Hummer Winblad Venture Partners

Founded in 1989 by John Hummer and Ann Winblad, HWVP pioneered the idea of a venture capital firm investing exclusively in enterprise software companies. From their earliest funds focused on the disruptive shift away from mainframes to client/server computing, through the commodity-driven cloud data centers of today, they have remained true to their software-only roots. Through their deep understanding of the technology landscape, they have helped drive companies to success by supporting those at the forefront of disruptive advances in the software industry. Entrepreneurs themselves, their team has deep technology roots and a passion for building successful companies. Having started their careers as engineers and programmers, they understand the challenges inherent in creating a scalable and economically viable company. From the complexities of product launches, building sales teams, making payroll, and raising capital, to running public companies - they have been where you are and taken companies where you want to go.

John R. Hummer

Founding Partner

Ann Winblad

Managing Director

226 past transactions

Amberdata

Series A in 2021
Amberdata Inc. is a provider of a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) platform designed for monitoring, analyzing, and securing both public and private blockchains. Founded in 2017 and based in West New York, New Jersey, the company offers tools, APIs, and SDKs that cater to traders, investors, developers, and wallet providers. By consolidating validated blockchain and crypto market data from major exchanges into a unified platform, Amberdata enables its clients to build data-driven applications that enhance their competitive edge. The platform supports various functionalities, including research, trading, risk management, and compliance, and allows for the integration of historical data through multiple protocols. This comprehensive approach equips financial institutions with the necessary infrastructure to engage in digital asset markets effectively.

Oomnitza

Series C in 2021
Oomnitza, Inc. is an enterprise software company specializing in IT asset management solutions. Based in San Francisco with additional offices in Minsk and Los Altos, Oomnitza provides a cloud-based platform that enables organizations to effectively track and manage a wide range of assets, including end-user hardware, SaaS applications, and networking infrastructure. The platform facilitates the entire asset lifecycle, from procurement to deployment and maintenance, offering features such as inventory management, reporting, workflow automation, and mobile access. Oomnitza's solutions cater to various sectors, including finance, retail, technology, education, healthcare, construction, and government, helping clients optimize resources, enhance security, and streamline processes. Incorporated in 2012, the company aims to deliver comprehensive visibility and control over an organization's digital estate.

ScreenMeet

Venture Round in 2021
ScreenMeet, Enterprise Remote Support in the cloud. The cloud-native remote support solution that is fully integrated with your existing CRM/CSM/ITSM system (Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft Dynamics and Zendesk). From a ticket, case or incident see, takeover and fix any PC, MAC or mobile device. All data gets written back to your CRM for auditing, analytics and reporting.

Clarify Health Solutions

Series C in 2021
Clarify Health Solutions, Inc. operates a data-driven platform designed to enhance patient care by providing real-time insights to patients, clinicians, and care managers. The platform, known as Clarify Episode, facilitates the optimization of care episodes by stratifying patients based on various characteristics and monitoring their progress to detect potential complications early. Key offerings include Care Pilot, a mobile and web-based tool that empowers patients in their care journey; Care Connect, which allows clinicians to monitor and intervene as needed; and Care Prism, which delivers real-time analytics for management. The solutions aim to improve efficiency and personalization in healthcare delivery, enabling health systems to streamline workflows and focus on patients with the greatest needs. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company also offers data analytics and change management solutions, forming strategic alliances to enhance its impact in the healthcare sector.

Vendia

Series A in 2021
Vendia, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that offers a cloud and blockchain-based platform designed for serverless and distributed data sharing. Its primary product, Vendia Share, allows users to share data and code in real time with partners while maintaining control over their information. This platform facilitates various applications, including multi-party collaborations, cross-cloud and cross-account data sharing, real-time data analytics for forecasting, and autonomous supply chains to enhance supply and demand predictions. Since its incorporation in 2020, Vendia has focused on enabling seamless data exchange across multiple clouds and organizations.

NeuVector

Series A in 2020
NeuVector Inc. specializes in full lifecycle container security, focusing on a cloud-native Kubernetes security platform. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company provides comprehensive vulnerability management that assesses risk profiles for known threats. NeuVector's innovative multi-vector container firewall technology protects infrastructures from both known and unknown threats, ensuring secure deployment of container strategies across multi-cloud and on-premises environments. The platform offers visibility into east-west container traffic, container protection, and host security through an integrated and automated solution. NeuVector serves a diverse range of industries, including government, financial services, healthcare, and transportation, and collaborates with major partners such as AWS, Docker, IBM, Rancher, and Red Hat. The company's founding team consists of veterans from Fortinet, VMware, and Trend Micro, and they have developed advanced behavioral learning techniques for enhanced container security.

Klue

Series A in 2020
B2B SaaS providing market and competitive intelligence. Helps sales, and the teams that enable them, leverage competitive intelligence to win more business. It was founded in 2015 by Jason Smith and Sarathy Naicker and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Jamm

Seed Round in 2020
Jamm is a lightweight, spontaneous voice and video collaboration app for remote teams. The app enables day-to-day interactions through video so teams can brainstorm, spontaneously huddle, and provide team updates no matter where they are.

Vendia

Seed Round in 2020
Vendia, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that offers a cloud and blockchain-based platform designed for serverless and distributed data sharing. Its primary product, Vendia Share, allows users to share data and code in real time with partners while maintaining control over their information. This platform facilitates various applications, including multi-party collaborations, cross-cloud and cross-account data sharing, real-time data analytics for forecasting, and autonomous supply chains to enhance supply and demand predictions. Since its incorporation in 2020, Vendia has focused on enabling seamless data exchange across multiple clouds and organizations.

StepFunction.ai

Seed Round in 2020
Privacy-preserving AI Data Exchange

Smart Access

Convertible Note in 2019
Smart Access Inc. designs and develops knowledge based system software for workforce in store or at the warehouse. The company offers software services including onboarding, user management, content management, mobile experience builder, integrated applications, and operational intelligence. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Amberdata

Venture Round in 2019
Amberdata Inc. is a provider of a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) platform designed for monitoring, analyzing, and securing both public and private blockchains. Founded in 2017 and based in West New York, New Jersey, the company offers tools, APIs, and SDKs that cater to traders, investors, developers, and wallet providers. By consolidating validated blockchain and crypto market data from major exchanges into a unified platform, Amberdata enables its clients to build data-driven applications that enhance their competitive edge. The platform supports various functionalities, including research, trading, risk management, and compliance, and allows for the integration of historical data through multiple protocols. This comprehensive approach equips financial institutions with the necessary infrastructure to engage in digital asset markets effectively.

