Meritech Capital Partners

Meritech Capital Partners is a California-based venture capital firm, established in 1999, that specializes in investing in late-stage technology companies, particularly in the information and medical technology sectors in North America. The firm distinguishes itself by focusing exclusively on late-stage investments, avoiding the complexities associated with seed funding or pre-IPO rounds. With a streamlined structure, the firm operates with just six partners, who are directly involved in all investment decisions and processes, ensuring efficiency and transparency. Meritech aims to maintain a straightforward approach, emphasizing promptness and clarity in its dealings, without the burdensome layers of junior staff or lengthy approval processes typical of larger funds.

Joel Backman

Chief Operating Officer

George Bischof

General Partner

Alex Clayton

General Partner

Anthony DeCamillo

Partner

Michael B. Gordon

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Aimee He

Partner

Alex Kurland

General Partner

Paul Madera

Co-Founder & General Partner

Max Motschwiller

General Partner

Ashley Paston

Partner

Veronica Santana

Vice President of Finance

Craig Sherman

General Partner & Managing Director

Rob Ward

Co-Founder & General Partner

380 past transactions

Tegile

Series E in 2017
Tegile Systems provides hybrid and all-flash storage arrays for a wide range of enterprise applications. The company flash storage arrays, with patented IntelliFlash architecture, deliver high I/O and low latency for business applications such as databases, server virtualization, and virtual desktops. Its customers achieve business acceleration and unmatched storage capacity reduction. Tegile Systems' mission is to accelerate the transformation of enterprise IT by changing the performance and economics of enterprise storage.

BlueArc

Series D in 2003
BlueArc is a leading provider of high performance unified network storage systems to enterprise markets, as well as data intensive markets, such as electronic discovery, entertainment, federal government, higher education, Internet services, oil and gas and life sciences. Their products support both network attached storage, or NAS, and storage area network, or SAN, services on a converged network storage platform. Aquired by HDS as of September 7th 2011.

Wealthsimple

Venture Round in 2020
Wealthsimple for Advisors is focused on providing simple and insightful, technology-enabled solutions to advisors and financial planners. Wealthsimple provides investment, savings and tax services to more than one million Canadians.

AudienceScience

Series F in 2010
AudienceScience has transformed how global advertisers measurably connect their consumers, data, and media with an easy to use and fully transparent Enterprise Advertising Management system. It specializes in the fields of digital media, advertising platforms, and SaaS. It was founded in 2003 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

Glint

Series D in 2017
Glint is the people success platform that leverages real-time people data to help global organizations increase employee engagement, develop their people, and improve results. Leading brands like United Airlines, Intuit, and Sky leverage Glint’s unique combination of intuitive design, sophisticated analytics, and actionable intelligence to help make employees happier and more successful at work. For more information, please visit www.glintinc.com.

MuleSoft

Series F in 2014
MuleSoft makes it easy to connect the world’s applications, data, and devices. They provide a software platform that enables organizations to easily build application networks using APIs. APIs are the digital glue that allows applications to talk to each other and exchange data. Their flexible, unified platform connects nearly any application or system by leveraging APIs to quickly and securely share data, regardless of format or source, in application networks. It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California,.

Prosper

Series C in 2007
Prosper is an online lending platform that connects people who want to borrow money with individuals and institutions. Its platform provides lists of loan requests with low, fixed-rate loans and no hidden fees or prepayment penalties, enabling clients to easily gain access to affordable personal loans and investors to earn solid returns via a data-driven underwriting model. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Pendo

Series F in 2021
Pendo is the only platform to combine in-product engagement with robust product data and user feedback. With the ability to quickly take action on these qualitative and quantitative insights, product teams can make more informed decisions on how to support users throughout their journey.

UiPath

Series C in 2018
UiPath designs and develops robotic process automation software. The platform offers foolproof development tools, automation of intricate processes, enhanced control, cloud and on-premise deployment, robust governance, and multiple robots on a single virtual machine. UiPath also provides UiPath Studio that models automation visually, UiPath Orchestrator that manages critical enterprise duties, and UiPath Robot that executes processes. It caters to finance and banking, insurance, healthcare, telecom, manufacturing, BPOs, and shared service organizations. Daniel Dines and Marius Tirca founded UiPath in 2005, with its headquarters in New York City. It has additional offices in London in the United Kingdom, Paris in France, Bucharest in Romania, Tokyo in Japan, Singapore, Bengaluru in India, and Melbourne in Australia.

Lynda

Series A in 2013
Lynda.com, Inc., an online learning platform, offers educational training courses in the fields of business, software, technology, and creative skills. The company, through its instructional video tutorials, offers courses in the areas of 3D/animation, audio/music, business, CAD, design, developer, education and e-learning, photography, information technology, marketing, video, and web to individual, corporate, nonprofit, government, library, higher education, and K-12 subscribers. It provides a basic and premium membership and German, French, and Spanish-language content for its courses. The company offers its courses through mobile applications and individual memberships. Its enterprise members include Fortune 50 companies, advertising agencies, media companies, U.S. colleges and universities, state governments, and various branches of the U.S. military; business customers, which include corporate and nonprofit clients; and academic customers, including K-12 and higher education; and U.S. House of Representatives, NASA-JPL, CIA, FAA, USPS, and the executive office of the President of the United States, and cabinet-level departments, including the Department of Defense and State Department. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Carpinteria, California with satellite offices throughout in the United States, United Kingdom, Austria, and Australia. Lynda.com, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of LinkedIn Corporation.

