H. Barton Asset Management

H. Barton Asset Management is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that focuses on early-stage investments in technology-related companies. The firm specializes in identifying and supporting start-ups within the technology sector, aiming to foster innovation and growth in this dynamic field. By concentrating on nascent enterprises, H. Barton Asset Management seeks to leverage emerging trends and advancements to achieve substantial returns on investment while contributing to the development of new technologies.

Harris Barton

Founder and MD

23 past transactions

Tallysight

Venture Round in 2022
Tallysight was started with one simple goal — to make the wisdom of sports experts accessible to all. We believe the smartest sports betting insights get lost over the internet. Everyday, industry analysts make picks, predictions, and analysis — but it’s too difficult to make sense of all this information. Sports experts need an easier way to share their insights and fans should be able to find them in one place. We’re building the tools and technology that will help raise the bar for sports intelligence and make it useful for casual fans and experts alike. Tallysight is a next-generation platform that helps sports writers, analysts, & organizations share their sports picks and gain recognition. Powered by a network of over 2,000 sports media professionals from 600+ outlets.

SignalRank

Seed Round in 2021
SignalRank is a technology company using ai and the follow-on rights of its partner network to create a new category of financial instrument which captures top decile value creation exclusive to early-stage venture.

Beyond Identity

Series C in 2022
Beyond Identity's mission is to empower the next generation of secure digital business by replacing passwords with fundamentally secure X.509-based certificates. This patent-pending approach creates an extended Chain of Trust that includes user and device identity and a real-time snapshot of the device’s security posture for adaptive risk-based authentication and authorization. Beyond Identity’s cloud-native solution enables customers to increase business velocity, implement new business models, reduce operating costs, and achieve complete passwordless identity management.

Granular

Series B in 2015
Granular is a software and analytics platform that helps farmers operate more efficiently and make better business decisions. It powers the world’s most efficient farms. The company’s cloud software and analytics platform help farmers become more efficient and make better business decisions and is backed by Silicon Valley investors Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, and Khosla Ventures. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Haus

Private Placement in 2020
Pay less, live more. Haus is on a mission to bring flexibility and affordability to home ownership. Instead of taking on a mortgage and debt, homeowners and aspiring buyers can partner with Haus to buy what they can afford. With this co-investing model, monthly payments are 30% lower on average, compared to a traditional mortgage. And, homeowners have the flexibility to buy and sell equity in real time. Haus is an Expa Studio company. Expa is a global network of entrepreneurs helping each other build companies with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Vancouver.

Otter.ai, Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
Otter.ai, Inc. develops artificial intelligence (AI) based application for everyday conversations. It offers Otter, a mobile and web app that enables users to store, search, and share voice conversations the same way that they manage email or other text communications. The company’s Otter uses AI-powered speech recognition technology for conversations with multiple participants and challenging acoustic environments. Its application is used by individuals, teams, and education. Otter.ai, Inc. was formerly known as AISense, Inc. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Los Altos, California.

Nstream

Private Placement in 2018
Swim.Ai, Inc. develops advance analytics software that processes data in devices at the edge of a network. The company’s product includes SWIM EDX turns all streaming edge data into insights and predictions in real-time without the challenges of big data. It offers solutions for original equipment manufacturers, service providers, enterprises, cities, Internet of Things (IoT) vendors, and developers. It combines edge computing, machine learning, and self-training digital twins in mesh architecture. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Jose, California.

Kespry

Series C in 2017
Kespry provides an aerial intelligence platform that transforms how organizations capture, analyze, and share insights about their business. It provides the information they need to accelerate their operations. Purpose-built for industrial use yet simple enough for any user, a wide variety of industries rely on Kespry to solve business-critical problems. Delivering a fully integrated solution from drone data capture to industry-specific analytics, Kespry serves customers across North America, Europe, and Australia, including John Deere, Hancock Claims Consultants, Catastrophe Response Unit (CRU), Fluor, Lehigh Hanson/Heidelberg, and Colas USA.

Bizly

Seed Round in 2020
Bizly is an employee-facing, self-service, enterprise software application that enables teams to collaborate and build impactful meetings and events. Bizly provides modern end-to-end workflow automation utilizing smart templates to drive the right programming, attendee management, venue booking, and analytics to achieve the objective. Bizly is an operating system that leverages enterprise procurement, CRM, HCM, and other systems to automate the entire workflow for meetings & events. Bizly helps finance departments tackle their largest segment of unmanaged spend and supports every department with creating experiences that drive their business forward.

Kogniz

Series A in 2022
Kogniz Incorporated develops security software using artificial intelligence and computer vision. The product can be used to identify problematic individuals, interpret behaviors for security purposes, detect objects, detect whether the individual is in secure area, and to cover multiple locations at same time. Additionally the company manufactures security cameras to assist its software. Kogniz Incorporated was founded in 2016 and is based in Mill Valley, California with development offices in Montreal, Canada.

Otter.ai

Series B in 2021
Otter.ai creates technologies and products that make important information from voice conversations including meetings, interviews, and lectures instantly accessible and actionable. The company's award winning product, Otter Voice Notes, is used by business professionals, journalists and students to generate rich notes that can be easily searched and shared. Otter is based on proprietary technologies for speech recognition, speaker separation, speaker ID, and keyword / topic extraction. The company was founded by successful repeat entrepreneur Sam Liang and fellow engineering PhD Yun Fu. Investors We are proud to be supported by some of Silicon Valley’s top venture capitalists who were early investors in Tesla, SpaceX, Slack, and Twitter. Additionally, we are backed by legendary angel investor David Cheriton, who provided the initial capital to Larry Page and Sergey Brin to start Google.