Graffiti

Seed Round in 2019
Reinventing online commenting by bringing digital markup tools (think Snapchat) to the Internet. Create Graffiti directly on top of any website, no constraints and no publisher provided text-based commenting platforms needed, and have your Graffiti discovered by other users visiting the same website. Over 700M people use digital markup tools every day to add captions, filters, emojis, drawings, etc. on top of digital content before they share with friends. Graffiti allows the digital markup generation to fully express themselves online and cannot be blocked by publishers or governments.

Symbium

Seed Round in 2019
Symbium is the Complaw™ company. Symbium's products translate complex laws and regulations into computer code, making them faster and easier to navigate and understand. Symbium's mission is to empower homeowners and planners to deal with the regulatory aspects of residential construction.

NuoDB

Venture Round in 2018
NuoDB’s distributed SQL database for cloud applications helps customers get applications to market faster and reduce their total cost of ownership. Software vendors and e-commerce companies rely on NuoDB to obtain the combination of scale-out simplicity, elasticity, and continuous availability that cloud applications require, with the transactional consistency and durability that databases of record demand. As a result, customers can capitalize on modern technologies such as cloud computing and containerization to ensure their applications are ready for today’s evolving expectations, as well as any future requirements. NuoDB is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with offices in Dublin, London, and Sofia.

Aria Systems

Private Equity Round in 2018
Proven by the world's most demanding enterprises, including AAA NCNU, Constant Contact, Falck, Hootsuite, Pitney Bowes, Audi, Adobe, Telekom Denmark, Philips, Roku, and VMware, Aria helps enterprises grow their recurring revenue businesses. Aria helps clients take advantage of each customer-driven event − known as revenue moments − with agile billing, active customer engagement, and the rapid development of new products and services. With Aria's end-to-end active monetization platform, global brands can get to market faster with a wider variety of products and services, while maximizing customer satisfaction, retention, and lifetime value.

TidalScale

Series B in 2018
TidalScale, Inc. develops software for in-memory applications that binds multiple commodity hardware servers into a unified software virtual machine. It offers TidalScale software-defined servers that represent the next wave of compute. The company’s technology also helps users to configure virtual servers of various sizes, and achieve in-memory performance for the big data workloads. Its solutions include Oracle database, SAP HANA, and data analytics. TidalScale, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Campbell, California with additional offices in Seoul, South Korea; Tokyo, Japan.

Sonatype

Private Equity Round in 2018
Sonatype, Inc. specializes in software supply chain automation solutions aimed at enhancing the security and efficiency of software development. The company's flagship product, Nexus Lifecycle, enables organizations to manage the flow of software components by defining rules and policies. Additionally, Nexus Firewall protects against the introduction of risky components, while Nexus Auditor monitors applications in production to ensure ongoing compliance. The Nexus Repository serves as a platform for organizing, storing, and distributing software components, and Nexus Repository OSS facilitates caching of remote repositories to reduce latency. Sonatype caters to various industries, including finance, government, technology, insurance, healthcare, and manufacturing, and has established a strategic partnership with Fugue. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Fulton, Maryland, Sonatype also maintains offices in McLean, Virginia; London, United Kingdom; and Sydney, Australia. The company's commitment to open source software development is evident in its contributions to projects like Apache Maven and the Central repository.

Blissfully

Seed Round in 2018
Blissfully helps companies discover, integrate, and manage the right technologies by providing hands-on IT as a Service and complementary software. Blissfully was proudly founded in 2016 by serial technology-entrepreneurs. Previously, they founded Boundless, an education company that creates online textbooks and learning tools. Boundless raised over $10M in venture capital, reaches millions of students and teachers every month, and was acquired in 2015.

Stackery

Venture Round in 2018
Stackery, Inc. develops open source tools for developers to design, deploy, monitor, and scale cloud infrastructure. It offers Stackery, a tool to deploy and operate the entire stack, and the developer can focus on the applications. The company’s tool is also used to design stack by dragging in components, such as Docker clusters, virtual networks, and load balancers; and connect and configure services using operational practices for an error-proof deployment. Stackery, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Aspire

Series A in 2017
AspireIQ, Inc. develops and provides a platform for influencer marketing for Fortune 500 companies and e-commerce brands. It offers AspireIQ that streamlines influencer discovery, management, and analytics to build authentic influencer relationships at scale; and Unlimited Analytics, a solution that empowers brands to measure influencer marketing performance by capturing campaign metrics in a centralized dashboard. The company’s platform enables the users to search through influencers for campaigns; streamlines communications and automate the tasks of the influencer workflow; and measure ROI of the influencer program by automatically tracking the stats of every post and the impact of the content across various channels. AspireIQ, Inc. was formerly known as Revfluence, Inc. and changed its name to AspireIQ, Inc. in September 2018. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Brooklyn, New York.

Alpharank

Seed Round in 2017
Alpharank is a bank technology company that develops a behavioral commerce platform. The platform identifies and ranks customers, profiles consumers based on their purchasing patterns, and detects customer influences and preferences, enabling businesses and enterprises to influence and retain their customers. It uses social contagion science, generating insights from historical transaction/purchase data. In 2015, Brian Ley founded the company in Redwood City, California.

NeuVector

Series A in 2017
NeuVector Inc. specializes in full lifecycle container security, focusing on a cloud-native Kubernetes security platform. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company provides comprehensive vulnerability management that assesses risk profiles for known threats. NeuVector's innovative multi-vector container firewall technology protects infrastructures from both known and unknown threats, ensuring secure deployment of container strategies across multi-cloud and on-premises environments. The platform offers visibility into east-west container traffic, container protection, and host security through an integrated and automated solution. NeuVector serves a diverse range of industries, including government, financial services, healthcare, and transportation, and collaborates with major partners such as AWS, Docker, IBM, Rancher, and Red Hat. The company's founding team consists of veterans from Fortinet, VMware, and Trend Micro, and they have developed advanced behavioral learning techniques for enhanced container security.

Amberdata

Seed Round in 2017
Amberdata Inc. is a provider of a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) platform designed for monitoring, analyzing, and securing both public and private blockchains. Founded in 2017 and based in West New York, New Jersey, the company offers tools, APIs, and SDKs that cater to traders, investors, developers, and wallet providers. By consolidating validated blockchain and crypto market data from major exchanges into a unified platform, Amberdata enables its clients to build data-driven applications that enhance their competitive edge. The platform supports various functionalities, including research, trading, risk management, and compliance, and allows for the integration of historical data through multiple protocols. This comprehensive approach equips financial institutions with the necessary infrastructure to engage in digital asset markets effectively.

Aria Systems

Series F in 2017
Proven by the world's most demanding enterprises, including AAA NCNU, Constant Contact, Falck, Hootsuite, Pitney Bowes, Audi, Adobe, Telekom Denmark, Philips, Roku, and VMware, Aria helps enterprises grow their recurring revenue businesses. Aria helps clients take advantage of each customer-driven event − known as revenue moments − with agile billing, active customer engagement, and the rapid development of new products and services. With Aria's end-to-end active monetization platform, global brands can get to market faster with a wider variety of products and services, while maximizing customer satisfaction, retention, and lifetime value.