Prosper

Series D in 2010
Prosper is an online lending platform that connects people who want to borrow money with individuals and institutions. Its platform provides lists of loan requests with low, fixed-rate loans and no hidden fees or prepayment penalties, enabling clients to easily gain access to affordable personal loans and investors to earn solid returns via a data-driven underwriting model. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Glint

Series C in 2016
Glint is the people success platform that leverages real-time people data to help global organizations increase employee engagement, develop their people, and improve results. Leading brands like United Airlines, Intuit, and Sky leverage Glint’s unique combination of intuitive design, sophisticated analytics, and actionable intelligence to help make employees happier and more successful at work. For more information, please visit www.glintinc.com.

Box

Series D in 2011
Box is an online file sharing and cloud content management service offering unlimited storage, custom branding, and administrative controls. After starting as a college business project in 2005, Box was officially launched in March of 2006 with the vision of connecting people, devices, and networks. Box provides more than 8 million users with secure cloud content management and collaboration. They say their platform "allows personal and commercial content to be accessible, sharable, and storable in any format from anywhere." It also helps businesses of all sizes in every industry securely access and manages their critical information in the cloud. It was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Willow

Private Placement in 2019
Exploramed NC7, Inc., doing business as Willow, manufactures wearable breast pumps. It also offers milk bags and accessories, such as flange, flextube, and charger,. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Roblox

Series F in 2018
Roblox is an online gaming and entertainment platform for a shared digital experience that brings people together through play. It enables anyone to imagine, create, and have fun with friends as they explore interactive 3D experiences produced by developers using their desktop design tool, Roblox Studio. The company is backed by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, Investment Group of Santa Barbara, and Warner Music Group. The San Mateo, California-based company was established by Erik Cassel and David Baszucki in 2004.

CloudPassage

Series C in 2014
CloudPassage® Halo® is the world’s leading agile security platform that provides instant visibility and continuous protection for servers in any combination of data centers, private clouds and public clouds. The Halo platform is delivered as a service, so it deploys in minutes and scales on-demand. Halo uses minimal system resources; so layered security can be deployed where it counts, right at every workload – servers, instances and containers. Leading enterprises like Citrix, Salesforce.com and Adobe use CloudPassage today to enhance their security and compliance posture, while at the same time enabling business agility. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, CloudPassage is backed by Benchmark Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Tenaya Capital, Shasta Ventures, Musea Ventures and other leading investors.

Soapstone Networks

Series C in 1999
Soapstone Networks (formerly Avici Systems) developer of Terabit Switch/Router technology aimed at providing the next generation of high performance, IP-based routers to carriers and Internet Service Providers worldwide. Soapstone Networks got liquidated in 2009 July.

BroadSoft

Series D in 2007
BroadSoft is the leading global provider of software that enables mobile, fixed-line and cable service providers to deliver real-time communications over their IP networks. They have more than 500 telecommunications service provider customers, powering their delivery of enhanced, personalized communications and entertainment services to their businesses and residential subscribers. BroadSoft serves 18 of the top 25 largest telecommunications carriers in over 70 countries and in 25 languages.

Gem

Series C in 2021
Gem is an all-in-one recruiting platform that integrates with LinkedIn, Gmail & Outlook, and your ATS. It enables world-class recruiting teams to find, engage, and nurture top talent. Recruiters use Gem to build lists of people to reach out to, find an email, and automate follow-ups. Gem saves time, doubles response rate, and gives visibility into what’s working. Teams use Gem to collaborate on candidates, discover best practices, and never reach out to the same person twice. Managers unlock visibility into their team’s pipeline because every touchpoint is automatically tracked. And everything syncs to your applicant tracking system with best-in-class data integrity.

Lyra Health

Series D in 2020
Lyra helps companies improve access to effective, high-quality mental health care for their employees. Lyra's matching technology and innovative digital platform connect members to a curated network of top therapists and coaches, which results in 3x more people receiving care and 7x better outcomes than traditional plans and EAPs. Members can find the right personalized care, match with the right provider for their needs, and feel motivated and supported throughout the entire treatment journey.

zulily

Series C in 2011
zulily is retailer focused on delivering customers special finds every day—all at incredible prices. zulily features an always-fresh curated collection of products for the whole family, including clothing, home decor, toys, gifts and more. zulily was launched in 2010 by Darrell Cavens and Mark Vadon and today, millions of people discover something new on zulily every day. zulily is headquartered in Seattle with offices in Nevada and Ohio. zulily’s shares are traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol ZU.

Fortinet

Series E in 2004
Fortinet is a provider of network security appliances. Fortinet's portfolio of security gateways, subscription services, and complementary products delivers a high level of network, content, and application security for enterprises of all sizes, managed service providers, and telecommunications carriers, while reducing total cost of ownership and providing a flexible, scalable path for expansion. See an analyst interview of John Maddison, VP Marketing at Fortinet here: https://vimeo.com/129352269

Carta, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Carta, Inc. operates as a SEC-registered transfer agent for private companies. The company operates an online platform that allows corporations to manage equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal counsel. Its platform enables corporations to handle cap table management, corporate governance, 409A valuations, and compliance, as well as issue stock to investors electronically; legal counsels and law firms to share single source of truth for equity and legal information; and employees to track vesting, view documents, and exercise using ACH. The company serves venture-backed small businesses, enterprises, and pre-IPO companies in the United States and internationally. Carta, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Palo Alto, California. It also has additional offices in the United States, Brazil, and Canada.

