Stripes

Stripes is a private equity and growth equity firm based in New York, established in 2008. The firm specializes in investing in emerging growth and growth-stage companies, focusing on both enterprise and consumer sectors. Stripes targets various industries, including software, digital media, e-commerce, healthcare IT, and technology-enabled consumer products. The firm typically invests between $10 million and $100 million in businesses with annual revenues exceeding $10 million or demonstrating significant revenue growth. Stripes prefers to work with founder-owned companies that have not previously engaged with institutional investors and often seeks to make minority or majority investments. The firm aims to exit its investments within two to four years while providing capital for liquidity and supporting management teams with significant equity stakes.

Christopher Carey

Principal

Ripley Carroll

Vice President / Investor

Oliver Chernyk

Senior Associate and Member of the Investment Team

John Diorio

Vice President

Ron Doornink

Co-Investor and Limited Partner

Riadh Dridi

Operating Partner

Tony Ducic

Associate

Ken Fox

Founder and Partner

Melissa Fulenwider

Vice President

Bryan Gertzog

Partner

Karen Kenworthy

Partner

Saagar Kulkarni

Partner

Julia Levy

Partner

Marco Lorenzon

Senior Associate

Wayne Marino

Partner / CFO

Dan Marriott

Managing Partner

Aliza Reisner

Vice President

Will Reycraft

Associate

Sharon Rothstein

Operating Partner

Jason Santiago

Partner / CTO

David Swinghamer

Operating Partner

Joe Tsai

Investor

Gracie Zaro

Investor / Analyst

Jindra Zitek

Partner and Head of Scale

Past deals in PaaS

Spectro Cloud

Series C in 2024
Spectro Cloud, Inc. is a technology firm based in Santa Clara, California, specializing in Kubernetes management solutions. Established in 2019, the company offers the Palette platform, which simplifies the deployment and management of Kubernetes environments across diverse infrastructures, including public clouds, private clouds, data centers, and bare metal. Palette enables Platform Engineering, IT Operations, and DevOps teams to efficiently manage the entire Kubernetes lifecycle while ensuring compliance, security, and operational health. The platform supports both virtual machine and container workloads, providing tailored Kubernetes stacks that cater to specific organizational needs. Spectro Cloud has received recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor and a CRN Tech Innovator, and is acknowledged as a leader in GigaOm’s 2024 Radars for Edge Kubernetes and Managed Kubernetes.

Spectro Cloud

Series B in 2022
Spectro Cloud, Inc. is a technology firm based in Santa Clara, California, specializing in Kubernetes management solutions. Established in 2019, the company offers the Palette platform, which simplifies the deployment and management of Kubernetes environments across diverse infrastructures, including public clouds, private clouds, data centers, and bare metal. Palette enables Platform Engineering, IT Operations, and DevOps teams to efficiently manage the entire Kubernetes lifecycle while ensuring compliance, security, and operational health. The platform supports both virtual machine and container workloads, providing tailored Kubernetes stacks that cater to specific organizational needs. Spectro Cloud has received recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor and a CRN Tech Innovator, and is acknowledged as a leader in GigaOm’s 2024 Radars for Edge Kubernetes and Managed Kubernetes.

Spectro Cloud

Series A in 2021
Spectro Cloud, Inc. is a technology firm based in Santa Clara, California, specializing in Kubernetes management solutions. Established in 2019, the company offers the Palette platform, which simplifies the deployment and management of Kubernetes environments across diverse infrastructures, including public clouds, private clouds, data centers, and bare metal. Palette enables Platform Engineering, IT Operations, and DevOps teams to efficiently manage the entire Kubernetes lifecycle while ensuring compliance, security, and operational health. The platform supports both virtual machine and container workloads, providing tailored Kubernetes stacks that cater to specific organizational needs. Spectro Cloud has received recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor and a CRN Tech Innovator, and is acknowledged as a leader in GigaOm’s 2024 Radars for Edge Kubernetes and Managed Kubernetes.
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