NuoDB

Series B in 2016
NuoDB’s distributed SQL database for cloud applications helps customers get applications to market faster and reduce their total cost of ownership. Software vendors and e-commerce companies rely on NuoDB to obtain the combination of scale-out simplicity, elasticity, and continuous availability that cloud applications require, with the transactional consistency and durability that databases of record demand. As a result, customers can capitalize on modern technologies such as cloud computing and containerization to ensure their applications are ready for today’s evolving expectations, as well as any future requirements. NuoDB is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with offices in Dublin, London, and Sofia.

Aria Systems

Series E in 2016
Proven by the world's most demanding enterprises, including AAA NCNU, Constant Contact, Falck, Hootsuite, Pitney Bowes, Audi, Adobe, Telekom Denmark, Philips, Roku, and VMware, Aria helps enterprises grow their recurring revenue businesses. Aria helps clients take advantage of each customer-driven event − known as revenue moments − with agile billing, active customer engagement, and the rapid development of new products and services. With Aria's end-to-end active monetization platform, global brands can get to market faster with a wider variety of products and services, while maximizing customer satisfaction, retention, and lifetime value.

Influitive

Series B in 2015
Influitive Corporation specializes in advocate marketing software solutions tailored for business-to-business (B2B) software and technology firms globally. Its primary product, AdvocateHub, enables companies to create advocate communities that engage customers, partners, and employees in marketing activities such as referrals, reference calls, and product reviews. This platform helps businesses harness customer enthusiasm to enhance their marketing and sales initiatives. AdvocateHub integrates with Salesforce, allowing for seamless tracking of customer engagement. Additionally, Influitive offers consulting services that include coaching and training to assist companies in implementing effective advocate marketing strategies. The AdvocateHub software is accessible through a web portal, with integration options for client websites and mobile access via the Maven app. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Influitive also has offices in Menlo Park, California, and Boston, Massachusetts.

MuleSoft

Series G in 2015
MuleSoft, Inc. is a provider of the Anypoint Platform, a cloud-based application integration solution that enables organizations to connect their applications, data, and devices. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, MuleSoft facilitates the creation of application networks through its flexible platform, which utilizes APIs to enable seamless communication between various systems and applications, whether cloud-based or on-premises. The platform allows customers to build reusable components, simplifying the integration process and promoting business agility. MuleSoft has established a strategic alliance with IQVIA and operates as a subsidiary of Salesforce.

NuoDB

Series B in 2015
NuoDB’s distributed SQL database for cloud applications helps customers get applications to market faster and reduce their total cost of ownership. Software vendors and e-commerce companies rely on NuoDB to obtain the combination of scale-out simplicity, elasticity, and continuous availability that cloud applications require, with the transactional consistency and durability that databases of record demand. As a result, customers can capitalize on modern technologies such as cloud computing and containerization to ensure their applications are ready for today’s evolving expectations, as well as any future requirements. NuoDB is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with offices in Dublin, London, and Sofia.

Birst

Series F in 2015
Birst is the world’s most advanced networked business analytics platform. Organizations can now achieve a new level of trusted insight and decision making by connecting their data and people via a network of analytics services. Birst scales from individuals to the enterprise in a manner that is smarter, more connected, and more scalable than any previous analytics and business intelligence platform. Learn more at www.birst.com and join the conversation @BirstBI.

OptiMine Software

Series C in 2015
OptiMine Software was founded by experienced software executives, including Rob Cooley and Doug Bryan, experts in marketing applications based on data mining. Together they have more than 25 years of experience in e-commerce analytics. It provides intelligent software for advertising optimization. There flagship product, OptiMine Paid Search Bid Management, forecasts the performance of each paid search ad placement each day and automatically sets optimal bids. It is used by leading organizations such as Overstock.com and Wells Fargo and may be implemented in-house, hosted, or as software-as-a-service (SaaS).

TidalScale

Series A in 2014
TidalScale, Inc. develops software for in-memory applications that binds multiple commodity hardware servers into a unified software virtual machine. It offers TidalScale software-defined servers that represent the next wave of compute. The company’s technology also helps users to configure virtual servers of various sizes, and achieve in-memory performance for the big data workloads. Its solutions include Oracle database, SAP HANA, and data analytics. TidalScale, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Campbell, California with additional offices in Seoul, South Korea; Tokyo, Japan.

Ace Metrix

Series C in 2014
Ace Metrix, Inc. specializes in video creative assessment solutions that deliver in-depth analytics and insights for television and video advertisements. The company provides a range of services, including Ace Metrix PRE, which offers ad pre-testing with both qualitative and quantitative data, and Ace Metrix LIVE, a subscription service that analyzes the impact of digital creative across various platforms. Additionally, Ace Metrix POLITICS measures the effectiveness of political campaign ads, while Ace Metrix VIVA focuses on evaluating Spanish language video ads targeted at U.S. Hispanic consumers. Founded in 2007 and based in El Segundo, California, Ace Metrix serves brands, creative agencies, and publishers, enabling them to optimize their advertising campaigns in real time.

Peerlyst

Seed Round in 2014
Peerlyst, Inc., a social media platform, provides a vendor-independent community of IT professionals and experts. It provides reviews and comments from other Peerlyst users; technical content from vendors; and product-related articles, discussions, files, and videos from the Web. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Kiip

Series B in 2014
Kiip is a rewards network and mobile application that offers rewards from brands and companies for virtual achievements. It has received $15.4 million in total funding to date from Relay Ventures, Interpublic Group, Hummer Winblad, American Express Ventures, Digital Garage, True Ventures, Verizon Ventures, CrossLink Capital, and others. Kiip was Brian Wong, Courtney Guertin, and Amadeus Demarzi in 2010.

Flite

Venture Round in 2014
Flite is a creative management platform that powers creatives and marketers from top-tier brands, agencies, and publishers. Its platform gives creative professionals the power to design visually stunning ads on live, interactive canvases, while giving marketers the ability to launch, manage, measure and optimize digital ad campaigns in real-time, at scale, all in one seamless experience. Founded in 2006, Flite builds innovative technology to power creativity. Flite is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York City and Chicago and is backed by Sequoia Capital, HWVP, General Catalyst Venture Partners, Conde Nast, Iris Capital, and Harrison Metal.

MuleSoft

Series F in 2014
MuleSoft, Inc. is a provider of the Anypoint Platform, a cloud-based application integration solution that enables organizations to connect their applications, data, and devices. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, MuleSoft facilitates the creation of application networks through its flexible platform, which utilizes APIs to enable seamless communication between various systems and applications, whether cloud-based or on-premises. The platform allows customers to build reusable components, simplifying the integration process and promoting business agility. MuleSoft has established a strategic alliance with IQVIA and operates as a subsidiary of Salesforce.

