Divergent Ventures

We have participated in all stages of venture investing. Our preferred initial investment point is in the first professional round. We will consider seed stage investments and we reserve capital for participating in follow on rounds. Our themes are around Big Data, Data Driven Applications, Storage, and Cloud Infrastructure: We have over 30 years of experience building products and services and investing in companies that provide the technical building blocks that todayâ€:tm:s networks and information systems are built upon. Early Stage investing is well served by being accessible and available. We have found that time zones make it much more difficult to deliver on the promise of close involvement. We have successfully invested across the country, but are focusing our current efforts on the west coast. The Managing Directors are Kevin Ober, Rob Shurtleff, and Todd Warren--highly experienced and successful early-stage investors. The firm invests in early-stage companies. Our experience has taught us the importance of being closely involved with the companies we invest in, partnering with management to help overcome the many challenges faced by early-stage companies. In addition to investment capital, we actively work with our portfolio company management teams and potitial investment management teams to refine their plans, introduce them to potential customers, employees and investors.

Kevin G. Doren

Advisor

Kevin Ober

MD

Robert D. Shurtleff

MD

Todd Warren

MD

36 past transactions

Wicket Labs

Seed Round in 2017
Wicket Labs, Inc. develops scoreboard-based tools for websites and applications to identify application program interface problems and facilitate resolution. It offers The Wicket Scorecard, a solution that enables companies to gain visibility into their customers so as to understand how initiatives impact their business, drive engagement with their service, and promote a customer base through unique customer happiness index score. Wicket Labs, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

TempoIQ

Series A in 2013
TempoIQ is built by experts with years of experience launching, hosting, scaling, and innovating IoT applications. The unique IoT Accelerator process uses an Agile approach that cuts through IT complexity and focuses on results. Launch your IoT application in four weeks with service and support built-in.

Pliant Technology

Series C in 2009
Pliant Technology is developing a new class of solid state drive storage devices for the enterprise computing market: Enterprise Flash Drives (EFDs). EFDs integrate seamlessly into existing enterprise information systems, and are designed to dramatically improve the performance, reliability, energy efficiency, and TCO of enterprise data center storage systems. Pliant EFDs are ideal for a range of data I/O (input/output) intensive enterprise applications, such as trading floors, financial transactions, VOD, airline reservation systems, e-commerce, and Web 2.0 applications. Pliant’s EFD is a disruptive solution that offers breakthrough performance and reliability improvements over today’s highest performing hard drive and consumer solid state storage devices (SSD). EFDs enable enterprise data centers to do “much more for less” – achieve more performance and reliability with less cost, energy and space. One EFD can replace many (100+) enterprise HDDs (10K/15K RPM) for performance, and by combining EFDs with high capacity HDDs, today’s storage racks can be reduced to storage shelves saving power (up to 80%), space and money. Based on an advanced software architecture and proprietary ASIC design, Pliant’s EFD changes the storage system paradigm while meeting growing “Green IT” energy efficiency. Pliant was established by a team of executives and engineers from Fujitsu, Maxtor and Seagate with an unparalleled track record of success in the data storage industry.

Iron.io

Series A in 2016
Iron.io's event-driven computing platform delivers and processes 100s of millions of messages and tasks through IronMQ and IronWorker. Its asynchronous workloads operate in public and private clouds, on-premises, or hybrid environments. Iron.io's messaging queuing, task processing, and job scheduling solutions are used for event processing, transaction processing, mobile and IoT compute, microservices, and other asynchronous computing patterns within modern cloud applications.

Iron.io

Seed Round in 2011
Iron.io's event-driven computing platform delivers and processes 100s of millions of messages and tasks through IronMQ and IronWorker. Its asynchronous workloads operate in public and private clouds, on-premises, or hybrid environments. Iron.io's messaging queuing, task processing, and job scheduling solutions are used for event processing, transaction processing, mobile and IoT compute, microservices, and other asynchronous computing patterns within modern cloud applications.

Iron.io

Seed Round in 2014
Iron.io's event-driven computing platform delivers and processes 100s of millions of messages and tasks through IronMQ and IronWorker. Its asynchronous workloads operate in public and private clouds, on-premises, or hybrid environments. Iron.io's messaging queuing, task processing, and job scheduling solutions are used for event processing, transaction processing, mobile and IoT compute, microservices, and other asynchronous computing patterns within modern cloud applications.

