Founded in 2000, ViewPoint Capital Partners was the first private equity firm in Europe specializing exclusively on mature software technology companies in the growth capital segment. ViewPoint raised two funds, namely ViewPoint Ventures I in 2000/01 and ViewPoint Growth II in 2007/08 with total assets under management of €160m. ViewPoint Ventures I invested into IMPRESS (today Trinovis), Interactive Objects, RedDot (acquired by Hummingbird in 2005, today Opentext), FERNBACH (sold back to founder in 2015), mental images (acquired by Nvidia in 2007), ASDIS (today Auconet), arcplan (acquired by LongView Solutions in 2015) and Aquin (acquired by State Street/PFS in 2008). ViewPoint Growth II invested into Crytek, acrolinx (acquired by Genui in 2017), Textbroker, BrandMaker (sold to Pinova in 2014), HYPE, QuantHouse (acquired by S&P CapitalIQ in 2012), adnologies (today TradeDoubler), Dovetail Systems (acquired by Fiserv in 2017) and Tricentis (acquired by Insight Venture Partners in 2016). In 2015, the firm stopped making new investments and ceased operations in 2016.

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Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with growth-stage technology and software companies. Insight has a deep focus in Fintech, Cybersecurity, AI/ML, DevOps, and Healthcare sectors. Across their people and their portfolio, they encourage a culture around a core belief growth equals opportunity. As of December 31, 2022, the firm has over $75B in regulatory assets under management. Insight Partners has invested in more than 750 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO.

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Wipro Ventures is the strategic investment arm of Wipro Ltd. (NYSE: WIT) and focuses on investing in early- to mid-stage startups. It is a $100 million fund that leverages Wipro’s global reach and market knowledge to accelerate the growth of our portfolio companies. Wipro’s broad customer base of Global 1000 clients gives us a better understanding of customer needs and market trends, enabling us to provide valuable guidance to our startup partners.

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GTCR is a private equity firm focused on investing in growth companies in the Financial Services and technology, Healthcare, and Information Services & Technology industries. The Chicago-based firm pioneered the â€œLeaders Strategyâ€ â€“ finding and partnering with world-class leaders as the critical first step in identifying, acquiring, and building market-leading companies through acquisitions and organic growth. Since its inception, GTCR has invested more than $8 billion in over 200 companies.

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AI-based solutions for evolving digital threats

Next-gen Cybersecurity

DeepFactor’s AppSec platform delivers 360 degrees of runtime visibility and control throughout the DevOps pipeline of cloud-native applications. This enables AppSec teams and engineering teams to identify supply chain, security, privacy, and compliance risks to secure both in-house applications and third-party components. The company’s self-hosted platform automatically observes billions of live telemetry data across more than 170 parameters in threads and processes of containers, Kubernetes, and Docker applications. Through this, it can detect code anomalies during testing, staging, and production with a single command and zero code changes. The data is also stored in a portal within a user-defined retention period that allows companies to investigate past behaviors and gain insights based on trends over time. AppSec teams can establish data governance, guardrails, and prioritize alert policies based on threshold triggers such as bad behaviors. The company provides insights to a company’s existing SAST (static application security testing), SCA (software composition analysis), and DAST (dynamic application security testing) toolset with reduced alert fatigue and reduced MTTR (mean-time-to-remediate).DeepFactor integrates with developer tools such as AWS, CircleCI, Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, CloudBees, Swagger, and Travis CI, and provides its platform for businesses at a minimum of USD 800 per month for 20 developers.By September 2021, the company had served over 20 enterprise clients in the media, information technology, software-as-a-service, and public sectors, and had plans to expand its headcount from 20 employees to 30 in the areas of engineering, sales, and marketing across the US and India.In September 2021, the company raised USD 15 million in a Series A funding round led by Insight Partners. The company expected to direct the funds towards the development of its continuous AppSec Observability platform, launch a SaaS (software-as-a-service) solution, and expand product development in privacy, compliance, and CI/CD integration.

DeepFactor is a cloud native application security platform that enables developers to quickly discover and resolve security vulnerabilities, supply chain risks and compliance issues during development. The unified AppSec platform provides integrated artifact scanning (SCA, container scans, SBOM) and runtime visibility (IAST, DAST). Requiring no code changes, the DeepFactor runtime observability technology seamlessly plugs into cloud native architectures to observe telemetry and detect anomalies, providing developers with a prioritized and actionable list of contextual security risks. DeepFactor simplifies operations, reporting, remediation, and integrates AppSec into the CI/CD pipeline to drive the adoption of DevSecOps for modern enterprises.