NuoDB

Series B in 2014
NuoDB’s distributed SQL database for cloud applications helps customers get applications to market faster and reduce their total cost of ownership. Software vendors and e-commerce companies rely on NuoDB to obtain the combination of scale-out simplicity, elasticity, and continuous availability that cloud applications require, with the transactional consistency and durability that databases of record demand. As a result, customers can capitalize on modern technologies such as cloud computing and containerization to ensure their applications are ready for today’s evolving expectations, as well as any future requirements. NuoDB is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with offices in Dublin, London, and Sofia.

Domo

Series C in 2014
Domo, Inc. operates a cloud-based platform in the United States. Its platform digitally connects from the chief executive officer to the frontline employee with the people, data, and systems in an organization, giving them access to real-time data and insights, and allowing them to manage business from smartphones. The company was formerly known as Domo Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Domo, Inc. in December 2011. Domo, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in American Fork, Utah.

PLUMgrid

Series B in 2014
PLUMgrid is pioneering new innovations in virtual networking and SDN/NFV to deliver cloud infrastructure solutions that transform businesses everywhere. Recognized by multiple industry awards for best for shows and Top 100 in the data center and cloud categories, PLUMgrid is one of the hottest start-ups in Silicon Valley with thought-leading R&D, marketing, and sales talent. Founded in 2011 by industry veterans in networking, software, and semi-conductor, PLUMgrid is privately held and headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA with locations in the US, Europe, and Asia. Backed by top-tier venture capital firms, PLUMgrid is growing rapidly and expanding its global presence.

Piston Cloud Computing

Series B in 2014
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. provides Piston OpenStack, a software that automates the orchestration of a private cloud environment on commodity servers. The company also provides assistance services in planning, systems integration, and operations design; software update services; and online and customized training services for application developers, cloud operators, and cloud administrators. It serves companies building Web, mobile, and big data applications; and financial services organizations, medical research labs, service providers, and federal government agencies worldwide. Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of June 12, 2015, Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc.

OptiMine Software

Series B in 2014
OptiMine Software was founded by experienced software executives, including Rob Cooley and Doug Bryan, experts in marketing applications based on data mining. Together they have more than 25 years of experience in e-commerce analytics. It provides intelligent software for advertising optimization. There flagship product, OptiMine Paid Search Bid Management, forecasts the performance of each paid search ad placement each day and automatically sets optimal bids. It is used by leading organizations such as Overstock.com and Wells Fargo and may be implemented in-house, hosted, or as software-as-a-service (SaaS).

PLUMgrid

Venture Round in 2013
PLUMgrid is pioneering new innovations in virtual networking and SDN/NFV to deliver cloud infrastructure solutions that transform businesses everywhere. Recognized by multiple industry awards for best for shows and Top 100 in the data center and cloud categories, PLUMgrid is one of the hottest start-ups in Silicon Valley with thought-leading R&D, marketing, and sales talent. Founded in 2011 by industry veterans in networking, software, and semi-conductor, PLUMgrid is privately held and headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA with locations in the US, Europe, and Asia. Backed by top-tier venture capital firms, PLUMgrid is growing rapidly and expanding its global presence.

Aria Systems

Series D in 2013
Proven by the world's most demanding enterprises, including AAA NCNU, Constant Contact, Falck, Hootsuite, Pitney Bowes, Audi, Adobe, Telekom Denmark, Philips, Roku, and VMware, Aria helps enterprises grow their recurring revenue businesses. Aria helps clients take advantage of each customer-driven event − known as revenue moments − with agile billing, active customer engagement, and the rapid development of new products and services. With Aria's end-to-end active monetization platform, global brands can get to market faster with a wider variety of products and services, while maximizing customer satisfaction, retention, and lifetime value.

TidalScale

Seed Round in 2013
TidalScale, Inc. develops software for in-memory applications that binds multiple commodity hardware servers into a unified software virtual machine. It offers TidalScale software-defined servers that represent the next wave of compute. The company’s technology also helps users to configure virtual servers of various sizes, and achieve in-memory performance for the big data workloads. Its solutions include Oracle database, SAP HANA, and data analytics. TidalScale, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Campbell, California with additional offices in Seoul, South Korea; Tokyo, Japan.

Karmasphere

Series C in 2013
Karmasphere unlocks the business potential of Hadoop so companies can deliver more personalized and relevant products and experiences to their customers. The Karmasphere Collaborative Analytics Workspace brings the power of data science to business analysts using SQL and automated big data workflow including data ingestion, data cleansing, table provisioning and running and scheduling queries in a self-service model without reliance on IT. Its social, web-based interface allows everyone who works with big data to more easily collaborate and share resources. Open and based on Apache Hadoop standards, Karmasphere leverages existing analytic skills, integrates with traditional BI and existing applications and supports leading Hadoop distributions including: Amazon Elastic Map Reduce, Cloudera, HortonWorks, IBM and MapR Technologies. Learn more at http://www.karmasphere.com

Birst

Series E in 2013
Birst is the world’s most advanced networked business analytics platform. Organizations can now achieve a new level of trusted insight and decision making by connecting their data and people via a network of analytics services. Birst scales from individuals to the enterprise in a manner that is smarter, more connected, and more scalable than any previous analytics and business intelligence platform. Learn more at www.birst.com and join the conversation @BirstBI.

Five9

Series D in 2013
Five9, Inc. is a prominent provider of cloud software tailored for contact centers, offering solutions that enhance customer service, sales, and marketing functions. Established in 2001 and headquartered in San Ramon, California, Five9 enables organizations to manage customer interactions across multiple channels, including voice, chat, email, social media, and mobile, all within a unified platform. This capability allows clients to optimize the end-to-end customer experience by connecting them with the appropriate agents. The company also offers management applications focused on workforce management, reporting, quality assurance, and supervisor tools. Five9 serves a diverse range of industries, including banking, healthcare, and technology, and facilitates approximately three billion customer interactions annually. Its strategic partnerships, such as with Deloitte Digital, further enhance its ability to deliver transformative cloud contact center solutions.

Innovative Leisure

Series A in 2013
Innovative Leisure is a mobile gaming company started by Seamus Blackley (co-creator of Xbox) and his partner Van Burnham (Wired). They have recruited a team of veteran game designers from the “golden age” of Atari in the 1980s and 1970s. Their plan is to create games for the “new arcade” on iOS (iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch) devices. They include Ed Rotberg, the creator of the classic Atari game Battlezone; Owen Rubin, the creator of Major Havoc and Space Duel; Rich Adam, the creator of Gravitar and codeveloper of Missile Command; Ed Logg, the co-creator of Asteroids and Centipede; Dennis Koble, the creator of Touch Me and Shooting Gallery; Tim Skelly, the only non-Atari veteran arcade game designer who worked for Cinematronics and created games such as Rip-Off; and Bruce Merrit, the creator of Black Widow.