Wicket Labs

Venture Round in 2020
Wicket Labs, Inc. develops scoreboard-based tools for websites and applications to identify application program interface problems and facilitate resolution. It offers The Wicket Scorecard, a solution that enables companies to gain visibility into their customers so as to understand how initiatives impact their business, drive engagement with their service, and promote a customer base through unique customer happiness index score. Wicket Labs, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Piston Cloud Computing

Series A in 2011
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. provides Piston OpenStack, a software that automates the orchestration of a private cloud environment on commodity servers. The company also provides assistance services in planning, systems integration, and operations design; software update services; and online and customized training services for application developers, cloud operators, and cloud administrators. It serves companies building Web, mobile, and big data applications; and financial services organizations, medical research labs, service providers, and federal government agencies worldwide. Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of June 12, 2015, Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc.

Piston Cloud Computing

Series B in 2014
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. provides Piston OpenStack, a software that automates the orchestration of a private cloud environment on commodity servers. The company also provides assistance services in planning, systems integration, and operations design; software update services; and online and customized training services for application developers, cloud operators, and cloud administrators. It serves companies building Web, mobile, and big data applications; and financial services organizations, medical research labs, service providers, and federal government agencies worldwide. Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of June 12, 2015, Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc.

BlueTalon

Venture Round in 2015
BlueTalon is a provider of data-centric security for big data, data lakes, and new data initiatives. The company's Policy Engine delivers precise, consistent, and dynamic user access controls to data across Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra, and SQL-based data platforms. The BlueTalon Audit Engine provides a full audit trail at the level of detail required for compliance to regulations: user and data. Fortune 100 have deployed BlueTalon to eliminate security blind spots and gain visibility and control at the data layer across cloud-based and on-premises environments. BlueTalon was named a 2016 Gartner cool vendor and won numerous security and big data awards.

Socedo

Venture Round in 2017
Socedo, Inc., doing business as Socedo, provides automated social media lead generation solutions. The company allows clients to find their target audience, engage them, and fill their funnel. It discovers the social prospects that match their custom criteria then further qualifies them via predefined engagement workflow; and provides critical business insights into their custom criteria and their engagement with social leads. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Pliant Technology

Venture Round in 2010
Pliant Technology is developing a new class of solid state drive storage devices for the enterprise computing market: Enterprise Flash Drives (EFDs). EFDs integrate seamlessly into existing enterprise information systems, and are designed to dramatically improve the performance, reliability, energy efficiency, and TCO of enterprise data center storage systems. Pliant EFDs are ideal for a range of data I/O (input/output) intensive enterprise applications, such as trading floors, financial transactions, VOD, airline reservation systems, e-commerce, and Web 2.0 applications. Pliant’s EFD is a disruptive solution that offers breakthrough performance and reliability improvements over today’s highest performing hard drive and consumer solid state storage devices (SSD). EFDs enable enterprise data centers to do “much more for less” – achieve more performance and reliability with less cost, energy and space. One EFD can replace many (100+) enterprise HDDs (10K/15K RPM) for performance, and by combining EFDs with high capacity HDDs, today’s storage racks can be reduced to storage shelves saving power (up to 80%), space and money. Based on an advanced software architecture and proprietary ASIC design, Pliant’s EFD changes the storage system paradigm while meeting growing “Green IT” energy efficiency. Pliant was established by a team of executives and engineers from Fujitsu, Maxtor and Seagate with an unparalleled track record of success in the data storage industry.

SpaceCurve

Series B in 2013
SpaceCurve offers a parallel data platform for the Internet of Things that ingests, processes, and analyzes IoT data in real-time. The SpaceCurve platform concurrently ingests, fuses, and analyzes streaming data from the Internet of Things, Industrial Internet, social media, mobile, weather, and other sources with historical data at petabyte scales to allow organizations to continuously create value from data as fast as data is created. Space Curve was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Iron.io

Series A in 2015
Iron.io's event-driven computing platform delivers and processes 100s of millions of messages and tasks through IronMQ and IronWorker. Its asynchronous workloads operate in public and private clouds, on-premises, or hybrid environments. Iron.io's messaging queuing, task processing, and job scheduling solutions are used for event processing, transaction processing, mobile and IoT compute, microservices, and other asynchronous computing patterns within modern cloud applications.

SpaceCurve

Series B in 2014
SpaceCurve offers a parallel data platform for the Internet of Things that ingests, processes, and analyzes IoT data in real-time. The SpaceCurve platform concurrently ingests, fuses, and analyzes streaming data from the Internet of Things, Industrial Internet, social media, mobile, weather, and other sources with historical data at petabyte scales to allow organizations to continuously create value from data as fast as data is created. Space Curve was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA.

