Sierra Ventures

Founded in 1982, Sierra Ventures is a Bay Area based early-stage venture firm investing globally with a focus on Next Generation Enterprise and Emerging Technologies. With over three decades of experience and over $2 billion of assets under management, Sierra has created a vast network of successful entrepreneurs, Global 1000 CXOs, operational executives, and deep domain experts, providing a platform for entrepreneurs around the world.

Max Chapman

Investor

Adam Dawkins

Analyst

Jim Doehrman

Operating Partner

James A. Doehrman

Operating Partner

Mark Fernandes

Managing Partner

Tim Guleri

Managing Partner

Tej Kanani

Investor

Joyce Lee

VP of Finance

Sri Muppidi

Investor

Vignesh Ravikumar

Principal

Brendon Schmidt

Director of Business Development

Aaron Tong

Venture Partner

Peter Wendell

Founder and Advisor

Steven P. Williams

MD

Ben Yu

Managing Partner

436 past transactions

boomtrain

Convertible Note in 2017
boomtrain, Inc. operates a marketing platform that provides personalization services to content companies. It offers services that include email and mobile notifications, and sites and applications personalization services. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of July 18, 2017, boomtrain, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Zeta Interactive Corp.

Drop

Series A in 2018
Drop Technologies Inc. operates as an online mobile application that helps shoppers to earn rewards from their purchases on range of brands. The company allows user to shop for food, shopping, and traveling. Drop Technologies Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Astronomer

Series B in 2021
Astronomer’s mission is to help organizations realize the potential of Apache Airflow. Building on the foundation of Astronomer Cloud, the market-leading Airflow as a Servic offering, Astronomer is developing new standards of scale, performance, and reliability and leading the way to enterprise-grade Airflow.

Predictify

Series A in 2008
Predictify was a prediction platform where users could predict the future and build a reputation based on their accuracy. Additionally, marketers could post questions to collect actionable, forward-looking data "from the crowd." They announced in July 2009, that they would be shutting their doors.

Phenom

Series B in 2018
Phenom is a global HR technology company with a purpose to help a billion people find the right job and discover their true potential. They are a software company that transforms engage, attract, convert, and retains top talent through talent experience management. Their platform automates the complex process of driving awareness, interest, engagement, and acquisition for qualified talent. It also transforms the talent journey from interested candidates to thriving employees to enthusiastic brand advocates, while helping HR evolve from a cost center to a revenue generator. Phenom People delivers the Phenom Talent Experience Management (TXM) platform to transform the talent journey from interested candidates to thriving employees to enthusiastic brand advocates while helping HR break the stereotype of being a cost center instead of a revenue generator. The company platform is built on artificial intelligence (AI), which drives personalization, automation, and accuracy for candidates, recruiters, employees, and management. Phenom People ha received the Stevie Award for Employer of the Year 2018 and The Recruiting Service Innovation Award (ReSI) for Innovator of the Year (Employment Site Partner Category). The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Ambler, Pennsylvania.

Greenplum Software

Series C in 2009
Greenplum, Inc., a data warehousing company, develops database software for business intelligence and data warehousing applications. It offers Greenplum Database that supports multi-terabyte data warehousing demands; and Greenplum Network, a customer and partner portal that delivers instant download access to database products. The company primarily serves telecommunications and banking industries.

Motiva

Series B in 2000
Motiva, Inc. is the technology leader for global enterprise incentive management (EIM) software and services, enabling companies to create and manage flexible, highly targeted incentive programs that drive top-line and bottom-line results across the extended enterprise. The Motiva software solution allows businesses to rapidly align performance with strategic objectives for sales, services, channels, customers and suppliers. Founded in 1996, Motiva is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Social Touch

Series C in 2013
Established in 2011, Social Touch is a leading service provider of mobile social marketing solutions in China dedicated to helping companies build up the user-centered intelligent marketing ecology. Its vision is to become a one-stop platform of mobile marketing for companies featuring colorful, open and intelligent mobile marketing ecology.

Motiva

Series D in 2002
Motiva, Inc. is the technology leader for global enterprise incentive management (EIM) software and services, enabling companies to create and manage flexible, highly targeted incentive programs that drive top-line and bottom-line results across the extended enterprise. The Motiva software solution allows businesses to rapidly align performance with strategic objectives for sales, services, channels, customers and suppliers. Founded in 1996, Motiva is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Revionics

Series B in 2008
Revionics, Inc. offers lifecycle price, promotion, and markdown optimization solutions for the retail industry. The company’s suite enables product pricing and temporary price reduction management. It also offers price modeling, optimization on-demand, scenario forecasting, and advanced category analytics services. In addition, the company provides price strategy formation, store-to-zone clustering analysis, and consulting services. Revionics, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Roseville, California.

IgniteTech

Series B in 2003
Addamark Technologies is a software security company based in Villaverde, Madrid.

Frontbridge Technologies

Series C in 2003
Frontbridge technologies provided electronic messaging with security services for email and IM archiving, spam filtering, virus scanning, encrypted email, policy enforcement and disaster recovery.

