PointGuard Ventures

PointGuard Ventures is a private equity firm based in Los Altos, California, specializing in investments in technology companies. The firm focuses on providing series A and B-stage financing, targeting emerging businesses in the United States. Founded by Pete Thomas, PointGuard Ventures also offers advisory and training services to support the growth and development of its portfolio companies.

Krish Panu

Managing Director

14 past transactions

Insilixa

Venture Round in 2014
InSilixa, Inc., headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, is a multidisciplinary, highly motivated and highly technical team comprised of industry veterans with diverse backgrounds in semiconductor, biotechnology, medicine, and informatics. Founded in 2012, InSilixa is driven by the quest to democratize and drive down the cost of molecular diagnostics worldwide by leveraging its proprietary semiconductor-based CMOS biochip technology. To that end, the company is developing point-of-care (PoC) and near patient platforms for the delivery of low cost, high-performance, and mass-deployable solutions for DNA and protein-based diagnostic testing.

Movius

Series D in 2019
Movius Interactive Corporation provides cloud-based enterprise mobility solutions. It offers a Software-as-a-Service business mobility solution that addresses various issues by extending enterprise telecommunication services to mobile devices; and a platform that provides a set of pre-packaged applications and application programming interfaces for application development needs. The company offers support and training services. It serves telecommunication providers, businesses, and end-users in the United States and internationally. Movius Interactive Corporation was formerly known as IP Unity Glenayre, Inc. and changed its name to Movius Interactive Corporation in January 2008. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Duluth, Georgia with locations in Silicon Valley, California; and Bengaluru, India.

Prevedere

Venture Round in 2014
Prevedere is an industry insights and predictive analytics company, helping business leaders make better decisions by providing a real-time view of their company’s future. While most companies can easily report on internal performance, Prevedere’s external real-time insights engine constantly monitors the world’s activity, identifying future threats or opportunities to business performance. Along with a team of industry experts, data scientists, and economists, Prevedere helps business leaders make the right decisions in an ever-changing world. Named a 2017 Red Herring Top 100 Global Company, the Best Business Intelligence Reporting & Analytics Solution of 2017 by the SIIA CODiE Awards and the Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year by the 2016 American Business Awards, Prevedere works with top global companies.

Movius

Private Placement in 2019
Movius Interactive Corporation provides cloud-based enterprise mobility solutions. It offers a Software-as-a-Service business mobility solution that addresses various issues by extending enterprise telecommunication services to mobile devices; and a platform that provides a set of pre-packaged applications and application programming interfaces for application development needs. The company offers support and training services. It serves telecommunication providers, businesses, and end-users in the United States and internationally. Movius Interactive Corporation was formerly known as IP Unity Glenayre, Inc. and changed its name to Movius Interactive Corporation in January 2008. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Duluth, Georgia with locations in Silicon Valley, California; and Bengaluru, India.

Nod

Series A in 2015
Nod is a product of Nod, Inc. a small company based in Mountain View, CA. Nod is created by a team of engineers, scientists, and product managers who have worked on consumer electronics, hardware, and software at some of world’s most innovative places like Amazon (Lab126), Apple, Google, Facebook, Jawbone, Samsung, NASA, Zee Aero, and HP Labs. They are lucky to work with a brilliant research team that boasts Ph.D. and Masters recipients in the fields ranging from Math to Physics and Computer Science from institutions like Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, MIT and USC.

Serviz

Series B in 2014
SERVIZ offers a web and mobile application that enables its users to find and book home service providers according to their location. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Sherman Oaks, California.

Prevedere

Series A in 2015
Prevedere is an industry insights and predictive analytics company, helping business leaders make better decisions by providing a real-time view of their company’s future. While most companies can easily report on internal performance, Prevedere’s external real-time insights engine constantly monitors the world’s activity, identifying future threats or opportunities to business performance. Along with a team of industry experts, data scientists, and economists, Prevedere helps business leaders make the right decisions in an ever-changing world. Named a 2017 Red Herring Top 100 Global Company, the Best Business Intelligence Reporting & Analytics Solution of 2017 by the SIIA CODiE Awards and the Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year by the 2016 American Business Awards, Prevedere works with top global companies.

