Engineering Capital

Engineering Capital partners with great entrepreneurs driven by technical insights: they boldly invest before traditional venture firms are willing. They lead and anchor seed rounds in companies defining new categories with the ambition to shape the future of information technology.

Ashmeet Sidana

Investor

Past deals in PaaS

Robust Intelligence, Inc.

Series A in 2020
Robust Intelligence is a provider of an AI security and reliability platform that secures the deployment of artificial intelligence. The platform frees up machine learning engineers and data scientists from dealing with security and reliability and allows them to focus on core AI development. Alexander Rilee, Eric Balkanski, Kojin Oshiba, and Yaron Singer established the company in San Francisco, California in 2019.

vFunction Inc.

Series A in 2021
VFunction develops an innovative product for businesses to modernize applications and accelerate transformation of existing Java applications to cloud-native architecture. The product enables companies to easily and effectively stay ahead of the curve. The company's team brings unique expertise to change clients’ ability to modernize core business applications.

YotaScale, Inc.

Series B in 2020
YotaScale, Inc. provides cloud cost management solutions that helps organizations optimize and manage their public cloud resources. It provides infrastructure performance management domain that leverages machine learning to optimize cloud infrastructure. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Concentric

Venture Round in 2020
Concentric Inc. provides agent-based simulation technology. Its technology helps organizations to integrate data and tools into a single framework; attribute the impact of marketing investments; forecast sales and brand metrics; and test future strategies. The company offers services in the areas of licensing, consulting, support, and development aspects. It serves customers in the United States and internationally. Concentric Inc. has a strategic alliance with Phoenix Strategic Advisors. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Concentric Inc

Series A in 2022
Concentric’s Semantic Intelligence solution delivers data risk insights across the entire inventory of sensitive documents in the cloud and on-premises. Its deep learning technology examines each document’s content and context for efficient actionable security. It scans the documents, identifies sensitive or business-critical data, evaluates the risk each document poses and highlights critical concerns that need immediate attention. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Robust Intelligence, Inc.

Series B in 2021
Robust Intelligence is a provider of an AI security and reliability platform that secures the deployment of artificial intelligence. The platform frees up machine learning engineers and data scientists from dealing with security and reliability and allows them to focus on core AI development. Alexander Rilee, Eric Balkanski, Kojin Oshiba, and Yaron Singer established the company in San Francisco, California in 2019.

Nexla, Inc.

Series A in 2021
Nexla, Inc. provides a web-based data operations Software-as-a-Service platform that manages secure inter-company data collaboration at scale. Its platform runs in the cloud or on-premise and allows business users to send, receive, transform, and monitor data in their preferred format via an easy to use web interface. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Onymos Inc.

Series A in 2022
Onymos is an information technology company that offers a mobile foundation that bundles end-to-end functions and building blocks to create software applications. The company specializes in the fields of software development, mobile apps, and information technology.

Kentik Technologies, Inc.

Series C in 2021
Kentik is a network intelligence platform that provides visibility, performance, and security services to digital enterprises. It helps businesses eliminate the visibility and intelligence gaps associated with running dynamic and complex networks and achieve greater network performance, reliability, and security. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Auditoria

Series A in 2021
Auditoria is a provider of AI-driven automation solutions for Finance teams, based in Santa Clara, California, and backed by Neotribe Ventures, Engineering Capital and Firebolt Ventures. Its flagship offering, Auditoria SmartFlow Skills, leverages natural language processing, artificial intelligence and machine learning to remove friction and repetition, automate finance back office business processes, and deliver cutting-edge real-time predictive analytics to enterprise Finance and Accounting teams.

Kentik Technologies, Inc.

Series B in 2016
Kentik is a network intelligence platform that provides visibility, performance, and security services to digital enterprises. It helps businesses eliminate the visibility and intelligence gaps associated with running dynamic and complex networks and achieve greater network performance, reliability, and security. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Asimily

Venture Round in 2021
Asimily, Inc. develops a vertical specific distributed analytics software solution. The company offers healthcare specific management platform with non-invasive information technology and risk management for medical devices and vendors. The company's product portfolio of functionality includes managing the system of devices, helps predict the device posture across security and operational use cases, and ensures devices behave as expected. Asimily, Inc. was formerly known as Assimily, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Evinced

Series B in 2022
Evinced - built with advanced rule-sets, computer vision and other AI algorithms - automatically detects and pinpoints accessibility problems and suggests fixes. Leading enterprises use Evinced to weave accessibility into their software development process - including design, development, automated testing and production/compliance monitoring.