6connect

Series A in 2013
6connect, Inc. specializes in network automation solutions tailored for enterprises, content providers, and service providers. Founded in 2009 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company offers a suite of tools including an Internet Protocol Address Manager and a DNS/DHCP management module, which facilitate the management of both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and zone records. Their flagship platform, ProVision, features Dynamic Network Provisioning (DNP), enabling the discovery, configuration, and control of both physical and virtual devices across various networks and cloud environments. This platform assists clients in accelerating service delivery, managing complex network protocols, and reducing operational costs. Additionally, 6connect provides training and implementation services for IPv6. Among its clientele are notable companies like PCCW, CrownCastle, and Zayo, all of which leverage 6connect's solutions to enhance network efficiency and compliance.

MuleSoft

Series E in 2013
MuleSoft, Inc. is a provider of the Anypoint Platform, a cloud-based application integration solution that enables organizations to connect their applications, data, and devices. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, MuleSoft facilitates the creation of application networks through its flexible platform, which utilizes APIs to enable seamless communication between various systems and applications, whether cloud-based or on-premises. The platform allows customers to build reusable components, simplifying the integration process and promoting business agility. MuleSoft has established a strategic alliance with IQVIA and operates as a subsidiary of Salesforce.

Piston Cloud Computing

Series B in 2013
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. provides Piston OpenStack, a software that automates the orchestration of a private cloud environment on commodity servers. The company also provides assistance services in planning, systems integration, and operations design; software update services; and online and customized training services for application developers, cloud operators, and cloud administrators. It serves companies building Web, mobile, and big data applications; and financial services organizations, medical research labs, service providers, and federal government agencies worldwide. Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of June 12, 2015, Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc.

Influitive

Series A in 2012
Influitive Corporation specializes in advocate marketing software solutions tailored for business-to-business (B2B) software and technology firms globally. Its primary product, AdvocateHub, enables companies to create advocate communities that engage customers, partners, and employees in marketing activities such as referrals, reference calls, and product reviews. This platform helps businesses harness customer enthusiasm to enhance their marketing and sales initiatives. AdvocateHub integrates with Salesforce, allowing for seamless tracking of customer engagement. Additionally, Influitive offers consulting services that include coaching and training to assist companies in implementing effective advocate marketing strategies. The AdvocateHub software is accessible through a web portal, with integration options for client websites and mobile access via the Maven app. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Influitive also has offices in Menlo Park, California, and Boston, Massachusetts.

Karmasphere

Series C in 2012
Karmasphere unlocks the business potential of Hadoop so companies can deliver more personalized and relevant products and experiences to their customers. The Karmasphere Collaborative Analytics Workspace brings the power of data science to business analysts using SQL and automated big data workflow including data ingestion, data cleansing, table provisioning and running and scheduling queries in a self-service model without reliance on IT. Its social, web-based interface allows everyone who works with big data to more easily collaborate and share resources. Open and based on Apache Hadoop standards, Karmasphere leverages existing analytic skills, integrates with traditional BI and existing applications and supports leading Hadoop distributions including: Amazon Elastic Map Reduce, Cloudera, HortonWorks, IBM and MapR Technologies. Learn more at http://www.karmasphere.com

PLUMgrid

Series A in 2012
PLUMgrid is pioneering new innovations in virtual networking and SDN/NFV to deliver cloud infrastructure solutions that transform businesses everywhere. Recognized by multiple industry awards for best for shows and Top 100 in the data center and cloud categories, PLUMgrid is one of the hottest start-ups in Silicon Valley with thought-leading R&D, marketing, and sales talent. Founded in 2011 by industry veterans in networking, software, and semi-conductor, PLUMgrid is privately held and headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA with locations in the US, Europe, and Asia. Backed by top-tier venture capital firms, PLUMgrid is growing rapidly and expanding its global presence.

Innovative Leisure

Series A in 2012
Innovative Leisure is a mobile gaming company started by Seamus Blackley (co-creator of Xbox) and his partner Van Burnham (Wired). They have recruited a team of veteran game designers from the “golden age” of Atari in the 1980s and 1970s. Their plan is to create games for the “new arcade” on iOS (iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch) devices. They include Ed Rotberg, the creator of the classic Atari game Battlezone; Owen Rubin, the creator of Major Havoc and Space Duel; Rich Adam, the creator of Gravitar and codeveloper of Missile Command; Ed Logg, the co-creator of Asteroids and Centipede; Dennis Koble, the creator of Touch Me and Shooting Gallery; Tim Skelly, the only non-Atari veteran arcade game designer who worked for Cinematronics and created games such as Rip-Off; and Bruce Merrit, the creator of Black Widow.

Kiip

Series B in 2012
Kiip is a rewards network and mobile application that offers rewards from brands and companies for virtual achievements. It has received $15.4 million in total funding to date from Relay Ventures, Interpublic Group, Hummer Winblad, American Express Ventures, Digital Garage, True Ventures, Verizon Ventures, CrossLink Capital, and others. Kiip was Brian Wong, Courtney Guertin, and Amadeus Demarzi in 2010.

Sonatype

Series C in 2012
Sonatype, Inc. specializes in software supply chain automation solutions aimed at enhancing the security and efficiency of software development. The company's flagship product, Nexus Lifecycle, enables organizations to manage the flow of software components by defining rules and policies. Additionally, Nexus Firewall protects against the introduction of risky components, while Nexus Auditor monitors applications in production to ensure ongoing compliance. The Nexus Repository serves as a platform for organizing, storing, and distributing software components, and Nexus Repository OSS facilitates caching of remote repositories to reduce latency. Sonatype caters to various industries, including finance, government, technology, insurance, healthcare, and manufacturing, and has established a strategic partnership with Fugue. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Fulton, Maryland, Sonatype also maintains offices in McLean, Virginia; London, United Kingdom; and Sydney, Australia. The company's commitment to open source software development is evident in its contributions to projects like Apache Maven and the Central repository.

NuoDB

Series B in 2012
NuoDB’s distributed SQL database for cloud applications helps customers get applications to market faster and reduce their total cost of ownership. Software vendors and e-commerce companies rely on NuoDB to obtain the combination of scale-out simplicity, elasticity, and continuous availability that cloud applications require, with the transactional consistency and durability that databases of record demand. As a result, customers can capitalize on modern technologies such as cloud computing and containerization to ensure their applications are ready for today’s evolving expectations, as well as any future requirements. NuoDB is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with offices in Dublin, London, and Sofia.

