HighBar Partners

HighBar Partners is a private equity investment firm based in Menlo Park, California, established in 2009. The firm specializes in providing strategic growth capital to companies in the enterprise, infrastructure software, and SaaS sectors across North America. HighBar Partners takes a creative and engaged approach to investing, leveraging its resources and relationships to support management teams in financial, strategic, and operational execution. The firm employs a disciplined owner-operator investment philosophy, which allows it to participate in various transactions, including growth equity, restructurings, divestitures, and management buyouts. HighBar Partners structures its investments to align the interests of all stakeholders, collaborating closely with management teams to develop long-term strategies that unlock value, particularly in companies undergoing significant change or transition.

John H. Kim

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Brian Kriebel

Managing Director

Brian Peters

Partner

22 past transactions

Virtana

Venture Round in 2022
Virtana is the hybrid cloud optimization platform for digital transformation. The technology and services give innovative organizations the clarity they need to take control of their infrastructure, transform their cloud operations, and deliver a superior brand experience.

Virtana

Venture Round in 2020
Virtana is the hybrid cloud optimization platform for digital transformation. The technology and services give innovative organizations the clarity they need to take control of their infrastructure, transform their cloud operations, and deliver a superior brand experience.

Signpost

Series D in 2019
Signpost provides software and services for local businesses to capture and convert leads, and generate more revenue from their existing customer base. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, United States.

SS8 Networks

Acquisition in 2018
SS8 Networks is the expert in lawful intelligence gathering. As criminal groups and extremist organizations become more sophisticated and technologically aware, it is important that those who protect us stay one step ahead. SS8’s platforms enable communications service providers (CSPs), law enforcement agencies (LEAs), and government & intelligence bodies to collect, analyze and visualize complex digital information. By providing advanced solutions for lawful intercept, location intelligence and data forensics, we help to catch criminals, stop organized crime, and prevent terror attacks.

HyperGrid™

Series A in 2018
HyperCloud enables businesses to embrace public clouds and drive their digital transformation via the broadest set of functionalities to discover and plan cloud migrations, optimize costs, secure resource and scale operations in the public cloud. HyperCloud has a unique app-centric, modular approach that enables businesses to scale their cloud management capabilities within a common framework that provides centralized control and management of all private and public clouds and eliminates the need for ongoing training. HyperCloud analytics is powered by its massive database of more than 400 million data points across the major public clouds enabling instantaneous recommendations for optimizing new and existing applications using multi-dimensional analysis of factors such as cost, performance, and compliance. HyperCloud also analyzes past cloud usage to understand customer needs and speed service delivery by eliminating manual processes. As a result, enterprise IT and MSPs can deliver customized services across any private or public cloud, improving business performance while minimizing cloud management complexities.

PatientSafe Solutions

Venture Round in 2017
PatientSafe Solutions, based in San Diego, California, is leading the way in smart point-of-care mobile solutions and innovating technologies for the future of accountable care. Its flagship product, the PatientTouch System, delivers measurable safety and quality improvement by making care team workflows easier and more productive. PatientSafe Solutions was named one of Wall Street Journal’s Top 50 Venture-Backed Companies in 2011 and 2012, ranked #2 in Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 Venture-Backed Healthcare Companies in 2012, and chosen by Forbes as one of the top Three Health Technology Companies To Watch in 2012. The PatientTouch system is a cutting-edge wireless clinical mobility solution aimed at advancing health systems' patient safety, clinical productivity, and cost reduction agendas. The PatientTouch system transforms care delivery by providing frontline clinicians wireless clinical mobility on a single, intuitive, handheld device that fits in your pocket. The platform runs on a PatientSafe Solutions-designed, developed, and supported device that pairs Apple iOS hardware with enhancements including a high-performance barcode scanner, full-shift battery, and ruggedized, hospital-grade jacket. The mobile health platform delivers Positive Patient Identification, Care Interventions, and Communication and Collaboration capabilities. Positive Patient Identification workflows utilize barcode-enabled workflows for medication administration, specimen collection, infant care, and blood product administration. Customizable Care Interventions ensure real-time order execution and hospital process/policy instrumentation at the point of care. Communication capabilities allow for real-time care team collaboration and alerting features. By consolidating clinical workflows, real-time information access, and communications into an easy-to-use device, hospitals can eliminate harm, reduce waste, and improve productivity.

