Rally Ventures

Rally Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with an additional office in Minneapolis. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, primarily targeting enterprise technology companies at the Seed and Series A financing stages. Initial investments typically range from $500,000 to $8 million. Rally Ventures focuses on a variety of emerging technology sectors, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, fintech, cloud technologies, and SaaS, among others. The firm employs a hands-on investment approach, leveraging its extensive network of enterprise IT executives to support entrepreneurs. With over 200 years of combined experience in investing and operating technology companies, Rally Ventures has invested in more than 100 early-stage firms, demonstrating a successful track record of delivering significant investment returns.

Kathy Altenhoff

Vice President Investor Relations

Charles Beeler

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Jay Borenstein

Venture Partner

Steve Bourne

CTO

Art Coviello

Venture Partner

James Gibson

Associate

Jeff Hinck

Managing Director

Jeff Hinck

Managing Director

Michael Jennings

Venture Partner

Dennis R. Johnson

Operating Partner

Justin Kaufenberg

Managing Director

Jim Kunse

CFO

Donald J. Listwin

Venture Partner

Stephanie McCoy

CFO

Past deals in Midwestern US

JustiFi

Seed Round in 2022
JustiFi develops a payments technology platform that processes payments in a better way by qualifying, routing, and optimizing each transaction to lower rates. JustiFi levels the playing field so businesses can keep more of their hard-earned money.

Kyros

Seed Round in 2022
Kyros develops a sobriety management platform that provides access to resources, provider care, and peer support. Its goal is to remove barriers along the recovery pathway for clients, providers, and organizations alike to facilitate a simplified approach to drug rehabilitation with one platform Kyros was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Minneapolis, USA.

Kaleidoscope

Series A in 2022
Kaleidoscope Group PBC is a Minneapolis-based company that specializes in providing a cloud-based software platform for designing, building, and managing scholarship programs. The platform connects scholarship funders with students, facilitating a streamlined marketplace that matches qualified candidates with tailored scholarship opportunities. By offering a comprehensive scholarship management solution, Kaleidoscope allows various organizations and individuals, including fund leaders, artists, entrepreneurs, and professionals, to effectively administer and host their scholarship initiatives. Founded in 2016 by Gregory Dehn, Kaleidoscope Group aims to create a frictionless experience in scholarship management.

Qualifi

Seed Round in 2022
Qualifi empowers recruiters to find the best candidates faster by enabling on-demand phone interviews. Qualifi’s frictionless screening platform saves both recruiters and candidates time while maintaining a human touch. The best candidates are off the market in 10 days and typical phone interviews have been shown to add 6-8 days to an already long hiring process. With Qualifi, the majority of candidate responses happen on Day 1. Our recruiters scale effectively and win talent with speed.

Yardstik

Series A in 2022
Yardstik is a software company that develops a screening and certification management system. It was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2019.

JustiFi

Seed Round in 2021
JustiFi develops a payments technology platform that processes payments in a better way by qualifying, routing, and optimizing each transaction to lower rates. JustiFi levels the playing field so businesses can keep more of their hard-earned money.

Parallax

Series A in 2021
Parallax develops tools that deliver a shared perspective across an organization. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Edina, Minnesota.

Yardstik

Seed Round in 2020
Yardstik is a software company that develops a screening and certification management system. It was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2019.

Kaleidoscope

Series A in 2020
Kaleidoscope Group PBC is a Minneapolis-based company that specializes in providing a cloud-based software platform for designing, building, and managing scholarship programs. The platform connects scholarship funders with students, facilitating a streamlined marketplace that matches qualified candidates with tailored scholarship opportunities. By offering a comprehensive scholarship management solution, Kaleidoscope allows various organizations and individuals, including fund leaders, artists, entrepreneurs, and professionals, to effectively administer and host their scholarship initiatives. Founded in 2016 by Gregory Dehn, Kaleidoscope Group aims to create a frictionless experience in scholarship management.

DisruptOps

Series A in 2020
DisruptOps Inc. is a company that specializes in cloud security through its cloud detection and response platform. Founded in 2014 and based in Kansas City, Missouri, DisruptOps offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution designed to automate the assessment and remediation of critical cloud security issues. The platform provides comprehensive visibility across multiple cloud accounts, regions, and service providers, continuously analyzing infrastructure for misconfigurations and security risks. DisruptOps also implements automated cloud management practices through customizable guardrails that enforce best practices, enabling organizations to enhance security controls, streamline operations, and manage cloud spending effectively. By redefining traditional security and operational strategies, DisruptOps helps organizations leverage the benefits of cloud technology while maintaining robust security measures.

Parallax

Seed Round in 2019
Parallax develops tools that deliver a shared perspective across an organization. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Edina, Minnesota.

Total Expert

Series C in 2019
Total Expert is a fintech software pioneer of the first modern, enterprise-level Marketing Operating System (MOS) that enables financial services organizations to create customers or members for life by re-humanizing complex financial decisions. The company's system aligns marketing, sales and compliance in a single system of record, allowing salespeople to grow their marketing and sales efforts while ensuring they stay compliant with complex regulations and marketing content and brand assets can be developed at the community level and every asset ever created, downloaded or deployed is tracked with on-demand audit-level reporting, enabling businesses and mortgage related businesses to have settings for endless custom reporting and analytics options based on the unique preferences of the organization and manage their financial lives in the digital, social era.