SupportLogic

Private Placement in 2020
SupportLogic provides an intelligent support platform for Chief Customer Officers and VPs of Customer Support/Success to extract the voice of the customer from the company’s existing data — no need to run expensive survey programs anymore. SupportLogic reads every support ticket using natural language processing and deep neural network methodologies. The software extracts sentiment and other latent signals then maintains context across ticket boundaries. By syncing with existing ticketing systems, the technology provides prescriptive recommendations, intelligent workflows, and seamless integration with collaboration software.

Agent IQ

Private Placement in 2018
Agent IQ, Inc. operates a customer communication platform that enables customer-to-brand conversations on various channels. Its platform enables users to get broad category information, browse their site to purchase products, and get information on past purchases. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

NebuAd

Series B in 2008
As of 2009, NebuAd, Inc. went out of business. NebuAd, Inc., an online media company, offers online advertising solutions. The company's behavioral advertising solutions help advertisers, publishers, and service providers. NebuAd, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Redwood City, California with additional offices in the United Kingdom.

DBS Communications

Series D in 2007
DBS Communications is a leading independent mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). DBS products operate on several wireless and long distance carrier networks, using a wide variety of GSM, TDMA, and CDMA handsets. DBS creates branded product lines of its own for specific distribution channels and enables wireless product offerings for other distribution companies, carriers, and market segments. As a leading independent provider of prepaid wireless services, the Company has developed a portfolio of innovative proprietary technologies that enable carrier networks with “alternative payment” wireless products for multiple channel partners and for targeted niche market segments.

Cirrascale

Series C in 2007
Cirrascale Cloud Services®, a premier cloud services provider of deep learning infrastructure solutions for Autonomous Vehicle, Medical Imaging, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) workflows, offers cloud-based infrastructure solutions for large-scale deep learning operators, service providers, as well as HPC users. The company recently announced its availability of Graphcore IPU cloud instances and server solutions.

800APP

Series A in 2008
800APP is a PaaS-based platform offering enterprise management software to its clients. 800APP has introduced a new social communicative network product with a focus on streamlining the in-house communication process. In 2008, the 800APP completed the round A of financing and acquired the venture investment from the American Sierra Ventures and the Ivy League Capital. In August, 2011, the 800APP completed the round B of financing from Salesforce.com and Sierra Ventures.

Corrigo

Venture Round in 2004
Corrigo Incorporated develops and delivers real-time, cloud-based facilities and service management solutions for multi-site facilities and service providers, facilities managers, Fortune 50 companies, mom and pops, and service professionals worldwide. It provides service management software, maintenance management software, service dispatch software, and employee time tracking software solutions that deliver real-time visibility into and control the quality and cost of building and field service operations. The company also offers a facilities management platform that offers real time vendor and technician scorecards and ongoing support; and WorkTrach, a service management solution that helps by eliminating double entry by communicating with users’ accounting package. It serves restaurants, retail, property management, hospitality, health care, homebuilding, manufacturing, distribution, and various service businesses. Corrigo Incorporated was founded in 1999 and is based in Tualatin, Oregon with workforce in the United States, Ukraine, and India. As of December 17, 2015, Corrigo Incorporated operates as a subsidiary of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated.

NebuAd

Series B in 2007
As of 2009, NebuAd, Inc. went out of business. NebuAd, Inc., an online media company, offers online advertising solutions. The company's behavioral advertising solutions help advertisers, publishers, and service providers. NebuAd, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Redwood City, California with additional offices in the United Kingdom.

Valere Power

Series C in 2003
Valere Power offers power supply solutions for communications providers. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Richardson, Texas.

Razorsight

Venture Round in 2008
Razorsight's Cloud-based Predictive Analytics Software is used by the world's best known telecom brands to improve profits including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Telus, Tata, Orange, CenturyLink, Windstream, IBM, Comcast and Facebook. Razorsight analyzes network and subscriber activities to control costs, predict churn, and deliver real-time insights into customer and network activity. These insights are operationalized to improve margins via revenue growth, retention and cost reduction.

Bababoo

Seed Round in 2011
Bababaoo is a communications platform company and maker of the world’s first “intelligent” calling app. Serving the millions of consumers in search of cheaper per-minute prices than what their carriers provide, the patent-pending Bababoo Intelligent Calling Service is as easy to use as the standard iPhone dialer. A user’s phone number, contacts and Caller ID all remain the same, while the Bababoo Intelligent Calling Service automatically discovers whether or not the phone is connected to the Internet (WiFi or 3G). If on the Internet: Calls to other “on net” Bababoo users are free. Calls to land lines or non-Bababoo numbers are charged as low as two cents per minute domestically, and provides international rates that are much more competitive than mobile carriers. A case in point: A US-based AT&T mobile caller is charged the standard rate of $1.69 to call an O2 mobile customer in London. Bababoo charges 15.7 cents per minute for the same call. If a user’s smartphone is not connected to the Internet, Bababoo seamlessly passes the call on to the carrier ensuring it is made. For a complete description of the company and products, visit the company web site.

AdFlight

Series B in 2000
AdFlight, Inc. offers online marketing technology and services. Its online marketing engine assists marketers and publishers in buying, executing, analyzing, and optimizing online advertising.