Prevedere

Series B in 2019
Prevedere is an industry insights and predictive analytics company, helping business leaders make better decisions by providing a real-time view of their company’s future. While most companies can easily report on internal performance, Prevedere’s external real-time insights engine constantly monitors the world’s activity, identifying future threats or opportunities to business performance. Along with a team of industry experts, data scientists, and economists, Prevedere helps business leaders make the right decisions in an ever-changing world. Named a 2017 Red Herring Top 100 Global Company, the Best Business Intelligence Reporting & Analytics Solution of 2017 by the SIIA CODiE Awards and the Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year by the 2016 American Business Awards, Prevedere works with top global companies.

Deem

Venture Round in 2014
Deem is a technology platform for the business travel industry focusing on travel, car service, and expense solutions. Its mission is to make business travel less complicated for travelers, less costly for employers, and more profitable for service providers. Using its industry-leading software solutions, employees book travel and car service and report those expenses faster and more easily than ever before. Corporations control costs more effectively. Travel management companies deliver more engaging customer experiences. Car service operators benefit from new efficiencies and widen their customer reach. The company was founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Movius

Venture Round in 2014
Movius Interactive Corporation provides cloud-based enterprise mobility solutions. It offers a Software-as-a-Service business mobility solution that addresses various issues by extending enterprise telecommunication services to mobile devices; and a platform that provides a set of pre-packaged applications and application programming interfaces for application development needs. The company offers support and training services. It serves telecommunication providers, businesses, and end-users in the United States and internationally. Movius Interactive Corporation was formerly known as IP Unity Glenayre, Inc. and changed its name to Movius Interactive Corporation in January 2008. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Duluth, Georgia with locations in Silicon Valley, California; and Bengaluru, India.

Prevedere

Series B in 2017
Prevedere is an industry insights and predictive analytics company, helping business leaders make better decisions by providing a real-time view of their company’s future. While most companies can easily report on internal performance, Prevedere’s external real-time insights engine constantly monitors the world’s activity, identifying future threats or opportunities to business performance. Along with a team of industry experts, data scientists, and economists, Prevedere helps business leaders make the right decisions in an ever-changing world. Named a 2017 Red Herring Top 100 Global Company, the Best Business Intelligence Reporting & Analytics Solution of 2017 by the SIIA CODiE Awards and the Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year by the 2016 American Business Awards, Prevedere works with top global companies.

Deem

Venture Round in 2016
Deem is a technology platform for the business travel industry focusing on travel, car service, and expense solutions. Its mission is to make business travel less complicated for travelers, less costly for employers, and more profitable for service providers. Using its industry-leading software solutions, employees book travel and car service and report those expenses faster and more easily than ever before. Corporations control costs more effectively. Travel management companies deliver more engaging customer experiences. Car service operators benefit from new efficiencies and widen their customer reach. The company was founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Movius

Series C in 2017
Movius Interactive Corporation provides cloud-based enterprise mobility solutions. It offers a Software-as-a-Service business mobility solution that addresses various issues by extending enterprise telecommunication services to mobile devices; and a platform that provides a set of pre-packaged applications and application programming interfaces for application development needs. The company offers support and training services. It serves telecommunication providers, businesses, and end-users in the United States and internationally. Movius Interactive Corporation was formerly known as IP Unity Glenayre, Inc. and changed its name to Movius Interactive Corporation in January 2008. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Duluth, Georgia with locations in Silicon Valley, California; and Bengaluru, India.

Lavante

Venture Round in 2014
Lavante a is provider of cloud-based supplier information management and audit recovery solutions. Fortune 1000 companies rely on Lavante to reduce the cost of on-boarding and managing suppliers, facilitate government compliance and ensure that all available open credits are recovered quickly.