Flite

Venture Round in 2012
Flite is a creative management platform that powers creatives and marketers from top-tier brands, agencies, and publishers. Its platform gives creative professionals the power to design visually stunning ads on live, interactive canvases, while giving marketers the ability to launch, manage, measure and optimize digital ad campaigns in real-time, at scale, all in one seamless experience. Founded in 2006, Flite builds innovative technology to power creativity. Flite is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York City and Chicago and is backed by Sequoia Capital, HWVP, General Catalyst Venture Partners, Conde Nast, Iris Capital, and Harrison Metal.

Ace Metrix

Series C in 2012
Ace Metrix, Inc. specializes in video creative assessment solutions that deliver in-depth analytics and insights for television and video advertisements. The company provides a range of services, including Ace Metrix PRE, which offers ad pre-testing with both qualitative and quantitative data, and Ace Metrix LIVE, a subscription service that analyzes the impact of digital creative across various platforms. Additionally, Ace Metrix POLITICS measures the effectiveness of political campaign ads, while Ace Metrix VIVA focuses on evaluating Spanish language video ads targeted at U.S. Hispanic consumers. Founded in 2007 and based in El Segundo, California, Ace Metrix serves brands, creative agencies, and publishers, enabling them to optimize their advertising campaigns in real time.

MuleSoft

Series D in 2012
MuleSoft, Inc. is a provider of the Anypoint Platform, a cloud-based application integration solution that enables organizations to connect their applications, data, and devices. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, MuleSoft facilitates the creation of application networks through its flexible platform, which utilizes APIs to enable seamless communication between various systems and applications, whether cloud-based or on-premises. The platform allows customers to build reusable components, simplifying the integration process and promoting business agility. MuleSoft has established a strategic alliance with IQVIA and operates as a subsidiary of Salesforce.

Birst

Series D in 2012
Birst is the world’s most advanced networked business analytics platform. Organizations can now achieve a new level of trusted insight and decision making by connecting their data and people via a network of analytics services. Birst scales from individuals to the enterprise in a manner that is smarter, more connected, and more scalable than any previous analytics and business intelligence platform. Learn more at www.birst.com and join the conversation @BirstBI.

Five9

Venture Round in 2012
Five9, Inc. is a prominent provider of cloud software tailored for contact centers, offering solutions that enhance customer service, sales, and marketing functions. Established in 2001 and headquartered in San Ramon, California, Five9 enables organizations to manage customer interactions across multiple channels, including voice, chat, email, social media, and mobile, all within a unified platform. This capability allows clients to optimize the end-to-end customer experience by connecting them with the appropriate agents. The company also offers management applications focused on workforce management, reporting, quality assurance, and supervisor tools. Five9 serves a diverse range of industries, including banking, healthcare, and technology, and facilitates approximately three billion customer interactions annually. Its strategic partnerships, such as with Deloitte Digital, further enhance its ability to deliver transformative cloud contact center solutions.

Domo

Series A in 2012
Domo, Inc. operates a cloud-based platform in the United States. Its platform digitally connects from the chief executive officer to the frontline employee with the people, data, and systems in an organization, giving them access to real-time data and insights, and allowing them to manage business from smartphones. The company was formerly known as Domo Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Domo, Inc. in December 2011. Domo, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in American Fork, Utah.

OptiMine Software

Series B in 2011
OptiMine Software was founded by experienced software executives, including Rob Cooley and Doug Bryan, experts in marketing applications based on data mining. Together they have more than 25 years of experience in e-commerce analytics. It provides intelligent software for advertising optimization. There flagship product, OptiMine Paid Search Bid Management, forecasts the performance of each paid search ad placement each day and automatically sets optimal bids. It is used by leading organizations such as Overstock.com and Wells Fargo and may be implemented in-house, hosted, or as software-as-a-service (SaaS).

Karmasphere

Series B in 2011
Karmasphere unlocks the business potential of Hadoop so companies can deliver more personalized and relevant products and experiences to their customers. The Karmasphere Collaborative Analytics Workspace brings the power of data science to business analysts using SQL and automated big data workflow including data ingestion, data cleansing, table provisioning and running and scheduling queries in a self-service model without reliance on IT. Its social, web-based interface allows everyone who works with big data to more easily collaborate and share resources. Open and based on Apache Hadoop standards, Karmasphere leverages existing analytic skills, integrates with traditional BI and existing applications and supports leading Hadoop distributions including: Amazon Elastic Map Reduce, Cloudera, HortonWorks, IBM and MapR Technologies. Learn more at http://www.karmasphere.com

6connect

Series A in 2011
6connect, Inc. specializes in network automation solutions tailored for enterprises, content providers, and service providers. Founded in 2009 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company offers a suite of tools including an Internet Protocol Address Manager and a DNS/DHCP management module, which facilitate the management of both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and zone records. Their flagship platform, ProVision, features Dynamic Network Provisioning (DNP), enabling the discovery, configuration, and control of both physical and virtual devices across various networks and cloud environments. This platform assists clients in accelerating service delivery, managing complex network protocols, and reducing operational costs. Additionally, 6connect provides training and implementation services for IPv6. Among its clientele are notable companies like PCCW, CrownCastle, and Zayo, all of which leverage 6connect's solutions to enhance network efficiency and compliance.

Piston Cloud Computing

Series A in 2011
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. provides Piston OpenStack, a software that automates the orchestration of a private cloud environment on commodity servers. The company also provides assistance services in planning, systems integration, and operations design; software update services; and online and customized training services for application developers, cloud operators, and cloud administrators. It serves companies building Web, mobile, and big data applications; and financial services organizations, medical research labs, service providers, and federal government agencies worldwide. Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of June 12, 2015, Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc.

Kiip

Series A in 2011
Kiip is a rewards network and mobile application that offers rewards from brands and companies for virtual achievements. It has received $15.4 million in total funding to date from Relay Ventures, Interpublic Group, Hummer Winblad, American Express Ventures, Digital Garage, True Ventures, Verizon Ventures, CrossLink Capital, and others. Kiip was Brian Wong, Courtney Guertin, and Amadeus Demarzi in 2010.

Flite

Series C in 2011
Flite is a creative management platform that powers creatives and marketers from top-tier brands, agencies, and publishers. Its platform gives creative professionals the power to design visually stunning ads on live, interactive canvases, while giving marketers the ability to launch, manage, measure and optimize digital ad campaigns in real-time, at scale, all in one seamless experience. Founded in 2006, Flite builds innovative technology to power creativity. Flite is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York City and Chicago and is backed by Sequoia Capital, HWVP, General Catalyst Venture Partners, Conde Nast, Iris Capital, and Harrison Metal.

Aria Systems

Series C in 2011
Proven by the world's most demanding enterprises, including AAA NCNU, Constant Contact, Falck, Hootsuite, Pitney Bowes, Audi, Adobe, Telekom Denmark, Philips, Roku, and VMware, Aria helps enterprises grow their recurring revenue businesses. Aria helps clients take advantage of each customer-driven event − known as revenue moments − with agile billing, active customer engagement, and the rapid development of new products and services. With Aria's end-to-end active monetization platform, global brands can get to market faster with a wider variety of products and services, while maximizing customer satisfaction, retention, and lifetime value.

