users to perform queries directly on data lake storage while providing a self-service semantic layer. The platform empowers business users to curate and analyze data from various sources, thereby facilitating processes for business intelligence, data science, machine learning, and SQL clients. By streamlining analytical processing and improving productivity for data engineers, analysts, and scientists, Dremio enhances the self-sufficiency of data consumers in their decision-making processes.

Voodle

Series A in 2020
Voodle, Inc. develops a cloud-based software that builds a virtual reality and augmented reality video processing and delivery platform for media and entertainment applications. It offers Voodle, an application that is used to capture business moments as they happen and share the knowledge that connects the team and drives action. The company’s application is available on App Store and Google Play. Voodle, Inc. was formerly known as Pixvana, Inc. and changed its name to Voodle, Inc. in March 2020. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Isovalent

Series A in 2020
Isovalent is a cloud-native networking company based in Mountain View, California. Founded by long-time leaders in Linux networking, Isovalent develops enterprise open source software and commercial products that enable operators and security professionals to provide networking, security, and observability in distributed infrastructure such as Kubernetes. It specializes in the fields of cloud security, cybersecurity, and information technology. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Theta Lake

Series A in 2020
Theta Lake provides security and compliance for modern collaboration platforms. Empowering enterprises to manage compliance, data exposure, security, and acceptable use risks in what is shared, shown, spoken, and typed during video conferences, collaboration chat, audio calls, and any other unified communications from Cisco Webex, Zoom, RingCentral, Microsoft Teams, Slack, BlueJeans, and more.

Seeq

Series B in 2020
Seeq is founded on the premise that companies need better solutions for quickly and easily deriving business insight from their industrial process data. It aims to provide software and services that convert industrial process data into information, enable discovery, increase collaboration, and ultimately drive better business decisions that lead to seamless execution, increased earnings, and continuous improvement. Seeq is an official partner of OSIsoft and recently sponsored its European and US user conferences, as well as US regional seminars. Seeq is also a sponsor of recent Emerson Exchange user conferences. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

Parsable

Series D in 2020
Parsable empowers industrial workers with modern digital tools to improve productivity, quality and safety. The Parsable Connected Worker Platform transforms static, paper-based procedures into mobile and interactive work instructions, enabling workers to leverage multimedia formats and collaborate in real time. With Parsable, companies gain unprecedented insight into human work by capturing essential data to improve their operations at scale. A partner of the World Economic Forum, Parsable is trusted by top global companies in the manufacturing and energy industries including consumer packaged goods, resources and chemicals, packaging and building materials, and automotive and aerospace.

RangeForce

Series A in 2020
RangeForce delivers the most effective way to level-up and accurately assess the skills of your cybersecurity team through a scalable, interactive, on-demand cyber-skill training platform and integrated cyber range.

MemVerge

Series B in 2020
MemVerge is delivering the world’s first Memory-Converged Infrastructure (MCI) system, built with proprietary Distributed Memory Objects (DMO) technology. DMO technology provides a logical convergence layer that harnesses Intel’s new Optane DC persistent memory to let data-centric workloads run flawlessly at memory speed.

Dremio

Series C in 2020
Dremio Corporation, founded in 2015 and based in Santa Clara, California, develops a structured query language engine designed to enhance data accessibility and processing speed. Its flagship product, Dremio, serves as a data lake engine that enables users to perform queries directly on data lake storage while providing a self-service semantic layer. The platform empowers business users to curate and analyze data from various sources, thereby facilitating processes for business intelligence, data science, machine learning, and SQL clients. By streamlining analytical processing and improving productivity for data engineers, analysts, and scientists, Dremio enhances the self-sufficiency of data consumers in their decision-making processes.

Mya Systems

Series C in 2020
Mya Systems Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in developing artificial intelligence solutions for the recruitment industry. Founded in 2011 and initially known as FirstJob, Mya Systems launched its flagship product, Mya, in 2016. This conversational AI platform automates communication and outreach with job candidates, addressing inefficiencies in the hiring process for both recruiters and applicants. Mya caters to enterprises and recruiting agencies, offering features that facilitate job searches, provide career advice, and enhance visibility for candidates seeking entry-level positions. The company has gained significant traction, securing partnerships with major global recruiting agencies and numerous Fortune 500 companies. Mya Systems has raised substantial venture funding to support its growth and innovation, and its team includes experts in machine learning, natural language processing, and data science. The company has received recognition for its contributions to the field, being highlighted in various industry awards and reports.

Whatfix

Series C in 2020
Quicko Technosoft Labs Private Limited (also known as Whatfix) is a digital adoption platform that helps enterprises and businesses simplify their training and support efforts with easily accessible contextual information. Its platform is built with real-time interactive guidance technology at its core which helps users achieve optimal performance by providing just-in-time guidance that enables them to perform tasks quickly and efficiently.

