The people behind the ideas.
The ideas behind the companies.

Common Room’s
Linda Lian
on integrating community into your company 
Pendulum’s
Mark Listes
on finding hidden narratives in social media 
OctoML’s
Luis Ceze
on bringing ML to all platforms 
Flexe’s
Karl Siebrecht
on transforming the logistics industry 
Spotnana’s
Sarosh Waghmar
on challenging a decades-old industry 
Highspot’s
Robert Wahbe
on customers, AI, and building relationships that last 
Nautilus Bio’s
Sujal Patel and Parag Mallick
on the proteome 
Sila’s
Shamir Karkal
on the digital payments revolution 
SeekOut’s
Anoop Gupta
on hiring and untapped talent pools 
Rover’s
Aaron Easterly
on the love of pets and finding the right partners Company List
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AppFog was the leading polyglot and infrastructure agnostic Platform-as-a-Service provider.Initial Investment2010AppFog was the leading polyglot and infrastructure agnostic Platform-as-a-Service provider.FounderLucas CarlsonInvestment JourneyAcquired by Savvis, a CenturyLink company 2013Initial Investment2010
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Battlesnake is a multi-player programming game for experienced web developers where your code is the controller. We build games for programmers that encourage self-directed learning, are challenging to master, and are fun to share with friends and family.Initial Investment2021Battlesnake is a multi-player programming game for experienced web developers where your code is the controller. We build games for programmers that encourage self-directed learning, are challenging to master, and are fun to share with friends and family.
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Bobsled provides a data sharing platform that helps data providers, SaaS companies and other providers of valuable analytics share data products into the platforms where their customers and partners work.Initial Investment2022Bobsled provides a data sharing platform that helps data providers, SaaS companies and other providers of valuable analytics share data products into the platforms where their customers and partners work.
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Cedexis was a real-time, data-driven service for dynamically optimizing the flow of traffic across public clouds, data centers, CDNs, and ISPs.Initial Investment2011Cedexis was a real-time, data-driven service for dynamically optimizing the flow of traffic across public clouds, data centers, CDNs, and ISPs.FoundersJulien Coulon
Marty KaganInvestment JourneyAcquired by Citrix 2018Initial Investment2011 -
Clerk is the drop-in authentication and user management solution for the modern web, tuned for React and Next.js.Initial Investment2023Clerk is the drop-in authentication and user management solution for the modern web, tuned for React and Next.js.
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CloudCoreo was a next-generation cloud management platform that enabled DevOps and SecOps teams to scale efficiently within and across cloud providers.Initial Investment2016CloudCoreo was a next-generation cloud management platform that enabled DevOps and SecOps teams to scale efficiently within and across cloud providers.FoundersJason Needham
Paul AllanInvestment JourneyAcquired by VMWare 2018Initial Investment2016 -
DataCoral provided a fully managed, cloud-native end-to- end data infrastructure as-a-service solution to data driven enterprises.Initial Investment2018DataCoral provided a fully managed, cloud-native end-to- end data infrastructure as-a-service solution to data driven enterprises.FounderRaghotham MurthyInvestment JourneyAcquired by Cloudera 2021Initial Investment2018
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DevZero makes developers more productive by providing a platform for cloud-based software development environments that work with all IDEs, existing dev tooling, and enterprise integrations. Their mission is to be the de facto dev platform for modern enterprises.Initial Investment2021DevZero makes developers more productive by providing a platform for cloud-based software development environments that work with all IDEs, existing dev tooling, and enterprise integrations. Their mission is to be the de facto dev platform for modern enterprises.
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Eclypsium’s cloud-based platform identifies, verifies, and fortifies firmware in laptops, servers, network gear, and connected devices. The Eclypsium platform secures your device supply chain by monitoring devices for threats, critical risks, and patching firmware across the entire device fleet.Initial Investment2018Eclypsium’s cloud-based platform identifies, verifies, and fortifies firmware in laptops, servers, network gear, and connected devices. The Eclypsium platform secures your device supply chain by monitoring devices for threats, critical risks, and patching firmware across the entire device fleet.