FlashSoft

Series A in 2011
FlashSoft provides software that enables any standard SSD as a high-performance, read-write cache in the server, to economically increase application performance and scalability.

Shippable

Seed Round in 2013
Shippable, Inc. provides Shippable, a SaaS platform that lets a client to add continuous integration/deployment to client’s Github and Bitbucket(Git) repositories. Its Shippable common use cases include automating the packaging and deployment of Web applications; and automated testing and continuous integration/deployment. The company serves businesses around the world. Shippable, Inc. was formerly known as Qhode Inc. and changed its name to Shippable, Inc. in December 2013. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Bellevue, Washington. As of February 21, 2019, Shippable, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of JFrog Ltd.

Piston Cloud Computing

Series B in 2013
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. provides Piston OpenStack, a software that automates the orchestration of a private cloud environment on commodity servers. The company also provides assistance services in planning, systems integration, and operations design; software update services; and online and customized training services for application developers, cloud operators, and cloud administrators. It serves companies building Web, mobile, and big data applications; and financial services organizations, medical research labs, service providers, and federal government agencies worldwide. Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of June 12, 2015, Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc.

Socedo

Venture Round in 2016
Socedo, Inc., doing business as Socedo, provides automated social media lead generation solutions. The company allows clients to find their target audience, engage them, and fill their funnel. It discovers the social prospects that match their custom criteria then further qualifies them via predefined engagement workflow; and provides critical business insights into their custom criteria and their engagement with social leads. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

SpaceIQ LLC

Series A in 2017
SpaceIQ LLC develops workplace management software and operations data platform. The company offers CAFM/IWMS, a platform that provides centralized workplace management information, including space planning, move management, and real estate forecasting; and employee engagement application, hoteling and hot desk functionality, meeting room scheduler and employee finder, and collaboration and project management, as well as single sign-on and seamless integrations, including slack. It serves companies of various sizes. SpaceIQ LLC was founded in 2016 and is based in Mountain View, California with an additional location in Sandy, Utah.

SpaceCurve

Seed Round in 2010
SpaceCurve offers a parallel data platform for the Internet of Things that ingests, processes, and analyzes IoT data in real-time. The SpaceCurve platform concurrently ingests, fuses, and analyzes streaming data from the Internet of Things, Industrial Internet, social media, mobile, weather, and other sources with historical data at petabyte scales to allow organizations to continuously create value from data as fast as data is created. Space Curve was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA.

CloudCoreo

Seed Round in 2016
CloudCoreo, Inc. operates a platform that enables users to design and deploy to any cloud, and the best minds in the industry. Its platform is a community driven DevOps framework that is combined with a deployment engine allowing users to get up and running. The company’s platform consists of a CLI tool that allows a single stack and updates are manual. CloudCoreo, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Austin, Texas. As of February 14, 2018, CloudCoreo, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of VMware, Inc.

Appuri

Seed Round in 2015
Appuri helps online and mobile businesses keep their users longer. Appuri Backstop uses machine learning to predict which users are likely to leave and the reasons why -- so product and marketing teams can take action to stop churn before it starts. Appuri provides a full Data Platform as a Service that delivers data ingest, processing and output integrated into their existing business processes. We also deliver all data into a petabyte-scale data warehouse giving them secure, direct SQL access to their user segmentation data. Our main competitor is companies expending internal resources to build an ad-hoc solution themselves.

PushSpring

Series A in 2015
PushSpring, Inc. designs and develops software as a service (SaaS) solutions that equips application owners and publishers with audience composition data. It provides mobile application audience data, insights, and publisher solutions for mobile marketing. It offers PushSpring Audience Console that offers advertisers with mobile app audiences, as well as enables them to create, view, and export custom segments to tailor their mobile targeting strategy with verified device-level data. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Seattle, Washington. As of July 15, 2019, PushSpring, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of T-Mobile US, Inc.

RNA Networks

Series A in 2009
RNA networks' Memory Virtualization Platform (MVP) makes memory a shared, network resource. RNA products scale across commodity hardware, leverage existing data center resources and are implemented without application changes to deliver performance and transactional throughput. (Source [RNA Networks](http://www.rnanetworks.com/index.php))

Reniac

Venture Round in 2017
rENIAC, Inc. designs and develops an intelligent data-aware architecture for applications, servers, and data stores. It develops a data engine platform that accelerates and optimizes open source database implementations for data-centric application. The company also provides Cassandra I/O accelerator; distributed and persistent cache; and storage engine for graphs and SQL databases. rENIAC, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Santa Clara, California with additional locations in Hyderabad, India; and Richmond, Canada.