Secure Code Warrior

Series B in 2019
Secure Code Warrior develops an online secure by making security visible and providing skills/tools to write secure code from start. It helps companies scale secure coding excellence as coders and development team build. The company empowers Developers to write secure code, achieving rapid improvements in security compliance and consistency, as well as a better quality and speed of code writing. Secure Code Warrior has developed the first gamified competitive Developer Quality Assurance platform that helps individual software developers build their own secure coding skills while providing organizations and executives with the visibility and metrics to understand the secure code skill strengths and weaknesses of their development teams and individual developers. It includes support for nearly 30 programming languages and frameworks and delivers more than 3,500 training modules that cover more than 140 different software weaknesses; including the all-important OWASP Top 10. Secure Code Warrior was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Gong

Series C in 2019
Provides a sales conversation intelligence platform created to improve calls and demos for sales teams. Its sales platform is cloud-based and utilizes artificial intelligence automatically to record, transcribe, and analyzes every sales conversation and calls and also analyze conversations from audio sources and web-conferencing platforms such as Cisco WebEx, GoToMeeting, and Zoom, and then links the results to CRM systems, enabling organizations to save time, increase win rates, improve strategic decision-making, and increase revenue.

Theatro

Corporate Round in 2019
Theatro is a software company that specializes in developing business applications for wearable computing devices aimed at the indoor mobile workforce. Primarily serving the retail and hospitality sectors, Theatro offers a suite of productivity applications designed to enhance communication and management for in-store employees. Their solutions include cloud-based services, wearable computers, in-door location tracking, and analytics tools that integrate with existing technologies such as WiFi and business intelligence systems. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India, Theatro aims to improve sales associate productivity, conversion rates, and overall store profitability through its innovative technology.

Luma Health

Series B in 2019
Luma Health Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in developing a patient engagement platform designed to enhance the connection between patients and healthcare providers. The platform facilitates smart scheduling, referral management, and appointment reminders, as well as mobile patient intake and care pathways. It also supports patient communications and integrates with electronic health records (EHR) while providing insights and analytics. By focusing on modern, mobile-first solutions, Luma Health aims to improve the patient experience and optimize appointment utilization for healthcare providers and health systems.

Rookout

Series A in 2019
Rookout Ltd. develops and operates a production debugging platform. The company's platform collects data from application running using production code and sends it to destination. The user can click on line in the code and get bug data. It also allows for real time instrumentation. Rookout Ltd. was founded in 2017 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with an additional office in Palo Alto, California.

Exabeam

Series E in 2019
Exabeam is a big data security analytics company that provides enterprises with advanced user behavior intelligence to unlock the potential of existing security information and event management and log management data repositories, enabling IT security teams to more quickly detect and respond to cyberattacks and insider threats in real time. The company’s user behavior intelligence technology fundamentally changes the way cyberattacks are detected and simplifies security operations by focusing on attacker behavior rather than ever-changing malware and tools, shining a spotlight on suspicious network activity, and reducing the noise of false positive security alerts. Through extraction and enrichment of log feeds, user session tracking, behavior analysis, and event risk scoring, Exabeam gives IT security teams the ability to detect and track credential use in all parts of the attack chain and prioritize responses. The company was built by seasoned security and enterprise IT veterans from Splunk, Imperva, and Sumo Logic, and believes in working together as a team to achieve customer success. Exabeam was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

PubNub

Series D in 2019
PubNub, Inc. is a provider of a Data Stream Network that enables developers to create real-time applications efficiently and at scale. Established in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers a suite of solutions, including a Realtime Communication Platform and PubNub Chat, which allows users to manage chat functionalities. PubNub's technology supports various industries such as healthcare, gaming, social and entertainment, rideshare, taxi and food delivery, fleet tracking, e-learning, IoT, IT/DevOps, and marketplaces. With over 70 software development kits (SDKs) and rapid data transfer times, PubNub's infrastructure allows for seamless connectivity and management of real-time applications and IoT devices across the globe.

Voicea

Convertible Note in 2019
Voicea is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based enterprise voice assistant software designed to enhance meeting productivity. Its flagship product, the Enterprise Voice Assistant (EVA), functions as an intelligent meeting facilitator by listening, taking notes, and identifying key decisions and action items during meetings. This capability allows users to make meetings searchable and ensures that discussions translate into actionable initiatives. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Voicea was formerly known as Voicera until its rebranding in December 2018. The company operates as a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc., and is led by professionals with experience from major technology firms.

Kespry

Series D in 2019
Kespry Inc. specializes in touchless drone-based aerial intelligence solutions, enabling industries to capture, analyze, and share critical insights about their operations. The company offers the Kespry Drone System, an automated unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that autonomously collects aerial data and uploads it to the Kespry Cloud, an intelligence platform that simplifies reporting and transforms data into actionable insights. Kespry serves a diverse range of industries, including mining, construction, insurance, and pulp and paper, with customers spanning North America, Europe, and Australia. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Kespry provides a fully integrated solution that combines drone data capture with industry-specific analytics to help organizations optimize their operations.

