Appian Ventures

Appian Ventures Inc. is a venture capital firm based in Littleton, Colorado, founded in 2002. The firm specializes in investing in seed stage, early stage, growth stage, and late stage companies, primarily within the technology and software sectors. Its investment focus includes real-time enterprise applications, such as knowledge management, eCommerce, business process optimization, and supply chain management, as well as virtual enterprise management software, covering areas like application management and network management. Appian Ventures typically targets companies located in the Western United States and prefers to make initial investments ranging from $1 million to $2 million, with total investments between $500,000 and $5 million. The firm aims to support innovations that leverage network connectivity to enhance business performance.

Mark Soane

Managing Director

36 past transactions

Ping Identity

Series G in 2014
Ping Identity is a provider of cloud-based identity management software, serving a diverse range of sectors, including financial services, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing. Established in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the company focuses on delivering solutions that enable enterprises to achieve Zero Trust security and enhance user experiences. Its Ping Intelligent Identity Platform allows organizations to manage identity and profile data at scale while providing secure access to cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs. The software includes features such as orchestration, fraud detection, risk management, identity verification, and authentication, helping clients streamline their digital interactions and maintain robust security protocols.

Ping Identity

Series F in 2013
Ping Identity is a provider of cloud-based identity management software, serving a diverse range of sectors, including financial services, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing. Established in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the company focuses on delivering solutions that enable enterprises to achieve Zero Trust security and enhance user experiences. Its Ping Intelligent Identity Platform allows organizations to manage identity and profile data at scale while providing secure access to cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs. The software includes features such as orchestration, fraud detection, risk management, identity verification, and authentication, helping clients streamline their digital interactions and maintain robust security protocols.

OpenLogic

Venture Round in 2011
OpenLogic is a provider of cloud-based open source software management services, focusing on support and consulting for enterprises. The company assists organizations in effectively utilizing open source software by offering solutions in support, governance, provisioning, and training. Through its platform, OpenLogic Exchange, it enables software development teams to harness the extensive capabilities and innovations found in open source software, ensuring that businesses can maximize the benefits while maintaining safe and compliant usage.

Ping Identity

Series D in 2011
Ping Identity is a provider of cloud-based identity management software, serving a diverse range of sectors, including financial services, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing. Established in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the company focuses on delivering solutions that enable enterprises to achieve Zero Trust security and enhance user experiences. Its Ping Intelligent Identity Platform allows organizations to manage identity and profile data at scale while providing secure access to cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs. The software includes features such as orchestration, fraud detection, risk management, identity verification, and authentication, helping clients streamline their digital interactions and maintain robust security protocols.

Univa

Venture Round in 2011
Univa is the innovator of workload management solutions that optimize throughput and performance of applications, containers and services. Univa manages workloads automatically by maximizing shared resources and enabling enterprises to scale compute resources across on-premise, hybrid and cloud infrastructures. Univa's solutions help hundreds of companies to manage thousands of applications and run billions of tasks every day to obtain actionable insights and achieve faster time-to-results. Univa is headquartered in Chicago, USA, with offices in Canada and Germany.

OneRiot

Series C in 2009
OneRiot specializes in socially-targeted mobile advertising, helping brands like The Gap, Toyota, and AT&T enhance the visibility of their products and services. The company utilizes extensive analysis of publicly available mobile social media activity to identify audience characteristics, allowing clients to effectively target their media campaigns based on specific interests and demographics within defined geographic locations. Clients can either execute campaigns directly through OneRiot's network of mobile applications or utilize its targeting data across other mobile advertising platforms. As a privately held entity, OneRiot has garnered investment from firms such as Spark Capital, Appian Ventures, and Commonwealth Capital Ventures.

mPay Gateway

Venture Round in 2008
mPay Gateway is a PCI certified acquiring card processor, delivering bankcard solutions with integrated web based management software to Providers that addresses the increased cost of collecting from consumers enrolled in consumer directed health care plans. They enable Providers to collect patient payment obligations at the point of service in real time when the service is delivered. Their payment technology allows Providers to transact payments for all members regardless of payer or card type.