Virtual Instruments

Venture Round in 2016
Virtual Instruments is the leader in IT Infrastructure Performance Management for the physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments. Virtual Instruments is a dynamic, fast-growing technology company with a performance driven culture. Founded in June 2008 we are headquartered in the heart of the Silicon Valley, led by an industry-proven executive team, and backed by a group of highly experienced and successful investors. As a company, we are focused on delivering unparalleled value to our customers through a truly innovative combination of disruptive technology and revolutionary services. Our customers represent industry leading brands in every major vertical market, all of whom have some of the most performance sensitive and complex IT environments in the world. Our unwavering commitment to our customers' success, ensuring the performance and availability of their mission critical application workload as they migrate from physical to virtual and cloud computing environments, is what has fueled our record growth and is driving the ongoing development of our award winning Infrastructure Performance Management platform, VirtualWisdom.

Janrain

Series D in 2015
Founded in 2002 in Portland, Oregon, Janrain is the creator of the first customer identity and access management (CIAM) cloud. Janrain is also the inventor of social login and a founding member of the OpenID Foundation—establishing many of the digital authentication protocols used globally today. Janrain continues to lead the CIAM market today, with over half of the world’s connected users within its Identity Cloud network. We believe that each customer’s unique digital identity is their key to their personally connected world, which makes their identity the most valuable thing they own. Janrain is based in Portland, Oregon, with offices in London, Paris, and Redwood City, CA. For more information, please visit www.janrain.com and follow @janrain.

Load DynamiX

Series C in 2014
As a leader in storage infrastructure workload analytics and performance validation, Load DynamiX empowers: 1. IT organizations with the insight they need to optimize the performance, availability, and cost of their storage infrastructure. Load DynamiX accelerates new application roll-outs and eliminates the risk of new technology deployments. 2. Storage and network equipment manufacturers with the insight they need to maximize the performance, scalability and reliability of their products. Load DynamiX accelerates your time to market. Addressing file, block, and object storage technology validation, Load DynamiX has the unique capability and performance required to stress today’s most complex storage systems to their limits.

Xangati

Venture Round in 2013
Xangati runs as a guest virtual machine within the systems administrator's hypervisor of choice providing 300 times the granularity of performance metrics available from agent-based competitor solutions, delivering a service assurance analytics framework for hybrid-cloud and virtual infrastructures: Performance Problem Triage: Performance problem tracking, analysis and remediation using deep analytics that correlate contention issues cross-silo Performance Problem Prevention: Capacity analytics that are tied to performance analytics so that end-user experience becomes more predictive Performance and Efficiency Monitoring: Real-time, streaming data with unprecedented speed and end-to-end to scale, from end-user to app to VM About Xangati: Xangati is a Silicon Valley virtualization performance monitoring and service assurance analytics innovator, supporting complex virtualized data centers and hybrid cloud environments. Organizations such as Comcast, British Gas, Colliers, Harvard University and the U.S. Army have leveraged Xangati to resolve end-user issues more quickly, optimize virtual applications, diagnose root causes of contention storms and assure overall infrastructure health. Xangati management dashboards, built on patented in-memory architecture, provide a live, continuous and interactional view into the entire IT infrastructure with predictive analytics and prescriptive remediation actions.

Clustrix

Series D in 2013
Clustrix provides the leading scale-out SQL database engineered for the cloud and the first database built specifically to meet the unique growth, performance and availability demands of today's e-commerce sites. With ClustrixDB, you can build business critical applications that support massive transactional volume and real-time reporting of business performance metrics. ClustrixDB delivers more than one trillion transactions per month for customers including AOL, Flipkart, MakeMyTrip, nomorerack, Photobox, Rakuten, Symantec, and Twoo.com. Headquartered in San Francisco, Clustrix is funded by HighBar Partners, Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, Don Listwin, and ATA Ventures. ClustrixDB is available in software that runs on commodity hardware and on any cloud. Visit www.clustrix.com to learn more.

Blazent

Venture Round in 2013
Blazent is the world's most widely-used IT Data Quality Engine. Built on patented algorithms developed over the last decade, Blazent's cloud-based engine aggregates, reconciles and consolidates IT data to guarantee continuous accuracy, and to optimize IT management & operations. Blazent’s IT Outsourcing Governance solutions are used by some of the largest service providers in the world to gain visibility and decrease costs. Over 1.6 million outsourced desktops and servers are tracked by Blazent for companies spending a total of $32 Billion a year on outsourcing services.

Zettaset, Inc.

Series B in 2012
Zettaset is a software-defined encryption provider whose products protect against data theft and can be transparently deployed across all physical and virtual environments. Its products are designed for medium to large enterprises that deal with sensitive information that would expose them, financially and reputationally, in the event of a breach. Unlike traditional solutions that are appliance-based, Zettaset is a cost-effective, software-only solution that is easy to deploy, does not impact performance, and scales with your business from on premise to the cloud.