Whatfix

Series B in 2019
Quicko Technosoft Labs Private Limited (also known as Whatfix) is a digital adoption platform that helps enterprises and businesses simplify their training and support efforts with easily accessible contextual information. Its platform is built with real-time interactive guidance technology at its core which helps users achieve optimal performance by providing just-in-time guidance that enables them to perform tasks quickly and efficiently.

Gong

Series B in 2019
Provides a sales conversation intelligence platform created to improve calls and demos for sales teams. Its sales platform is cloud-based and utilizes artificial intelligence automatically to record, transcribe, and analyzes every sales conversation and calls and also analyze conversations from audio sources and web-conferencing platforms such as Cisco WebEx, GoToMeeting, and Zoom, and then links the results to CRM systems, enabling organizations to save time, increase win rates, improve strategic decision-making, and increase revenue.

Gong

Series B in 2019
Provides a sales conversation intelligence platform created to improve calls and demos for sales teams. Its sales platform is cloud-based and utilizes artificial intelligence automatically to record, transcribe, and analyzes every sales conversation and calls and also analyze conversations from audio sources and web-conferencing platforms such as Cisco WebEx, GoToMeeting, and Zoom, and then links the results to CRM systems, enabling organizations to save time, increase win rates, improve strategic decision-making, and increase revenue.

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.

Deskera

Series A in 2018
Deskera Cloud ERP is a fully integrated Cloud ERP Suite designed to run your business on the cloud. Its solutions allow SMEs to track finances, manage customers, and hire and manage employees. Its modules include Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Manufacture Resource Planning (MRP), Project Management (PM) and Human Capital Management (HCM). The application is a complete business suite that has all the features you will ever need to run your business. Deskera was founded in 2008 and is based in San Jose, California with offices in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and India.

CloudCherry

Series A in 2018
CloudCherry is the next generation Experience Management platform that is disrupting the way organizations listen to the Voice of Customer. Through CloudCherry’s flexible, customizable, self-serve solution, businesses today can be present at every step of today’s complex customer journeys, and listen to customers through a variety of ways. Today, leading global organizations deploy and scale their experience management program with CloudCherry quicker than any other solution. The product offers out-of-the-box integrations with existing business applications, delivers predictive, prescriptive insights that enable business leaders to better understand customer needs, and derive tangible business outcomes that can help drive true ROI. CloudCherry is based out of Salt Lake City, with offices in Singapore, India & Dubai. The company is backed by Vertex Ventures, CISCO Investments & IDG Ventures India, The Chennai Angels & Capillary Technologies.

Exabeam

Series D in 2018
Exabeam is a big data security analytics company that provides enterprises with advanced user behavior intelligence to unlock the potential of existing security information and event management and log management data repositories, enabling IT security teams to more quickly detect and respond to cyberattacks and insider threats in real time. The company’s user behavior intelligence technology fundamentally changes the way cyberattacks are detected and simplifies security operations by focusing on attacker behavior rather than ever-changing malware and tools, shining a spotlight on suspicious network activity, and reducing the noise of false positive security alerts. Through extraction and enrichment of log feeds, user session tracking, behavior analysis, and event risk scoring, Exabeam gives IT security teams the ability to detect and track credential use in all parts of the attack chain and prioritize responses. The company was built by seasoned security and enterprise IT veterans from Splunk, Imperva, and Sumo Logic, and believes in working together as a team to achieve customer success. Exabeam was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Dremio

Series B in 2018
Dremio Corporation, founded in 2015 and based in Santa Clara, California, develops a structured query language engine designed to enhance data accessibility and processing speed. Its flagship product, Dremio, serves as a data lake engine that enables users to perform queries directly on data lake storage while providing a self-service semantic layer. The platform empowers business users to curate and analyze data from various sources, thereby facilitating processes for business intelligence, data science, machine learning, and SQL clients. By streamlining analytical processing and improving productivity for data engineers, analysts, and scientists, Dremio enhances the self-sufficiency of data consumers in their decision-making processes.

Puppet

Series F in 2018
Puppet makes infrastructure actionable, scalable and intelligent. From the data center to the cloud, Puppet helps enterprises modernize and manage their infrastructure to deliver innovation and efficiency through continuous automation. More than 40,000 organizations — including more than 80 percent of the Global 5000 — have benefited from Puppet’s open source and commercial solutions to ensure business continuity, optimize costs, boost compliance and ensure security - all while accelerating the adoption of DevOps practices and delivery of self-service.

Panaseer

Series A in 2018
Panaseer Limited develops a cloud-based cybersecurity intelligence platform that assists enterprise security teams in making informed risk decisions. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, with an office in New York, the company offers the Panaseer Security Data Lake, which provides real-time insights into an organization's assets, applications, users, and data sets. This platform identifies gaps in security controls and aligns them with industry standards while facilitating regulatory compliance. By ingesting data from various sources, both cloud-based and on-premises, Panaseer enables organizations to monitor and analyze their cybersecurity posture effectively. The platform automates reporting processes, tailoring insights for stakeholders at different levels, thereby enhancing decision-making across the organization. Security leaders utilize Panaseer’s capabilities to prioritize risks based on their potential impact on the business and optimize overall cyber hygiene practices.

