Silicon Valley Data Capital

Silicon Valley Data Capital fuels that change connectivity and artificial intelligence drive an explosion of data, today’s enterprises are ill-equipped to handle the changes. Traditional enterprises cannot ignore their data-driven challengers, but are invested deeply with legacy vendors, who are slow to realize that the game hasn’t just gotten faster, but that it’s changing altogether.

Jim McLean

Partner&Founder

21 past transactions

Filtered

Venture Round in 2022
Filtered is for companies who want to build high performing technical teams and are tired of wasting thousands of hours screening and interviewing unqualified candidates based on keywords in a resume. They help improve and streamline the hiring process by removing unconscious bias allowing organizations to leverage skills based hiring that combines coding tasks, video interviews, and candidate authentication - reducing time-to-fill, increasing interview-to-hire ratios, and lowering cost per hire all while increasing quality of hire.

Measured Analytics and Insurance

Venture Round in 2021
Measured Analytics and Insurance provides a data-driven approach to cyber insurance, quantifying specific exposure to ransomware attacks. Measured Insurance is bridging the gap between technology and insurance by using AI-powered analytics to create smarter insurance products by tracking individual exposure in real time. Every policy is tailored to the specific client, clearly identifying pre-event exposure in seven key areas and customizing post-event loss mitigation services with real experts, real people, and real help if needed. Measured Analytics and Insurance, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, was founded in 2018.

Filtered

Venture Round in 2021
Filtered is for companies who want to build high performing technical teams and are tired of wasting thousands of hours screening and interviewing unqualified candidates based on keywords in a resume. They help improve and streamline the hiring process by removing unconscious bias allowing organizations to leverage skills based hiring that combines coding tasks, video interviews, and candidate authentication - reducing time-to-fill, increasing interview-to-hire ratios, and lowering cost per hire all while increasing quality of hire.

AppOmni

Series B in 2021
AppOmni is the leading provider of SaaS security. AppOmni provides unprecedented data access visibility, management, and security of SaaS solutions, enabling organizations to secure mission-critical and sensitive data. Its patented technology deeply scans APIs, security controls, and configuration settings to evaluate the current state of SaaS deployments and compare against best practices and business intent. With AppOmni, organizations can establish rules for data access, data sharing, and third-party applications that will be continuously and automatically validated. The company’s leadership team brings expertise and innovation from leading SaaS providers, high tech companies, and cybersecurity vendors. Backed by Cisco Investments, Salesforce Ventures, ServiceNow Ventures, Scale Venture Partners and more, AppOmni was recently named as a PURE CYBER 100 “Companies To Watch In 2023” and one of CyberTech 100’s Companies for 2022. The company has been recognized as a Dark Reading Cyber Security Vendor to Watch and a SINET16 Innovator.

Hydrolix

Seed Round in 2021
Hydrolix is a data lake platform that revolutionizes the cost efficiency of log data management. The company specializes in assisting organizations to manage large volumes of data effectively. Their platform is built to tackle the challenges of data storage, real-time analytics, and scalability. Hydrolix provides high-performance, cost-efficient data storage solutions optimized for both structured and unstructured data. Their solutions are engineered to scale alongside an organization’s growing data needs, maintaining consistent performance as data volumes expand.

Kleeen Software

Seed Round in 2021
Kleen's objective is to enable product innovation by enabling anybody to bring attractive and scalable product UI to market without becoming mired down in error-prone day-to-day hand-offs between product, design, and engineering. The company has been dubbed the "Squarespace of Enterprise Product UI," highlighting our desire to change both the speed and quality of the UI development process. With Kleeen Software, anyone can create an amazing and easily deployable UI to showcase their core value proposition.

NavTrac

Seed Round in 2020
Next Gen Yard Management System (YMS) NavTrac leverages Computer Vision to reimagine yard operations through automation and proactive optimization. The platform features an Automated Gate System (AGS) to increase data quality, detect damage, improve inventory management and eliminate guard costs. NavTrac's mission is to make yard operations safer, greener and vastly more productive. NavTrac users include Fortune 500s and the company is funded by TenOneTen, Blumberg Captial, Silicon Valley Data Capital, Y Combinator and others.

