Vista Ventures

Vista is often the lead investor, and they typically co-invest with other firms in both early and follow-on rounds. They believe in forming strong syndicates as a means to bring the broadest set of resources and contacts to the companies in which they invest. They will usually take a board seat with their investment and establish strong working relationships with portfolio company management. The team has the skill setsto provide relevant coaching on operational issues such as team building, strategy and sales and marketing.

David E. Dwyer

General Partner and Founder Vista Ventures I, LP

Catharine M. Merigold

General Partner and Managing Partner

32 past transactions

Tendril

Series B in 2008
Tendril enables utilities to drive customer engagement via a rich and tailored experience for the home energy consumer. Energy and service providers rely on Tendril’s customizable software solutions to engage consumers to meet efficiency goals and improve customer service operations. All solutions are powered by an open, cloud-based, secure, and scalable platform that seamlessly supports numerous other utility-grade applications.

tEQuitable

Seed Round in 2018
tEQuitable’s mission is to help companies create a safe, inclusive and equitable workplace — work culture that works for everyone. tEQuitable is an independent, confidential platform to address bias and discrimination in the workplace. They provide a resource to employees for issues ranging from subtle to severe and they provide data and insights to companies to identify and improve systemic workplace culture issues.

StrionAir

Series B in 2004
StrionAir is a manufacturer of specialized air filtration systems.

Rally Software

Series C in 2008
Rally serves as a central hub for teams to collaboratively plan, prioritize and track work on a synchronized cadence. Teams can visualize their work in the form of lists, boards or timeline views, and more importantly—they can understand how their day-to-day work aligns to the greater goals of the business.

Shocking Technologies

Series B in 2010
Shocking Technologies, Inc. started operations as a privately held, venture-backed company developing Voltage Switchable Dielectricâ„¢ (VSDâ„¢) materials. A VSDâ„¢ material is a polymer nano-composite that behaves like an insulator (dielectric) during normal circuit operation and becomes conductive when the voltage across the VSDâ„¢ material increases beyond a predefined threshold voltage. The voltage switches back to an insulator again after the voltage drops below the threshold. This unique property, coupled with the ability to tailor the response of the material, opens up several new areas in electronics. The first application being introduced enables embedded electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection in printed circuit boards (PCBs) and semiconductor packages. Subsequent applications will usher in new manufacturing processes as well as novel product designs.

Lefthand Networks

Series C in 2003
Provider of data storage systems and ip-based storage area networks

MachineFi Lab

Seed Round in 2022
MachineFi Lab operates as a designer for IoT and blockchain technologies.

Tendril

Series C in 2009
Tendril enables utilities to drive customer engagement via a rich and tailored experience for the home energy consumer. Energy and service providers rely on Tendril’s customizable software solutions to engage consumers to meet efficiency goals and improve customer service operations. All solutions are powered by an open, cloud-based, secure, and scalable platform that seamlessly supports numerous other utility-grade applications.

StrionAir

Series A in 2003
StrionAir is a manufacturer of specialized air filtration systems.

Market Force Information

Debt Financing in 2011
Market Force Information provides consumer experience information and insights for multi-location businesses. Through a suite of products, Market Force Information helps businesses increase customer loyalty and protect the brand at the store level through the corporate level. They have headquarters in Colorado and were founded in 2005.

Market Force Information

Series B in 2007
Market Force Information provides consumer experience information and insights for multi-location businesses. Through a suite of products, Market Force Information helps businesses increase customer loyalty and protect the brand at the store level through the corporate level. They have headquarters in Colorado and were founded in 2005.

Stratavia

Series B in 2007
Stratavia is a leading provider of data center automation software solutions. Specifically, Stratavia develops and markets database, server and run book automation software which helps customers reduce the cost of operating their enterprise environments. Founded in 2001, Stratavia is privately held and venture funded and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Shocking Technologies

Series B in 2009
Shocking Technologies, Inc. started operations as a privately held, venture-backed company developing Voltage Switchable Dielectricâ„¢ (VSDâ„¢) materials. A VSDâ„¢ material is a polymer nano-composite that behaves like an insulator (dielectric) during normal circuit operation and becomes conductive when the voltage across the VSDâ„¢ material increases beyond a predefined threshold voltage. The voltage switches back to an insulator again after the voltage drops below the threshold. This unique property, coupled with the ability to tailor the response of the material, opens up several new areas in electronics. The first application being introduced enables embedded electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection in printed circuit boards (PCBs) and semiconductor packages. Subsequent applications will usher in new manufacturing processes as well as novel product designs.

Lefthand Networks

Series B in 2001
Provider of data storage systems and ip-based storage area networks

Altos Design Automation

Series A in 2007
Altos Design Automation, Inc. provides a characterization technology for the creation of library views for timing, signal integrity, and power analysis and optimization applications. It offers Liberate, a cell library characterizer that supports nanometer models for statistical static timing analysis, such as liberty SI, effective current source models, and composite current source; and Variety MX, a statistical timing model generator for embedded memories. The company also supports ultra low power and high speed design styles that include power gating cells, state retention registers, level shifters, pulse clocking, and CML. It sells its products directly in Europe, India, and North America, as well as through distributors in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea. Altos Design Automation, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Tendril

Series B in 2006
Tendril enables utilities to drive customer engagement via a rich and tailored experience for the home energy consumer. Energy and service providers rely on Tendril’s customizable software solutions to engage consumers to meet efficiency goals and improve customer service operations. All solutions are powered by an open, cloud-based, secure, and scalable platform that seamlessly supports numerous other utility-grade applications.

Sparta Software Corporation

Seed Round in 2017
Sparta reduces injuries and optimizes performance with validated scientific assessments and evidence-based prescriptions. It is a simple 60-second scan that enables organizations to measure and optimize physical performance and minimize injury risk. Sparta Science optimizes health and performance for athletes, warfighters, fitness clients, and patients with evidence-based movement scans and data-driven exercise prescriptions that increase resilience, minimize injury risk, and speed efficient rehabilitation to physical activity. Sparta technology is used worldwide by elite and conventional military forces, professional, collegiate, high school, and youth sports organizations, strength training professionals, and medical providers committed to helping people move better, at work, at play, and on duty. The company was founded in 2016 by Phil Wagner and it is based in Menlo Park, California.

Sitrion

Series F in 2009
Sitrion provides award-winning solutions for the digital workplace, making work better for working people every day. Our mobile solutions boost productivity and allow people to be more empowered, engaged, and successful. The Sitrion ONE employee app extends work directly to people’s mobile devices and unifies communications, processes, and information from business ecosystems like Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle. We make work better for leading organizations, like Microsoft, Enterprise Holdings, Airbus, Fujitsu, HealthSouth, Fortune Brands, Restaurant Brands, BearingPoint and many others. Today, more than 6 million people benefit from our solutions.

Lefthand Networks

Series A in 2001
Provider of data storage systems and ip-based storage area networks

Sitrion

Series E in 2007
Sitrion provides award-winning solutions for the digital workplace, making work better for working people every day. Our mobile solutions boost productivity and allow people to be more empowered, engaged, and successful. The Sitrion ONE employee app extends work directly to people’s mobile devices and unifies communications, processes, and information from business ecosystems like Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle. We make work better for leading organizations, like Microsoft, Enterprise Holdings, Airbus, Fujitsu, HealthSouth, Fortune Brands, Restaurant Brands, BearingPoint and many others. Today, more than 6 million people benefit from our solutions.

MX Logic

Series D in 2004
MX Logic, Inc. provides managed email and Web security services in the United States and internationally. It offers Email Defense Solutions that protect against email-borne threats and help businesses to meet compliance regulations via email storage, retrieval, and surveillance. The company also provides Message Archiving for businesses to monitor, store, and retrieve company email messages to comply with electronic security regulations; and Web Defense Service that blocks Web threats, including spyware, viruses, and phishing attacks. It serves public companies, as well as companies in healthcare, financial services, and law and insurance markets. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.