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.

Cohesity

Series D in 2018
Cohesity, Inc. specializes in hyper-converged secondary storage solutions designed to consolidate, protect, and share non-mission-critical data for large organizations. Its primary offering, DataPlatform, serves as a web-scale platform that integrates secondary data and workflows while removing storage silos. The company's product suite includes DataProtect for data protection infrastructure, which encompasses backup, replication, disaster recovery, and cloud tiering. Additionally, Cohesity Orion 5.0 combines data protection with big data storage on a distributed architecture. The firm also offers Cohesity Helios, a SaaS-based management solution that facilitates oversight and management of secondary data and applications. Cohesity's solutions cater to various needs, including backup and recovery, long-term retention, scale-out storage, and support for diverse environments such as virtual, cloud, physical, databases, and applications. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with a presence in Raleigh, North Carolina, Cohesity operates across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, serving a growing clientele that includes many Global 1000 companies.

CNEX Labs

Series D in 2018
CNEX Labs, Inc. develops storage semiconductor and software solutions. It offers NVMe PCIe SSD controller ASIC that supports LightNVM/Open-Channel operation that includes native NVMoE I/O connectivity. The company’s NVMe and Open-Channel SSD controller ASICs deliver high-performance with low and predictable latency, scalability, and flexibility for software-defined-storage. Its controller products accelerate the capabilities of big data computing and analytics for cloud, hyperscale, and enterprise data centers. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Jose, California with additional offices in Copenhagen, Denmark; Shanghai, China; Hangzhou, China; and Tokyo, Japan.

Tagnos

Venture Round in 2018
Tagnos offers the leading clinical logistics automation solution for hospitals and clinics. Their SaaS platform analyzes data from clinical systems, including EHR, CPOE, LIS, RIS, and ADT systems, along with RTLS tracking devices, to facilitate patient flow through the hospital. The insights produced by their AI algorithms help healthcare organizations optimize their staff and asset utilization to prevent bottlenecks, reduce wait times and improve throughput, while increasing patient and staff satisfaction.

Avi Networks

Series D in 2018
Avi Networks, Inc. specializes in software-defined data center solutions, focusing on enhancing enterprises' digital transformation. Founded in 2012 and based in Sunnyvale, California, the company offers the Avi Vantage Platform, which includes a Software Load Balancer, Intelligent Web Application Firewall (WAF), and Elastic Service Mesh. This platform is designed to be deployed across data centers and cloud environments, providing organizations with improved elasticity and intelligence in application delivery. Avi Networks enables customers to achieve significantly faster application rollouts, actionable analytics, and reduced costs, thus supporting efficient and scalable operations. As of July 31, 2019, Avi Networks operates as a subsidiary of VMware, Inc.

Ambiq Micro

Venture Round in 2018
Ambiq Micro is an early-stage fabless semiconductor company that is developing ultra-low-power mixed-signal solutions for a new generation of wireless electronics. Ambiq Micro was founded in 2010 on the simple yet powerful notion that extremely low power semiconductors are the key to the future of electronics. Through the use of their pioneering ultra-low-power technology, they help innovative companies around the world develop differentiated solutions that reduce or eliminate the need for batteries, lower overall system power, and maximize industrial design flexibility.

RStor

Series A in 2018
RStor Inc., founded in 2016 and headquartered in Saratoga, California, develops a platform designed to aggregate and automate compute resources from both private data centers and public cloud providers. The RStor Multicloud Platform serves as a hyper-distributed solution that allows organizations to compute, connect, and operate above the cloud. This platform enables users to efficiently combine and manage their computing resources across various environments, including private data centers, public clouds, and trusted supercomputing centers, all while utilizing a next-generation networking fabric. Key features of the platform include secure connectivity and orchestration capabilities. The leadership team at RStor comprises experienced executives with a strong background in cloud computing and enterprise technology, having previously founded Rackable and built infrastructure for major companies such as Facebook, as well as establishing a successful data storage firm, Optical Archive Inc., which was later acquired by Sony.

Nantero

Series G in 2018
Nantero, Inc. is a nanotechnology company which develops semiconductor products using carbon nanotubes in the United States and internationally. It offers density nonvolatile random access memory chips, nanoelectromechanical switches, memory semiconductor products, logic semiconductor products, other semiconductor products, and microelectronic-grade carbon nanotubes. The company serves various applications, including cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, networking and enterprise systems, and more. Nantero, Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Voicea

Series A in 2018
Voicea is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based enterprise voice assistant software designed to enhance meeting productivity. Its flagship product, the Enterprise Voice Assistant (EVA), functions as an intelligent meeting facilitator by listening, taking notes, and identifying key decisions and action items during meetings. This capability allows users to make meetings searchable and ensures that discussions translate into actionable initiatives. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Voicea was formerly known as Voicera until its rebranding in December 2018. The company operates as a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc., and is led by professionals with experience from major technology firms.