Azul

Series D in 2005
Azul Systems, the industry’s only company exclusively focused on Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), builds fully supported, certified standards-compliant Java runtime solutions that bring the power of Java to the enterprise, cloud, and embedded/IoT. Zing is a JVM designed for a wide variety of enterprise Java applications and workloads that may require any combination of low latency, high transaction rates, large working memory, improved query performance and/or consistent response times. Zulu is Azul’s family of certified, freely available open source builds of OpenJDK with a variety of flexible commercial support options, available in configurations for ISVs, enterprises, and on-premise or Cloud deployments, as well as custom and embedded/IoT devices. For additional information, visit www.azul.com.

ForgeRock

Series D in 2017
ForgeRock, Inc. develops and operates digital identity management software and solutions. Its software is used for identity management, access management, identity governance, autonomous identity, directory services, dynamic orchestration and intelligence, and privacy and consent solutions. The company provides solutions for financial services, retail, telco and media, auto and smart mobility, government, healthcare, and insurance industries. ForgeRock, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California. It has additional locations in Austin, Texas; Vancouver, Washington; Oslo, Norway; Munich, Germany; Montbonnot and Paris, France; Bristol and London, United Kingdom; Singapore; and Sydney, Australia.

Salesforce

Series D in 2001
Salesforce Ventures is the venture capital arm of salesforce.com, inc. specializing in startups, co-investments, and late venture investments in companies that are raising an institutional round of financing. The firm seeks to invest in artificial Intelligence, cloud computing, enterprise technology, mobile technology and mobile enterprise companies creating apps for mobile phones including programs that work on the Salesforce1 mobile platform, listed on the firm’s app exchange, machine learning and intelligence, verticals, internet of things, and wearable smart devices and connected products. It prefers not to lead deals. Salesforce Ventures is based in San Francisco, California.

Coupa Software

Series F in 2014
Coupa Software is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of procurement, finance, and cloud-based financial applications. The company offers cloud spend management (CSM) solutions that help companies control and gain visibility into their indirect spending while generating savings that go directly to the bottom line. It was founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Nexgenix

Venture Round in 2000
Nexgenix are provides so-called e-relationship services.

Flock Safety

Private Placement in 2020
Flock Group Inc. develops wireless security systems for neighborhoods, law enforcement, and cities. It develops outdoor cameras that track cars, record license plates, and provide metal signs for existing posts. The company also provides data to local police officers when the crime occurs. It serves local municipalities and police departments. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Segment

Series D in 2019
Segment.io, Inc. develops a platform for collecting customer data. The company provides a single API to track customer data across various devices and channels, and send it to third-party tools, internal systems, or a SQL database with the flip of a switch; and Data Lakes, a data architecture product to help companies create customer experiences with their customer data. It serves companies in the United States and internationally. The company is based in San Francisco, California. It has an additional office in Dublin, Ireland. As of November 2, 2020, Segment.io, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Twilio Inc.

Movaz Networks

Series B in 2001
Movaz Networks manufactures broadband optical transport systems. The company provides wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) equipment; and a portfolio of WDM transport and reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexing solutions that incorporate advanced optical transport, distributed photonic switching, generalized multi-protocol lambda switching protocols, and standards based network management. Movaz Networks offers its products through direct sales, a private label partnership, and value added resellers to telecommunications carriers, cable network providers, research and educational organizations, and government agencies. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Norcross, Georgia.

Alto Pharmacy

Series B in 2017
Alto is a full-service pharmacy powered by a team of experts dedicated to making your doctor's orders their own. From delivering prescriptions to coordinating with insurance, digging for discounts, and answering, Alto works behind-the-scenes to remove any obstacles standing in the way of your care. The company started in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Cloudera

Series E in 2012
Cloudera delivers an Enterprise Data Cloud for any data, anywhere, from the Edge to AI.Cloudera was founded in 2008 by some of the brightest minds at Silicon Valley’s leading companies, including Google (Christophe Bisciglia), Yahoo! (Amr Awadallah), Oracle (Mike Olson), and Facebook (Jeff Hammerbacher). Doug Cutting, co-creator of Hadoop, joined the company in 2009 as Chief Architect and remains in that role. Today, Cloudera has more than 1,600 employees. They have offices in 24 countries around the globe, with their headquarters in Palo Alto, California.

TollBridge Technologies

Series D in 2001
TollBridge Technologies is the market share leader providing voice-over-broadband solutions for next generation carriers, with more than 40,000 lines in active commercial service.

DataStax

Series C in 2012
DataStax is the company behind the massively scalable, highly available, cloud-native NoSQL data platform built on Apache Cassandra™. DataStax gives users and enterprises the freedom to run data in any cloud on a global scale with zero downtime and zero lock-ins. More than 450 of the world’s leading enterprises including Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, Delta Airlines, eBay, Macy’s, McDonald’s, Safeway, Sony, and Walmart use DataStax to build transformational data architectures for real-world outcomes.

LexiQuest

Series C in 2000
LexiQuest develops language-driven software solutions that improve information retrieval and sharing of knowledge. It was founded in 1997. LexiQuest is based in New York, United States.

Noosh

Series B in 2005
Noosh is the provider of marketing and procurement software for managing print and related marketing spend. For over ten years, NewlineNoosh has provided its print procurement software-as-a-service, Noosh, to enterprises and print outsourcers, enabling them to drive down print costs, improve visibility and control, and ensure brand consistency. Based in Silicon Valley, we have offices throughout North America and enjoy partnerships with leading print outsourcers around the world to support global print procurement deployments. Our customers include prominent large enterprises in the financial services, consumer products, retail, government and other sectors. Our unique approach to managing print procurement is powered by our Noosh software, the most widely used technology for managing print, direct mail, point-of-sale (POS), branded promotions and related products. Noosh uniquely addresses the requirements of its customers by streamlining two critical print management processes - the procurement and financial “source to pay process” and the marketing “design to delivery process,” thereby providing unparalleled efficiency, visibility, and control which results in significant cost savings and efficiency improvements throughout the print supply chain. With Noosh, everyone involved in the print procurement process, including marketing managers, agencies, print buyers and suppliers, easily interact on the same system using a web browser.

