Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm established in 1998 that focuses on investing in early-stage companies across a diverse range of sectors. The firm targets technology-led businesses as well as non-technology opportunities in areas such as advertising and media, healthcare, education, financial services, and retail. It engages in various investment stages, including seed, early-stage, later-stage, and expansion-stage financing. Lightspeed specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies while also exploring opportunities in consumer, enterprise, cleantech, and other markets. The firm is known for its strategic investments in innovative sectors, including big data, bitcoin, mobile technology, and software solutions.

Vaibhav Agrawal

Associate Partner

Saqib Awan

Partner

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Akshay Bhushan

Partner

Guru Chahal

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Shelley Chu

Partner

James Ephrati

Partner

Gaurav Gupta

Partner

David Gussarsky

Partner

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Nnamdi Iregbulem

Partner

Raviraj Jain

Partner

Arif Janmohamed

Partner

Ansaf Kareem

Partner

Dev Khare

Partner

Harsha Kumar

Associate Partner

Pinn Lawjindakul

Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Will Leas

Partner

Jeremy Liew

Partner

Jonathan MacQuitty

Venture Partner

Hemant Mohapatra

Partner

Andrew Moley

Operating Partner and CFO

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Justin Overdorff

Partner

Nicole Quinn

General Partner

Christopher Schaepe

Co-Founder

Shan Shan

Partner

Shuvi Shrivastava

Partner

Adam Smith

Partner

Bejul Somaia

Partner

Rahul Taneja

Partner

Anoushka Vaswani

Partner

Rytis Vitkauskas

Partner

Jerry Ye

Partner, Data Platform

Connor Love

Partner

Peter Nieh

Partner and Co-Founder

John Thompson

Venture Partner

James Alcorn

Partner

Alex Taussig

Partner

Past deals in Open Source

Chainguard

Series D in 2025
Chainguard specializes in supply chain security by providing hardened, minimal container images that are continuously rebuilt from source in secure environments. These images are designed to eliminate known vulnerabilities and ensure end-to-end integrity, featuring built-in cryptographic signatures, Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), and Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) provenance. In addition to its container images, Chainguard offers a catalog of guarded Java dependencies through its Chainguard Libraries, which are also built securely from source in SLSA-certified infrastructure. The company emphasizes its commitment to the open source community by contributing to and maintaining several widely used open source projects. By applying zero-trust principles and utilizing compliant-build systems, Chainguard enables businesses to effectively manage their supply chain security risks throughout the software lifecycle.

Semgrep

Series D in 2025
Semgrep is a static code analysis tool that focuses on improving software security and reliability. The platform empowers developers to write secure code by automatically examining and evaluating code across the software ecosystem. It identifies vulnerabilities, questionable practices, and exemplary coding patterns from both leading technology companies and open-source projects. This functionality allows developers, security teams, and researchers to assess the safety of open-source initiatives and enhance their understanding of secure coding practices. Semgrep aims to streamline the security process in software development, ensuring that it supports rather than hinders rapid development efforts.

Grafana Labs

Series D in 2024
Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in providing an open and composable monitoring and observability stack centered around its flagship product, Grafana, an open-source technology for dashboards and data visualization. With over 3,000 customers, including major corporations like Bloomberg, Citigroup, and Salesforce, the company serves a global user base exceeding 20 million. Grafana Labs offers solutions that help organizations manage their observability strategies through its LGTM Stack, which can be deployed as a fully managed service via Grafana Cloud or as a self-managed option with Grafana Enterprise. Their offerings include scalable metrics management through Grafana Mimir, log aggregation with Grafana Loki, and distributed tracing via Grafana Tempo. These tools enable firms to unify data from various sources, enhancing their monitoring capabilities while avoiding vendor lock-in and high costs associated with proprietary solutions.

Chainguard

Series C in 2024
Chainguard specializes in supply chain security by providing hardened, minimal container images that are continuously rebuilt from source in secure environments. These images are designed to eliminate known vulnerabilities and ensure end-to-end integrity, featuring built-in cryptographic signatures, Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), and Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) provenance. In addition to its container images, Chainguard offers a catalog of guarded Java dependencies through its Chainguard Libraries, which are also built securely from source in SLSA-certified infrastructure. The company emphasizes its commitment to the open source community by contributing to and maintaining several widely used open source projects. By applying zero-trust principles and utilizing compliant-build systems, Chainguard enables businesses to effectively manage their supply chain security risks throughout the software lifecycle.