Vyatta

Series D in 2011
Vyatta, Inc. provides network routing and security software and hardware appliances. It offers an enterprise-class network routing, security, and traffic management software solution that enables network administrators to leverage the performance of Intel/AMD hardware, as well as run in VMWare, Xen, and Hyper-V virtual environments. The company also provides network hardware appliances that pre-integrate its software with x86-based hardware platforms to deliver optimized network performance. In addition, it offers documentation and training, software updation and maintenance, technical support, implementation planning, network architecture and design, auditing, configuration, network migration planning, and interoperability testing services. The company serves its clients in service provider, government, and educational markets. It offers its products through a network of distributors and resellers, as well as online in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. Vyatta, Inc. has strategic partnerships with IBM; Digium, Inc.; Neterion; VMware; AlterPoint; HYPERIC; and SANGOMA. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Belmont, California.

Blazent

Venture Round in 2010
Blazent is the world's most widely-used IT Data Quality Engine. Built on patented algorithms developed over the last decade, Blazent's cloud-based engine aggregates, reconciles and consolidates IT data to guarantee continuous accuracy, and to optimize IT management & operations. Blazent’s IT Outsourcing Governance solutions are used by some of the largest service providers in the world to gain visibility and decrease costs. Over 1.6 million outsourced desktops and servers are tracked by Blazent for companies spending a total of $32 Billion a year on outsourcing services.

Soonr

Series D in 2010
Soonr is a secure cloud service for teams to work together on shared digital content from any device, anywhere in the world. With Soonr Workplace, businesses and teams can store, share, access, search, edit and sync files across platforms with support for more than 800 mobile devices including Android, Blackberry, iPhone and iPad. Soonr incorporates patented rendering technology and was designed with teams, remote access and security in mind.

CollegeWikis

Seed Round in 2008
CollegeWikis.com is the leading group messaging and information platform for students by students. Since its launch last year, CollegeWikis has become the group messaging platform of choice for over 50,000 students in more than 200 colleges, with over 600,000 topics. On CollegeWikis, students can join groups for their school, courses, dorms, and more; then send and follow group messages to peers. Those messages then become wiki-editable pages on the site, providing information that is always accurate and searchable by others. The original idea for the site came from Founder Joe DiPasquale's experience in business school. He told us: "We had an email list for our class year, through which hundreds of messages were sent per week. But students faced two problems: the absence of group lists that we really wanted, like for our dorm or courses; and all the great content sent out over the list was soon buried in people’s email inboxes. CollegeWikis not only provides these groups but also captures their content."

Ingrian Networks

Series D in 2005
Ingrian Networks provides enterprise data protection and other privacy solutions to companies such as Dell, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, BEA, and VeriSign.

NeoPath Networks

Series A in 2004
NeoPath Networks, Inc. provides file storage management solutions. It provides File Director, a network appliance that resides in-band between file servers and clients, and provides file storage management capabilities, including namespace virtualization and globalization, safe and non-disruptive file migrations, real-time file characterization and analysis, and policy-based file management; and SMARTtouch, a file storage software solution that allows its clients to balance and utilize existing file storage capacity. The company's products simplify and advance file storage management for networked attached storage and other file servers, and increase storage utilization. It serves financial services, government, hosted services, aerospace, manufacturing, healthcare, and education industries. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. As of April 3, 2007, NeoPath Networks, Inc. is a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc.

Ingrian Networks

Series C in 2004
Ingrian Networks provides enterprise data protection and other privacy solutions to companies such as Dell, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, BEA, and VeriSign.

Ingrian Networks

Series B in 2002
Ingrian Networks provides enterprise data protection and other privacy solutions to companies such as Dell, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, BEA, and VeriSign.

Surgient

Series A in 2000
Surgient, Inc. offers self-service virtualization automation and lab management solutions. The company offers Virtual Automation Platform, a software automation and management platform that helps enterprise IT organizations to provide self-service computing resources to users. Its virtualization solutions are used for software QA/test, training, sales, and marketing applications. The company’s Surgient Cloud Express combines cloud computing technology and implementation services to help organizations deploy on-premise clouds. Surgient also provides services, such as solution design and architecture, capacity and infrastructure planning, image and lab configuration planning, software installation and configuration, setup of initial images and lab configurations, software customization and integration, training for administrators and end-users, and custom reporting and analytics. The company serves hotels/hospitality, pharmaceutical, aerospace, insurance, software, financial services, healthcare, telecom, and hardware markets. Surgient, Inc. was formerly known as Surgient Networks, Inc. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
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