Haus

Series A in 2020
Pay less, live more. Haus is on a mission to bring flexibility and affordability to home ownership. Instead of taking on a mortgage and debt, homeowners and aspiring buyers can partner with Haus to buy what they can afford. With this co-investing model, monthly payments are 30% lower on average, compared to a traditional mortgage. And, homeowners have the flexibility to buy and sell equity in real time. Haus is an Expa Studio company. Expa is a global network of entrepreneurs helping each other build companies with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Vancouver.

Kespry

Series D in 2019
Kespry provides an aerial intelligence platform that transforms how organizations capture, analyze, and share insights about their business. It provides the information they need to accelerate their operations. Purpose-built for industrial use yet simple enough for any user, a wide variety of industries rely on Kespry to solve business-critical problems. Delivering a fully integrated solution from drone data capture to industry-specific analytics, Kespry serves customers across North America, Europe, and Australia, including John Deere, Hancock Claims Consultants, Catastrophe Response Unit (CRU), Fluor, Lehigh Hanson/Heidelberg, and Colas USA.

ZEDEDA

Series A in 2021
ZEDEDA, Inc. develops edge virtualization software to deliver visibility, control, and protection for IoT edge gateways, applications, and networks at the enterprise edge as a cloud-based service. The company offers Edge Quick Connect for Azure IoT Edge, a SaaS solution that enables customers to provide, manage, and secure their IoT deployments through virtualization; cloud-managed gateways that enable remote administration; and legacy applications. Its solutions are used for various applications, such as predictive analytics in competitive renewable energy, digital transformation in automation for oil and gas, and industrial automation. ZEDEDA, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Santa Clara, California with additional offices in Bengaluru and Pune, India.

Gbox by OnCircle, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2015
Gbox is a Direct-to-consumer multimedia monetization to empower YouTubers, MCNs, and any other video creators. Its patented technology “wraps” anything of value and controls decentralized content access on the web. Unique transaction engine allows a variety of business models (subscriptions, PPV, advertising, eCommerce, social currency, and more). It is the best way to sell and distribute videos on the web. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Boom.tv

Series A in 2020
BoomTV is an Esports entertainment platform that provides tools to automate score tracking, streaming, and generating event hubs. Their mission is to enable communities to easily produce and partake in virtual Esports. At the core of it all is our self-driving Esports technology layer that provides a one-button solution for anyone to create, participate, and/or spectate Esports content.

SnapLogic

Series D in 2014
Connects big data, cloud, and on-prem applications

Kespry

Series B in 2016
Kespry provides an aerial intelligence platform that transforms how organizations capture, analyze, and share insights about their business. It provides the information they need to accelerate their operations. Purpose-built for industrial use yet simple enough for any user, a wide variety of industries rely on Kespry to solve business-critical problems. Delivering a fully integrated solution from drone data capture to industry-specific analytics, Kespry serves customers across North America, Europe, and Australia, including John Deere, Hancock Claims Consultants, Catastrophe Response Unit (CRU), Fluor, Lehigh Hanson/Heidelberg, and Colas USA.

Uplift

Series C in 2019
Uplift is an enterprise Buy Now, Pay Later solution serving over 100 of the world's top travel brands. Through personalized, flexible payment options, Uplift helps consumers take control of their budget and experience a world of travel. With a complete range of payment options, Uplift unlocks higher conversions and lifetime customer value for merchant partners. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Appvance.ai

Series A in 2014
Appvance.ai is the leader in AI-driven test generation, which is revolutionizing how software testing is performed. The company’s premier product is Appvance IQ, the world’s first AI-driven, unified test automation system. It helps enterprises improve the quality, performance and security of their applications, while transforming the efficiency and output of testing teams. Appvance.ai is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Costa Rica and India. Investors in the company include Javelin Ventures, Staenberg Ventures, Social Internet Fund, FundersClub, Three Bridges Ventures and HB Asset Management.

BoomTV Inc

Private Placement in 2020
BoomTV Inc develops and operates a 3D video live-streaming platform for watching eSports on any device. It provides instant replays and multiple viewing angles for streamers on their PCs and mobile devices. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Uplift

Private Placement in 2018
Uplift is an enterprise Buy Now, Pay Later solution serving over 100 of the world's top travel brands. Through personalized, flexible payment options, Uplift helps consumers take control of their budget and experience a world of travel. With a complete range of payment options, Uplift unlocks higher conversions and lifetime customer value for merchant partners. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

PayNearMe

Series D in 2023
PayNearMe is a provider of web and mobile-based cash payments platform designed to facilitate online purchases and bill payments. The company's platform helps users to pay with cash for a range of goods and services from companies in e-commerce, property management, consumer finance, and transportation, enabling businesses, government agencies, and retail stores to digitize their cash collection process, reduce the headache of traditional cash and money order acceptance. PayNearMe's technology provides a simple way for lenders to collect payments through an intuitive, consistent experience for their customers. In addition, payment reminders and mobile wallet integration drive more on-time payments. PayNearMe was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA.