Sierra Ventures is a Bay Area-based early-stage venture firm investing globally with a focus on Next Generation Enterprise and Emerging Technologies. With over three decades of experience and over $2 billion of assets under management, Sierra has created a vast network of successful entrepreneurs, Global 1000 CXOs, operational executives, and deep domain experts, providing a platform for entrepreneurs around the world. Sierra Ventures primarily invests in Seed and Series A rounds, with a preference to lead investment rounds and reserve capital for follow on rounds. Investment sectors include artificial intelligence/machine learning, big data, cloud, fintech, health tech, IoT/infrastructure, marketplaces, SaaS & enterprise apps, security, and emerging technologies such as 5G, devices, blockchain, robotics, and virtual reality / augmented reality. Sierra Ventures typically makes initial investments between $500,000 and $7 million on average and invests between $500,000 and $15 million over the life of an investment. The firm has invested in leading companies such as Intuit, Invensense, Greenplum, MakeMyTrip, OnLink, Teradata, StrataCom, Sourcefire, Treasure Data, and more. Sierra Ventures was founded in 1982 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Sierra Ventures

We are a community of founders, operators, and investors with deep domain expertise, diverse networks, and a desire to help innovative companies grow. We look for massive markets that are well-timed and companies with high growth, reasonable valuations, and impact. We will focus on investments from ACTAI Global and Extreme Tech Challenge but not be limited to those communities.

ACTAI Ventures

Carbide Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage technology startups

Carbide Ventures

Calyptia

Calyptia is a platform provider for First-Mile Observability. It was founded in 2020 by the creators and maintainers of Fluentd and Fluent Bit with the goal of enabling organizations of all sizes to gain the most insight and value from their data pipelines at the fastest and lowest cost.

<div><p>Calyptia is a platform provider for First-Mile Observability. It was founded in 2020 by the creators and maintainers of Fluentd and Fluent Bit with the goal of enabling organizations of all sizes to gain the most insight and value from their data pipelines at the fastest and lowest cost.</p></div>

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    Calyptia is a platform provider for First-Mile Observability. It was founded in 2020 by the creators and maintainers of Fluentd and Fluent Bit with the goal of enabling organizations of all sizes to gain the most insight and value from their data pipelines at the fastest and lowest cost.
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    SonarSource provides world-class solutions for continuous code quality management. Its open-source and commercial products help customers of all sizes to manage the code quality of their applications, reduce risk and ultimately deliver better software.   SonarSource solutions support development in 20+ programming languages such as Java, C#, Javascript, C/C++, COBOL and more.   With 700+ customers around the world including Cisco Systems, Deutsche Bank, and Samsung and used by more than 80'000 organizations SonarSource's products are the de facto standard solutions on the market.
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    Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity. It helps teams orchestrate their work, from small projects to strategic initiatives. It was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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Asana

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    GitLab Inc. is the open core company that provides GitLab, The DevOps Platform, that empowers organizations to maximize the overall return on software development by delivering software faster and efficiently while strengthening security and compliance. GitLab&rsquo;s single application is easier to use, leads to faster cycle time and allows visibility throughout and control over all stages of the DevOps lifecycle. With GitLab, every team in your organization can collaboratively plan, build, secure, and deploy software to drive business outcomes faster with complete transparency, consistency and traceability. Built on Open Source, GitLab works alongside its growing community, which is composed of thousands of developers and millions of users, to continuously deliver new DevOps innovations. GitLab has an estimated 30 million+ registered users (both Paid and Free) from startups to global enterprises, including Ticketmaster, Jaguar Land Rover, Nasdaq, Dish Network, and Comcast trust GitLab to deliver great software faster. All-remote since 2015, GitLab has more than 1,350 team members in over 65 countries.
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GitLab

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    CloudBees develops an end-to-end automated software delivery system that allows companies to balance governance and developer freedom. The company provides companies with smarter solutions for accelerating software development and the fastest path from great ideas to impactful software. Its continuous delivery solutions offer developers and enterprises many choices, from on-premise to cloud-native, from self-managed to self-service, and from guided best practices to flexible choices. By making the software delivery process more productive, manageable, and hassle-free, CloudBees puts companies on the fastest path to transforming great ideas into great software and returning value to the business more quickly.   Backed by Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Verizon Ventures, Delta-v Capital, Golub Capital&rsquo;s Late Stage Lending, and Unusual Ventures, CloudBees was founded in 2010 by former JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey and an elite team of continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps professionals.
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CloudBees

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    BigPanda's autonomous operations platform helps IT Ops, NOC and DevOps teams detect, investigate, and resolve IT incidents faster and more easily. Powered by Open Box Machine Learning, BigPanda correlates IT noise into insights, automates incident management, and unifies fragmented IT operations. Customers such as Intel, TiVO, Turner Broadcasting, and Workday rely on BigPanda to reduce their operating costs, improve service availability and performance, and de-risk and accelerate their digital transformation initiatives. Founded in 2012, BigPanda is backed by top-tier investors including Sequoia Capital, Mayfield, and Battery Ventures.
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BigPanda

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

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

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