BlueArc

Venture Round in 2006
BlueArc is a leading provider of high performance unified network storage systems to enterprise markets, as well as data intensive markets, such as electronic discovery, entertainment, federal government, higher education, Internet services, oil and gas and life sciences. Their products support both network attached storage, or NAS, and storage area network, or SAN, services on a converged network storage platform. Aquired by HDS as of September 7th 2011.

Wealthsimple

Private Placement in 2020
Wealthsimple for Advisors is focused on providing simple and insightful, technology-enabled solutions to advisors and financial planners. Wealthsimple provides investment, savings and tax services to more than one million Canadians.

OPENLANE

Venture Round in 2008
OPENLANE, Inc. is a leading online auction company in North America for automotive dealers to buy and sell wholesale vehicles. The company offers end-to-end auto remarketing solutions to auto manufacturers, captive finance companies, lease and daily rental companies, financial institutions and wholesale auto auctions throughout the United States and Canada. OPENLANE powers online remarketing programs for American Honda Finance, Audi Financial Services, Avis Budget Group, BMW Financial Services Canada, Chase Auto Finance, Chrysler Financial, Porsche Financial Services, Southeast Toyota Finance, US Bank, Volkswagen Credit, among others.

Tensilica

Series E in 2003
Tensilica, Inc. is the leader in customizable dataplane processor IP cores. Dataplane Processor Units (DPUs) combine the best capabilities of CPUs and DSPs while delivering 10 to 100x the performance because they can be customized using Tensilica's automated design tools to meet specific signal processing performance targets. Tensilica's DPUs power SOC designs at system OEMs and six out of the top 10 semiconductor companies for products including mobile phones, consumer electronics devices (including digital TV, Blu-ray Disc players, broadband set top boxes, digital still cameras and portable media players), computers, and storage, networking and communications equipment.
Provides video advertising solutions for advertisers and agencies, and publisher partners in the United States and internationally.

Auth0

Series C in 2017
AAuth0 is an identity management platform for application builders and developers. It provides Auth0, a web-scale cloud solution that includes APIs and tools that enable developers to eliminate the friction of authentication and authorization of their applications and APIs. Auth0 enables users to single sign-on for applications running on various platforms with various identity providers; add few lines of JavaScript to power their applications; customize various stages of the authentication and authorization pipeline, and connect their applications and APIs to their database of users and passwords. Its platform also allows users to authenticate to active directory, LDAP, SAML, Integrated Windows Authentication, Google Apps, Salesforce, and other IdPs without having to configure firewall; add and remove users, modify profiles and authorization attributes, and identify root cause user login issues; see a stream of recent logins and their locations; and enable various SaaS and SAML-enabled applications. Auth0's solution works with iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 8 platforms. Its platform is used by large and small enterprises, and startups.

Extend

Private Placement in 2020
Extend, Inc. provides online and offline extended warranties and protection plans as a service. It offers protection plans that are underwritten by various insurance companies. It offers solutions for electronics, appliances, furniture, jewelry and watches, sports and fitness equipment, musical instruments, automotive parts, and other products. Extend, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

YapStone

Series B in 2011
YapStone is a global provider of online and mobile payment solutions for global marketplaces and large vertical markets. YapStone powers payments for HomeAway®, VRBO®, and thousands of apartment rental and vacation rental companies, homeowners’ associations, and self-storage companies. YapStone processes over $18B in payment volume annually and has been recognized for its growth, ranking on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest-Growing Private Companies for nine consecutive years. To add, YapStone was named to Forbes'​ list of "Next Billion Dollar Startups in 2016"​ as well as Forbes’ List of America’s Most Promising Companies in 2015. With over $110 million in funding from investors including Accel Partners, Meritech Capital and Bregal Sagemount, YapStone is well on its way to “changing how the world pays.” Headquartered in Walnut Creek, CA, YapStone has additional U.S. offices in San Francisco, CA, Santa Monica, CA, and Austin, TX, with international operations in Drogheda, Ireland. To learn more the next big thing in FinTech, visit www.YapStone.com.

Duo Security

Series D in 2017
Duo Security provides a cloud-based access protection solution for companies and organizations worldwide. Clients use its solution for adaptive authentication, BYOD (bring your own device) security, cloud security, endpoint security, mobile security, and two-factor authentication. Duo Security also offers Duo Managed Service Provider (MSP), a program that provides MSPs with tools to protect their customers from data breaches. Clients can deploy its technology to protect users, data, and applications from breaches, credential theft, and account takeover. Duo Security serves education, financial services, healthcare, legal, retail, and technology industries. Dug Song and Jonathan Oberheide founded Duo Security in 2009, with its headquarters in Ann Arbor in Michigan and offices in San Mateo in California, Austin in Texas, and London in England.

Self

Private Placement in 2020
Self Financial, Inc., doing business as Self, owns and operates a mobile credit and savings application. It offers Self, an application that originates and services small certificate of deposit secured installment loans that are financed by banking partners. The company enables customers to create a credit builder account, that is an installment loan that enables people to build payment history and save money. Self Financial, Inc. was formerly known as Self Lender, Inc. and changed its name to Self Financial, Inc. in August 2019. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Austin, Texas.