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.

Kontain

Seed Round in 2021
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Diamanti

Series A in 2014
Diamanti is the technology leader in bare-metal container infrastructure. Purpose-built for modern cloud and open-source environments, Diamanti’s container platform gives infrastructure architects, IT operations, and application owners the speed, simplicity, efficiency, and control they need to run stateful containerized applications in production.

Nimbella Corp.

Seed Round in 2018
Serverless computing today is nascent, and is lacking the abstractions, automation, and integrations that have proven necessary to accelerate the adoption of technology in new markets and application domains. Nimbella fills the technology gaps and unifies the programming experience around serverless to deliver a complete and integrated solution that works across clouds. It is designed from the ground up to address the needs of event-based applications, long running applications, stateful workloads, and more complex use cases that employ artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Passage AI

Series A in 2018
Passage AI is a venture-backed company located in the heart of Silicon Valley. We were founded in 2016 by three Silicon Valley veterans with an extensive background in deep learning and artificial intelligence. We are funded by leading seed/angel investors. Our mission is to make it seamless for businesses to converse with their customers, and help businesses put their customers first. Passage AI's platform provides the AI, NLU/P, and deep learning technology as well as the bot building tools to create and deploy a conversational interface for your business.

Robust Intelligence, Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Robust Intelligence is a provider of an AI security and reliability platform that secures the deployment of artificial intelligence. The platform frees up machine learning engineers and data scientists from dealing with security and reliability and allows them to focus on core AI development. Alexander Rilee, Eric Balkanski, Kojin Oshiba, and Yaron Singer established the company in San Francisco, California in 2019.

Isima

Seed Round in 2020
Isima Inc. develops a hyper-converged data platform that provides insight for data app builders in a unified manner. The company offer services, such as adding varied data sources, deriving real-time insights, and deploying to production, enabling clients to build a moat against competitors and deliver a business scale with agility. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in East Palo Alto, California.

Menlo Security, Inc.

Series B in 2015
Menlo Security provides a cloud-based isolation platform that protects organizations from cyberattacks by eliminating the threat of malware from websites, documents, and emails. Menlo Security is trusted by major global businesses, including Fortune 500 companies and financial services institutions, and backed by Vista Equity Partners, Neuberger Berman, General Catalyst, Sutter Hill Ventures, Engineering Capital, Osage University Partners, American Express Ventures, Ericsson Ventures, HSBC, and JP Morgan Chase. Menlo Security was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

vFunction Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
VFunction develops an innovative product for businesses to modernize applications and accelerate transformation of existing Java applications to cloud-native architecture. The product enables companies to easily and effectively stay ahead of the curve. The company's team brings unique expertise to change clients’ ability to modernize core business applications.

NeoReach Inc.

Venture Round in 2014
NeoReach Inc. provides an automated platform to launch and track social influencer marketing campaigns on a cost-per-click model. It offers a tagging algorithm that pairs users with brand campaigns to promote products and earn money through endorsements on their social media channels. The company enables content producers, bloggers, and influencers to monetize their followings by endorsing companies they believe in. It also helps the influencers and creators to develop their audience, generate buzz and engagement, and acquire new fans and followers. NeoReach Inc. is based in Orlando, Florida.

Menlo Security, Inc.

Series C in 2017
Menlo Security provides a cloud-based isolation platform that protects organizations from cyberattacks by eliminating the threat of malware from websites, documents, and emails. Menlo Security is trusted by major global businesses, including Fortune 500 companies and financial services institutions, and backed by Vista Equity Partners, Neuberger Berman, General Catalyst, Sutter Hill Ventures, Engineering Capital, Osage University Partners, American Express Ventures, Ericsson Ventures, HSBC, and JP Morgan Chase. Menlo Security was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Datos IO

Seed Round in 2014
Datos IO provides the industry’s first cloud-scale, application-centric, data management platform enabling organizations to protect, mobilize, and monetize all their application data across private cloud, hybrid cloud and public cloud environments. Datos IO has been recognized by Gartner in their 2016 Hype Cycle for Storage Technologies and was more recently awarded 2016 Product of the Year by Storage Magazine. Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and True Ventures, Datos IO is headquartered in San Jose, California. To learn more, please visit http://datos.io.

Concentric Inc

Seed Round in 2020
Concentric’s Semantic Intelligence solution delivers data risk insights across the entire inventory of sensitive documents in the cloud and on-premises. Its deep learning technology examines each document’s content and context for efficient actionable security. It scans the documents, identifies sensitive or business-critical data, evaluates the risk each document poses and highlights critical concerns that need immediate attention. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Menlo Security, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Menlo Security provides a cloud-based isolation platform that protects organizations from cyberattacks by eliminating the threat of malware from websites, documents, and emails. Menlo Security is trusted by major global businesses, including Fortune 500 companies and financial services institutions, and backed by Vista Equity Partners, Neuberger Berman, General Catalyst, Sutter Hill Ventures, Engineering Capital, Osage University Partners, American Express Ventures, Ericsson Ventures, HSBC, and JP Morgan Chase. Menlo Security was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Kentik Technologies, Inc.

Series A in 2015
Kentik is a network intelligence platform that provides visibility, performance, and security services to digital enterprises. It helps businesses eliminate the visibility and intelligence gaps associated with running dynamic and complex networks and achieve greater network performance, reliability, and security. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Baffle, Inc.

Series A in 2018
Baffle™ secures data in the cloud and when shared across the entire analytics pipeline with no impact on the user experience. Proven in large-scale environments, only the Baffle Data Protection Service de-identifies sensitive information with zero application changes so companies can responsibly move more data, faster, to the cloud for privacy-preserving analytics in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

Evinced

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Evinced - built with advanced rule-sets, computer vision and other AI algorithms - automatically detects and pinpoints accessibility problems and suggests fixes. Leading enterprises use Evinced to weave accessibility into their software development process - including design, development, automated testing and production/compliance monitoring.

Palerra, Inc.

Series B in 2015
Founded in 2013, Palerra believes in automating the entire security lifecycle, from threat detection to remediation, in order to effectively combat cyber crime and keep enterprises secure. Palerra is a privately held company backed by Norwest Venture Partners and Wing Venture Partners. The funding represented the first joint Series A investment made by Palerra’s board members from Wing and NVP since investing in FireEye (FEYE) in 2005. The LORIC™ platform provides threat visibility and ensures compliance of your cloud footprint by combining threat detection, predictive analytics, security configuration management, and automated incident response into a single solution. LORIC does not require hardware, software or agents and is not deployed inline with cloud services.

Passage AI

Seed Round in 2017
Passage AI is a venture-backed company located in the heart of Silicon Valley. We were founded in 2016 by three Silicon Valley veterans with an extensive background in deep learning and artificial intelligence. We are funded by leading seed/angel investors. Our mission is to make it seamless for businesses to converse with their customers, and help businesses put their customers first. Passage AI's platform provides the AI, NLU/P, and deep learning technology as well as the bot building tools to create and deploy a conversational interface for your business.

Nexla, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Nexla, Inc. provides a web-based data operations Software-as-a-Service platform that manages secure inter-company data collaboration at scale. Its platform runs in the cloud or on-premise and allows business users to send, receive, transform, and monitor data in their preferred format via an easy to use web interface. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Baffle, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Baffle™ secures data in the cloud and when shared across the entire analytics pipeline with no impact on the user experience. Proven in large-scale environments, only the Baffle Data Protection Service de-identifies sensitive information with zero application changes so companies can responsibly move more data, faster, to the cloud for privacy-preserving analytics in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

Netsil

Seed Round in 2015
Netsil Inc. develops and delivers a monitoring solution for distributed cloud applications. The company’s solution include content-driven analytics engine, which derives insights from API calls without requiring code instrumentation allowing DevOps to deploy their applications multiple times a day. Its solution listens to application’s chatter in real-time and provides a way to identify and address service-level pain points using microservices and containers. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of March 22, 2018, Netsil Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Nutanix, Inc.

YotaScale, Inc.