Joy

Seed Round in 2016
Joy Life, Inc. develops a wedding planning portal and application tools. Its portal and applications enable users to add photos, choose wedding colors and fonts, invite guests, send and store RSVP information, send messages, control social network sharing, import spreadsheets, register gifts, send digital RSVPs, and send custom notifications and messages. The company’s portal also allows guests to take and upload photos to private moments timeline, comment, and show love for photos. Joy Life, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

VeriSilicon, Inc.

Series E in 2009
VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. is an integrated circuit (IC) design foundry that provides custom silicon solutions and system-on-chip (SoC) turnkey services for a wide range of electronic devices and systems, including smart phones, media tablets, HDTVs, set-top boxes, blu-ray DVD players, home gateways, networking, and data centers. VeriSilicon's technology solutions leverage licensable digital signal processing cores, Hantro Video IPs, eDRAM, and others that can be targeted for a wide range of process technology, including advanced nodes like 28nm and FD-SOI.

boomtrain

Seed Round in 2012
boomtrain, Inc. operates a marketing platform that provides personalization services to content companies. It offers services that include email and mobile notifications, and sites and applications personalization services. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of July 18, 2017, boomtrain, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Zeta Interactive Corp.

Micro Power

Series B in 2004
Since their inception nearly 20 years ago, Micro Power has provided customers the highest quality, best performing and most durable power solutions for their portable applications. While their mission to excel in custom battery solutions has remained unchanged, their expertise, capabilities and success have grown along with the markets they serve. Micro Power works closely with some of the most quality-driven companies on innovative and challenging applications. They've developed more than 1,000 different battery systems, from those using Ni-MH and Ni-Cd batteries to the most advanced Lithium-ion systems and smart battery packs. Their expertise runs the gamut of advanced battery systems development — from cell characterization, verification and optimization, to fuel gauges, battery management and SMBus communications. Their battery systems are found in the world's leading portable devices — including new-generation portable defibrillators, data collection devices and field instruments. If you demand a battery system provider with impeccable quality, matchless technical expertise, precision manufacturing, and a long list of loyal customers, you've come to the right place.

Nexgate

Series A in 2013
We are group of highly experienced technology, market, and business professionals who believe the Social Web is a critical evolution of the Web as a communication and interaction channel for businesses. We bring multiple decades of expertise in delivering enterprise class solutions in digital media, Web infrastructure, SaaS, and security. We are funded and committed to delivering Enterprise Social Brand Protection and Compliance solutions. Our intent is to allow organizations to more safely utilize their new Social Web infrastructure to capture the opportunity and avoid the risks it presents. Nexgate delivers an intuitive way to find and understand your organization's social presence while matching and valuing it against its actual network of contacts, stakeholders, and influencers. This includes a complete security and compliance system, key aspects of content management and publishing, social account management, actionable and meaningful metrics, and the ability to leverage other key investments and enterprise infrastructure. Beyond these key capabilities, Nexgate allows your organization to mobilize your actual network on the Social Web and convert them into a mobilized and productive network of social advocates and topline business drivers.

SenSage

Series A in 2002
SenSage offers patented event data warehouse solutions that provide actionable results from massive amounts of log and event data. More than 400 customers have deployed SenSage solutions to reduce security, fraud and compliance risks at a fraction of the cost of traditional data warehouses and log management solutions.

Runa

Series A in 2012
RUNA, LLC produces and sells beverages and soft drinks. The products include unsweetened energy drinks in mint strawberry, watermelon, lime, blood orange, pineapple, mango, berry, and pomegranate; bottled teas in guava, lime, mint honeysuckle, raspberry, peach, and hibiscus berry; and dry teas. The company sells its products through stores and online platforms. RUNA, LLC was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Brooklyn, New York. As of June 20, 2018, RUNA, LLC operates as a subsidiary of All Market Inc.

MIOX

Series C in 2008
MIOX develops on-site chemical generators and sustainable treatment technologies for water disinfection. MIOX is used for potable water, wastewater and reuse, commercial swimming pools, cooling towers, food processing, the beverage industry, and other commercial and industrial applications. The company was founded in 1994 and headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Interplay Learning

Series A in 2019
Interplay Learning is an information technology company that specializes in virtual reality and 3D solutions. It provides an online training platform that enables its users to conduct training via 3D simulations designed for career training in heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), electrical, energy auditing, manufacturing, facility maintenance, and construction codes.

Revionics

Series B in 2007
Revionics, Inc. offers lifecycle price, promotion, and markdown optimization solutions for the retail industry. The company’s suite enables product pricing and temporary price reduction management. It also offers price modeling, optimization on-demand, scenario forecasting, and advanced category analytics services. In addition, the company provides price strategy formation, store-to-zone clustering analysis, and consulting services. Revionics, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Roseville, California.