2Wire

Series E in 2002
2Wire is a San Jose, Calif. provider of broadband service products for companies serving consumers.2Wire is dedicated to developing integrated solutions to deliver broadband service and content throughout the home or small office. Built upon the company's core expertise and continued innovation in software and hardware, 2Wire products enable home and small business users to fully leverage the benefits of broadband. In addition, 2Wire solutions offer service providers with a flexible platform to deliver and manage feature-rich Internet, telephony, entertainment, and other enhanced broadband application services

White Rock Networks

Series B in 2000
As of 2006, White Rock Networks, Inc. was acquired by Turin Networks, Inc. White Rock Networks, Inc. provides transport and switching, ethernet service delivery, and Internet protocol (IP) aggregation solutions for carriers. It offers transport and switching solutions, such as SONET transport, ethernet and TDM access, integrated ADM/DCS, standalone mini DCS, DWDM, and wireless backhaul, as well as dispersion compensation, pre-amplification, post-amplification, and in line amplification. The company also offers on-net and off-net ethernet service delivery; and IP aggregation services, such as router port aggregation, backhaul, and carrier-grade VoIP. White Rock Networks was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Richardson, Texas.

Vonage

Series D in 2004
Through nearly 20 years of constant change and disruption in the technology space, Vonage has been leading through the change. With this brand revitalization, Vonage is demonstrating its position as a B2B communications SaaS leader for a new era. - Scales to serve its customers globally with unrivalled capabilities integrating voice, messaging, video and data, built on a carrier-grade network infrastructure. - Offers uniquely flexible portfolio of proven, ready-to-go applications, or use of extensive communications APIs to create proprietary applications and integrations, or takes the best of both, using apps and customizing with APIs. - Enables businesses to have great conversations everywhere, to effortlessly create new and differentiated experiences, and like never before, unlock the power of data and AI to make every conversation more successful.

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. SAAS SECURITY & COMPLIANCE SUITE Enterprise Email Archiving: The email archiving solution supports eDiscovery, regulatory compliance and email storage management. Enterprise Email Protection: Provides inbound and outbound email security and management to protect from outside threats including spam, phishing, unpredictable email volumes, malware and other forms of objectionable or dangerous content before they hit the enterprise perimeter. Enterprise Privacy: Protects private information in email, defends against leaks of confidential information and ensures compliance with common international, industry and US data protection regulations—including HIPAA, GLBA and PCI-DSS. PRODUCT ADD-ONS Policy-Based Email Encryption: Mitigates regulatory violations, data loss and corporate policy violations, without adversely impacting business operations. Secure File Transfer: Adds secure, easy-to-use large file transfer capabilities to an organization's Proofpoint deployment CUSTOMERS 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.

Quigo

Venture Round in 2007
Quigo is an ad-targeting network that provides contextual advertising services for many large media websites including ABCNews.com, CNNMoney.com, Forbes.com, and USAToday.com. Quigo is a direct competitor to Google's contextual advertising program, Adsense. Quigo [sold](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/aol-buys-quigo-confirmed/) to AOL for $340 million and will become part of its Platform-A advertising solution.

Carta

Series E in 2019
Carta is a transfer agent for private companies that enables seed-stage to pre-IPO companies to manage equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal counsel. It digitizes paper stock certificates along with stock options, warrants, and derivatives to create a real-time image of who owns what at a startup. Carta receives funding from a group of investors, including Draper VC, Expansion VC, k9 Ventures, Elefund, Subtraction Capital, Scott Banister, XG Ventures, Kima Ventures, Andy Palmer, and Structure Capital. It was founded by Manu Kumar and Henry Ward in 2012 as eShares, Carta is based in Mountain View, California.

Zipcar

Series G in 2010
Zipcar is a membership-based car-sharing company that provides automobile rentals to its members, billable on an hourly or daily basis. Members are able to view vehicle availability and reserve a self-service car via the internet, iPhone app, or telephone, in increments as short as one hour and pay only for time they reserve. Zipcar vehicles report their positions to a control center using in-car technology. Zipcar was founded in 2000 by Cambridge, Massachusetts. On October 31, 2007 Zipcar merged with rival Flexcar. In 2009 Zipcar has become the world's largest car-sharing service, sharing 6,000 vehicles among 275,000 drivers in 49 U.S. cities, Vancouver, Toronto, and London. On April 1, 2010, Zipcar bought London-based car-sharing firm Streetcar in its latest bid to expand across Europe.

Bromium

Series C in 2013
Provider of micro-virtualization and hardware based security for enterprise desktops

Snowflake

Private Placement in 2018
Snowflake Inc. provides cloud-based data platform in the United States and internationally. The company’s platform enables customers to consolidate data into a single source of truth to drive meaningful business insights, build data-driven applications, and share data. Its platform is used by various organizations of various sizes in a range of industries. The company was formerly known as Snowflake Computing, Inc. and changed its name to Snowflake Inc. in April 2019. Snowflake Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Snap

Series F in 2016
Snap Technologies, Inc. operates an online distributed media network. Its products are used on Websites and blogs. The company’s Snap Shots enables site owners to empower their readers with enhanced hyperlinks that display previews, text summaries, videos, stock charts, MP3s, and product info. Snap Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as Perfect Market Technologies, Inc. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Venice, California.

Lightwave Microsystems Corporation

Series E in 2000
Lightwave Microsystems engages in the design, customization, and manufacture of a range of passive and active waveguide components and integrated devices.

Schoolpop

Venture Round in 2000
Schoolpop is America's #1 tuition crediting and nontraditional fundraising program. We have contributed more than $200 million to over 30,000 schools and other nonprofits nationwide. With Schoolpop, you can pay down tuition and extracurricular activity costs, pay back student loans for college and help your school earn contributions all year long by shopping at hundreds of name-brand merchants and service providers online, in stores, through catalogs, with gift cards or with the Schoolpop Visa credit card.