Selero

Venture Round in 2008
Selero provides highly automated trade execution solutions spanning the equities trading supply chain. The Company’s offerings include Smart Order Routing, Trading Systems for market makers and internalization traders, intra and inter-organization System Integration, and a FIX Engine. Included in Selero Smart Order Routing is a wide array of configurable routing capabilities that allow each trader to achieve his unique definition of Best Execution. It is particularly useful for Reg NMS, MiFID, and the Best Execution Obligation. In addition, the Company makes order routing services available to its customers through its agency broker dealer Nunami Services, LLC, Member FINRA, www.nunami.net. Selero’s mission is to give its customers the tools they need to achieve best execution and to maximize profits. Its solutions are designed to be fast to implement, fast to operate, and fast to change in response to real-time market dynamics. Its customers include asset managers, broker dealers, exchanges, ECNs, ATSs, dark pools, and regulators.

IP Commerce

Series C in 2008
IP Commerce is a privately held software company serving small and medium sized businesses (SMBs). Its flagship solution, Commerce Sync, simplifies accounting for thousands of SMBs, helping business owners realize valuable time savings, increased accuracy, and complete business visibility. The Company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Collective Intellect

Series B in 2008
Collective Intellect specializes in real-time market intelligence through an advanced digital communications analytics platform designed to meet the critical needs of marketing professionals. The company provides software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions that enable businesses to track, filter, rank, and analyze social media content effectively. By offering cloud-based social intelligence services, Collective Intellect allows organizations to monitor and interpret consumer conversations on platforms like Facebook and Twitter. This capability equips companies to derive actionable insights quickly, more cost-effectively, and with higher data purity than traditional methods, ultimately enhancing their marketing strategies.

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.

Valen Analytics

Series C in 2007
Valen Analytics specializes in providing data, analytics, and predictive modeling services to property and casualty insurance carriers. The company partners with insurance providers to enhance underwriting performance through its InsureRight Platform, which offers unique insights into portfolio metrics and risk characteristics. This platform helps identify areas of pricing inadequacy and profitability, allowing carriers to manage and segment their portfolios effectively. Valen also offers a dynamic portfolio management tool that provides access to a contributory database with industry comparisons and predictive scores on over 20 million policies. Founded in 2002 and based in Denver, Colorado, Valen Analytics aims to empower its clients to navigate competitive pressures and mitigate adverse selection through innovative data-driven solutions.

SkyeTek

Series C in 2007
SkyeTek delivers a turn-key RFID application that enables real-time management of field-based inventory and resources. This capability allows manufacturers and service providers to track the movement of inventory, assets, and workers in real-time from the factory, through the field, and ultimately to the customer site enabling significant increases in revenue, efficiency, productivity, and compliance. In addition to its MetaFi application service, SkyeTek also provides RFID reader modules as well as comprehensive professional and support services. SkyeTek is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, with sales operations in North America, Europe and Asia.

OneRiot

Series B in 2007
OneRiot specializes in socially-targeted mobile advertising, helping brands like The Gap, Toyota, and AT&T enhance the visibility of their products and services. The company utilizes extensive analysis of publicly available mobile social media activity to identify audience characteristics, allowing clients to effectively target their media campaigns based on specific interests and demographics within defined geographic locations. Clients can either execute campaigns directly through OneRiot's network of mobile applications or utilize its targeting data across other mobile advertising platforms. As a privately held entity, OneRiot has garnered investment from firms such as Spark Capital, Appian Ventures, and Commonwealth Capital Ventures.

IP Commerce

Series B in 2007
IP Commerce is a privately held software company serving small and medium sized businesses (SMBs). Its flagship solution, Commerce Sync, simplifies accounting for thousands of SMBs, helping business owners realize valuable time savings, increased accuracy, and complete business visibility. The Company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Collective Intellect

Series A in 2007
Collective Intellect specializes in real-time market intelligence through an advanced digital communications analytics platform designed to meet the critical needs of marketing professionals. The company provides software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions that enable businesses to track, filter, rank, and analyze social media content effectively. By offering cloud-based social intelligence services, Collective Intellect allows organizations to monitor and interpret consumer conversations on platforms like Facebook and Twitter. This capability equips companies to derive actionable insights quickly, more cost-effectively, and with higher data purity than traditional methods, ultimately enhancing their marketing strategies.