Kinnek

Series A in 2014
Kinnek is a single platform for small businesses that makes discovering and transacting with suppliers easier than ever before. Kinnek was started in 2012 in New York City when co-founders Rui Ma and Karthik Sridharan noticed that small business owners were stuck in a rut when it came to how they bought things for their businesses. They couldn't just walk into a typical store or shop on the usual consumer-focused websites, because their requirements were more customized. They needed customized equipment, customized machinery, supplies in customized quantities- and they didn't have the massive resources necessary to have a dedicated team of purchasing managers to handle all that complexity.

Regulus Cyber

Seed Round in 2018
Regulus provides affordable GNSS spoofing detection and protection to the mass markets requiring reliability and low-cost. The Pyramid Software technology defends against ever-increasing attacks and interferences. The Regulus Pyramid GNSS technology provides revolutionary tools to defend against GNSS/GPS spoofing attacks for automotive, mobile, maritime, aviation, critical infrastructure and various other applications, markets and users. *(GNSS = Global Navigation Satellite Systems: GPS, BeiDou, Galileo, Glonass, and more.)

InvenSense

Series C in 2008
InvenSense Inc. (NYSE: INVN) is the leading provider of MotionTracking™ sensor system on chip (SoC) and Sound solutions for consumer electronic devices. The company’s patented InvenSense Fabrication Platform and patent-pending MotionFusion™ technology address the emerging needs of many mass-market consumer applications via improved performance, accuracy, and intuitive motion-, gesture- and sound-based interfaces. InvenSense technology can be found in consumer electronic products including smartphones, tablets, gaming devices, optical image stabilization, and remote controls for Smart TVs. The company’s MotionTracking products are also being integrated into a number of industrial applications. InvenSense is headquartered in San Jose, California and has offices in China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Slovakia, and Wilmington, MA. More information can be found at www.invensense.com.

Applitools

Series C in 2018
Applitools has developed the first cloud based software testing tool that automatically validates all the visual aspects of any Web, Mobile and Native app like a manual tester does. Applitools’ disruptive technology automatically validates the correctness of the UI layout, content and appearance, and enables you to automate tests that can only be done manually without it. It can test apps on any browser, device, OS and programming language, on any screen resolution and form-factor.

Wizeline

Series A in 2015
Wizeline is a global product development company that helps its clients solve their biggest challenges with design and technology. Wizeline helps technology leaders build innovative end-to-end products that capture new markets, disrupt business models, and leverage data. Over 100M people use products designed and developed by Wizeline every day. With Silicon Valley DNA and exceptional global talent, Wizeline has built a practice uniquely equipped to this task.

Sourcefire

Series A in 2002
Network security products and software

Deep Lens

Private Placement in 2018
Deep Lens is a provider of a digital pathology workflow platform intended to allow pathology groups to collaborate on groundbreaking cancer research. The company's platform includes AI-powered image detection and workflow support, collaboration, cloud storage, and built-in APIs for the ingestion of third-party AI models and integration to EMR, LIMS, and other systems, helping patients, pathologists, and physicians work together to accelerate and optimize treatment. Founded in 2017, Deep Lens is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

K4Connect

Private Placement in 2018
K4Connect, Inc. develops and provides software solutions for older adults. It offers K4Community, a solution for residents and operators of senior living communities that enables users to communicate with their families, engage with communities, and manage home. The company also provides K4Life, a home and wellness solution that helps individuals to live independently. K4Connect, Inc. has strategic partnerships with Eskaton; and Ziegler Link-Age Fund II, LP. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Regulus Cyber

Series A in 2018
Regulus provides affordable GNSS spoofing detection and protection to the mass markets requiring reliability and low-cost. The Pyramid Software technology defends against ever-increasing attacks and interferences. The Regulus Pyramid GNSS technology provides revolutionary tools to defend against GNSS/GPS spoofing attacks for automotive, mobile, maritime, aviation, critical infrastructure and various other applications, markets and users. *(GNSS = Global Navigation Satellite Systems: GPS, BeiDou, Galileo, Glonass, and more.)

Spectro Cloud

Private Placement in 2020
Spectro Cloud, Inc. operates a Cloud-as-a-Service platform for public clouds, private clouds, and bare metal environments. Its platform automates the maintenance and upgrade of clusters and integrates with users' existing enterprise operations. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Appcelerator

Series C in 2012
Appcelerator Inc. provides mobile enterprise platform solutions. It offers Appcelerator Platform, which enables cross-platform mobile application development and testing; Arrow, an opinionated framework for building and running mobile APIs; and pre-built push notification services. The company also provides real-time mobile analytics for every native application built on the Appcelerator Platform or directly via native software development kit for iOS and Android. In addition, it offers Titanium, a cross platform native, hybrid, or mobile Web application development platform using JavaScript for iOS, Android, Windows, Blackberry, and HTML5. The company serves Fortune 100 enterprises. Appcelerator Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in San Jose, California. As of January 14, 2016, Appcelerator Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Axway Inc.