MX Logic

Series G in 2007
MX Logic, Inc. provides managed email and Web security services in the United States and internationally. It offers Email Defense Solutions that protect against email-borne threats and help businesses to meet compliance regulations via email storage, retrieval, and surveillance. The company also provides Message Archiving for businesses to monitor, store, and retrieve company email messages to comply with electronic security regulations; and Web Defense Service that blocks Web threats, including spyware, viruses, and phishing attacks. It serves public companies, as well as companies in healthcare, financial services, and law and insurance markets. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.

MX Logic

Series G in 2008
MX Logic, Inc. provides managed email and Web security services in the United States and internationally. It offers Email Defense Solutions that protect against email-borne threats and help businesses to meet compliance regulations via email storage, retrieval, and surveillance. The company also provides Message Archiving for businesses to monitor, store, and retrieve company email messages to comply with electronic security regulations; and Web Defense Service that blocks Web threats, including spyware, viruses, and phishing attacks. It serves public companies, as well as companies in healthcare, financial services, and law and insurance markets. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.

Shocking Technologies

Series C in 2011
Shocking Technologies, Inc. started operations as a privately held, venture-backed company developing Voltage Switchable Dielectricâ„¢ (VSDâ„¢) materials. A VSDâ„¢ material is a polymer nano-composite that behaves like an insulator (dielectric) during normal circuit operation and becomes conductive when the voltage across the VSDâ„¢ material increases beyond a predefined threshold voltage. The voltage switches back to an insulator again after the voltage drops below the threshold. This unique property, coupled with the ability to tailor the response of the material, opens up several new areas in electronics. The first application being introduced enables embedded electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection in printed circuit boards (PCBs) and semiconductor packages. Subsequent applications will usher in new manufacturing processes as well as novel product designs.

Rally Software

Series B in 2006
Rally serves as a central hub for teams to collaboratively plan, prioritize and track work on a synchronized cadence. Teams can visualize their work in the form of lists, boards or timeline views, and more importantly—they can understand how their day-to-day work aligns to the greater goals of the business.

Solavista

Seed Round in 2008
Solavista provides Internet based consumer and social research.

Lefthand Networks

Series C in 2005
Provider of data storage systems and ip-based storage area networks

MX Logic

Series F in 2006
MX Logic, Inc. provides managed email and Web security services in the United States and internationally. It offers Email Defense Solutions that protect against email-borne threats and help businesses to meet compliance regulations via email storage, retrieval, and surveillance. The company also provides Message Archiving for businesses to monitor, store, and retrieve company email messages to comply with electronic security regulations; and Web Defense Service that blocks Web threats, including spyware, viruses, and phishing attacks. It serves public companies, as well as companies in healthcare, financial services, and law and insurance markets. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.

Stratavia

Series A in 2005
Stratavia is a leading provider of data center automation software solutions. Specifically, Stratavia develops and markets database, server and run book automation software which helps customers reduce the cost of operating their enterprise environments. Founded in 2001, Stratavia is privately held and venture funded and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

SiGe Semiconductor

Venture Round in 2005
SiGe Semiconductor, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, designs and offers radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits and multi-chip modules for wireless consumer electronics market. It offers wireless LAN front end modules, dual band front end modules, and discrete power amplifiers; WiMAX power amplifiers/front end modules and transceivers; GPS radio ICs and GPS receivers; and Bluetooth power amplifiers. The company, through a network of distributors, offers its RF solutions to computing, home entertainment, and mobile device applications in the consumer electronics markets in Asia, Europe, the Middle-East, and North America.

MX Logic

Series E in 2006
MX Logic, Inc. provides managed email and Web security services in the United States and internationally. It offers Email Defense Solutions that protect against email-borne threats and help businesses to meet compliance regulations via email storage, retrieval, and surveillance. The company also provides Message Archiving for businesses to monitor, store, and retrieve company email messages to comply with electronic security regulations; and Web Defense Service that blocks Web threats, including spyware, viruses, and phishing attacks. It serves public companies, as well as companies in healthcare, financial services, and law and insurance markets. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.

IBSN

Series A in 2004
IBSN focuses on enabling the financial services industry to quickly and cost-effectively integrate internal applications.