Aqua Security

Series E in 2024
Aqua Security Software Ltd. specializes in providing security solutions for container-based and cloud-native applications, ensuring protection from development through to production. The Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform offers comprehensive security across various environments, including on-premises and public clouds like AWS, Azure, and Google. The company also develops open-source security tools such as Kube-Bench, which automates security benchmarks for Kubernetes, and Kube-hunter, designed to identify security vulnerabilities in Kubernetes clusters. Aqua Security's offerings encompass areas such as DevSecOps automation, security modernization, compliance, and hybrid cloud environments. Founded in 2015 and based in Ramat Gan, Israel, with operations in Burlington, Massachusetts, Aqua Security serves a diverse range of industries, including financial services, media, and manufacturing, helping enterprises secure their cloud infrastructure and running workloads effectively.

Mistral AI_

Series A in 2023
Mistral AI is a company focused on developing advanced artificial intelligence solutions, particularly in the realm of open-source models. It specializes in creating customizable and compute-efficient large language models that facilitate a range of applications, including natural language processing and complex problem-solving. Mistral AI aims to foster safe artificial general intelligence that benefits all users, allowing businesses and organizations to harness AI technology without the burden of building and maintaining their own models. Through a community-driven development approach, Mistral AI seeks to enhance efficiency, innovation, and decision-making for its clients.

Endor Labs

Series A in 2023
Endor Labs specializes in enhancing application security by managing open-source software dependencies. The company provides a Dependency Lifecycle Management Platform designed to tackle vulnerabilities within the software supply chain, particularly the unmanaged proliferation of open-source software in enterprises. By streamlining the selection, security, and maintenance of software dependencies, Endor Labs aids developers in adopting safe open-source solutions, thereby accelerating development processes and reducing the time spent on security issues. The platform supports clients in maximizing code reuse and implementing microservices architectures, ultimately simplifying the complexities associated with software engineering.

AI4Bhārat

Venture Round in 2023
AI4Bhrat is focused on developing open-source language AI for Indian languages, including datasets, models, and applications.

Mistral AI_

Seed Round in 2023
Mistral AI is a company focused on developing advanced artificial intelligence solutions, particularly in the realm of open-source models. It specializes in creating customizable and compute-efficient large language models that facilitate a range of applications, including natural language processing and complex problem-solving. Mistral AI aims to foster safe artificial general intelligence that benefits all users, allowing businesses and organizations to harness AI technology without the burden of building and maintaining their own models. Through a community-driven development approach, Mistral AI seeks to enhance efficiency, innovation, and decision-making for its clients.

Semgrep

Series C in 2023
Semgrep is a static code analysis tool that focuses on improving software security and reliability. The platform empowers developers to write secure code by automatically examining and evaluating code across the software ecosystem. It identifies vulnerabilities, questionable practices, and exemplary coding patterns from both leading technology companies and open-source projects. This functionality allows developers, security teams, and researchers to assess the safety of open-source initiatives and enhance their understanding of secure coding practices. Semgrep aims to streamline the security process in software development, ensuring that it supports rather than hinders rapid development efforts.

Langfuse

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Langfuse is a developer of an open-source analytics platform specifically designed for large language model (LLM) applications. The platform offers tools for observability and analytics, allowing users to explore and debug complex logs and traces through a visual interface. It provides insights that help companies monitor and enhance the quality, cost, and latency of their applications across different product releases and use cases. By unifying the monetization stack, Langfuse enables organizations to understand production dynamics and utilize data-driven insights to improve their applications effectively.

Oligo Security

Series A in 2023
Oligo aims to streamline the usage of open source by making it secure and easy to protect. By focusing developers on the relevant vulnerabilities we make the fixing process significantly shorter.

Endor Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Endor Labs specializes in enhancing application security by managing open-source software dependencies. The company provides a Dependency Lifecycle Management Platform designed to tackle vulnerabilities within the software supply chain, particularly the unmanaged proliferation of open-source software in enterprises. By streamlining the selection, security, and maintenance of software dependencies, Endor Labs aids developers in adopting safe open-source solutions, thereby accelerating development processes and reducing the time spent on security issues. The platform supports clients in maximizing code reuse and implementing microservices architectures, ultimately simplifying the complexities associated with software engineering.

Elementor

Venture Round in 2022
Elementor is the leading website builder platform on WordPress. Serving over 5 million websites, Elementor serves a rapidly growing customer base of web professionals including web developers, designers, and marketers in 152 markets, boasting a new website created every 10 seconds on its open-source platform. Elementor's mission is to radically simplify web building, enabling web professionals and agencies to unleash their creative and business potential. To this end, Elementor is an open-source, GPLv3 licensed platform offered in a free and a premium edition.

Supabase

Series B in 2022
Supabase Pte. Ltd. is a company that provides an open-source alternative to Firebase, designed to enhance PostgreSQL databases with real-time and RESTful APIs without requiring extensive coding. Founded in 2020 and based in Singapore, Supabase offers a suite of tools to assist developers, including a Postgres database with self-documenting APIs, user authentication, instant APIs, Edge Functions, real-time subscriptions, and storage solutions. The platform enables users to manage database changes, perform queries with filtering and pagination, and handle user permissions through an intuitive interface. By focusing on simplifying database management and enhancing scalability, Supabase allows developers to concentrate on building their core products efficiently.

Grafana Labs

Series D in 2022
Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in providing an open and composable monitoring and observability stack centered around its flagship product, Grafana, an open-source technology for dashboards and data visualization. With over 3,000 customers, including major corporations like Bloomberg, Citigroup, and Salesforce, the company serves a global user base exceeding 20 million. Grafana Labs offers solutions that help organizations manage their observability strategies through its LGTM Stack, which can be deployed as a fully managed service via Grafana Cloud or as a self-managed option with Grafana Enterprise. Their offerings include scalable metrics management through Grafana Mimir, log aggregation with Grafana Loki, and distributed tracing via Grafana Tempo. These tools enable firms to unify data from various sources, enhancing their monitoring capabilities while avoiding vendor lock-in and high costs associated with proprietary solutions.

Voltron Data

Seed Round in 2022
Voltron Data specializes in developing tools for data access and memory computing aimed at enhancing the data analytics ecosystem. The company has created an open-source platform that facilitates seamless connections between data, hardware, and developers. By providing modular and composable analytics building blocks, Voltron Data enables the creation of multi-language tools that promote accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing. This approach allows developers, data scientists, and data engineers to improve their toolchains and establish better interoperability standards for data access, preparation, cleaning, analytics, and feature engineering.

Voltron Data

Series A in 2022
Voltron Data specializes in developing tools for data access and memory computing aimed at enhancing the data analytics ecosystem. The company has created an open-source platform that facilitates seamless connections between data, hardware, and developers. By providing modular and composable analytics building blocks, Voltron Data enables the creation of multi-language tools that promote accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing. This approach allows developers, data scientists, and data engineers to improve their toolchains and establish better interoperability standards for data access, preparation, cleaning, analytics, and feature engineering.

Astro

Seed Round in 2022
Astro assists web developers in building websites. Astro is an MIT-licensed open source build tool that renders directly to HTML and CSS. Astro also supports different well known frameworks such as react, preact, svelte, solid, vue, and more. Astro was established in 2019 by Fred K. Schott in San Francisco, California.

Apex.AI

Series B in 2021
Apex.AI, Inc. is a software company that focuses on developing solutions for autonomous mobility systems, particularly self-driving vehicles. Founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company offers Apex.OS, a software framework that simplifies the complexity of hardware and software integration through user-friendly APIs. Additionally, Apex.AI provides Apex.Autonomy, which is tailored for safety-critical applications, and MARV.Automotive, a versatile data management platform that facilitates data transfer between vehicles and the cloud. This platform allows for advanced analytics, data introspection, and team collaboration. Apex.AI's software products leverage open-source technologies, enabling developers to create secure and efficient applications for autonomous vehicles.

Yugabyte

Series C in 2021
Yugabyte, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source cloud-native database software designed for internet-scale applications. The company's flagship product, YugabyteDB, is a high-performance distributed SQL database that supports global applications, accommodating both scale-out relational database management system (RDBMS) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads. YugabyteDB features a combination of advanced capabilities, including automatic sharding, distributed consensus replication, and multi-shard ACID transactions, drawing inspiration from Google's Spanner. Yugabyte offers various deployment options, including Yugabyte Platform, a self-managed database-as-a-service, and Yugabyte Cloud, a fully-managed service available on major cloud platforms. The company also provides two editions of its software: the open-source YugaByte Community Edition for individual users and the YugaByte Enterprise Edition for corporate clients. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Yugabyte aims to deliver a resilient and scalable database solution for modern applications.

ClickHouse

Series B in 2021
ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented database management system specifically designed for online analytical processing (OLAP). It enables users to generate real-time analytical reports through SQL queries, leveraging its unique architecture that offers compact storage and enhanced processing performance. The column-oriented design minimizes redundant data, optimizing CPU efficiency and contributing to ClickHouse's remarkable speed. The system is capable of handling extensive datasets efficiently, processing large volumes of rows and gigabytes of data swiftly while maintaining reduced storage requirements. This makes ClickHouse a reliable, scalable solution for enterprises seeking to streamline their data processing and improve query performance for analytical purposes.