Upskill

Corporate Round in 2018
Upskill provides wearable technology to connect hands-on workers from the factory to the warehouse to the jobsite. Its robust platform, Skylight, connects the industrial workforce with the people, processes, information, and equipment they need to do their jobs with greater efficiency and fewer errors, leaving them hands free to focus on their tasks at hand, and their tools. For organizations in the competitive global market looking to increase productivity, improve quality, reduce costs, train new workers, retain tribal knowledge, and provide a strong foundation for further investments, the future starts with Upskill.

Gong

Series A in 2018
Provides a sales conversation intelligence platform created to improve calls and demos for sales teams. Its sales platform is cloud-based and utilizes artificial intelligence automatically to record, transcribe, and analyzes every sales conversation and calls and also analyze conversations from audio sources and web-conferencing platforms such as Cisco WebEx, GoToMeeting, and Zoom, and then links the results to CRM systems, enabling organizations to save time, increase win rates, improve strategic decision-making, and increase revenue.

Dynamic Signal

Series E in 2018
Dynamic Signal Inc. specializes in developing an employee advocacy platform that enhances communication and engagement within organizations. Founded in 2010 and based in San Bruno, California, the company aims to connect employees with their organizations effectively, driving productivity and advocacy. Its platform informs and engages employees with timely and relevant content, ensuring that important communications are received across various channels and devices. Dynamic Signal's offerings include influencer recruiting, collaboration support, member rewards, advisory support, and account management services. The company serves hundreds of global enterprises, including many from the Fortune 500, across 21 countries, helping them increase sales and awareness, reduce operational costs, and improve employee engagement. Notable clients encompass major companies such as IBM, Salesforce, and Humana.

BehavioSec

Series B in 2018
BehavioSec is a pioneer in behavioral biometrics, offering a platform that enables continuous user verification based on their unique interaction patterns with devices. Founded in 2008 from academic research, the company's Behavioral Biometrics as a Service (BBaaS) is utilized by Global 2000 companies to significantly reduce account fraud and data theft. The platform employs advanced machine learning algorithms to authenticate users in real-time, enhancing security while maintaining a seamless digital experience across web and mobile applications. With a global presence that includes operations in Europe and Asia Pacific, BehavioSec has established itself as a leader in enterprise-grade security solutions, safeguarding millions of users and billions of transactions. The company has garnered investment from notable firms, including Forgepoint Capital and Cisco, and continues to innovate in the field of digital identity verification.

AImotive

Series C in 2018
AImotive Informatikai Kft. specializes in artificial intelligence-driven self-driving technology designed for human drivers. Founded in 2015 and based in Budapest, Hungary, the company leverages camera-based solutions that replicate human visual capabilities. AImotive offers a suite of products, including aiDrive, which provides global self-driving functionalities across various weather conditions, and aiSim, which enables developers to test self-driving software effectively. Additionally, their aiWare product consists of AI-optimized hardware that is scalable for both embedded solutions and data centers. By combining expertise in artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, and 3D graphics, AImotive aims to support industry partners in achieving their autonomous driving objectives, fostering collaboration with its modular and hardware-agnostic solutions.

Kespry

Series C in 2017
Kespry Inc. specializes in touchless drone-based aerial intelligence solutions, enabling industries to capture, analyze, and share critical insights about their operations. The company offers the Kespry Drone System, an automated unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that autonomously collects aerial data and uploads it to the Kespry Cloud, an intelligence platform that simplifies reporting and transforms data into actionable insights. Kespry serves a diverse range of industries, including mining, construction, insurance, and pulp and paper, with customers spanning North America, Europe, and Australia. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Kespry provides a fully integrated solution that combines drone data capture with industry-specific analytics to help organizations optimize their operations.

Relayr

Series B in 2017
Relayr, Inc. specializes in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology, providing a middleware platform that connects diverse industrial equipment for data collection and analysis. The platform is designed to identify anomalies in operational readings and can be customized to fit various hardware setups. Relayr offers a range of services, including implementation, production line optimization, and IIoT starter programs, catering to sectors such as manufacturing, automotive, food processing, and power generation. Established in 2014 and headquartered in Chicago, the company also has offices in Germany, Italy, and Poland. As of late 2018, Relayr operates as a subsidiary of HSB Group, Inc. Through its innovative solutions, Relayr aims to empower businesses to leverage data insights for enhanced decision-making and new revenue opportunities.

Pixvana, Inc.

Series A in 2017
Pixvana is a Seattle-based software startup building a Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) video processing and delivery platform for media and entertainment applications. Pixvana’s founders have proven startup success in media technology and hail from senior product and engineering leadership positions at Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, and Lucasfilm.

ThreatQuotient

Series C in 2017
ThreatQuotient is a threat intelligence platform (TIP) that centrally manages and correlates unlimited external sources with all internal security and analytics solutions for contextual, operationalized intelligence in a single pane of glass. ThreatQ is also the first TIP to provide Indicator Nurturing, which goes beyond enrichment to help customers tailor indicators of compromise (IOCs) more specifically to their infrastructure. Headquartered in Northern Virginia, ThreatQuotient was founded in 2013 by two former security operations analysts to provide organizations the ability to correlate with confidence.