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Esper offers a DevOps SaaS platform for dedicated devices. As the industry’s leading solution for Android DevOps, Esper is on a mission to let software teams ship without worrying about the hardware. Esper’s device infrastructure enables developers, mid-market organizations, and enterprise fleets of 100,000+ devices to deliver their software as a service. Esper has rapidly- growing global customer adoption among some of the world’s most innovative major brands in retail, hospitality, logistics, healthcare, education and more.Initial Investment2020Esper offers a DevOps SaaS platform for dedicated devices. As the industry’s leading solution for Android DevOps, Esper is on a mission to let software teams ship without worrying about the hardware. Esper’s device infrastructure enables developers, mid-market organizations, and enterprise fleets of 100,000+ devices to deliver their software as a service. Esper has rapidly- growing global customer adoption among some of the world’s most innovative major brands in retail, hospitality, logistics, healthcare, education and more.
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ExtraHop provides cloud-native network detection and response that helps you quickly investigate threats, deliver critical applications, and secure your investment in the cloud.Initial Investment2007ExtraHop provides cloud-native network detection and response that helps you quickly investigate threats, deliver critical applications, and secure your investment in the cloud.FoundersJesse Rothstein
Raja MukerjiInvestment JourneyAcquired by Bain/Crosspoint 2021Initial Investment2007 -
Fauna is a global, serverless database that gives ubiquitous, low latency access to application data.Initial Investment2020Fauna is a global, serverless database that gives ubiquitous, low latency access to application data.
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Founded by the creators of Google Compute Engine and Kubernetes, Heptio brought Kubernetes to enterprises to help accelerate software development, increase infrastructure efficiency and reduce the complexity of managing software at scale.Initial Investment2016Founded by the creators of Google Compute Engine and Kubernetes, Heptio brought Kubernetes to enterprises to help accelerate software development, increase infrastructure efficiency and reduce the complexity of managing software at scale.FoundersCriag McLuckie
Joe BedaInvestment JourneyAcquired by VMWare 2018Initial Investment2016 -
Icebrg provides next-generation network security.Initial Investment2014Icebrg provides next-generation network security.FoundersWilliam Peteroy
Josh CarlsonInvestment JourneyAcquired by Gigamon 2018Initial Investment2014 -
iConclude was a software platform and preconfigured repair packs that empowered frontline IT staff to priortize and resolve data center problems.Initial Investment2005iConclude was a software platform and preconfigured repair packs that empowered frontline IT staff to priortize and resolve data center problems.FoundersSunny Gupta
Jeff GerberInvestment JourneyAcquired by Opsware 2007Initial Investment2005 -
As cloud infrastructure continues to change the enterprise landscape, Igneous is excited to bring a modern approach to the data center.Initial Investment2013As cloud infrastructure continues to change the enterprise landscape, Igneous is excited to bring a modern approach to the data center.FoundersJeff Hughes
Byron Rakitzis
Kiran BhageshpurInvestment JourneyAcquired by Rubrik 2020Initial Investment2013 -
Isilon pioneered clustered storage systems and software for digital content and unstructured data.Initial Investment2001Isilon pioneered clustered storage systems and software for digital content and unstructured data.FoundersSujal Patel
Paul MikesellInvestment JourneyAcquired by EMC 2010Initial Investment2001 -
Mobilisafe provided a simple yet powerful solution for companies to understand and manage the risk of personal mobile devices coming to their corporate networks.Initial Investment2011Mobilisafe provided a simple yet powerful solution for companies to understand and manage the risk of personal mobile devices coming to their corporate networks.FoundersDirk Sigurdson
Giri SreenivasInvestment JourneyAcquired by Rapid7 2012Initial Investment2011 -
MontyCloud is a multi-cloud management and governance company.Initial Investment2019MontyCloud is a multi-cloud management and governance company.
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MotherDuck makes analytics fun, frictionless, and ducking awesome. In partnership with the team building open-source database DuckDB, MotherDuck was founded by former leaders at some of the most innovative companies in data. It is on a mission to combine the elegance and speed of DuckDB with the collaboration and scalability of the cloud to provide a serverless, easy-to-use data analytics platform for data, small and large.Initial Investment2022MotherDuck makes analytics fun, frictionless, and ducking awesome. In partnership with the team building open-source database DuckDB, MotherDuck was founded by former leaders at some of the most innovative companies in data. It is on a mission to combine the elegance and speed of DuckDB with the collaboration and scalability of the cloud to provide a serverless, easy-to-use data analytics platform for data, small and large.
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Observe is an observability platform that enables finding issues faster, fixing them faster and at a lower cost.Initial Investment2021Observe is an observability platform that enables finding issues faster, fixing them faster and at a lower cost.