Intuit

Series A in 1991
Intuit Inc. provides financial management and compliance products and services for consumers, small businesses, self-employed, and accounting professionals in the United States, Canada, and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Small Business & Self-Employed, Consumer, and Strategic Partner. The Small Business & Self-Employed segment provides QuickBooks online services and desktop software solutions comprising QuickBooks Online Advanced, a cloud-based solution; QuickBooks Enterprise, a hosted solution; QuickBooks Self-Employed solution; and QuickBooks Online Accountant and QuickBooks Accountant Desktop Plus solutions; payroll solutions, such as online payroll processing, direct deposit of employee paychecks, payroll reports, electronic payment of federal and state payroll taxes, and electronic filing of federal and state payroll tax forms. This segment also offers payment-processing solutions, including credit and debit cards, and ACH payment services; and financial supplies and financing for small businesses. Its Consumer segment provides TurboTax income tax preparation products and services; and personal finance. The company’s Strategic Partner segment offers Lacerte, ProSeries, and ProFile desktop tax-preparation software products; and ProConnect Tax Online tax products, electronic tax filing service, and bank products and related services. It sells products and services through various sales and distribution channels, including multi-channel shop-and-buy experiences, websites and call centers, mobile application stores, and retail and other channels. Intuit Inc. has a collaboration agreement with Red Hat, Inc. on Argo CD, a declarative continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes deployments. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Interplay Learning

Private Placement in 2019
Interplay Learning is an information technology company that specializes in virtual reality and 3D solutions. It provides an online training platform that enables its users to conduct training via 3D simulations designed for career training in heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), electrical, energy auditing, manufacturing, facility maintenance, and construction codes.

Enable

Series A in 2020
So much more than rebate management, Enable is the collaboration platform for maximizing the performance of B2B deals while improving financial transparency and operational efficiency. Enable’s vision is for intelligent deals to connect every trading relationship. We’re reshaping how B2B deals are deployed, managed and measured to help both sides of the trading relationship succeed, by driving mutually profitable growth.

Ribbon

Pre Seed Round in 2011
Ribbon Payments, Inc. operates a platform that allows users to sell and purchase products by sharing a unique showcase link. The company supports various types of products from physical and digital goods to services, such as T-shirts, mp3s, and tutoring products. It process debit and credit cards for payments. Ribbon Payments, Inc. was formerly known as Kout Inc. and changed its name to Ribbon Payments, Inc. in November 2012. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Hashnode

Series A in 2021
Hashnode is a free content creation platform and community that allows you to publish articles on your own domain and helps you stay connected with a growing developer community. This gives you a huge advantage: Google and other search engines send traffic directly to your domain, and Hashnode community members discover your articles on their feed.

Modulate

Private Placement in 2020
Modulate’s voice skins will be available through select platforms via Modulate’s real-time software development kit (SDK). Users will be able to alter their voices nearly instantaneously. Some platforms will offer a variety of Modulate’s standard voices; others will choose to work with Modulate to design custom voices that precisely match a character or vision. Users will then have the freedom to swap between any of these voices or even mix and match them, designing a style that’s uniquely their own.

sikka.ai

Series C in 2015
Sikka Software Corporation is revolutionizing the retail healthcare industry via its platform cloud, analytical tools, apps and big data leadership. The retail industry includes over 2.1 million providers worldwide and over 600,000 in the United States. The Sikka Platform Cloud allows seamless compatibility with over 96% of the dental, veterinary, vision care and hearing care markets in the United States. Sikka Software Corporation platform cloud has over 17,000 installations with 94,000 providers and processes over 2 billion transactions a day and is experiencing strong growth and market presence in the retail healthcare big data space.
Falcon Computing enables data scientists and software developers working in Genomics, Machine Learning, Finance, and Computer Vision to simplify their path to heterogeneous accelerated computing. With a simple push-button C/C++ to a highly-optimized FPGA implementation for both public and private clouds, users can achieve performance, energy-efficiency, and productivity gains. Falcon Computing was founded in 2014 by Dr. Jason Cong, serial entrepreneur and Director of the Center for Domain-Specific Computing (CDSC) at UCLA. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA with offices in Los Angeles and Beijing.

Deep Lens

Private Placement in 2019
Deep Lens is a provider of a digital pathology workflow platform intended to allow pathology groups to collaborate on groundbreaking cancer research. The company's platform includes AI-powered image detection and workflow support, collaboration, cloud storage, and built-in APIs for the ingestion of third-party AI models and integration to EMR, LIMS, and other systems, helping patients, pathologists, and physicians work together to accelerate and optimize treatment. Founded in 2017, Deep Lens is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Parature

Series A in 2006
Parature provides on-demand customer service software, making it possible for any business to leverage the Internet to provide outstanding customer service and online support. Parature provides an efficient way to serve, support, retain, engage with and maximize the value of every customer. Parature's software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery and integrated, intuitive design enable organizations to run efficiently. Parature's flagship product, Parature Customer Service software, integrates a customer portal, rich knowledgebase and full trouble ticket software in one dynamic system that manages all your support needs. Parature announced a new social response management product called "Parature for Facebook", the Industry's First and Only Customer Service Application for Directly Engaging with Customers, Prospects and Fans on Facebook. The product now supports Twitter as well. Founded in 2001, today Parature helps support more than 55 million end users worldwide. Parature is at work in a wide variety of organizations including national associations, leading educational institutions, technology companies, and diverse industries from gaming/interactive media & entertainment, to retail, healthcare and government. Source: [Karan Rawat](http://seosmomarketing.blogspot.com/)

Krisp

Series A in 2020
Krisp app makes remote workers more professional. With Krisp you can take calls from wherever you want without worrying about privacy and background noise. The app works with all conferencing and recording apps out of the box. It also supports any headset and microphone (built-in, Bluetooth or USB).