Grafana Labs

Series C in 2021
Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in providing an open and composable monitoring and observability stack centered around its flagship product, Grafana, an open-source technology for dashboards and data visualization. With over 3,000 customers, including major corporations like Bloomberg, Citigroup, and Salesforce, the company serves a global user base exceeding 20 million. Grafana Labs offers solutions that help organizations manage their observability strategies through its LGTM Stack, which can be deployed as a fully managed service via Grafana Cloud or as a self-managed option with Grafana Enterprise. Their offerings include scalable metrics management through Grafana Mimir, log aggregation with Grafana Loki, and distributed tracing via Grafana Tempo. These tools enable firms to unify data from various sources, enhancing their monitoring capabilities while avoiding vendor lock-in and high costs associated with proprietary solutions.

Salto

Series B in 2021
Salto is the leading solution for business application configuration. By adapting and applying software development concepts and best practices to the business operations world, Salto provides an Open Source and an Enterprise SaaS product that re-imagines multi-application configuration in the modern company. Salto's solution automatically extracts the configurations of different business applications - including Salesforce, NetSuite and HubSpot - and translates them to a new declarative representation called NaCl (“Not Another Configuration Language”). Using NaCl with Git, all applications’ configurations can be collaboratively edited and deployed back to the live business applications, or to a staging environment for testing. With Salto, configuration changes to multiple business applications can be easily tested, tracked or even rolled back if needed. Salto was founded in 2019 by veteran Israeli entrepreneurs Rami Tamir, Benny Schnaider and Gil Hoffer and is their latest startup, after successes with previous companies - Pentacom (acquired by Cisco), Qumranet (acquired by Red Hat) and Ravello Systems (acquired by Oracle). It is backed by leading investors such as Bessmer Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures and has offices in Tel Aviv and San Francisco.

Aqua Security

Series E in 2021
Aqua Security Software Ltd. specializes in providing security solutions for container-based and cloud-native applications, ensuring protection from development through to production. The Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform offers comprehensive security across various environments, including on-premises and public clouds like AWS, Azure, and Google. The company also develops open-source security tools such as Kube-Bench, which automates security benchmarks for Kubernetes, and Kube-hunter, designed to identify security vulnerabilities in Kubernetes clusters. Aqua Security's offerings encompass areas such as DevSecOps automation, security modernization, compliance, and hybrid cloud environments. Founded in 2015 and based in Ramat Gan, Israel, with operations in Burlington, Massachusetts, Aqua Security serves a diverse range of industries, including financial services, media, and manufacturing, helping enterprises secure their cloud infrastructure and running workloads effectively.

Yugabyte

Series B in 2021
Yugabyte, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source cloud-native database software designed for internet-scale applications. The company's flagship product, YugabyteDB, is a high-performance distributed SQL database that supports global applications, accommodating both scale-out relational database management system (RDBMS) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads. YugabyteDB features a combination of advanced capabilities, including automatic sharding, distributed consensus replication, and multi-shard ACID transactions, drawing inspiration from Google's Spanner. Yugabyte offers various deployment options, including Yugabyte Platform, a self-managed database-as-a-service, and Yugabyte Cloud, a fully-managed service available on major cloud platforms. The company also provides two editions of its software: the open-source YugaByte Community Edition for individual users and the YugaByte Enterprise Edition for corporate clients. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Yugabyte aims to deliver a resilient and scalable database solution for modern applications.

Salto

Series A in 2020
Salto is the leading solution for business application configuration. By adapting and applying software development concepts and best practices to the business operations world, Salto provides an Open Source and an Enterprise SaaS product that re-imagines multi-application configuration in the modern company. Salto's solution automatically extracts the configurations of different business applications - including Salesforce, NetSuite and HubSpot - and translates them to a new declarative representation called NaCl (“Not Another Configuration Language”). Using NaCl with Git, all applications’ configurations can be collaboratively edited and deployed back to the live business applications, or to a staging environment for testing. With Salto, configuration changes to multiple business applications can be easily tested, tracked or even rolled back if needed. Salto was founded in 2019 by veteran Israeli entrepreneurs Rami Tamir, Benny Schnaider and Gil Hoffer and is their latest startup, after successes with previous companies - Pentacom (acquired by Cisco), Qumranet (acquired by Red Hat) and Ravello Systems (acquired by Oracle). It is backed by leading investors such as Bessmer Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures and has offices in Tel Aviv and San Francisco.

Grafana Labs

Series B in 2020
Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in providing an open and composable monitoring and observability stack centered around its flagship product, Grafana, an open-source technology for dashboards and data visualization. With over 3,000 customers, including major corporations like Bloomberg, Citigroup, and Salesforce, the company serves a global user base exceeding 20 million. Grafana Labs offers solutions that help organizations manage their observability strategies through its LGTM Stack, which can be deployed as a fully managed service via Grafana Cloud or as a self-managed option with Grafana Enterprise. Their offerings include scalable metrics management through Grafana Mimir, log aggregation with Grafana Loki, and distributed tracing via Grafana Tempo. These tools enable firms to unify data from various sources, enhancing their monitoring capabilities while avoiding vendor lock-in and high costs associated with proprietary solutions.