Tricentis specializes in enterprise test automation credited for reinventing software testing for DevOps and agile environments. They address both agile development and complex enterprise apps, enabling enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation by dramatically increasing software release speed, reducing costs, and improving software quality. Tricentis has offices in Austria, Australia, Germany, India, Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, United States, and the UK.

Tricentis is a global leader in enterprise continuous testing and software quality assurance. The company offers a comprehensive set of test automation capabilities to address various challenges in software testing. Tricentis' platform includes tools for test automation, test management, performance testing, and data integrity. Its flagship product, Tosca, provides model-based test automation, allowing users to create codeless, resilient automated tests. The company's test management solution serves as a central operating system for quality engineering organizations, ensuring traceability and governance across the testing lifecycle.

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Companies which provide solutions for enterprises to secure their cloud-native applications and workloads, across the entire development lifecycle.

Tricentis is a global leader in enterprise continuous testing and software quality assurance. The company offers a comprehensive set of test automation capabilities to address various challenges in software testing. Tricentis' platform includes tools for test automation, test management, performance testing, and data integrity. Its flagship product, Tosca, provides model-based test automation, allowing users to create codeless, resilient automated tests. The company's test management solution serves as a central operating system for quality engineering organizations, ensuring traceability and governance across the testing lifecycle.
Tricentis' offerings cover a wide range of testing needs, including functional UI testing, API/microservices testing, and end-to-end business process testing. The company's solutions are designed to work with various applications, from packaged software like SAP and Salesforce to custom and cloud-native applications. In January 2023, Tricentis launched Test Automation, a cloud-based solution that simplifies test creation, orchestration, and scalable test execution. This SaaS-based product enables teams to verify quality across integrated platforms without requiring coding skills or prior test automation knowledge.

Sonar is a suite of software quality assurance tools designed to help developers produce clean, secure, and reliable code. The company's flagship product, SonarQube, is an open-source platform for continuous code quality inspection. It performs automated code reviews using static analysis to detect bugs, code smells, and security vulnerabilities across more than 30 programming languages. SonarQube integrates into the development workflow, providing real-time feedback during code reviews and enforcing quality gates to ensure only code meeting predefined standards moves forward in the pipeline.
In addition to SonarQube, Sonar offers SonarCloud, a cloud-based version of the platform, and SonarLint, an IDE extension that provides immediate feedback to developers as they write code. These tools work together to support Sonar's "Clean as You Code" methodology, which aims to maintain high code quality standards throughout the development process. Sonar's solutions go beyond simple error detection, addressing deeper issues that may be overlooked by both human reviewers and AI coding assistants. The platform offers features such as code coverage analysis, duplication detection, and maintainability metrics to provide a comprehensive view of code health.

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 Asana is a cloud-based work management platform that helps teams organize, track, and manage their work. Founded in 2009, Asana provides tools for project and task management, collaboration, and workflow optimization. The platform allows users to create projects, assign tasks, set deadlines, share files, and communicate with team members in real-time. Asana's interface offers multiple views including lists, boards, calendars, and timelines to visualize work in different formats.
 
 
 
 
 Key features of Asana include customizable workflows, automation capabilities, reporting dashboards, and goal tracking. The platform aims to reduce &quot;work about work&quot; - time spent on work coordination rather than core job functions. As of March 2023, Asana reported that knowledge workers were spending 58% of their day on work coordination tasks. To address this, Asana provides tools to streamline processes, automate routine tasks, and improve cross-functional collaboration.
 
 
 
 
 Asana offers both free and paid subscription plans. The free Basic plan includes unlimited tasks, projects, messages and file storage for up to 15 team members. Paid plans start at USD 10.99 per user per month (billed annually) and offer additional features like advanced reporting, custom fields, forms, and admin controls. Asana can be accessed via web browser or mobile apps for iOS and Android.
 
 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 
 
 
 Asana serves over 135,000 paying customers and millions of free users across more than 200 countries and territories. Notable enterprise customers include Amazon, Affirm, Japan Airlines, and Sky.
 
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 GitLab is an open-source DevOps platform that provides tools for managing the entire software development lifecycle. Founded in 2011, GitLab offers a Git-based repository management system along with integrated features for continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), project management, security scanning, and more. The platform allows developers to collaborate on code, track issues, and deploy applications from a single interface. GitLab's core product is a web-based Git repository manager that includes features like issue tracking, analytics, and a wiki. With each commit or push, GitLab enables developers to trigger builds, run automated tests, and deploy code.
 
 
 
 
 GitLab differentiates itself by offering a complete DevOps solution out-of-the-box, with built-in CI/CD capabilities, whereas competitors often require third-party integrations for similar functionality. The platform supports multiple stable branches beyond the master branch, advocating for a workflow that emphasizes reliability over speed. GitLab provides tools for the entire DevOps lifecycle, from planning to monitoring, allowing teams to manage all stages of software development within a single application. As of October 2022, GitLab reported quarterly revenue of USD 113 million with 69% year-over-year growth.
 
 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 
 
 
 GitLab has gained traction among enterprise customers, with notable users including Goldman Sachs, T-Mobile, and Lockheed Martin. The platform is particularly popular in China, where a 2021 JetBrains survey found that 57% of respondents used GitLab for artifact/repository management, compared to 35% for GitHub. In March 2021, GitLab created a local Chinese company called JiHu to expand its presence in the country. GitLab has also formed partnerships to enhance its offerings, including integrations with platforms like Asana, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Gmail. The company's focus on open-source has led to partnerships within that community, offering free enterprise plan features and up to 50,000 CI minutes for organizations or smaller teams working on open-source software.
 
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CloudBees provides a software delivery platform for enterprises, enabling them to continuously innovate and deliver software at scale. Founded in 2010, CloudBees offers a suite of products that automate and streamline the entire software development lifecycle, from continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) to release orchestration and feature management. At the core of CloudBees' offerings is CloudBees CI, built on Jenkins, the widely-used open-source automation server. CloudBees CI provides flexible, governed CI/CD capabilities for enterprises.
The company's product portfolio also includes CloudBees CD for release orchestration and automation, CloudBees Feature Management for progressive delivery and feature flagging, and CloudBees Software Delivery Automation (SDA) which combines CI, CD, release orchestration and feature management into an integrated platform. CloudBees SDA aims to connect tools and functions across development, operations and shared services teams to optimize the software delivery process. In September 2022, CloudBees acquired ReleaseIQ to expand its DevSecOps capabilities with a low-code release orchestration and visibility solution.
CloudBees' platform is designed to address the needs of modern software development organizations adopting CI/CD and DevOps practices. It provides capabilities for unified governance, visibility, security compliance, and risk mitigation in software delivery. The platform can be deployed on-premise or in major public cloud environments, offering flexibility to support diverse software portfolios including classic, client-server, containerized, web, mobile, IoT and embedded applications.

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BigPanda is a company specializing in Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps). Founded in 2012 by Assaf Resnick and Elik Eizenberg, BigPanda offers an AI-powered platform that helps IT Operations, Network Operations Center (NOC), and DevOps teams detect, investigate, and resolve IT incidents more efficiently. The company's core product is an Incident Intelligence and Automation Platform that leverages machine learning to correlate alert data streams from various infrastructure, applications, and services into actionable incidents.
BigPanda's platform aims to reduce the noise in IT alerts, improve the signal-to-noise ratio, and automate incident management processes. It integrates with various IT tools and systems, including ticketing systems, ITSM tools, incident response tools, and collaboration platforms. The company's Open Box Machine Learning technology enables customers to achieve high correlation rates on alert volumes, typically reducing millions of IT events to a manageable number. The company claims that its median customer realizes an 80% event noise reduction within the first eight weeks of implementation.
The platform offers features such as alert aggregation, event correlation, root cause analysis, and automated incident triage. It also provides unified analytics dashboards for end-to-end visibility of IT environments. BigPanda's solution is designed to help organizations reduce mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) of IT incidents, improve service availability, and support digital transformation initiatives. The company operates on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, eliminating the need for on-premises installations.

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Platforms that help companies with software development workflows such as analyzing requirements, planning development schedules, and building roadmaps.

Desktop and web applications for writing code, which also offer features for intelligent auto-complete and code generation capabilities using AI. This segment also include platforms that provide tools for version control and hosting code.

Platforms to automate software deployment into production environments that are hosted either on-premise or on the cloud, along with feature management capabilities that help developers control the availability of features in an application.

Platforms for developers to monitor running software and track processes; helping identify crashes and errors and resolve them.

Platforms to test and debug software, which also feature AI-based tools to automate testing workflows.

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their product offering for DevOps

Platforms offer AI-based code completion and other tools to help automate testing workflows

Uses generative AI for code completion and generation features offered by certain code editors

Its platforms are available under a B2B SaaS model

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