Outreach

Private Placement in 2019
Outreach is a sales engagement platform that accelerates revenue growth by optimizing every interaction throughout the customer lifecycle. The platform manages all customer interactions across email, voice and social, and leverages machine learning to guide reps to take the right actions. Thousands of customers, including Cloudera, Glassdoor, Pandora, and Zillow, rely on Outreach to drive predictable and measurable growth, increase efficiency and effectiveness of customer-facing teams, and improve visibility into sales activity and performance.

NetSuite

Secondary Market in 2007
NetSuite is cloud computing company dedicated to delivering business applications over the internet. It provides a suite of cloud-based financials / Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), HR and omnichannel commerce software that runs the business of companies in more than 100 countries. The company was founded 1998 and is based in San Mateo, California.

BlueArc

Venture Round in 2010
BlueArc is a leading provider of high performance unified network storage systems to enterprise markets, as well as data intensive markets, such as electronic discovery, entertainment, federal government, higher education, Internet services, oil and gas and life sciences. Their products support both network attached storage, or NAS, and storage area network, or SAN, services on a converged network storage platform. Aquired by HDS as of September 7th 2011.

Homestead Technologies

Series E in 2002
Homestead Technologies provides website and e-commerce site creation, marketing, and hosting services for small businesses. The company offers search engine optimization services, including professional key phrase selection, web page optimization, strategic link-building, and online tracking and reporting; site design services for search engines and ongoing search engine optimization; and website building, website hosting, domain and email, customer support, online store, and marketing tool services. Homestead Technologies was founded in 1996 and is based in Menlo Park, California. It operates as a subsidiary of Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. Because of the breadth and depth of Homestead Technologies's expertise, their competitors are many. But, in regards to website creation, competitors could include [SnapPages](http://www.snappages.com), Wix, Weebly, or Squarespace.

Carta

Series D in 2018
Carta is a transfer agent for private companies that enables seed-stage to pre-IPO companies to manage equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal counsel. It digitizes paper stock certificates along with stock options, warrants, and derivatives to create a real-time image of who owns what at a startup. Carta receives funding from a group of investors, including Draper VC, Expansion VC, k9 Ventures, Elefund, Subtraction Capital, Scott Banister, XG Ventures, Kima Ventures, Andy Palmer, and Structure Capital. It was founded by Manu Kumar and Henry Ward in 2012 as eShares, Carta is based in Mountain View, California.

Fusion-io

Series C in 2010
Fusion-io delivers the world's data faster. The Fusion ioMemory platform and software defined storage solutions accelerate virtualization, databases, cloud computing, big data and performance applications. From e-commerce retailers to the world's social media leaders and Fortune Global 500 companies, customers are improving the performance and efficiency of their data centers with Fusion-io technology to accelerate the critical applications of the information economy.

Persona

Series C in 2021
Persona enables business to verify customer identities that brings trust to online interactions and help them with age verification, fraud prevention, and account recovery. It offers a comprehensive suite of automated identity verification components with worldwide coverage that can be configured, branded, and themed to create custom-tailored flows that cover any use case. It handles complex collecting, verifying, and managing sensitive personal information to stay focused on building products. Persona was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Roblox

Series E in 2017
Roblox is an online gaming and entertainment platform for a shared digital experience that brings people together through play. It enables anyone to imagine, create, and have fun with friends as they explore interactive 3D experiences produced by developers using their desktop design tool, Roblox Studio. The company is backed by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, Investment Group of Santa Barbara, and Warner Music Group. The San Mateo, California-based company was established by Erik Cassel and David Baszucki in 2004.

Personio

Series E in 2022
Personio offers cloud-based HR management and recruiting solutions and software for startups, and small- and medium-sized enterprises. The company enables its customers to store and manage all employee data and HR processes in one place, including vacation and sick days, approvals, salary, attendance, employee documents, performance, reporting, and employee on-boarding. Its recruiting function comprises applicant tracking, interview scheduling, candidate reviews, and many other features. Personio was established in 2015 and is based in Munich, Germany.

Webridge

Series C in 2000
Webridge is a software company that develops and commercializes extranet portal systems. It enables companies to communicate with employees, suppliers, and other business partners through a web browser. Founded in 1996, Webridge is based in Beaverton, Oregon.

BlueArc

Series E in 2005
BlueArc is a leading provider of high performance unified network storage systems to enterprise markets, as well as data intensive markets, such as electronic discovery, entertainment, federal government, higher education, Internet services, oil and gas and life sciences. Their products support both network attached storage, or NAS, and storage area network, or SAN, services on a converged network storage platform. Aquired by HDS as of September 7th 2011.

Willow

Series C in 2020
Willow is a female technology company that develops an in-bra wearable breast pump. Its breast pumps are cordless and spill-proof. It also tracks milk output through a mobile application along with an online portal, enabling mothers to pump anywhere without hassle. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Aledade

Series E in 2022
Aledade, Inc. provides services to primary care physicians to form and operate accountable care organizations (ACO) in the United States. It offers primary care providers access to data analytics, user-friendly guided workflows, regulatory expertise, payer relationships, and local support from attentive experts. The company also provides 360° practice support, workflow optimization, ACO governance, policy expertise, and contracting support services. It serves small practices, large practices, FQHCS/community health centers, and multispecialty groups. Aledade, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

Mahi Networks

Venture Round in 2004
Mahi Networks supplies optical transport, switching, and aggregation solutions to multiple system operators and cable wireline carriers worldwide. Mahi Networks enables service providers to efficiently manage the transition to a simpler, lower cost, and converged infrastructure. Mahi's flagship product, the Mahi Mi7, is a 320 Gbit multi-service switching system. It also offers a Vx7 Multi-Service Core Transport System with ROADM capabilities. To support the increasing demand for IP and SAN services, Mahi Networks introduced a 10-port Multi-Service ADM Transponder with SFP client interfaces supporting any combination of GbE, Fiber Channel, ESCON, FICON, and digital video services. In addition, Mahi offers a 10G Multi-Service Transponder with XFP client interfaces supporting 10GbE LAN PHY, 10GbE WAN PHY, OC-192, STM-64, and G.709 services. Mahi Networks was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Piscataway, New Jersey. Later on, Mahi Networks, Inc. was acquired by Meriton Networks, Inc.

