Based in San Francisco, Walden Venture Capital targets Sprout Stage:tm: investments. We seek products or services with mass-market potential and powerful underlying technologies taking active supporting roles typically as first institutional investors. Our target sectors are digital media and cloud services for consumers and enterprise. We care deeply about Founders and Management and work diligently to help manifest their vision. Our portfolio includes leaders in music, mobile, internet media and breakthrough cloud services.

Walden Venture Capital

New Enterprise Associates, Inc. is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors, and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’s lifecycle, from the seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions.

New Enterprise Associates

Walden International is unique among US venture firms through its focus on cross-border investments that leverage global markets and talent to grow industry-leading companies. For more than 30 years, their integrated team has brought extensive added value to help companies through capital, relationships and expertise. They look to partner with the best of the best – entrepreneurs with a strong appreciation for the benefits of leveraging talent and markets independent of geography to gain unfair advantage. Their team brings both extensive venture expertise together with in-depth operating experience to help you grow your company. They invest in early and expansion stage companies across sectors such as Semiconductors, Clean Tech, Internet & Digital Media and Software.

Walden International

Oakhouse Partners invests in companies that use breakthrough technologies to radically improve millions of lives. We believe mission-driven companies who better humanity on a global scale produce the best VC returns. Oakhouse Partners is no longer actively investing.

Oakhouse Partners

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services, as well as financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Its Investment Banking segment offers financial advisory services, including advisory assignments concerning mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense, risk management, and restructurings and spin-offs; and underwriting services comprising public offerings and private placements of a range of securities, loans, and other financial instruments, and derivative transactions. The company’s Institutional Client Services segment provides client execution services, such as fixed income, currency, and commodities client execution related to making markets in interest rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies, and commodities; and equities related to making markets in equity products, as well as executes and clears institutional client transactions on stock, options, and futures exchanges. This segment also engages in the securities services business providing financing, securities lending, and other brokerage services to institutional clients, including hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, and foundations. Its Investing and Lending segment originates longer-term loans; and invests in debt securities, loans, public and private equity securities, real estate, consolidated investment entities, distressed assets, currencies, commodities, and power generation facilities. The company’s investment management segment provides investment products and services, as well as offers wealth advisory services, including portfolio management and financial counseling, and brokerage and other transaction services.

Goldman Sachs

Accel-KKR is a private equity firm specializing in growth and middle-market investments. It also makes mezzanine investments.  The firm seeks to invest in buyouts of divisions of larger companies, divisional carveouts, subsidiaries, and business units or operating assets from public companies; acquisitions and recapitalizations of closely held private companies; and going-private transactions of small and micro-cap public companies. In buyouts, the firm specifically targets assets that are considered or are likely to be considered non-core assets that will typically include businesses with business models that are inconsistent or are incompatible with the parent and may have been under-invested in for some period.  It pursues acquisition and recapitalization of private companies that prefer to remain private or which currently do not have the scale and/or growth profile to access the public markets but whose shareholders desire liquidity and/or access to growth capital including acquisition financing including founder and family-owned businesses. The firm pursues going-private transactions in public companies that are either subscale for the public markets or whose management teams have a business plan that is most appropriately executed as a private company. It primarily invests in the technology industry including software, Internet technologies, and IT-enabled services as well as in various sub-segments including enterprise and infrastructure software, vertical market application software, technical software, networking software, enterprise computing, and data storage, storage networking, data communications, telecommunications equipment, Internet services, business process outsourcing, supply chain, and professional IT services. It seeks to invest globally.  The firm commits a wide range of capital, from less than $10 million to over $100 million, and typically invests in companies with annual revenues between $10 million and $200 million. It prefers to acquire majority ownership positions, control investments, and minority growth investments. The firm is an affiliate of Accel Partners and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Accel–KKR LLC was founded in February 2000 and is based in Menlo Park, California with additional offices in Atlanta, Georgia, and London, United Kingdom.

Accel-KKR

SugarCRM

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SugarCRM enables businesses to create extraordinary customer relationships with the most innovative and affordable CRM solution in the market. Recognized by leading market analysts as a “visionary” company, Sugar is deployed by over 1.5 M individuals in 120 countries and 26 languages.  Sugar is positioned to fully unleash the promise of CRM with their innovative CRM system designed for every individual who engages with customers: sellers, marketers, customer support agents, receptionists, and executives. The company is delivering a completely transformed, individualized CRM user experience that is immersive, engaging, and intuitive. Sugar fuses the straightforward simplicity, mobility, and social aspects of a consumer app with the business process optimization of conventional CRM.

<div>  <p>    SugarCRM enables businesses to create extraordinary customer relationships with the most innovative and affordable CRM solution in the market. Recognized by leading market analysts as a &ldquo;visionary&rdquo; company, Sugar is deployed by over 1.5 M individuals in 120 countries and 26 languages.  </p>  <p>    Sugar is positioned to fully unleash the promise of CRM with their innovative CRM system designed for every individual who engages with customers: sellers, marketers, customer support agents, receptionists, and executives. The company is delivering a completely transformed, individualized CRM user experience that is immersive, engaging, and intuitive. Sugar fuses the straightforward simplicity, mobility, and social aspects of a consumer app with the business process optimization of conventional CRM.  </p></div>

SugarCRM Makes Powerful Sales and Service Generative AI Capabilities Approachable and Accessible to the Midmarket

Artificial intelligence is helping sales teams manage relationships and optimize the customer lifecycle.

Sales Engagement Platforms

All in one platform which offers a variety of tools for sales collaboration and for optimizing the entire sales process.

Tools for recording & analyzing live sales calls over voice & video.

Tools used for automating routine sales functions to improve the efficiency of sales teams.

Tools for preparing & automating sales campaigns via email, SMS & other channels.

Tools for discovering & building customer and company databases to generate sales leads.

Tools for discovering & analyzing customer interactions for improving customer success.

Tools for preparing sales content & coaching sales teams to improve performance.

Tools used to continuously  improve the product experience by understanding customer pain points.

Using AI to automate, enhance and optimize marketing activities

Marketing Automation

Firms positioned as an 'all-in-one' marketing platform,  providing a variety of functions across the MarTech stack

Startups providing platforms for planning and managing marketing campaigns.

Startups offering tools for finding and attracting potential customers with targeted ads.

Startups providing tools to automate the execution of marketing campaigns across varied channels.

Startups providing tools for gathering, cleaning and enhancing customer data to provide deep analytics.

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 <p>Mediafly has collaborated with SugarCRM to introduce a new product, "Mediafly for Sugar". This is a sales enhancement and content management system that works in tandem with SugarCRM's AI-powered sales automation platform. The solution provides customer-facing teams with necessary content and analytics, enabling them to offer engaging, personalized, and interactive purchasing experiences. This is expected to significantly boost sales performance.</p>
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Mediafly and SugarCRM partner to transform sales enablement with an integrated content management solution

A marketing automation solution that engages customers across channels and aligns with sales teams

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