Ping Identity

Series C in 2006
Ping Identity is a provider of cloud-based identity management software, serving a diverse range of sectors, including financial services, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing. Established in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the company focuses on delivering solutions that enable enterprises to achieve Zero Trust security and enhance user experiences. Its Ping Intelligent Identity Platform allows organizations to manage identity and profile data at scale while providing secure access to cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs. The software includes features such as orchestration, fraud detection, risk management, identity verification, and authentication, helping clients streamline their digital interactions and maintain robust security protocols.

OpenLogic

Venture Round in 2006
OpenLogic is a provider of cloud-based open source software management services, focusing on support and consulting for enterprises. The company assists organizations in effectively utilizing open source software by offering solutions in support, governance, provisioning, and training. Through its platform, OpenLogic Exchange, it enables software development teams to harness the extensive capabilities and innovations found in open source software, ensuring that businesses can maximize the benefits while maintaining safe and compliant usage.

AuctionPay

Series B in 2006
Auctionpay offers a variety of technology solutions and services specifically designed to meet the fundraising needs of schools and nonprofit organizations. Clients use Auctionpay products ranging from event management software to event registration to donation payment processing to online auctions, in order to automate and streamline their fundraising efforts so they can raise more money.

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.

ETI International

Series A in 2006
ETI International Inc., also known as Evolutionary Technologies International, Inc., provides enterprise data integration solutions. Its products include ETI Solution, a data integration platform that enables data integration from Java/XML to legacy COBOL, proprietary, or multibyte data; and Built-to-Order Integration that provides built-to-order connectors, which integrate mainframe, legacy, and proprietary applications with current business intelligence, data warehousing, and SOA-based infrastructures. The company also provides data quality solutions, such as Data Profiler that includes counts, advanced statistics, pattern recognition, inconsistency identification, anomalies, possible key values, and data relationships for analysis to discover the content, structure, and quality of data sources before the start of information technology project; Data Monitor that helps to remove the hidden business costs attributable to bad data by examining the data quality of vital business processes, applications, and information technology projects; and Data Cleanser that enables to design, manage, and deploy cleansing processes, which run in line with production systems or offline for batch-based projects. In addition, it offers Pre-Built High Performance Connectors to load Teradata, Oracle, DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server data sources. Further, the company provides implementation and consulting, education and training, and customer support services. It offers solutions for synchronization, migration, data quality, and SOA needs of companies and government information technology organizations. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. As of May 19, 2008, ETI International Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Versata Inc.

Collective Intellect

Series A in 2006
Collective Intellect specializes in real-time market intelligence through an advanced digital communications analytics platform designed to meet the critical needs of marketing professionals. The company provides software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions that enable businesses to track, filter, rank, and analyze social media content effectively. By offering cloud-based social intelligence services, Collective Intellect allows organizations to monitor and interpret consumer conversations on platforms like Facebook and Twitter. This capability equips companies to derive actionable insights quickly, more cost-effectively, and with higher data purity than traditional methods, ultimately enhancing their marketing strategies.

OneRiot

Series A in 2006
OneRiot specializes in socially-targeted mobile advertising, helping brands like The Gap, Toyota, and AT&T enhance the visibility of their products and services. The company utilizes extensive analysis of publicly available mobile social media activity to identify audience characteristics, allowing clients to effectively target their media campaigns based on specific interests and demographics within defined geographic locations. Clients can either execute campaigns directly through OneRiot's network of mobile applications or utilize its targeting data across other mobile advertising platforms. As a privately held entity, OneRiot has garnered investment from firms such as Spark Capital, Appian Ventures, and Commonwealth Capital Ventures.

Carefx

Series B in 2005
Carefx is a provider of information technology solutions for healthcare organizations in North America and Europe. Its primary offering, Fusionfx, is designed to bridge communication gaps between hospital and integrated delivery network leaders, as well as healthcare IT departments. Fusionfx synthesizes disparate data into clinically relevant, user-centric workflows, facilitating the connection of essential data points for patients, payers, clinicians, and compliance agencies. The suite includes interoperable workflow and analytics solutions that enhance both clinical and business operations, along with business intelligence dashboards that promote accountability and transparency within healthcare operations.