ZAPinfo

Seed Round in 2019
ZAPinfo is an information automation and productivity tool that facilitates the recruiting and sales process by integrating contacts into the browser clipboard and helps finding direct contact information such as email address, resume, social profile information, allowing customers such as sales professionals to automate their daily tasks by simplifying and speeding the process of capturing, enriching, and sharing information.

DisruptOps

Seed Round in 2018
DisruptOps Inc. is a company that specializes in cloud security through its cloud detection and response platform. Founded in 2014 and based in Kansas City, Missouri, DisruptOps offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution designed to automate the assessment and remediation of critical cloud security issues. The platform provides comprehensive visibility across multiple cloud accounts, regions, and service providers, continuously analyzing infrastructure for misconfigurations and security risks. DisruptOps also implements automated cloud management practices through customizable guardrails that enforce best practices, enabling organizations to enhance security controls, streamline operations, and manage cloud spending effectively. By redefining traditional security and operational strategies, DisruptOps helps organizations leverage the benefits of cloud technology while maintaining robust security measures.

Total Expert

Series B in 2018
Total Expert is a fintech software pioneer of the first modern, enterprise-level Marketing Operating System (MOS) that enables financial services organizations to create customers or members for life by re-humanizing complex financial decisions. The company's system aligns marketing, sales and compliance in a single system of record, allowing salespeople to grow their marketing and sales efforts while ensuring they stay compliant with complex regulations and marketing content and brand assets can be developed at the community level and every asset ever created, downloaded or deployed is tracked with on-demand audit-level reporting, enabling businesses and mortgage related businesses to have settings for endless custom reporting and analytics options based on the unique preferences of the organization and manage their financial lives in the digital, social era.

Foodsby

Series B in 2018
Foodsby is an online marketplace connecting employees in office buildings with local restaurants to provide hard-working professionals with a variety of easy lunch options. Individuals place orders online, orders are aggregated via Foodsby.com, and the restaurants make one simple delivery with all orders. We're giving hardworking professionals the freedom to eat well and remain productive in their work-life. Foodsby brings more meal options and variety to customers by connecting with local and national restaurant brands they know and love. It was founded in 2012 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

ZAPinfo

Seed Round in 2018
ZAPinfo is an information automation and productivity tool that facilitates the recruiting and sales process by integrating contacts into the browser clipboard and helps finding direct contact information such as email address, resume, social profile information, allowing customers such as sales professionals to automate their daily tasks by simplifying and speeding the process of capturing, enriching, and sharing information.

Atavium

Series A in 2017
Atavium, Inc. is a data management company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, founded in 2015. It specializes in designing and developing a platform that organizes, automates, manages, and stores unstructured data sets, whether they reside in data centers or the cloud. The company's innovative system enables customers to automate the data lifecycle, even before data creation, addressing the growing challenges associated with unstructured data. The leadership team at Atavium comprises experienced professionals from the storage and networking sectors, with a proven track record of delivering impactful solutions that have been acquired by major technology firms. As of April 2020, Atavium operates as a subsidiary of Quantum Corporation.

Foodsby

Series A in 2017
Foodsby is an online marketplace connecting employees in office buildings with local restaurants to provide hard-working professionals with a variety of easy lunch options. Individuals place orders online, orders are aggregated via Foodsby.com, and the restaurants make one simple delivery with all orders. We're giving hardworking professionals the freedom to eat well and remain productive in their work-life. Foodsby brings more meal options and variety to customers by connecting with local and national restaurant brands they know and love. It was founded in 2012 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Total Expert

Series A in 2016
Total Expert is a fintech software pioneer of the first modern, enterprise-level Marketing Operating System (MOS) that enables financial services organizations to create customers or members for life by re-humanizing complex financial decisions. The company's system aligns marketing, sales and compliance in a single system of record, allowing salespeople to grow their marketing and sales efforts while ensuring they stay compliant with complex regulations and marketing content and brand assets can be developed at the community level and every asset ever created, downloaded or deployed is tracked with on-demand audit-level reporting, enabling businesses and mortgage related businesses to have settings for endless custom reporting and analytics options based on the unique preferences of the organization and manage their financial lives in the digital, social era.

Elevate

Seed Round in 2014
Elevate Research offers a platform that helps restaurants boost revenue through smarter marketing. The platform enables restaurants and retailers to survey customers who recently dined in one of their restaurants or shopped in one of their stores.

SportsEngine

Series D in 2014
SportsEngine, Inc. is a prominent provider of web and mobile application software designed for sports relationship management. Established in 2004 and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the company offers a comprehensive suite of tools for managing teams, leagues, and tournaments. Its products include SportsEngine for team management, TeamUnify for swim team administration, GoMotion for class-based sports, Trackwrestling for wrestling event management, Tourney Machine for tournament organization, and RallyMe for fundraising initiatives. Serving over 500,000 sports teams, leagues, clubs, and associations, SportsEngine facilitates communication and connections among a wide range of stakeholders, including athletes, parents, coaches, and fans.

SportsEngine

Series C in 2013
SportsEngine, Inc. is a prominent provider of web and mobile application software designed for sports relationship management. Established in 2004 and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the company offers a comprehensive suite of tools for managing teams, leagues, and tournaments. Its products include SportsEngine for team management, TeamUnify for swim team administration, GoMotion for class-based sports, Trackwrestling for wrestling event management, Tourney Machine for tournament organization, and RallyMe for fundraising initiatives. Serving over 500,000 sports teams, leagues, clubs, and associations, SportsEngine facilitates communication and connections among a wide range of stakeholders, including athletes, parents, coaches, and fans.