Elementor

Series B in 2020
Elementor is the leading website builder platform on WordPress. Serving over 5 million websites, Elementor serves a rapidly growing customer base of web professionals including web developers, designers, and marketers in 152 markets, boasting a new website created every 10 seconds on its open-source platform. Elementor's mission is to radically simplify web building, enabling web professionals and agencies to unleash their creative and business potential. To this end, Elementor is an open-source, GPLv3 licensed platform offered in a free and a premium edition.

Yugabyte

Series B in 2020
Yugabyte, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source cloud-native database software designed for internet-scale applications. The company's flagship product, YugabyteDB, is a high-performance distributed SQL database that supports global applications, accommodating both scale-out relational database management system (RDBMS) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads. YugabyteDB features a combination of advanced capabilities, including automatic sharding, distributed consensus replication, and multi-shard ACID transactions, drawing inspiration from Google's Spanner. Yugabyte offers various deployment options, including Yugabyte Platform, a self-managed database-as-a-service, and Yugabyte Cloud, a fully-managed service available on major cloud platforms. The company also provides two editions of its software: the open-source YugaByte Community Edition for individual users and the YugaByte Enterprise Edition for corporate clients. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Yugabyte aims to deliver a resilient and scalable database solution for modern applications.

Aqua Security

Series D in 2020
Aqua Security Software Ltd. specializes in providing security solutions for container-based and cloud-native applications, ensuring protection from development through to production. The Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform offers comprehensive security across various environments, including on-premises and public clouds like AWS, Azure, and Google. The company also develops open-source security tools such as Kube-Bench, which automates security benchmarks for Kubernetes, and Kube-hunter, designed to identify security vulnerabilities in Kubernetes clusters. Aqua Security's offerings encompass areas such as DevSecOps automation, security modernization, compliance, and hybrid cloud environments. Founded in 2015 and based in Ramat Gan, Israel, with operations in Burlington, Massachusetts, Aqua Security serves a diverse range of industries, including financial services, media, and manufacturing, helping enterprises secure their cloud infrastructure and running workloads effectively.

Elementor

Series B in 2020
Elementor is the leading website builder platform on WordPress. Serving over 5 million websites, Elementor serves a rapidly growing customer base of web professionals including web developers, designers, and marketers in 152 markets, boasting a new website created every 10 seconds on its open-source platform. Elementor's mission is to radically simplify web building, enabling web professionals and agencies to unleash their creative and business potential. To this end, Elementor is an open-source, GPLv3 licensed platform offered in a free and a premium edition.

Apex.AI

Venture Round in 2019
Apex.AI, Inc. is a software company that focuses on developing solutions for autonomous mobility systems, particularly self-driving vehicles. Founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company offers Apex.OS, a software framework that simplifies the complexity of hardware and software integration through user-friendly APIs. Additionally, Apex.AI provides Apex.Autonomy, which is tailored for safety-critical applications, and MARV.Automotive, a versatile data management platform that facilitates data transfer between vehicles and the cloud. This platform allows for advanced analytics, data introspection, and team collaboration. Apex.AI's software products leverage open-source technologies, enabling developers to create secure and efficient applications for autonomous vehicles.

Grafana Labs

Series A in 2019
Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in providing an open and composable monitoring and observability stack centered around its flagship product, Grafana, an open-source technology for dashboards and data visualization. With over 3,000 customers, including major corporations like Bloomberg, Citigroup, and Salesforce, the company serves a global user base exceeding 20 million. Grafana Labs offers solutions that help organizations manage their observability strategies through its LGTM Stack, which can be deployed as a fully managed service via Grafana Cloud or as a self-managed option with Grafana Enterprise. Their offerings include scalable metrics management through Grafana Mimir, log aggregation with Grafana Loki, and distributed tracing via Grafana Tempo. These tools enable firms to unify data from various sources, enhancing their monitoring capabilities while avoiding vendor lock-in and high costs associated with proprietary solutions.

Aqua Security

Series C in 2019
Aqua Security Software Ltd. specializes in providing security solutions for container-based and cloud-native applications, ensuring protection from development through to production. The Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform offers comprehensive security across various environments, including on-premises and public clouds like AWS, Azure, and Google. The company also develops open-source security tools such as Kube-Bench, which automates security benchmarks for Kubernetes, and Kube-hunter, designed to identify security vulnerabilities in Kubernetes clusters. Aqua Security's offerings encompass areas such as DevSecOps automation, security modernization, compliance, and hybrid cloud environments. Founded in 2015 and based in Ramat Gan, Israel, with operations in Burlington, Massachusetts, Aqua Security serves a diverse range of industries, including financial services, media, and manufacturing, helping enterprises secure their cloud infrastructure and running workloads effectively.