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Performant provided software that allowed Fortune 500 companies to analyze and eliminate website performance bottlenecks.Initial Investment2000Performant provided software that allowed Fortune 500 companies to analyze and eliminate website performance bottlenecks.FoundersAshutosh Tiwary
Przemyslaw Pardyak
Hank LevyInvestment JourneyAcquired by Mercury Interactive 2003Initial Investment2000 -
Pulumi is a platform for cloud software development. It is designed for developers and DevOps teams to build and manage cloud native software, from containers, serverless functions, APIs, to infrastructure, using one consistent approach.Initial Investment2017Pulumi is a platform for cloud software development. It is designed for developers and DevOps teams to build and manage cloud native software, from containers, serverless functions, APIs, to infrastructure, using one consistent approach.
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Qumulo fundamentally changes how enterprises store and manage enormous numbers of digital assets. By creating the world’s first data-aware scale-out NAS software, Qumulo enables customers to answer critical questions about their data footprint in real-time and at incredible scale.Initial Investment2012Qumulo fundamentally changes how enterprises store and manage enormous numbers of digital assets. By creating the world’s first data-aware scale-out NAS software, Qumulo enables customers to answer critical questions about their data footprint in real-time and at incredible scale.
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RelationalAI is building a groundbreaking relational knowledge graph system for developing intelligent data apps. Knowledge graphs are databases that model business concepts, the relationships between them, and the associated application logic. RelationalAI complements the modern data stack to accelerate the development of intelligent data applications. RelationalAI brings together a team of industry experts and researchers across the globe with an extensive list of innovations and awards. The RelationalAI knowledge graph system is available for early deployments with enterprise customers.Initial Investment2021RelationalAI is building a groundbreaking relational knowledge graph system for developing intelligent data apps. Knowledge graphs are databases that model business concepts, the relationships between them, and the associated application logic. RelationalAI complements the modern data stack to accelerate the development of intelligent data applications. RelationalAI brings together a team of industry experts and researchers across the globe with an extensive list of innovations and awards. The RelationalAI knowledge graph system is available for early deployments with enterprise customers.
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Rigado is a secure edge-as-a-service system for commercial Internet of Things applications, including an edge module, a connectivity gateway and a software platform integrated with leading cloud providers. The company’s products are used for next-generation retail, hospitality services, logistics/supply chain, and building management systems.Initial Investment2018Rigado is a secure edge-as-a-service system for commercial Internet of Things applications, including an edge module, a connectivity gateway and a software platform integrated with leading cloud providers. The company’s products are used for next-generation retail, hospitality services, logistics/supply chain, and building management systems.
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Shippable is a cloud-based continuous integration and delivery platform (CI/CD) that developers use to ship code and deliver app and microservices updates and plans to integrate it into its enterprise+ platform.Initial Investment2013Shippable is a cloud-based continuous integration and delivery platform (CI/CD) that developers use to ship code and deliver app and microservices updates and plans to integrate it into its enterprise+ platform.FoundersManisha Sahasrabudhe
Avi CavaleInvestment JourneyAcquired by JFrog 2019Initial Investment2013 -
Skytap is a global cloud provider that accelerates enterprise innovation by modernizing traditional applications with cloud-native development and services.Initial Investment2006Skytap is a global cloud provider that accelerates enterprise innovation by modernizing traditional applications with cloud-native development and services.
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Snowflake enables every organization to mobilize their data with Snowflake’s Data Cloud. Customers use the Data Cloud to unite siloed data, discover and securely share data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single data experience that spans multiple clouds and geographies. Thousands of customers across many industries use Snowflake Data Cloud to power their businesses.Initial Investment2017Snowflake enables every organization to mobilize their data with Snowflake’s Data Cloud. Customers use the Data Cloud to unite siloed data, discover and securely share data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single data experience that spans multiple clouds and geographies. Thousands of customers across many industries use Snowflake Data Cloud to power their businesses.CEOFrank SlootmanInvestment JourneyPublic Sept. 2020
NYSE: SNOWInitial Investment2017 -
Stacklok is an end-to-end software supply chain security platform that evaluates a company's software supply chain (e.g., Github, code repos, and dependencies), recommends security enhancements, and enforces policies throughout the entire CI/CD process.Initial Investment2023Stacklok is an end-to-end software supply chain security platform that evaluates a company's software supply chain (e.g., Github, code repos, and dependencies), recommends security enhancements, and enforces policies throughout the entire CI/CD process.