Ascendify

Series A in 2017
Ascendify’s Intelligent People Management™ platform reinvents how companies attract, develop and inspire their talent. Built for global organizations, Ascendify integrates machine learning and predictive analytics into recruiting and talent development with one seamless platform. Headquartered in San Francisco, Ascendify's customers include GE, Cisco, Panasonic, Disney, Deloitte, and Marriott.

Elastifile

Series C in 2017
Elastifile is redefining the way data is stored and managed in the cloud and spanning hybrid clouds. Powered by an elastically scalable, enterprise-grade, distributed file system with integrated object tiering, Elastifile’s cross-cloud data fabric delivers high performance, unified access to global data. By freeing data from traditional storage silos, Elastifile enables frictionless movement of applications to the cloud, between clouds, and across hybrid environments. This allows enterprises to seamlessly leverage cloud infrastructure and services to enhance and accelerate a broad range of data-driven workflows, including: analytics, DevOps, high-performance computing, and many more.

Guardicore

Series B in 2017
GuardiCore Ltd. is a data center and cloud security company founded in 2013 and based in Tel-Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in providing solutions that enhance the protection of critical applications from potential threats. GuardiCore's offerings include advanced visualization, micro-segmentation, and real-time threat detection and response capabilities. By focusing on delivering accurate and effective security measures, GuardiCore aims to improve overall security for its clients' digital environments.

Prospera Technologies

Series B in 2017
Prospera Technologies specializes in developing computer vision technologies that monitor and analyze plant health, growth, and stress. Founded in 2014 and based in Tel-Aviv, Israel, the company captures climate and visual data from agricultural fields to deliver actionable insights to growers through mobile and web platforms. Its team comprises computer scientists, physicists, agronomists, and seasoned agri-business professionals, all working together to enhance the tools used in food production.

Flashpoint

Series C in 2017
Flashpoint is the globally trusted leader in risk intelligence for organizations that demand the fastest, most comprehensive coverage of threatening activity on the internet. From bolstering cyber and physical security, to detecting fraud and insider threats, Flashpoint partners with customers across the private and public sectors to help them rapidly identify threats and mitigate their most critical security risks. Learn more at https://www.flashpoint-intel.com/ or follow us on Twitter at @FlashpointIntel.

Worldsensing

Series B in 2017
Worldsensing is a market leader in Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. The company has built on its expertise in low-power wireless sensing networks and has created comprehensive vertical solutions in sectors where IoT is making a measurable impact. The company focuses on two key markets: Mobility - a unique smart traffic management portfolio includes Bitcarrier, a real-time traffic flo management solution, and Fastprk, its market-leading smart parking system. Industrial Solutions - offers the LS-G6 platform to monitor key assets in remote or hard-to-access locations. Examples include bridges, tunnels, large public buildings and infrastructures, mines, power lines. Worldsensing raised its round of seed capital in 2010. A series A round was closed in 2013 with Fundación Jose Manuel Entrecanales (FJME) and IESE Business School's Finaves fund as investors. A series B round was completed in 2015, led by FJME, Kibo Ventures and Mitsui & Co. Cisco Ventures and Endeavor also participated in this round. Today, the company has offices in Barcelona and London and has a team of more than 40 professionals. Awards -Fastprk- has won two major awards: the Stockholm Smart City Living Labs Global Award 2011 and the IBM Smart Camp 2010 London Award. -Bitcarrier was IBM Smart Camp Winner (2011), and it has been recognised by Analyst Firm Gartner as "Cool Vendor 2013". -Ignasi Vilajosana, Worldsensing’s CEO, was named the first Spanish Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2014.

Near

Series C in 2017
Near Pte. Ltd. operates a location-based intelligence platform that delivers real-time insights on places, people, and products. It offers various data and analytical products designed to support data-driven decision-making, such as Allspark, a mobile-first audience cloud solution, and Carbon, which analyzes real-world consumer footprints. The platform processes data from over 1.6 billion monthly users across 44 countries, enabling brands to engage with audiences in a privacy-centric manner. Near serves diverse industries, including automobile, fast food, retail, FMCG, BFSI, technology, travel, and telecommunications. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Singapore, Near has expanded with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Bengaluru, Tokyo, and Sydney. The company collaborates with notable brands such as News Corp, MetLife, and Mastercard, enhancing their customer experiences through its suite of SaaS products.

Gainsight

Series E in 2017
Gainsight’s customer success technology helps businesses retain customers and drive company growth. Its innovative customer-centric technology is driving the future of customer success. The company’s customer cloud offers a powerful set of solutions focused on customer success, product experience, revenue optimization, customer experience, and customer data, that together enable businesses to put the customer at the center of everything they do. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Actility

Series D in 2017
Actility is an industry leader in Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN). ThingPark by Actility offers a carrier-grade IoT platform, with a growing ecosystem of partners; low-power, long-range wireless networks for sensors and devices; an operating system and middleware that enables web applications to connect seamlessly with data from different sensors; and a B2B e-commerce market featuring tested and approved IoT device, connectivity, and application partners. Actility is a founding member of the LoRa Alliance™.