Apex.AI

Series A in 2018
Apex.AI, Inc. is a software company that focuses on developing solutions for autonomous mobility systems, particularly self-driving vehicles. Founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company offers Apex.OS, a software framework that simplifies the complexity of hardware and software integration through user-friendly APIs. Additionally, Apex.AI provides Apex.Autonomy, which is tailored for safety-critical applications, and MARV.Automotive, a versatile data management platform that facilitates data transfer between vehicles and the cloud. This platform allows for advanced analytics, data introspection, and team collaboration. Apex.AI's software products leverage open-source technologies, enabling developers to create secure and efficient applications for autonomous vehicles.

CloudBees

Series E in 2018
CloudBees, Inc. offers comprehensive software solutions aimed at enhancing the software delivery processes for IT organizations. Established in 2010 and headquartered in Lewes, Delaware, the company provides a range of platforms including an open-source automation server, the CloudBees CI Jenkins Platform for continuous integration and delivery, and the CloudBees DevOptics for data aggregation from software pipelines. Their offerings also include private and cloud-based services, enabling enterprises to efficiently build, test, and manage applications in various environments. CloudBees emphasizes security, compliance, and operational efficiency, making it a valuable partner for organizations seeking to optimize their software development lifecycle. With additional offices across the United States and Europe, CloudBees is well-positioned to support businesses in their cloud transformation journeys.

Yugabyte

Series A in 2018
Yugabyte, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source cloud-native database software designed for internet-scale applications. The company's flagship product, YugabyteDB, is a high-performance distributed SQL database that supports global applications, accommodating both scale-out relational database management system (RDBMS) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads. YugabyteDB features a combination of advanced capabilities, including automatic sharding, distributed consensus replication, and multi-shard ACID transactions, drawing inspiration from Google's Spanner. Yugabyte offers various deployment options, including Yugabyte Platform, a self-managed database-as-a-service, and Yugabyte Cloud, a fully-managed service available on major cloud platforms. The company also provides two editions of its software: the open-source YugaByte Community Edition for individual users and the YugaByte Enterprise Edition for corporate clients. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Yugabyte aims to deliver a resilient and scalable database solution for modern applications.

Aqua Security

Series B in 2017
Aqua Security Software Ltd. specializes in providing security solutions for container-based and cloud-native applications, ensuring protection from development through to production. The Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform offers comprehensive security across various environments, including on-premises and public clouds like AWS, Azure, and Google. The company also develops open-source security tools such as Kube-Bench, which automates security benchmarks for Kubernetes, and Kube-hunter, designed to identify security vulnerabilities in Kubernetes clusters. Aqua Security's offerings encompass areas such as DevSecOps automation, security modernization, compliance, and hybrid cloud environments. Founded in 2015 and based in Ramat Gan, Israel, with operations in Burlington, Massachusetts, Aqua Security serves a diverse range of industries, including financial services, media, and manufacturing, helping enterprises secure their cloud infrastructure and running workloads effectively.

Heptio

Series B in 2017
Heptio Inc. is a company based in Seattle, Washington, founded in 2016 by key contributors to the Kubernetes project. It specializes in making the Kubernetes open-source container management software accessible to enterprises, facilitating the automation of deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Heptio aims to bridge the gap between traditional enterprise IT and modern cloud-native computing, providing tools and technologies designed for the contemporary business environment. By supporting and advancing the Kubernetes ecosystem, Heptio helps organizations leverage Docker containers effectively, enabling them to build robust cloud-native architectures. As of December 2018, Heptio operates as a subsidiary of VMware, Inc.

Streamlio

Series A in 2017
Streamlio, Inc. is a technology company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2016. It specializes in providing real-time solutions for the messaging, processing, and storage of streaming data, utilizing open-source technologies like Apache Pulsar. Streamlio's platform enables organizations to build data-driven applications that can respond to events in real time, supporting both publish-subscribe and queuing models. The company offers features such as event-driven architecture, anomaly detection, and predictive modeling, ensuring high-performance stream processing and scalable distributed storage. Streamlio's solutions are designed for critical production applications across data centers, cloud environments, and edge computing, making it a valuable asset for businesses looking to harness the power of streaming data. As of October 2019, Streamlio operates as a subsidiary of Splunk Inc.