Carefx

Series B in 2005
Carefx is a provider of information technology solutions for healthcare organizations in North America and Europe. Its primary offering, Fusionfx, is designed to bridge communication gaps between hospital and integrated delivery network leaders, as well as healthcare IT departments. Fusionfx synthesizes disparate data into clinically relevant, user-centric workflows, facilitating the connection of essential data points for patients, payers, clinicians, and compliance agencies. The suite includes interoperable workflow and analytics solutions that enhance both clinical and business operations, along with business intelligence dashboards that promote accountability and transparency within healthcare operations.

SkyeTek

Series B in 2005
SkyeTek delivers a turn-key RFID application that enables real-time management of field-based inventory and resources. This capability allows manufacturers and service providers to track the movement of inventory, assets, and workers in real-time from the factory, through the field, and ultimately to the customer site enabling significant increases in revenue, efficiency, productivity, and compliance. In addition to its MetaFi application service, SkyeTek also provides RFID reader modules as well as comprehensive professional and support services. SkyeTek is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, with sales operations in North America, Europe and Asia.

Univa

Series A in 2005
Univa is the innovator of workload management solutions that optimize throughput and performance of applications, containers and services. Univa manages workloads automatically by maximizing shared resources and enabling enterprises to scale compute resources across on-premise, hybrid and cloud infrastructures. Univa's solutions help hundreds of companies to manage thousands of applications and run billions of tasks every day to obtain actionable insights and achieve faster time-to-results. Univa is headquartered in Chicago, USA, with offices in Canada and Germany.

Oxlo Systems

Series B in 2005
Oxlo Systems Inc. based in Broomfield, Colorado, is an integration leader in Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions that provides real-time, bi-directional integration. interoperability certification and integrated information solutions to forward thinking businesses across multiple industries.

Valen Analytics

Series B in 2005
Valen Analytics specializes in providing data, analytics, and predictive modeling services to property and casualty insurance carriers. The company partners with insurance providers to enhance underwriting performance through its InsureRight Platform, which offers unique insights into portfolio metrics and risk characteristics. This platform helps identify areas of pricing inadequacy and profitability, allowing carriers to manage and segment their portfolios effectively. Valen also offers a dynamic portfolio management tool that provides access to a contributory database with industry comparisons and predictive scores on over 20 million policies. Founded in 2002 and based in Denver, Colorado, Valen Analytics aims to empower its clients to navigate competitive pressures and mitigate adverse selection through innovative data-driven solutions.

OpenLogic

Series A in 2005
OpenLogic is a provider of cloud-based open source software management services, focusing on support and consulting for enterprises. The company assists organizations in effectively utilizing open source software by offering solutions in support, governance, provisioning, and training. Through its platform, OpenLogic Exchange, it enables software development teams to harness the extensive capabilities and innovations found in open source software, ensuring that businesses can maximize the benefits while maintaining safe and compliant usage.

Roving Planet

Series C in 2005
Roving Planet, Inc. provides network access control and management solutions for enterprise networks. Its products provide a secure network environment by managing and controlling users, endpoints, connections, and sessions. The company serves enterprise, manufacturing, health, higher education, k-12, and aerospace government industries. Roving Planet, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Westminster, Colorado.

AdPay

Series A in 2004
AdPay, Inc. specializes in developing online and mobile software solutions tailored for advertising and media companies. Established in 2002 and based in Englewood, Colorado, the company offers a range of services, including classified advertising solutions, mobile applications for order entry and news management, and obituary order entry systems. AdPay is recognized as a leading provider in the online classified advertising sector, assisting media companies and affinity websites in enhancing their online presence and user engagement. Through its patented technology and the AdPay Classified Network, the company enables clients to effectively attract and retain advertisers, transforming their platforms into dynamic online marketplaces. AdPay operates as a subsidiary of Ancestry.Com Operations Inc. as of May 2016.

IBSN

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

Oxlo Systems

Series A in 2004
Oxlo Systems Inc. based in Broomfield, Colorado, is an integration leader in Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions that provides real-time, bi-directional integration. interoperability certification and integrated information solutions to forward thinking businesses across multiple industries.

Roving Planet

Venture Round in 2004
Roving Planet, Inc. provides network access control and management solutions for enterprise networks. Its products provide a secure network environment by managing and controlling users, endpoints, connections, and sessions. The company serves enterprise, manufacturing, health, higher education, k-12, and aerospace government industries. Roving Planet, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Westminster, Colorado.
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