Viso Trust

Series A in 2022
Imagine your next vendor review, is already done. VISO Trust puts reliable, comprehensive, actionable vendor security information directly in the hands of decisionmakers who need to make informed risk assessments.

Approva

Series C in 2005
Approva is the leading provider of continuous controls monitoring software and is the industry standard for three of the five largest audit and advisory firms. They automate both IT and financial controls for all of the major applications companies rely on to run their business, including Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP. By using their software companies can reduce risk, prevent fraud, lower their compliance costs and identify areas of operational improvement.

Theta Labs

Venture Round in 2021
Theta Labs pioneered Theta Network, the leading video delivery network powered by blockchain technology. Theta enables existing video platforms to drive incremental revenues and reduce content delivery CDN costs while end-users are rewarded for sharing their bandwidth to relay video on a peer-to-peer basis on any PC, mobile, Smart TV or IoT device. Strategic corporate investors include Samsung NEXT, Sony Innovation Fund, media investors BDMI Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, CAA Creative Artists Agency, and traditional Silicon Valley VCs including DCM and Sierra Ventures.

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.

Reify Health

Private Placement in 2020
Reify Health provides cloud-based software that helps accelerate the development of new, life-saving therapies. The company's system accelerates enrollment timelines and the overall pace of research, enabling research sponsors and coordinators to focus on the actions that impact clinical research success. Reify Health product StudyTeam is a cloud-based software that helps clinical trial teams achieve faster, more predictable enrollment while eliminating the tedious work that saps productivity and study budget. It gives sponsors, CROs, and clinical research sites earlier visibility to the full enrollment picture, and the insight they need to focus on people and capital on work that yields the greatest return.

Nexenta Systems

Series E in 2013
Cloud storage solution for your enterprise

VeeR (Velocious)

Convertible Note in 2017
Velocious Technologies, Inc. develops a virtual reality(VR) video sharing mobile application. The application provides its users the platform, tools, support, and know-how necessary for creating VR videos. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Beijing, China.

Zimperium

Series C in 2016
ZIMPERIUM is a mobile security startup that offers protection for mobile devices against the next generation of advanced mobile attacks. Its flagship solutions protect mobile devices from modern cybersecurity threats. ZIMPERIUM provides a complete mobile security system that continuously runs on the device to provide visibility, security, and management for iOS and Android devices. With its non-intrusive approach, users can be confident that their data and their privacy are protected at all times, both on and off the corporate network. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

VeriSilicon, Inc.

Series C in 2006
VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. is an integrated circuit (IC) design foundry that provides custom silicon solutions and system-on-chip (SoC) turnkey services for a wide range of electronic devices and systems, including smart phones, media tablets, HDTVs, set-top boxes, blu-ray DVD players, home gateways, networking, and data centers. VeriSilicon's technology solutions leverage licensable digital signal processing cores, Hantro Video IPs, eDRAM, and others that can be targeted for a wide range of process technology, including advanced nodes like 28nm and FD-SOI.

Loop Health

Seed Round in 2020
Loop Health is bringing ease and choice to patients seeking major medical treatments. We've brought together family physicians, top specialists, and leading hospitals in Pune – to provide options, transparency, and ease to patients and their families. Loop Coordinators help patients match with a doctor, compare treatment costs, get second opinions, and complete admission formalities – removing the stress and making lives easier for the patient and their families.

Q-CTRL

Private Placement in 2019
From quantum computing to quantum sensing in defense, Q-CTRL deploys our world-leading expertise in quantum control engineering as intuitive software to help make quantum technology useful. Our unique software helps solve today’s biggest challenges for quantum technology in the NISQ era and beyond; noise and decoherence. Quickly build intuition for the impact of noise and errors in quantum computers with Q-CTRL, and deploy our expert solutions to stabilize real hardware. Learn more about our solutions at q-ctrl.com

Paro

Series A in 2021
Paro is the alternative employment model for the future of finance work. Through technology, Paro matches businesses with the highest vetted freelance bookkeepers, accountants, financial analysts, and CFOs who provide remote, on-demand, hourly support when clients need it. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Dalet

Series C in 2009
Ooyala Flex Media Platform Business of Ooyala Group comprises the business of a software as a service (SaaS) based digital platform for servicing OTT and digital media distribution workflows. The asset is located in the United States.

Movandi

Series B in 2017
Movandi Corporation develops and offers 5G mmWave wireless solutions. It provides RF front end from antenna to baseband interface, antennas for simultaneous multi beam/pol support, and software and systems. The products can be used for fixed wireless broadband, mobile broadband, command-and-control services, and private 5G networks. Movandi Corporation was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Irvine, California with an additional office in Australia.