Cohesity

Series C in 2017
Cohesity, Inc. specializes in hyper-converged secondary storage solutions designed to consolidate, protect, and share non-mission-critical data for large organizations. Its primary offering, DataPlatform, serves as a web-scale platform that integrates secondary data and workflows while removing storage silos. The company's product suite includes DataProtect for data protection infrastructure, which encompasses backup, replication, disaster recovery, and cloud tiering. Additionally, Cohesity Orion 5.0 combines data protection with big data storage on a distributed architecture. The firm also offers Cohesity Helios, a SaaS-based management solution that facilitates oversight and management of secondary data and applications. Cohesity's solutions cater to various needs, including backup and recovery, long-term retention, scale-out storage, and support for diverse environments such as virtual, cloud, physical, databases, and applications. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with a presence in Raleigh, North Carolina, Cohesity operates across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, serving a growing clientele that includes many Global 1000 companies.

VeloCloud

Series D in 2017
VeloCloud Networks, Inc. delivers cloud-based software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) solutions aimed at enhancing connectivity for enterprises. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company offers a range of services, including the Cloud Services Edge appliance for secure connectivity, the VeloCloud Orchestrator for centralized management and real-time monitoring, and the Cloud Service Gateway for optimized access to various applications and data centers. VeloCloud's SD-WAN technology simplifies network deployment and improves performance over private and broadband Internet connections, making it suitable for distributed enterprises. The company's solutions support a variety of sectors, including retail and engineering, and are designed to enable policy-based access to cloud and data center applications. VeloCloud has established partnerships to enhance its offerings and operates as a subsidiary of VMware.

Exabeam

Series C in 2017
Exabeam is a big data security analytics company that provides enterprises with advanced user behavior intelligence to unlock the potential of existing security information and event management and log management data repositories, enabling IT security teams to more quickly detect and respond to cyberattacks and insider threats in real time. The company’s user behavior intelligence technology fundamentally changes the way cyberattacks are detected and simplifies security operations by focusing on attacker behavior rather than ever-changing malware and tools, shining a spotlight on suspicious network activity, and reducing the noise of false positive security alerts. Through extraction and enrichment of log feeds, user session tracking, behavior analysis, and event risk scoring, Exabeam gives IT security teams the ability to detect and track credential use in all parts of the attack chain and prioritize responses. The company was built by seasoned security and enterprise IT veterans from Splunk, Imperva, and Sumo Logic, and believes in working together as a team to achieve customer success. Exabeam was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

EVRYTHNG

Series B in 2017
EVRYTHNG Limited is a platform that connects consumer products to the Internet, enabling the management of real-time data to enhance applications and analytics throughout the product lifecycle. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in London, with additional offices in New York and San Francisco, the company offers a range of solutions including THNGHUB, a local cloud gateway software, and tools for consumer engagement, brand protection, inventory management, product registration, and reordering. These solutions allow consumer electronics and home appliance manufacturers to enable their products for mobile control and provide digital engagement through smart labels and packaging. By managing billions of intelligent identities in the cloud, EVRYTHNG empowers brands to deliver direct digital services to consumers, optimize supply chains with real-time insights, and integrate their products within a broader ecosystem of applications and services across various industries such as electronics, apparel, food and beverages, and health.

Altiostar Networks

Venture Round in 2017
Altiostar Networks, Inc. specializes in designing and developing solutions for the LTE market, catering primarily to mobile network operators. The company's product offerings include macro and small cell integrated remote radio heads (iRRHs), which are engineered for deployment in various outdoor environments, such as cell towers and urban settings with high user density. These solutions aim to enhance network coverage and capacity, particularly addressing gaps in connectivity. Founded in 2011 and based in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, Altiostar Networks was previously known as Radio Mobile Access, Inc. and rebranded in 2013. The company is led by a team of experienced technology entrepreneurs focused on creating innovative solutions to improve communication experiences while reducing technology costs.

Alchemist Accelerator

Venture Round in 2017
Alchemist Accelerator is a San Francisco-based accelerator dedicated to supporting early-stage startups that focus on enterprise monetization, particularly in the Internet-of-Things sector. Founded in 2013, it operates six-month programs, admitting 13 startups every four months and investing up to $40,000 in seed funding. Alchemist emphasizes teams with distinctive technical co-founders as a primary selection criterion. Over its duration, the program offers mentorship, a structured path to traction, and fundraising opportunities. The accelerator supports around 75 ventures annually and has received backing from prominent corporate and venture capital firms, including Cisco, Khosla Ventures, and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Notable alumni include companies such as LaunchDarkly and Rigetti Quantum Computing.