SnapRoute

Series A in 2017
SnapRoute, Inc., founded in 2015 and based in Santa Clara, California, develops an open-source network stack for enterprises, enabling the adoption of white-box and disaggregated networking. The company offers a cloud-native network operating system (CN-NOS) built on a microservice architecture with embedded Kubernetes. This innovative approach aims to reduce costs by up to 50% compared to legacy systems, while enhancing application service delivery, security, and operational efficiency. SnapRoute’s platform allows network engineers to customize commodity networking switches and routers, providing full visibility and modularity of the network stack. This capability enables network operators to continuously install or update components without disrupting business operations. Acquired by Infoblox, SnapRoute is positioned to transform networking through the application of cloud-native technologies, catering to the needs of DevOps-driven organizations.

Yugabyte

Series A in 2016
Yugabyte, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source cloud-native database software designed for internet-scale applications. The company's flagship product, YugabyteDB, is a high-performance distributed SQL database that supports global applications, accommodating both scale-out relational database management system (RDBMS) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads. YugabyteDB features a combination of advanced capabilities, including automatic sharding, distributed consensus replication, and multi-shard ACID transactions, drawing inspiration from Google's Spanner. Yugabyte offers various deployment options, including Yugabyte Platform, a self-managed database-as-a-service, and Yugabyte Cloud, a fully-managed service available on major cloud platforms. The company also provides two editions of its software: the open-source YugaByte Community Edition for individual users and the YugaByte Enterprise Edition for corporate clients. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Yugabyte aims to deliver a resilient and scalable database solution for modern applications.

SocketPlane

Seed Round in 2016
SocketPlane is an open source software company that is changing the landscape of computer networking. We create software that allows applications to be deployed and connected quickly, at scale in a way that is simple to use. We are bringing Software-Defined Networking to Docker and Linux Containers in a way that is transparent to developers and familiar to Network Ops

CloudBees

Series D in 2015
CloudBees, Inc. offers comprehensive software solutions aimed at enhancing the software delivery processes for IT organizations. Established in 2010 and headquartered in Lewes, Delaware, the company provides a range of platforms including an open-source automation server, the CloudBees CI Jenkins Platform for continuous integration and delivery, and the CloudBees DevOptics for data aggregation from software pipelines. Their offerings also include private and cloud-based services, enabling enterprises to efficiently build, test, and manage applications in various environments. CloudBees emphasizes security, compliance, and operational efficiency, making it a valuable partner for organizations seeking to optimize their software development lifecycle. With additional offices across the United States and Europe, CloudBees is well-positioned to support businesses in their cloud transformation journeys.

Boundary

Series C in 2014
*** Boundary has been acquired by BMC Corp in July 2015. Terms were not disclosed, but believed to be below VC money invested, less ~ $15-17M still hold by Boundary at that time. Most engineers were hired by BMC. "Boundary Premium" was rebranded to "TruSight Pulse" and is offered at: http://www.bmc.com/truesightpulse. Boundary Enterprise is no longer available to new customers. *** Boundary is Application Aware Infrastructure Performance Monitoring. Requires zero change to the application, is agnostic across languages and infrastructures, sits on every VM, collects massive amounts of performance data, consolidates data from other sources and puts it all in context with its unique, real-time application map. Boundary offers all of these features: - SaaS- No scoping, procuring, deploying or managing hardware, no complicated software upgrades, and no delay in getting up and running. - Open Architecture- Leverage our extensive library of adapters or use our REST API to build custom adapters quickly- or we can do it for you. - Real-time Views- Unique, per-second application chatter and operations analytics provide an immediate view and an always current application topology. - Immediate Alerting- Find out about changes and code updates as they happen, and instantly track the impact. -Intuitive User Interface- Support more than 20 server OS using one small and easy to use agent. - Historical Data- Rewind time, see granular activity and analyze event data from an entire year. Spot trends and find problems faster. -Wide Coverage of Popular Technologies- Web Servers, SQL and NoSQL Databases, Load Balancers, Message Queues, Caches, etc. -Alerts- Send notifications to your favorite communication tool

CloudBees

Series C in 2014
CloudBees, Inc. offers comprehensive software solutions aimed at enhancing the software delivery processes for IT organizations. Established in 2010 and headquartered in Lewes, Delaware, the company provides a range of platforms including an open-source automation server, the CloudBees CI Jenkins Platform for continuous integration and delivery, and the CloudBees DevOptics for data aggregation from software pipelines. Their offerings also include private and cloud-based services, enabling enterprises to efficiently build, test, and manage applications in various environments. CloudBees emphasizes security, compliance, and operational efficiency, making it a valuable partner for organizations seeking to optimize their software development lifecycle. With additional offices across the United States and Europe, CloudBees is well-positioned to support businesses in their cloud transformation journeys.