BlueTalon

Series A in 2016
BlueTalon is a provider of data-centric security for big data, data lakes, and new data initiatives. The company's Policy Engine delivers precise, consistent, and dynamic user access controls to data across Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra, and SQL-based data platforms. The BlueTalon Audit Engine provides a full audit trail at the level of detail required for compliance to regulations: user and data. Fortune 100 have deployed BlueTalon to eliminate security blind spots and gain visibility and control at the data layer across cloud-based and on-premises environments. BlueTalon was named a 2016 Gartner cool vendor and won numerous security and big data awards.

Wicket Labs

Seed Round in 2018
Wicket Labs, Inc. develops scoreboard-based tools for websites and applications to identify application program interface problems and facilitate resolution. It offers The Wicket Scorecard, a solution that enables companies to gain visibility into their customers so as to understand how initiatives impact their business, drive engagement with their service, and promote a customer base through unique customer happiness index score. Wicket Labs, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Appuri

Seed Round in 2017
Appuri helps online and mobile businesses keep their users longer. Appuri Backstop uses machine learning to predict which users are likely to leave and the reasons why -- so product and marketing teams can take action to stop churn before it starts. Appuri provides a full Data Platform as a Service that delivers data ingest, processing and output integrated into their existing business processes. We also deliver all data into a petabyte-scale data warehouse giving them secure, direct SQL access to their user segmentation data. Our main competitor is companies expending internal resources to build an ad-hoc solution themselves.

Union Bay Networks

Seed Round in 2013
Union Bay Networks is focused on delivering solutions that will enable the next generation of networking for cloud computing and software-defined datacenters. Union Bay was founded by a team of industry veterans with roots from F5 Networks who have proven track records in application layer networking, virtualization, optimization, and security solutions. It is a stealth mode startup headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and backed by leading VCs: Madrona, Greylock, and Divergent.

SpaceCurve

Venture Round in 2012
SpaceCurve offers a parallel data platform for the Internet of Things that ingests, processes, and analyzes IoT data in real-time. The SpaceCurve platform concurrently ingests, fuses, and analyzes streaming data from the Internet of Things, Industrial Internet, social media, mobile, weather, and other sources with historical data at petabyte scales to allow organizations to continuously create value from data as fast as data is created. Space Curve was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Wicket Labs

Private Placement in 2018
Wicket Labs, Inc. develops scoreboard-based tools for websites and applications to identify application program interface problems and facilitate resolution. It offers The Wicket Scorecard, a solution that enables companies to gain visibility into their customers so as to understand how initiatives impact their business, drive engagement with their service, and promote a customer base through unique customer happiness index score. Wicket Labs, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Proximal Data

Series B in 2013
Proximal Data is the leading provider of server-side caching solutions specifically designed for virtualized environments. Proximal Data's AutoCache software can dramatically increase virtual machine density by eliminating I/O bottlenecks with adaptive I/O caching. When coupled with PCIe flash cards or SSDs from their partners, Proximal Data's fast virtual cache significantly improves the efficiency and performance of virtualized servers without disrupting IT operations or processes.

ReadyPulse

Series A in 2014
ReadyPulse is the leading platform that provides mastery of social influencer marketing. Period. Enjoyed by the world’s most loved consumer brands to effectively market today’s socially inspired customer, the ReadyPulse platform provides a comprehensive range of tools that find the best people and user-generated content on social networks, amplifies both to promote products in an authentic manner and delivers a variety of campaign options to grow brand awareness, conversions and revenue. From deploying authentic social photos across websites, shoppable Instagram accounts, to delivering brand ambassador programs, ReadyPulse provides a toolbox filled with the loudest voices and content in social.

Shippable

Series A in 2014
Shippable, Inc. provides Shippable, a SaaS platform that lets a client to add continuous integration/deployment to client’s Github and Bitbucket(Git) repositories. Its Shippable common use cases include automating the packaging and deployment of Web applications; and automated testing and continuous integration/deployment. The company serves businesses around the world. Shippable, Inc. was formerly known as Qhode Inc. and changed its name to Shippable, Inc. in December 2013. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Bellevue, Washington. As of February 21, 2019, Shippable, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of JFrog Ltd.

HyperQuality

Series B in 2007
At HyperQuality, they focus on improving customer experience 24/7. they accomplish this through their proven and innovative methodology for evaluations and surveys, reliable and valid data, and quality assurance software resulting in specific recommendations from the agent to the company–wide level.