Crowd Factory

Series A in 2011
Crowd Factory is a social marketing platform that helps companies significantly increase the effectiveness of their marketing initiatives with powerful social marketing amplifiers. The platform consists of 3 primary components: 1) A complete suite of social marketing apps such as CrowdShare Widgets, Social Sweepstakes and Contests, Polls, Voting, Group Offers and Flash Deals 2) Powerful analytics and dashboards that give you the ability to see what is and isn’t working so you can easily test, measure, refine and repeat marketing programs 3) And a Social Database that accumulates in the background as the influencers and their social networks interact with your company. Crowd Factory's social amplifiers work across all online channels, including major social networks like Facebook, email, landing pages, display ads and more. Their innovative applications enable companies of all sizes to dramatically increase new customer acquisition, drive loyalty and engagement, and amplify brand awareness. Customers include leading B2B and B2C companies such as HBO, Universal, Billboard, The Golf Channel, Sony and McAfee.

Five9

Series C in 2011
Five9, Inc. is a prominent provider of cloud software tailored for contact centers, offering solutions that enhance customer service, sales, and marketing functions. Established in 2001 and headquartered in San Ramon, California, Five9 enables organizations to manage customer interactions across multiple channels, including voice, chat, email, social media, and mobile, all within a unified platform. This capability allows clients to optimize the end-to-end customer experience by connecting them with the appropriate agents. The company also offers management applications focused on workforce management, reporting, quality assurance, and supervisor tools. Five9 serves a diverse range of industries, including banking, healthcare, and technology, and facilitates approximately three billion customer interactions annually. Its strategic partnerships, such as with Deloitte Digital, further enhance its ability to deliver transformative cloud contact center solutions.

Baynote

Venture Round in 2011
Baynote specializes in retail personalization software that utilizes a smart data hub to analyze both historical data and real-time consumer behavior. This technology enables the creation of comprehensive profiles for consumers across various devices, allowing retailers to deliver highly personalized experiences. By leveraging big data and predictive intelligence, Baynote assists retailers in crafting relevant interactions tailored to individual preferences. The company's innovative solutions have been adopted by numerous retailers globally, helping them enhance their brand experiences and improve customer engagement. Through its focus on individualized commerce, Baynote aims to transform the retail landscape by fostering deeper connections between brands and consumers.

Strobe

Series A in 2010
Strobe Inc. provides software and cloud services for touch-centric applications on the web. Based on a blend of technologies, like native, HTML5 and SproutCore, Strobe apps offer a high-quality native-style user experience across devices.

NuoDB

Series A in 2010
NuoDB’s distributed SQL database for cloud applications helps customers get applications to market faster and reduce their total cost of ownership. Software vendors and e-commerce companies rely on NuoDB to obtain the combination of scale-out simplicity, elasticity, and continuous availability that cloud applications require, with the transactional consistency and durability that databases of record demand. As a result, customers can capitalize on modern technologies such as cloud computing and containerization to ensure their applications are ready for today’s evolving expectations, as well as any future requirements. NuoDB is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with offices in Dublin, London, and Sofia.

Sonatype

Series B in 2010
Sonatype, Inc. specializes in software supply chain automation solutions aimed at enhancing the security and efficiency of software development. The company's flagship product, Nexus Lifecycle, enables organizations to manage the flow of software components by defining rules and policies. Additionally, Nexus Firewall protects against the introduction of risky components, while Nexus Auditor monitors applications in production to ensure ongoing compliance. The Nexus Repository serves as a platform for organizing, storing, and distributing software components, and Nexus Repository OSS facilitates caching of remote repositories to reduce latency. Sonatype caters to various industries, including finance, government, technology, insurance, healthcare, and manufacturing, and has established a strategic partnership with Fugue. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Fulton, Maryland, Sonatype also maintains offices in McLean, Virginia; London, United Kingdom; and Sydney, Australia. The company's commitment to open source software development is evident in its contributions to projects like Apache Maven and the Central repository.

Ace Metrix

Venture Round in 2010
Ace Metrix, Inc. specializes in video creative assessment solutions that deliver in-depth analytics and insights for television and video advertisements. The company provides a range of services, including Ace Metrix PRE, which offers ad pre-testing with both qualitative and quantitative data, and Ace Metrix LIVE, a subscription service that analyzes the impact of digital creative across various platforms. Additionally, Ace Metrix POLITICS measures the effectiveness of political campaign ads, while Ace Metrix VIVA focuses on evaluating Spanish language video ads targeted at U.S. Hispanic consumers. Founded in 2007 and based in El Segundo, California, Ace Metrix serves brands, creative agencies, and publishers, enabling them to optimize their advertising campaigns in real time.

MuleSoft

Series C in 2010
MuleSoft, Inc. is a provider of the Anypoint Platform, a cloud-based application integration solution that enables organizations to connect their applications, data, and devices. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, MuleSoft facilitates the creation of application networks through its flexible platform, which utilizes APIs to enable seamless communication between various systems and applications, whether cloud-based or on-premises. The platform allows customers to build reusable components, simplifying the integration process and promoting business agility. MuleSoft has established a strategic alliance with IQVIA and operates as a subsidiary of Salesforce.

Karmasphere

Series A in 2010
Karmasphere unlocks the business potential of Hadoop so companies can deliver more personalized and relevant products and experiences to their customers. The Karmasphere Collaborative Analytics Workspace brings the power of data science to business analysts using SQL and automated big data workflow including data ingestion, data cleansing, table provisioning and running and scheduling queries in a self-service model without reliance on IT. Its social, web-based interface allows everyone who works with big data to more easily collaborate and share resources. Open and based on Apache Hadoop standards, Karmasphere leverages existing analytic skills, integrates with traditional BI and existing applications and supports leading Hadoop distributions including: Amazon Elastic Map Reduce, Cloudera, HortonWorks, IBM and MapR Technologies. Learn more at http://www.karmasphere.com

Evostor

Series A in 2010
EvoStor is pioneering development of a new generation of storage systems purpose-built for the challenging requirements of virtual infrastructure. Storage vendors have tried to add capabilities to legacy products to address the challenges introduced by virtualization. Just adding features is not enough. EvoStor delivers innovative new technology to fully integrate with virtualization systems and management tools so they are simple to deploy and manage while providing enterprise class functionality.