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Statsig is a Modern Product Experimentation platform that, unlike other A/B testing tools, tracks the impact of every single feature release thereby quantifying impact of all efforts. The “observability” nature of Statsig lets teams catch metric drops within hours of launching features, divest quickly on features that aren’t working, and invest more on the ones that do. The team behind Statsig comes from Facebook and is rebuilding the entire set of data tools infrastructure that powered all of Facebook’s growth in the last decade.Companies like Notion, Flipkart, Ancestry, Whatnot and OpenSea use Statsig to power their modern stack and have shown marked increase in product velocity since adoption.Initial Investment2021Statsig is a Modern Product Experimentation platform that, unlike other A/B testing tools, tracks the impact of every single feature release thereby quantifying impact of all efforts. The “observability” nature of Statsig lets teams catch metric drops within hours of launching features, divest quickly on features that aren’t working, and invest more on the ones that do. The team behind Statsig comes from Facebook and is rebuilding the entire set of data tools infrastructure that powered all of Facebook’s growth in the last decade.Companies like Notion, Flipkart, Ancestry, Whatnot and OpenSea use Statsig to power their modern stack and have shown marked increase in product velocity since adoption.
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Temporal is an open-source microservices orchestration engine for running mission-critical code at any scale.Initial Investment2020Temporal is an open-source microservices orchestration engine for running mission-critical code at any scale.
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Tier 3 was a Seattle-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform and advanced cloud management companyInitial Investment2011Tier 3 was a Seattle-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform and advanced cloud management companyFounderJared WrayInvestment JourneyAcquired by CenturyLink Savvis 2013Initial Investment2011
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Tigera provides the industry’s only active Cloud- Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) with full-stack observability for containers, Kubernetes, and cloud. The company’s platform prevents, detects, troubleshoots, and automatically mitigates exposure risks of security issues in build, deploy, and runtime stages. Tigera delivers its platform as a fully managed SaaS (Calico Cloud) or a self-managed service (Calico Enterprise). Its open-source offering, Calico Open Source, is the most widely adopted container networking and security solution. Tigera’s platform specifies security and observability as code to ensure consistent enforcement of security policies, which enables DevOps, platform, and security teams to protect workloads, detect threats, achieve continuous compliance, and troubleshoot service issues in real time. Powering more than 100M containers across 2M+ nodes in 166 countries, Calico software is supported across all major cloud providers and Kubernetes distributions, and is used by leading companies including AT&T, Discover, Merck, ServiceNow, HanseMerkur, RealPage, L3Harris, and Mindbody.Initial Investment2017Tigera provides the industry’s only active Cloud- Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) with full-stack observability for containers, Kubernetes, and cloud. The company’s platform prevents, detects, troubleshoots, and automatically mitigates exposure risks of security issues in build, deploy, and runtime stages. Tigera delivers its platform as a fully managed SaaS (Calico Cloud) or a self-managed service (Calico Enterprise). Its open-source offering, Calico Open Source, is the most widely adopted container networking and security solution. Tigera’s platform specifies security and observability as code to ensure consistent enforcement of security policies, which enables DevOps, platform, and security teams to protect workloads, detect threats, achieve continuous compliance, and troubleshoot service issues in real time. Powering more than 100M containers across 2M+ nodes in 166 countries, Calico software is supported across all major cloud providers and Kubernetes distributions, and is used by leading companies including AT&T, Discover, Merck, ServiceNow, HanseMerkur, RealPage, L3Harris, and Mindbody.
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Union Bay Networks worked to change the way applications and data can be accessed across public and private cloud infrastructure.Initial Investment2013Union Bay Networks worked to change the way applications and data can be accessed across public and private cloud infrastructure.FoundersBenn Bollay
Jason Needham
Tom HullInvestment JourneyAcquired by in 2015Initial Investment2013 -
Unstructured is the leader in data transformation for enterprise AI.Initial Investment2023Unstructured is the leader in data transformation for enterprise AI.
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XetHub brings data and code together so that hybrid and remote teams can collaborate seamlessly in a git-enabled environment at scale and speed.Initial Investment2022XetHub brings data and code together so that hybrid and remote teams can collaborate seamlessly in a git-enabled environment at scale and speed.