VINA Technologies

Series D in 2000
VINA Technologies was formed to develop, manufacture, market and service equipment for small and medium-sized businesses to connect to high-speed networks. Commercial Internet access is one of the most exciting growth areas in the economy today. VINA Technologies is poised to reap the benefits of that growth and pass them on to businesses, phone companies and Internet service providers. For businesses, faster Internet access is becoming more and more important. For phone companies and the guardians of the Internet, the explosive growth of the last few years has put increasing pressure on aging voice networks. Strategically placed in between the two is VINA Technologies.

Everest Software

Series D in 2006
Everest Software, Inc. develops integrated business management software solutions for small and midsized businesses. It offers Everest Version 6, which offers graphical alerts, job streams, and a new user interface; and solutions in the areas of point of sale, return processing, stock transfer, and accounting. The company also provides custom extension options and integration services. Everest Software, Inc. was formerly known as iCode, Inc. and changed its name to Everest Software, Inc. in October 2005. The company was founded in 1994 and is based in Austin, Texas. As of August 7, 2009, Everest Software, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Versata Enterprises, Inc.

Permeo Technologies

Series C in 2005
Permeo Technologies is an IT security company. The company provides on-demand endpoint access, security, and information protection solutions. It offers an integrated platform that enables the enterprise to completely secure all applications. The company offers a remote access and information protection solution that extends corporate applications to mobile workers, business partners, and customers. Permeo Technologies was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Drop

Series B in 2019
Drop Technologies Inc. operates as an online mobile application that helps shoppers to earn rewards from their purchases on range of brands. The company allows user to shop for food, shopping, and traveling. Drop Technologies Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Ignition Design Labs

Series A in 2017
Ignition Design Labs is a veteran team of wireless networking engineers developing radical technologies for next generation WiFi. Its flagship product called Portal, is a smart-learning router designed for urban lifestyles. Portal was engineered for demanding urban users and tough crowded environments. Patented technologies enable Portal to access special protected fast channels not available to traditional consumer routers.

Invisible AI

Seed Round in 2020
Invisible AI Inc. develops artificial intelligence-based cameras backed by visual intelligence platform for logistics and manufacturing facilities. Its camera is used to monitor facilities and warehouses. The company also provides a web dashboard that gives clients the visibility and built-in intelligence to keep the data safe. In addition, its platform integrates, tracks, and analyzes the data, which helps clients in optimizing their workflow. Invisible AI Inc. was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

QuillBot

Seed Round in 2020
QuillBot is an AI writing collaborator that rewrites full paragraphs and refines content. The company’s mission is to make writing painless. QuillBot is driven by sophisticated AI paraphrasing technology that uses natural language understanding (NLU) to automatically reconstruct the user’s content to improve the clarity of the intended message. More than a million people around the world use QuillBot to improve their writing and deliver a more compelling message.

Outcomes4Me

Seed Round in 2020
Outcomes4Me is a developer of a free mobile app and platform to navigate cancer treatment and care. It provides patients and their families with new ways to engage with healthcare systems globally. It aims to help them seamlessly discover and access personalized treatment options and outcomes information. It believes that patients can and should be empowered with their own care. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Hired

Series B in 2014
Hired is a career marketplace that matches tech talent with innovative companies. Users on the Hired platform receive objective guidance throughout the interview process from a dedicated Talent Advocate, as well as the ability to compare new opportunities side by side so they can make their next career move with confidence. Employers get access to a hand-picked pool of candidates who are interested in new roles, as well as unmatched transparency into competing offers so they can recruit and hire with insight. The end result is an efficient, effective and enjoyable experience that’s far faster than traditional methods.

Meriton

Series A in 2002
Meriton is a manufacturer of mechanical engineering devices used to help in the construction of office buildings, houses, and other commercial buildings. It provides capital that allows companies to transition ownership and accelerate mutual long-term growth without arbitrary timetables imposed by third parties. The company has invested heavily in customized software, information technology, finance and accounting, marketing, leadership development, and human resources which can be leveraged across the portfolio companies to increase operating efficiency and generate growth. Meriton was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Razorsight

Series A in 2006
Razorsight's Cloud-based Predictive Analytics Software is used by the world's best known telecom brands to improve profits including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Telus, Tata, Orange, CenturyLink, Windstream, IBM, Comcast and Facebook. Razorsight analyzes network and subscriber activities to control costs, predict churn, and deliver real-time insights into customer and network activity. These insights are operationalized to improve margins via revenue growth, retention and cost reduction.

Shape Security

Series C in 2014
Shape provides defense against malicious automated cyber-attacks on web and mobile applications. Shape has deflected over $1B in fraud losses for major retailers, financial institutions, airlines, and government agencies. Shape Security is headquartered in Silicon Valley and backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Norwest Venture Partners, Venrock, Baseline Ventures, Google Ventures, WING VC and a host of other prominent investors. Shape was founded in 2011 to disrupt automated attacks on web and mobile applications.

THETA.tv

Seed Round in 2016
THETA.tv is a next generation decentralized live streaming platform powered by blockchain technology. Theta Network enables existing video platforms to drive incremental revenues and reduce content delivery CDN costs while end-users are rewarded for sharing their bandwidth to relay video on a peer-to-peer basis on any PC, mobile, Smart TV or IoT device. Strategic corporate investors include Samsung NEXT, Sony Innovation Fund, media investors BDMI Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, CAA Creative Artists Agency, and traditional Silicon Valley VCs including DCM and Sierra Ventures.

K4Connect

Series A in 2016
K4Connect, Inc. develops and provides software solutions for older adults. It offers K4Community, a solution for residents and operators of senior living communities that enables users to communicate with their families, engage with communities, and manage home. The company also provides K4Life, a home and wellness solution that helps individuals to live independently. K4Connect, Inc. has strategic partnerships with Eskaton; and Ziegler Link-Age Fund II, LP. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

ZoomSystems

Series F in 2013
ZoomSystems is the global leader in the automated retail industry. Founded in 2002, ZoomSystems develops and operates a valuable, unattended point-of-sale solution for brands and retailers. Its in-store and satellite retail units include integrated hardware, software and managed services to deliver a product from manufacturer to consumer, helping brands increase sales, expand market reach and enhance the consumer experience. The ZoomShop network has grown to more than 1,500 locations in airports, malls, resorts, military bases and retail stores across the US, Canada, Europe and Japan. Top brand and retail partners include Best Buy, Nespresso, Proactiv, Amazon, Essie, Benefit Cosmetics and Albertsons. ZoomSystems is based in San Francisco, CA and investors include Sierra Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Starfish Ventures and NeoCarta Ventures.

Deep Lens

Series A in 2019
Deep Lens is a provider of a digital pathology workflow platform intended to allow pathology groups to collaborate on groundbreaking cancer research. The company's platform includes AI-powered image detection and workflow support, collaboration, cloud storage, and built-in APIs for the ingestion of third-party AI models and integration to EMR, LIMS, and other systems, helping patients, pathologists, and physicians work together to accelerate and optimize treatment. Founded in 2017, Deep Lens is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

ElasticBox

Seed Round in 2013
ElasticBox powers agile application delivery on public and private clouds so businesses can innovate faster. By empowering developers to be more productive and providing control to IT Ops, customers like Netflix, DeNA and Cytobank use ElasticBox to accelerate their application lifecycles by 5-10x. With a reusable architecture of boxes, teams leverage ElasticBox to provision instances in one click, access a sophisticated service catalog of boxes, and execute continuous integration and delivery.

LeadGenius

Series B in 2016
LeadGenius, Inc. provides lead generation and outreach processes for businesses, development organizations, nonprofits, and researchers in the United States and internationally. It provides customer research to produce lists of leads, customers, and industries; data enrichment by auditing lead list, updating contacts, correcting misspellings, and deleting outdated information; lead qualifications by separating qualified leads from dead ends, evaluating lead information, and following-up with leads over email or phone; and outbound Email prospecting/sales prospecting. LeadGenius, Inc. was formerly known as MobileWorks, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Berkeley, California.

Jetlore

Series A in 2013
Jetlore, Inc. provides an artificial intelligence powered prediction platform for retailers. It analyzes actions and behavior of the customers and provides relevant promotions, products, and content for each customer shopping. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. As of May 29, 2018, Jetlore, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of PayPal Holdings, Inc.

CoreTigo

Series B in 2021
CoreTigo develops secured wireless network system to support IoT nodes at a latency of milliseconds.

Net6

Series A in 2001
Net6 provides solutions that enable employees, partners, and customers to securely access business applications regardless of their location, network or device. The Net6 Hybrid-VPN Gateway™ combines the best of IPSec and SSL VPN features into a simple, secure remote access solution. The Net6 Application Gateway™ delivers applications to any device, including IP telephones and wireless devices. Net6 solutions are sold globally by Avaya, Cisco, NEC, Nortel Networks, Siemens or their resellers. Net6 delivers value to Fortune 50 companies, hospitals, educational and financial institutions, manufacturers, and small and medium businesses.

Astronomer

Private Placement in 2019
Astronomer’s mission is to help organizations realize the potential of Apache Airflow. Building on the foundation of Astronomer Cloud, the market-leading Airflow as a Servic offering, Astronomer is developing new standards of scale, performance, and reliability and leading the way to enterprise-grade Airflow.

Drop

Private Placement in 2019
Drop Technologies Inc. operates as an online mobile application that helps shoppers to earn rewards from their purchases on range of brands. The company allows user to shop for food, shopping, and traveling. Drop Technologies Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

AdFlight

Series A in 2000
AdFlight, Inc. offers online marketing technology and services. Its online marketing engine assists marketers and publishers in buying, executing, analyzing, and optimizing online advertising.

Steelbox, Inc.

Series A in 2006
Steelbox, Inc. develops and markets video switching, recording, and access systems for the video security industry. It offers network media appliances that provide network services for video streaming, storage, and access control; digital matrix storage switch products; and video switching matrix and storage systems. The company offers its product through system integrators, as well as under private label for campus security, transportation, gaming, law enforcement, and military sectors in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Steelbox, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. As of January 22, 2009, Steelbox, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Adtech-GESI, LLC.