Inventures Group

Inventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 1998. The firm specializes in seed and early-stage investments, focusing primarily on technology sector companies, particularly those involved in internet software and software-as-a-service (SaaS) models. Inventures Group does not invest in hardware companies or utilize external funds, relying solely on its own capital for investments. The firm typically invests between $0.025 million and $0.25 million in companies with an enterprise value of less than $5 million, often using convertible notes for pre-venture stage investments. While it primarily targets companies based in the Bay Area, it occasionally engages in consumer-facing projects. Inventures Group actively participates in its portfolio companies by taking board seats and co-investing with other venture capital firms, thereby providing a hands-on approach to support and guidance.

Kathy Beal

CFO

16 past transactions

Content Analytics

Series A in 2017
Content Analytics is an e-commerce optimization platform for brands. The company's machine-learning based item optimization platform helps brands get found among the more than 1 Billion SKUs now available online. Brands can store and catalog content, syndicate it to retailers and optimize their business to increase sales. Investors include Almaz Capital, Joe Schoendorf and Nancy Schoendorf, Eric Hahn, Cameron Myhrvold, Visionnaire Ventures and Zetta Venture Partners.

Imperva

Series A in 2015
Imperva provides activity monitoring, real-time protection, and risk management solutions for critical business data and applications. Imperva is a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions that protect business-critical data and applications in the cloud and on-premises It was founded by Shlomo Kramer, Amichai Shulman and Mickey Boodaei in 2002 and is based in Redwood Shores, California.

Breezeworks

Series A in 2014
Breezeworks Corporation provides a mobile application that turns smartphones into business management tools. It offers a Breeze that enables the users to put them in control of their business by updating their arrival time and reminding their customers to schedule follow-up works. The company's solution also enables the users to store job notes and photos, and share various things with the customers. They build products that improve their quality of life and help them serve their customers better. It also allows independent service professionals to run their business entirely from their smartphone. It connects on-site service providers and customers with its smartphone business manager apps, and schedule appointments, manage jobs, collect payments, eliminate no shows, navigate traffic, capture repeat business, follow up with customers and connect with suppliers. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Wit.ai

Seed Round in 2014
Wit.ai makes it easy for developers to build a Siri-like speech interface for their app or device. It's an API that turns natural language (speech or messages) into actionable data. Wit.ai is a Y Combinator company based in Palo Alto, CA.

Stitch

Seed Round in 2014
Stitch helps salespeople close more deals and be more responsive. They are building the best mobile-first, sales productivity platform. Their first product is a mobile email application for salespeople. With Stitch, salespeople can communicate faster by having the right information, insights, and tools at their fingertips. In today’s highly competitive world, they believe it’s not only possible, it’s essential, to be as effective and responsive on the go as when sitting in front of a desk. In sales, being responsive means delivering immediate and complete answers to prospects’ questions. They enable salespeople to respond NOW, not later, to every mobile email.

ClearSlide

Series C in 2014
ClearSlide is a system of engagement that makes customer interaction. They deliver a sales engagement platform that integrates content, communications, and actionable insights to improve business results. They provide solutions for communication, financial services, insurance, healthcare, technology, education, travel, and retail industries.

Hall

Series A in 2013
Hall (formerly CompanyLine) helps teams and companies communicate in real-time. Our all-in-one unified communications app has everything your company needs to communicate and get things done. Hall was part of **[AngelPad](http://angelpad.org) #4** in 2012.

Prevoty

Seed Round in 2013
DevOps-oriented application security solution.

Layer0

Series B in 2013
Layer0 is a software development company that develops website frontends. They build a platform that enables sub-second speeds for database-driven sites to manage frontends. They provide tool delivery times for mobile sites and native applications and drive mobile conversion rates.

VMware/ Bitnami

Seed Round in 2013
Bitnami is a library of popular server applications and development environments that can be installed with one click, either in your laptop, in a virtual machine or hosted in the cloud. They take care of compiling and configuring the applications and all of their dependencies (third-party libraries, language runtimes, databases) so they work out-of-the-box. The resulting packaged software (a 'stack') is then made available as native installers, virtual machines and cloud images. These Bitnami application packages provide a consistent, secure and optimized end-user experience when deploying any app, on any platform. Bitnami-packaged applications are deployed over a million times per month and Bitnami drove over 235 million hours of compute usage in 2015. Bitnami is the leading supplier of applications to the major cloud marketplaces: Amazon, Google, Oracle, Microsoft and VMware, among others.