ModelOp

Series A in 2020
ModelOp is the leading AI Governance software for enterprises and helps safeguard all AI initiatives — including generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), in-house, third-party, and embedded systems — without stifling innovation.

Revl

Series A in 2020
Video Souvineers as a Service. Founded by Eric Sanchez, Nelson Vazquez, and Bruce Pla in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

AppOmni

Series A in 2020
AppOmni is the leading provider of SaaS security. AppOmni provides unprecedented data access visibility, management, and security of SaaS solutions, enabling organizations to secure mission-critical and sensitive data. Its patented technology deeply scans APIs, security controls, and configuration settings to evaluate the current state of SaaS deployments and compare against best practices and business intent. With AppOmni, organizations can establish rules for data access, data sharing, and third-party applications that will be continuously and automatically validated. The company’s leadership team brings expertise and innovation from leading SaaS providers, high tech companies, and cybersecurity vendors. Backed by Cisco Investments, Salesforce Ventures, ServiceNow Ventures, Scale Venture Partners and more, AppOmni was recently named as a PURE CYBER 100 “Companies To Watch In 2023” and one of CyberTech 100’s Companies for 2022. The company has been recognized as a Dark Reading Cyber Security Vendor to Watch and a SINET16 Innovator.

Cultivate

Series A in 2019
Cultivate was founded with the following goal in mind: to help people build better relationships at work. Their mission is to help companies leverage their digital communication data to extract important organizational learning and unleash leadership potential. Cultivate uses the latest in ML and NLP techniques to analyze a manager’s digital communication with their team - email, chat, and calendar - to provide actionable leadership insight, without the need for commonly used feedback platforms like surveys.

Doorstead

Seed Round in 2019
Doorstead is a full-service property management brokerage that provides cash-flow certainty to rental property owners. The company’s patent-pending pricing system compares 11M+ rental price points in a region to predict the likelihood of success on a daily basis. Their pricing system and localized property management platform enable Doorstead to deliver a unique upfront rent guarantee (e.g. $5,500/mo starting in 28 days).

AppOmni

Seed Round in 2019
AppOmni is the leading provider of SaaS security. AppOmni provides unprecedented data access visibility, management, and security of SaaS solutions, enabling organizations to secure mission-critical and sensitive data. Its patented technology deeply scans APIs, security controls, and configuration settings to evaluate the current state of SaaS deployments and compare against best practices and business intent. With AppOmni, organizations can establish rules for data access, data sharing, and third-party applications that will be continuously and automatically validated. The company’s leadership team brings expertise and innovation from leading SaaS providers, high tech companies, and cybersecurity vendors. Backed by Cisco Investments, Salesforce Ventures, ServiceNow Ventures, Scale Venture Partners and more, AppOmni was recently named as a PURE CYBER 100 “Companies To Watch In 2023” and one of CyberTech 100’s Companies for 2022. The company has been recognized as a Dark Reading Cyber Security Vendor to Watch and a SINET16 Innovator.

Cultivate

Seed Round in 2018
Cultivate was founded with the following goal in mind: to help people build better relationships at work. Their mission is to help companies leverage their digital communication data to extract important organizational learning and unleash leadership potential. Cultivate uses the latest in ML and NLP techniques to analyze a manager’s digital communication with their team - email, chat, and calendar - to provide actionable leadership insight, without the need for commonly used feedback platforms like surveys.

Experience.com

Series A in 2018
Experience.com collects experience data at every meaningful moment within a customer's or employee's journey and puts those insights to work in real-time to drive behaviors that power great experiences and improve the business everywhere. We offer an Experience Management Platform, Online Reputation Management, Real-Time Feedback, Review Management, and AI tools. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Nashville, TN and Chennai, India.