Flock Safety

Series C in 2020
Flock Group Inc. develops wireless security systems for neighborhoods, law enforcement, and cities. It develops outdoor cameras that track cars, record license plates, and provide metal signs for existing posts. The company also provides data to local police officers when the crime occurs. It serves local municipalities and police departments. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Snowflake

Series G in 2020
Snowflake Inc. provides cloud-based data platform in the United States and internationally. The company’s platform enables customers to consolidate data into a single source of truth to drive meaningful business insights, build data-driven applications, and share data. Its platform is used by various organizations of various sizes in a range of industries. The company was formerly known as Snowflake Computing, Inc. and changed its name to Snowflake Inc. in April 2019. Snowflake Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Fortinet

Series D in 2003
Fortinet is a provider of network security appliances. Fortinet's portfolio of security gateways, subscription services, and complementary products delivers a high level of network, content, and application security for enterprises of all sizes, managed service providers, and telecommunications carriers, while reducing total cost of ownership and providing a flexible, scalable path for expansion. See an analyst interview of John Maddison, VP Marketing at Fortinet here: https://vimeo.com/129352269

Sendbird

Series C in 2021
At SendBird, they are building the most scalable and powerful chat API in the world. They have customers from over 150 countries around the world serving a truly wide-range of use cases across communities, marketplaces, on-demand services, games, and live-video streaming.

Looker

Series B in 2015
Looker is an enterprise platform for business intelligence, data applications, and embedded analytics. It unlocks the full value of data, companies need solutions that transcend traditional BI and infuse data into operational workflows. Looker delivers actionable business insights at the point of decision, create new value streams, and infuse data into products and workflows to move the business forward. Looker is now a part of Google Cloud.

AmberPoint

Series D in 2008
Founded in 2001 with significant venture backing from Norwest and Sutter Hill, we're a fast-growing company with a vision for market requirements and significant customer traction. Our prominent executives and experienced developers bring impressive records of success from such leading software companies as Sun, Forte, IBM, webMethods, Oracle, Ingres and Sybase

Icertis

Series F in 2021
Icertis is an enterprise contract management platform in the cloud that solves hard contract management problems on an easy to use platform. With Icertis, companies can accelerate business by increasing contract velocity, protect against risk by ensuring regulatory and policy compliance, and optimize the commercial relationships by maximizing revenue and reducing costs. The AI-infused Icertis Contract Management (ICM) platform is used by companies like 3M, Airbus, Cognizant, Daimler, Microsoft, and Roche to manage 5.7 million contracts in 40+ languages across 90+ countries. Icertis was founded on 2009 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

Carta

Series D in 2018
Carta is a transfer agent for private companies that enables seed-stage to pre-IPO companies to manage equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal counsel. It digitizes paper stock certificates along with stock options, warrants, and derivatives to create a real-time image of who owns what at a startup. Carta receives funding from a group of investors, including Draper VC, Expansion VC, k9 Ventures, Elefund, Subtraction Capital, Scott Banister, XG Ventures, Kima Ventures, Andy Palmer, and Structure Capital. It was founded by Manu Kumar and Henry Ward in 2012 as eShares, Carta is based in Mountain View, California.

Flock Safety

Series D in 2021
Flock Group Inc. develops wireless security systems for neighborhoods, law enforcement, and cities. It develops outdoor cameras that track cars, record license plates, and provide metal signs for existing posts. The company also provides data to local police officers when the crime occurs. It serves local municipalities and police departments. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Reliant Technologies

Series D in 2006
The Reliant team has created a breakthrough in laser delivery by focusing on Fraxelâ„¢ Laser Treatment. In the hands of clinicians worldwide, Reliant's proprietary technology platform is poised to change the treatment paradigm to a new standard of care. In 2001, a group of prominent laser scientists, leading clinicians, and business executives came together with a shared vision. They would create a new science and breakthrough products to fulfill the promise of laser medicine. No more big dumb "boxes." No more hype. They vowed to bring a new intelligence to solve the problems of aging and sun damaged skin.

Lime

Series C in 2018
Lime aims to provide a sustainable solution to the first and last mile transportation problem by helping people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint. The company empowers future generations to change their behavior so we can save this planet together. From the electric scooter to the e-assist and pedal bike, experience the excitement of Lime’s smart mobility fleet.

BigBand Networks

Series D in 2003
BigBand Networks, Inc. develops, markets, and sells network-based platforms in the United States and internationally.

Wealthsimple

Private Equity Round in 2021
Wealthsimple for Advisors is focused on providing simple and insightful, technology-enabled solutions to advisors and financial planners. Wealthsimple provides investment, savings and tax services to more than one million Canadians.

Polly

Series A in 2021
Polly is a fun way to create anonymous polls for your friends on Snapchat and Instagram stories. Create a poll, attach it to your story, and discover what your friends think.