VirtuOz

Venture Round in 2011
VirtuOz is the leader in Digital Customer Relationships, enabling large and mid-market enterprises to use Intelligent Virtual Agents to provide world-class online marketing, sales, and support channels, ensuring a high quality user experience while improving operational performance. Recognized by the American Business Awards, Best in Biz 2011, Network Products Guide 2012 and Tech Awards Circle, the company’s award winning intelligent virtual agents offer companies a new channel for online self-service that delivers the best possible customer experience at one-tenth the cost of traditional channels. VirtuOz solutions combine best-in-class virtual agent solutions with best practices across agent development, deployment, and optimization to deliver predictable and measurable results. Intelligent virtual agents are predicted to become the new standard for customer interaction in the next few years. VirtuOz leads the market for successful use of intelligent virtual agents, having processed over 166 million conversations on behalf of its customers in 2011 and with the largest number of live enterprise intelligent virtual agents for Global 2000 companies including PayPal, Michelin, SFR, H&R Block, and Symantec. More information about VirtuOz can be found at www.virtuoz.com.

VirtuOz

Series B in 2009
VirtuOz is the leader in Digital Customer Relationships, enabling large and mid-market enterprises to use Intelligent Virtual Agents to provide world-class online marketing, sales, and support channels, ensuring a high quality user experience while improving operational performance. Recognized by the American Business Awards, Best in Biz 2011, Network Products Guide 2012 and Tech Awards Circle, the company’s award winning intelligent virtual agents offer companies a new channel for online self-service that delivers the best possible customer experience at one-tenth the cost of traditional channels. VirtuOz solutions combine best-in-class virtual agent solutions with best practices across agent development, deployment, and optimization to deliver predictable and measurable results. Intelligent virtual agents are predicted to become the new standard for customer interaction in the next few years. VirtuOz leads the market for successful use of intelligent virtual agents, having processed over 166 million conversations on behalf of its customers in 2011 and with the largest number of live enterprise intelligent virtual agents for Global 2000 companies including PayPal, Michelin, SFR, H&R Block, and Symantec. More information about VirtuOz can be found at www.virtuoz.com.

Proofpoint

Series F in 2008
Proofpoint Inc. is a leading next-generation security and compliance company that provides cloud-based solutions to protect the way people work today. Proofpoint solutions enable organizations to protect their users from advanced attacks delivered via email, social media and mobile apps, protect the information their users create from advanced attacks and compliance risks, and respond quickly when incidents occur. Proofpoint provides email security, encryption, archiving and data loss prevention solutions for over 3,000 enterprise-level accounts including global enterprises, universities and government agencies. Proofpoint, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Zimbra

Series C in 2006
Zimbra offers open-source e-mail, address book, calendar, tasks, and collaboration software. The company offers Zimbra Collaboration Server, which provides post-PC email, calendar, and collaboration solutions that solve the challenges faced by organizations mired in legacy communications infrastructure; and Zimbra Desktop, which aggregates information across accounts such as Zimbra, Yahoo Mail, Gmail, and Hotmail. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Frisco, Texas with additional offices in San Mateo, California; London; Tokyo; Singapore; and Pune, India.

Proofpoint

Series E in 2006
Proofpoint Inc. is a leading next-generation security and compliance company that provides cloud-based solutions to protect the way people work today. Proofpoint solutions enable organizations to protect their users from advanced attacks delivered via email, social media and mobile apps, protect the information their users create from advanced attacks and compliance risks, and respond quickly when incidents occur. Proofpoint provides email security, encryption, archiving and data loss prevention solutions for over 3,000 enterprise-level accounts including global enterprises, universities and government agencies. Proofpoint, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Proofpoint

Series C in 2004
Proofpoint Inc. is a leading next-generation security and compliance company that provides cloud-based solutions to protect the way people work today. Proofpoint solutions enable organizations to protect their users from advanced attacks delivered via email, social media and mobile apps, protect the information their users create from advanced attacks and compliance risks, and respond quickly when incidents occur. Proofpoint provides email security, encryption, archiving and data loss prevention solutions for over 3,000 enterprise-level accounts including global enterprises, universities and government agencies. Proofpoint, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.
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