Series A in 2018
YotaScale, Inc. provides cloud cost management solutions that helps organizations optimize and manage their public cloud resources. It provides infrastructure performance management domain that leverages machine learning to optimize cloud infrastructure. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Binaris Cloud Computing Ltd.

Seed Round in 2017
Binaris lets you use serverless functions for apps. Serverless functions let you build faster. You can focus on features and never think about servers. However, existing solutions are simply too slow and too expensive for anything but data ingestion and automation. Binaris serverless functions are fast (15x faster than Lambda) and affordable (90% off Lambda) so you can run your APIs, backends and even real-time gaming and bidding engines. You can deploy microservices as Binaris functions and even chain them together without compromising user experience.

Shipa

Seed Round in 2020
Shipa, Corp. develops an application management framework to manage cloud native applications. The company’s platform offers features, such as multi-cloud multi-cluster, developer experience, persistent applications, application services, routing and observability, and open API open plugins. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Joshu

Seed Round in 2021
Joshu helps insurance carriers launch online distribution channels quickly and independently.

Onymos Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Onymos is an information technology company that offers a mobile foundation that bundles end-to-end functions and building blocks to create software applications. The company specializes in the fields of software development, mobile apps, and information technology.

Auditoria

Venture Round in 2020
Auditoria is a provider of AI-driven automation solutions for Finance teams, based in Santa Clara, California, and backed by Neotribe Ventures, Engineering Capital and Firebolt Ventures. Its flagship offering, Auditoria SmartFlow Skills, leverages natural language processing, artificial intelligence and machine learning to remove friction and repetition, automate finance back office business processes, and deliver cutting-edge real-time predictive analytics to enterprise Finance and Accounting teams.

YotaScale, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
YotaScale, Inc. provides cloud cost management solutions that helps organizations optimize and manage their public cloud resources. It provides infrastructure performance management domain that leverages machine learning to optimize cloud infrastructure. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Sail Internet

Seed Round in 2017
Sail Internet, Inc. provides fiber and fixed wireless internet services to businesses, single-family homes, and multi-unit complexes in San Francisco Bay Area and the Chula Vista area. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Baffle, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
Baffle™ secures data in the cloud and when shared across the entire analytics pipeline with no impact on the user experience. Proven in large-scale environments, only the Baffle Data Protection Service de-identifies sensitive information with zero application changes so companies can responsibly move more data, faster, to the cloud for privacy-preserving analytics in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

Palerra, Inc.

Series A in 2014
Founded in 2013, Palerra believes in automating the entire security lifecycle, from threat detection to remediation, in order to effectively combat cyber crime and keep enterprises secure. Palerra is a privately held company backed by Norwest Venture Partners and Wing Venture Partners. The funding represented the first joint Series A investment made by Palerra’s board members from Wing and NVP since investing in FireEye (FEYE) in 2005. The LORIC™ platform provides threat visibility and ensures compliance of your cloud footprint by combining threat detection, predictive analytics, security configuration management, and automated incident response into a single solution. LORIC does not require hardware, software or agents and is not deployed inline with cloud services.

Evinced

Series A in 2021
Evinced - built with advanced rule-sets, computer vision and other AI algorithms - automatically detects and pinpoints accessibility problems and suggests fixes. Leading enterprises use Evinced to weave accessibility into their software development process - including design, development, automated testing and production/compliance monitoring.

Menlo Security, Inc.

Series D in 2019
Menlo Security provides a cloud-based isolation platform that protects organizations from cyberattacks by eliminating the threat of malware from websites, documents, and emails. Menlo Security is trusted by major global businesses, including Fortune 500 companies and financial services institutions, and backed by Vista Equity Partners, Neuberger Berman, General Catalyst, Sutter Hill Ventures, Engineering Capital, Osage University Partners, American Express Ventures, Ericsson Ventures, HSBC, and JP Morgan Chase. Menlo Security was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Kentik Technologies, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Kentik is a network intelligence platform that provides visibility, performance, and security services to digital enterprises. It helps businesses eliminate the visibility and intelligence gaps associated with running dynamic and complex networks and achieve greater network performance, reliability, and security. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Onymos Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Onymos is an information technology company that offers a mobile foundation that bundles end-to-end functions and building blocks to create software applications. The company specializes in the fields of software development, mobile apps, and information technology.