Pendo

Private Placement in 2019
Pendo is the only platform to combine in-product engagement with robust product data and user feedback. With the ability to quickly take action on these qualitative and quantitative insights, product teams can make more informed decisions on how to support users throughout their journey.

CloudHealth Technologies

Series D in 2017
CloudHealth Technologies is changing the way organizations manage cloud environments. The company's cloud management platform aggregates, correlates, and analyzes data from disparate cloud data sets so that enterprises and service providers can align cloud operations with business objectives, reduce costs and ensure service levels are being met, based on an optimally performing cloud environment. The company is backed by 406 Ventures and Sigma Prime Ventures. It was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, MA. For more information.

Sonendo

Private Equity Round in 2017
Sonendo developing innovative technologies to transform dentistry by Saving Teeth Through Sound Science®. The GentleWave® System shows significant improvements in clinical efficacy and practice efficiency when compared to standard root canal treatment.1,2, 3 Sonendo is the parent company of TDO® Software, the developer of the most widely used endodontic practice management software in the world, designed to simplify practice workflow. TDO software seamlessly integrates practice management, imaging, social media, referral reporting, CBCT imaging, and offers built-in communication with the GentleWave System.

Calix

Series E in 2003
Calix is a global provider of the cloud and software platforms, systems and services to deliver unified access networks and smart premises systems. Innovative communications service providers rely on Calix to help them master and monetize the complex infrastructure between their subscribers and the cloud. Calix customers leverage our intelligent software platforms and cloud analytics to transform and optimize their business models, rapidly deploy new services at DevOps speed, and make the promise and opportunity of the smart home and business a reality. Calix customers include Verizon, ALLO Communications, CityFibre, Nex-Tech, Gibson Connect, ITS Fiber and over 1,400 other communications service providers globally, majority being in North America.

Ruckus Wireless

Series G in 2012
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, Ruckus Wireless, Inc.(NYSE: RKUS) is a global supplier of advanced wireless systems for the rapidly expanding mobile Internet infrastructure market. The company offers a wide range of indoor and outdoor “Smart Wi-Fi” products to mobile carriers, broadband service providers, and corporate enterprises, and has over 48,000 end-customers worldwide. Ruckus technology addresses Wi-Fi capacity and coverage challenges caused by the ever-increasing amount of traffic on wireless networks due to accelerated adoption of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Ruckus invented and has patented state-of-the-art wireless voice, video, and data technology innovations, such as adaptive antenna arrays that extend signal range, increase client data rates, and avoid interference, providing consistent and reliable distribution of delay-sensitive multimedia content and services over standard 802.11 Wi-Fi.

Greenplum Software

Series C in 2008
Greenplum, Inc., a data warehousing company, develops database software for business intelligence and data warehousing applications. It offers Greenplum Database that supports multi-terabyte data warehousing demands; and Greenplum Network, a customer and partner portal that delivers instant download access to database products. The company primarily serves telecommunications and banking industries.

Acclarent

Venture Round in 2009
Acclarent, Inc. is a medical device company in Menlo Park, CA that was established in June of 2004. The company is dedicated to the development of innovative devices providing new technologies to further meet the needs of ENT patients. Acclarent's initial focus is on achieving the goals of sinus surgery with novel, endoscopic, catheter-based tools - Balloon Sinuplastyâ„¢ devices. Through the Balloon Sinuplastyâ„¢ technology and our RelievaÂ:registered: product portfolio we offer ENT patients alternatives to conventional endoscopic surgical approaches. FDA clearances for these devices were completed in 2005 and the products were commercially launched in the US that same year. Through our core technologies and commitment to innovation, Acclarent will continue to advance novel devices in all areas of ENT.

Pendo

Private Placement in 2018
Pendo is the only platform to combine in-product engagement with robust product data and user feedback. With the ability to quickly take action on these qualitative and quantitative insights, product teams can make more informed decisions on how to support users throughout their journey.

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.

Auth0

Series F in 2020
AAuth0 is an identity management platform for application builders and developers. It provides Auth0, a web-scale cloud solution that includes APIs and tools that enable developers to eliminate the friction of authentication and authorization of their applications and APIs. Auth0 enables users to single sign-on for applications running on various platforms with various identity providers; add few lines of JavaScript to power their applications; customize various stages of the authentication and authorization pipeline, and connect their applications and APIs to their database of users and passwords. Its platform also allows users to authenticate to active directory, LDAP, SAML, Integrated Windows Authentication, Google Apps, Salesforce, and other IdPs without having to configure firewall; add and remove users, modify profiles and authorization attributes, and identify root cause user login issues; see a stream of recent logins and their locations; and enable various SaaS and SAML-enabled applications. Auth0's solution works with iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 8 platforms. Its platform is used by large and small enterprises, and startups.

tray.io

Private Placement in 2019
Tray.io provides a cloud-based software integration platform for automators. Tray.io believes that any organization can and should automate. With the Tray Platform, citizen automators throughout organizations can easily automate complex processes through a powerful, flexible platform, and can connect their entire cloud stack thanks to APIs. With Tray.io’s visual workflow builder, customers can create automation to drive their business processes without writing a single line of code.

Personio

Series E in 2021
Personio offers cloud-based HR management and recruiting solutions and software for startups, and small- and medium-sized enterprises. The company enables its customers to store and manage all employee data and HR processes in one place, including vacation and sick days, approvals, salary, attendance, employee documents, performance, reporting, and employee on-boarding. Its recruiting function comprises applicant tracking, interview scheduling, candidate reviews, and many other features. Personio was established in 2015 and is based in Munich, Germany.