Ace Metrix

Series B in 2009
Ace Metrix, Inc. specializes in video creative assessment solutions that deliver in-depth analytics and insights for television and video advertisements. The company provides a range of services, including Ace Metrix PRE, which offers ad pre-testing with both qualitative and quantitative data, and Ace Metrix LIVE, a subscription service that analyzes the impact of digital creative across various platforms. Additionally, Ace Metrix POLITICS measures the effectiveness of political campaign ads, while Ace Metrix VIVA focuses on evaluating Spanish language video ads targeted at U.S. Hispanic consumers. Founded in 2007 and based in El Segundo, California, Ace Metrix serves brands, creative agencies, and publishers, enabling them to optimize their advertising campaigns in real time.

Pancetera

Series A in 2009
Pancetera reduces virtual storage complexity and cost. Pancetera's virtual appliance reduces I/O and cost of storage for virtual environments. This can include improvements in performance, reduced resource contention, and lowered cost per VM. The company is composed of ex-Data Domain, Legato, and Thinstall executives.

Sonatype

Series A in 2009
Sonatype, Inc. specializes in software supply chain automation solutions aimed at enhancing the security and efficiency of software development. The company's flagship product, Nexus Lifecycle, enables organizations to manage the flow of software components by defining rules and policies. Additionally, Nexus Firewall protects against the introduction of risky components, while Nexus Auditor monitors applications in production to ensure ongoing compliance. The Nexus Repository serves as a platform for organizing, storing, and distributing software components, and Nexus Repository OSS facilitates caching of remote repositories to reduce latency. Sonatype caters to various industries, including finance, government, technology, insurance, healthcare, and manufacturing, and has established a strategic partnership with Fugue. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Fulton, Maryland, Sonatype also maintains offices in McLean, Virginia; London, United Kingdom; and Sydney, Australia. The company's commitment to open source software development is evident in its contributions to projects like Apache Maven and the Central repository.

SlideRocket

Series B in 2009
Online presentation platform that allows users to create, manage, share and measure presentations

VKernel Corporation

Series B in 2009
VKernel was acquired by Quest Software in 2011. With Dell's acquistion of Quest in September 2012, VKernel is now a part of Dell. Founded in 2007, VKernel Corporation established itself as a leading provider of performance and capacity management products for VMware and Microsoft virtualized infrastructures. VKernel products simplify the complex and critical tasks of planning and predicting capacity utilization and performance bottlenecks. Used by over 50,000 system administrators, the products have proven their ability to maximize capacity utilization, reduce virtualization costs and improve application performance. Led by an experienced and proven management team, VKernel is well-positioned to address the growing demand and opportunity for performance and capacity management solutions for virtualized and cloud environments. The company has operations in the US and in Europe and sells its products directly or through a network of worldwide distribution and reseller partners.

Aria Systems

Series B in 2008
Proven by the world's most demanding enterprises, including AAA NCNU, Constant Contact, Falck, Hootsuite, Pitney Bowes, Audi, Adobe, Telekom Denmark, Philips, Roku, and VMware, Aria helps enterprises grow their recurring revenue businesses. Aria helps clients take advantage of each customer-driven event − known as revenue moments − with agile billing, active customer engagement, and the rapid development of new products and services. With Aria's end-to-end active monetization platform, global brands can get to market faster with a wider variety of products and services, while maximizing customer satisfaction, retention, and lifetime value.

Crowd Factory

Series A in 2008
Crowd Factory is a social marketing platform that helps companies significantly increase the effectiveness of their marketing initiatives with powerful social marketing amplifiers. The platform consists of 3 primary components: 1) A complete suite of social marketing apps such as CrowdShare Widgets, Social Sweepstakes and Contests, Polls, Voting, Group Offers and Flash Deals 2) Powerful analytics and dashboards that give you the ability to see what is and isn’t working so you can easily test, measure, refine and repeat marketing programs 3) And a Social Database that accumulates in the background as the influencers and their social networks interact with your company. Crowd Factory's social amplifiers work across all online channels, including major social networks like Facebook, email, landing pages, display ads and more. Their innovative applications enable companies of all sizes to dramatically increase new customer acquisition, drive loyalty and engagement, and amplify brand awareness. Customers include leading B2B and B2C companies such as HBO, Universal, Billboard, The Golf Channel, Sony and McAfee.

Evostor

Series A in 2008
EvoStor is pioneering development of a new generation of storage systems purpose-built for the challenging requirements of virtual infrastructure. Storage vendors have tried to add capabilities to legacy products to address the challenges introduced by virtualization. Just adding features is not enough. EvoStor delivers innovative new technology to fully integrate with virtualization systems and management tools so they are simple to deploy and manage while providing enterprise class functionality.

InMage Systems

Series C in 2008
InMage Systems, founded in 2001 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is a software vendor specializing in disk-based and scalable business application recovery solutions. The company focuses on helping enterprises meet rigorous disaster recovery requirements and manage application uptime to ensure high availability. InMage's solutions are designed to provide effective data protection for rapidly growing data environments, eliminating the need for traditional backups, reducing data loss during recovery, and enhancing recovery times and reliability in diverse environments. With six patent-pending technologies, InMage differentiates itself from competitors, attracting a loyal customer base and growing its market share. The company also has engineering operations based in Hyderabad, India.

Elastra

Series B in 2008
[Elastra](http://www.elastra.com) provides cloud-based computing services. Companies can access virtual hardware environments with scalable database and infrastructure services. Pricing is variable based on usage of Elastra's resources.

Ace Metrix

Series A in 2008
Ace Metrix, Inc. specializes in video creative assessment solutions that deliver in-depth analytics and insights for television and video advertisements. The company provides a range of services, including Ace Metrix PRE, which offers ad pre-testing with both qualitative and quantitative data, and Ace Metrix LIVE, a subscription service that analyzes the impact of digital creative across various platforms. Additionally, Ace Metrix POLITICS measures the effectiveness of political campaign ads, while Ace Metrix VIVA focuses on evaluating Spanish language video ads targeted at U.S. Hispanic consumers. Founded in 2007 and based in El Segundo, California, Ace Metrix serves brands, creative agencies, and publishers, enabling them to optimize their advertising campaigns in real time.

Sonatype

Series A in 2008
Sonatype, Inc. specializes in software supply chain automation solutions aimed at enhancing the security and efficiency of software development. The company's flagship product, Nexus Lifecycle, enables organizations to manage the flow of software components by defining rules and policies. Additionally, Nexus Firewall protects against the introduction of risky components, while Nexus Auditor monitors applications in production to ensure ongoing compliance. The Nexus Repository serves as a platform for organizing, storing, and distributing software components, and Nexus Repository OSS facilitates caching of remote repositories to reduce latency. Sonatype caters to various industries, including finance, government, technology, insurance, healthcare, and manufacturing, and has established a strategic partnership with Fugue. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Fulton, Maryland, Sonatype also maintains offices in McLean, Virginia; London, United Kingdom; and Sydney, Australia. The company's commitment to open source software development is evident in its contributions to projects like Apache Maven and the Central repository.