OverWatchID

Seed Round in 2018
OverWatchID delivers Privilege Anywhere™ for companies with cloud first initiatives, applications and cloud infrastructure running in Amazon AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Easily protect and secure privilege users from any cloud application to on-premise infrastructure. Privileged user credentials continue to be the top target by attackers. Whether through phishing or malware, a privileged user constantly needs to protect their credentials and identity. OverWatchID is committed developing and delivering technology that protects privileged users. The OverWatchID solution delivers full privilege security for cloud applications, cloud computing and hybrid IT environments, and on-premise infrastructure. Whether access happens through shell, Remote Desktop Protocol, or a web interface, the one-click end user experience is the same. OverWatchID provisions applications and infrastructure at a benchmarked rate of 141 targets per minute. DevOps automation technology keeps OverWatchID synchronized with any auto-scaling activities as well as new cloud applications and targets that appear in an organization. Privilege Anywhere™ secures all IT resources wherever they are deployed, completely implements in days, strengthens IT security, and costs less to own. As a result, information security teams work less and pay less for better IT protection from insider threats and external attacks.

Ansaro

Seed Round in 2018
Ansaro helps companies interview better and hire the people who will do the job best. We apply machine learning to workforce data our customers already collect, but have never tapped before, allowing them to identify new patterns and reduce biases in hiring. Our systems help customers find more top performers, reduce turnover, and streamline the hiring process.

The Data Guild

Seed Round in 2018
The Data Guild helps to bring data-driven products to market—whether via spinouts from the guild itself, by working in the trenches alongside portfolio company teams, or in concert with strategic partners. They work in healthcare, life sciences, renewable energy, and climate change – complex sectors whose needs are not well-served by the existing venture ecosystem, and in which finding innovative solutions and bringing them to market is crucial for the health and sustainability of their planet and society.

Augment CXM

Seed Round in 2017
Augment CXM is defining a new category of software - customer experience management - and powering it with a patented semantic neural network. This technology ensures that our clients deliver a fantastic customer experience every time. Our client base consists of some of the most well-known brands in the world and we’ve proven to generate a 30% gain in agent efficiency, a 44% increase sales conversion rates, and a 40% growth in customer satisfaction.

Torch 3D

Seed Round in 2017
Torch 3D is an Augmented Reality Design Platform.Torch 3D is the developer of an AR and VR prototyping platform created to transform the way applications are built and experienced. The company's augmented and virtual reality prototyping platform helps the designer to develop and design in 3D for immersive VR environments almost instantly, with no prior knowledge of game or software development. It also empowers teams to iterate on prototypes across teams, on any platform or device, in real time.

Pepperdata

Series B in 2015
Today’s enterprises rely on big data to improve decision-making, deliver better customer experiences, and enter new markets. But the volume, variety, and velocity of data in the cloud can make it difficult to effectively manage big data performance. Pepperdata was founded to solve this problem. What started as a prototype built in a Silicon Valley basement over a decade ago, is now the only cloud cost optimization solution that delivers dynamic cost savings—continuously and in real-time—on Amazon EMR and Amazon EKS with no application changes or manual tuning. Pepperdata’s decade of intelligent engineering—developed and tuned by founding Hadoop engineers and cloud experts from Yahoo, Google, and Netflix—keeps some of the world’s most complex data environments perfectly in balance. Our core dynamic optimization technology is based on the company’s ten-year heritage of observability and has been battle tested in some of the most demanding on-prem and cloud environments on the planet. No other company delivers Pepperdata’s combination of real-time, continuous, autonomous, and scalable compute cost optimization. Pepperdata’s customers include the largest, most complex, and highly-scaled clusters in the world, at top enterprises such as Citibank, T-Mobile, Autodesk, Securonix, Royal Bank of Canada, and those in the Fortune 5. Learn how you, too, can extract more from your Kubernetes and big data infrastructure with Pepperdata.
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