Helpshift

Series B in 2016
Helpshift, Inc. specializes in mobile customer service software, providing a support platform designed for the needs of the mobile era. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, Helpshift offers a range of functionalities including in-app FAQs, chat, a comprehensive CRM ticketing system, campaigns, and surveys. The platform enhances user experience by enabling in-app messaging for support, allowing users to receive assistance without leaving their applications. Helpshift's automation capabilities, utilizing bots, can address up to 90% of user issues, thereby improving response times and reducing operational costs. The company serves numerous prominent mobile apps and games, including those from Supercell, Tencent, and Microsoft, and is installed on two billion devices globally, reaching over 820 million active consumers monthly.

Paxata

Series D in 2016
Paxata, Inc. provides adaptive data preparation platform that delivers raw data to ready data for business analysts in the United States and internationally. Its platform enables users to connect, explore, transform, and combine data on their own or work with peers in a shared and transparent environment as they shape data for analytics. The company also provides Data Time Machine, a cloud-based data governance solution that provides security, versioning, and usage visibility; and Adaptive Information Platform, a self-service information platform for Microsoft Azure. Paxata, Inc. has a strategic relationship with Cisco. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California. As of December 12, 2019, Paxata, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of DataRobot, Inc.

Mist Systems

Series B in 2016
Mist Systems, born in the mobile and cloud era, delivers the world’s first intelligent wireless network products that leverage machine learning. Using Mist, enterprises can provide amazing user experiences not possible before, and IT can proactively manage the network at any scale. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Cupertino, California.

CloudCherry

Series A in 2016
CloudCherry is the next generation Experience Management platform that is disrupting the way organizations listen to the Voice of Customer. Through CloudCherry’s flexible, customizable, self-serve solution, businesses today can be present at every step of today’s complex customer journeys, and listen to customers through a variety of ways. Today, leading global organizations deploy and scale their experience management program with CloudCherry quicker than any other solution. The product offers out-of-the-box integrations with existing business applications, delivers predictive, prescriptive insights that enable business leaders to better understand customer needs, and derive tangible business outcomes that can help drive true ROI. CloudCherry is based out of Salt Lake City, with offices in Singapore, India & Dubai. The company is backed by Vertex Ventures, CISCO Investments & IDG Ventures India, The Chennai Angels & Capillary Technologies.

CTERA

Series C in 2016
CTERA Networks Ltd. specializes in providing a private cloud storage platform that enables organizations to manage their data securely and efficiently. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Petah Tikvah, Israel, the company offers a range of services including branch storage modernization, endpoint backup, cloud transformation, and ransomware recovery. Its Enterprise File Services Platform allows enterprises to store, sync, share, protect, and govern data across various endpoints and remote offices. CTERA's solutions, such as the CTERA Edge Filer and CTERA Drive, facilitate secure file access and collaboration, catering to industries like financial services, healthcare, and media. The company has established strategic partnerships with prominent technology firms, enhancing its service offerings. CTERA is recognized for its role in enabling modern remote work environments and is trusted by Fortune 100 companies and leading service providers worldwide.

PubNub

Venture Round in 2016
PubNub, Inc. is a provider of a Data Stream Network that enables developers to create real-time applications efficiently and at scale. Established in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers a suite of solutions, including a Realtime Communication Platform and PubNub Chat, which allows users to manage chat functionalities. PubNub's technology supports various industries such as healthcare, gaming, social and entertainment, rideshare, taxi and food delivery, fleet tracking, e-learning, IoT, IT/DevOps, and marketplaces. With over 70 software development kits (SDKs) and rapid data transfer times, PubNub's infrastructure allows for seamless connectivity and management of real-time applications and IoT devices across the globe.
Customer Analytics Technologies Inc. develops Cloudcherry, a cloud-based customer experience management and feedback software for large enterprises and SMEs to improve customer engagement by mapping customer journey across multiple touchpoints.

Guardicore

Series B in 2016
GuardiCore Ltd. is a data center and cloud security company founded in 2013 and based in Tel-Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in providing solutions that enhance the protection of critical applications from potential threats. GuardiCore's offerings include advanced visualization, micro-segmentation, and real-time threat detection and response capabilities. By focusing on delivering accurate and effective security measures, GuardiCore aims to improve overall security for its clients' digital environments.

Flashpoint

Series B in 2016
Flashpoint is the globally trusted leader in risk intelligence for organizations that demand the fastest, most comprehensive coverage of threatening activity on the internet. From bolstering cyber and physical security, to detecting fraud and insider threats, Flashpoint partners with customers across the private and public sectors to help them rapidly identify threats and mitigate their most critical security risks. Learn more at https://www.flashpoint-intel.com/ or follow us on Twitter at @FlashpointIntel.

Verodin

Series A in 2016
Verodin, Inc. is a software company based in Purcellville, Virginia, focused on enhancing cybersecurity effectiveness for organizations. Incorporated in 2014, Verodin develops the Security Instrumentation Platform (SIP), which enables businesses to measure and validate the effectiveness of their cybersecurity controls across various domains, including endpoint, email, cloud, and network infrastructures. The platform provides evidence that helps organizations assess their security postures and continuously improve their defenses against cyber threats. As of May 2019, Verodin operates as a subsidiary of FireEye, Inc., further strengthening its position in the cybersecurity landscape.