Boundary

Series B in 2012
*** Boundary has been acquired by BMC Corp in July 2015. Terms were not disclosed, but believed to be below VC money invested, less ~ $15-17M still hold by Boundary at that time. Most engineers were hired by BMC. "Boundary Premium" was rebranded to "TruSight Pulse" and is offered at: http://www.bmc.com/truesightpulse. Boundary Enterprise is no longer available to new customers. *** Boundary is Application Aware Infrastructure Performance Monitoring. Requires zero change to the application, is agnostic across languages and infrastructures, sits on every VM, collects massive amounts of performance data, consolidates data from other sources and puts it all in context with its unique, real-time application map. Boundary offers all of these features: - SaaS- No scoping, procuring, deploying or managing hardware, no complicated software upgrades, and no delay in getting up and running. - Open Architecture- Leverage our extensive library of adapters or use our REST API to build custom adapters quickly- or we can do it for you. - Real-time Views- Unique, per-second application chatter and operations analytics provide an immediate view and an always current application topology. - Immediate Alerting- Find out about changes and code updates as they happen, and instantly track the impact. -Intuitive User Interface- Support more than 20 server OS using one small and easy to use agent. - Historical Data- Rewind time, see granular activity and analyze event data from an entire year. Spot trends and find problems faster. -Wide Coverage of Popular Technologies- Web Servers, SQL and NoSQL Databases, Load Balancers, Message Queues, Caches, etc. -Alerts- Send notifications to your favorite communication tool

Boundary

Series A in 2011
*** Boundary has been acquired by BMC Corp in July 2015. Terms were not disclosed, but believed to be below VC money invested, less ~ $15-17M still hold by Boundary at that time. Most engineers were hired by BMC. "Boundary Premium" was rebranded to "TruSight Pulse" and is offered at: http://www.bmc.com/truesightpulse. Boundary Enterprise is no longer available to new customers. *** Boundary is Application Aware Infrastructure Performance Monitoring. Requires zero change to the application, is agnostic across languages and infrastructures, sits on every VM, collects massive amounts of performance data, consolidates data from other sources and puts it all in context with its unique, real-time application map. Boundary offers all of these features: - SaaS- No scoping, procuring, deploying or managing hardware, no complicated software upgrades, and no delay in getting up and running. - Open Architecture- Leverage our extensive library of adapters or use our REST API to build custom adapters quickly- or we can do it for you. - Real-time Views- Unique, per-second application chatter and operations analytics provide an immediate view and an always current application topology. - Immediate Alerting- Find out about changes and code updates as they happen, and instantly track the impact. -Intuitive User Interface- Support more than 20 server OS using one small and easy to use agent. - Historical Data- Rewind time, see granular activity and analyze event data from an entire year. Spot trends and find problems faster. -Wide Coverage of Popular Technologies- Web Servers, SQL and NoSQL Databases, Load Balancers, Message Queues, Caches, etc. -Alerts- Send notifications to your favorite communication tool

CloudBees

Series B in 2011
CloudBees, Inc. offers comprehensive software solutions aimed at enhancing the software delivery processes for IT organizations. Established in 2010 and headquartered in Lewes, Delaware, the company provides a range of platforms including an open-source automation server, the CloudBees CI Jenkins Platform for continuous integration and delivery, and the CloudBees DevOptics for data aggregation from software pipelines. Their offerings also include private and cloud-based services, enabling enterprises to efficiently build, test, and manage applications in various environments. CloudBees emphasizes security, compliance, and operational efficiency, making it a valuable partner for organizations seeking to optimize their software development lifecycle. With additional offices across the United States and Europe, CloudBees is well-positioned to support businesses in their cloud transformation journeys.

Storability Software

Series B in 2001
Storability Software specializes in enterprise storage resource management solutions designed to simplify and centralize the management of complex, multi-site, and multi-vendor storage infrastructures. Its flagship product, the Global Storage Manager, is an open standards-based solution that empowers customers to better understand, manage, and optimize their storage investments. By utilizing Storability Software's offerings, clients can achieve increased asset utilization, improved management efficiency, enhanced quality of service, and greater availability of their storage resources.

Storability Software

Series A in 2000
Storability Software specializes in enterprise storage resource management solutions designed to simplify and centralize the management of complex, multi-site, and multi-vendor storage infrastructures. Its flagship product, the Global Storage Manager, is an open standards-based solution that empowers customers to better understand, manage, and optimize their storage investments. By utilizing Storability Software's offerings, clients can achieve increased asset utilization, improved management efficiency, enhanced quality of service, and greater availability of their storage resources.
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