Medra Capital is a private investment company providing seed and follow-on funding for start-ups. As well as backing in-house ventures under their own direction, they are particularly interested in opportunities in technology, manufacturing, energy and sustainability, and peer-to-peer markets, where their team’s expertise adds most value. More often than not, they choose to invest in innovations that promote sustainability and minimise impact to the environment. These include energy saving, asset sharing, green technology, and re-using. Having said that, when they come across ideas that they find particularly appealing, they may invest without a sustainability angle.

Medra Capital

FundersClub focuses on Seed and early stage investments. Investments include Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport, Le Tote, Teespring, Memebox, GitLab. FundersClub is the world's first online venture capital platform. Backed by Y Combinator, First Round Capital, Spark Capital, Intel Capital, Draper, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, and more; FundersClub Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in the United States.

FundersClub

We invest in mobile/Internet start-ups and sell (part of) shares of portfolio companies when they grow.  We focus on: •Mobile Internet applications •E-commerce related tools and services •Cloud based software solutions •Gaming  Linden Mobile Ventures  was founded by Cok Mudde and Guido Vervelde. With 25 years of experience as entrepreneurs in the IT industry, we are familiar with all stages of building successful companies including exits.  We provide experience, market know-how, an extensive network and the funding needed to convert great ideas into successful companies.

Linden Mobile Ventures

Three Bridges Venture Partners are seed and early-stage investors in enterprise, infrastructure, and data-intensive technology and tools. We provide strategic and operational guidance derived from our experience building enterprise class software solutions and services in industries such as information technology, manufacturing, telecommunications, network management, and data analytics.

Three Bridges Venture Partners

Staenberg Venture Partners is a Seattle-based venture capital firm focused on the technology industry. With $100 million under management, they invest at all stages of company development from concept to maturity. By leveraging an extensive partner network in Silicon Valley and the Pacific Northwest, their firm provides a unique and important bridge between these two technology centers.  Staenberg Venture Partners provides more than just financial contributions. They help their portfolio companies build winning management teams and obtain access to expert resources. All of their Limited Partners work in the high-tech industry, many playing influential roles. They add value through consulting to early-stage companies and co-invest in later-stage companies alongside other institutional funds.

Staenberg Venture Partners

AngelList is a U.S. website for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups. It is the parent company of AngelList Venture, AngelList Talent, and Product Hunt and has more than 20 unicorns in the portfolio. They support millions of job-seekers in their search and helped makers launch over 100,000 products that will define the future of tech.

AngelList

The Social Internet funds invests in the primary or secondary shares of rapidly growing tech companies with a focus on mobile, social, cloud, security, big data and crowdfunding.

The Social Internet Fund

H. Barton Asset Management is a VC firm specializing in start-ups and early stage investments.

H. Barton Asset Management

Javelin Venture Partners invests in early-stage tech companies with incredible potential, managed by teams of energetic, trustworthy, and capable leaders.  Javelin looks for advanced bleeding-edge innovations, where the addressable market size is substantial, and strong competitive advantages exist. A typical investment is between $1 to $6 million, with reserves for follow-on investments. In addition, Javelin also considers smaller seed investments for unique companies just getting started. Located in downtown San Francisco, while invests throughout the world. Javelin is a very active investor with a long-term outlook and the objective of creating substantial value.

Javelin Venture Partners

Arrowroot Capital Management is a growth equity firm based in Santa Monica focused on growing, mature, and recurring revenue software businesses. We seek to partner with management to accelerate growth and help guide the company to its ultimate exit.  Arrowroot targets equity investments in the range of $5 million to $25 million, and has the flexibility to pursue larger opportunities.  Arrowroot's capital is typically deployed to achieve very distinct goals including, but not limited to: – Working capital and growth investment – Liquidity for founders and/or management – Liquidity for previous venture or angel investors – Acquisition capital Arrowroot’s capital is flexible, but investment characteristics generally include: – Minority or majority positions – Board representation – 2 to 4 year hold periods – Highly incentivized management teams; commonly via new option grants – Arrowroot seeks to optimize the investment amount in order to efficiently grow businesses and create healthy capital risk dynamics for founders, current management, and past investors Target Company Characteristics: – $5 million+ revenue run-rate – Strong recurring revenue growth rate – Proven, effective and efficient sales and marketing strategy – Mission-critical, B2B software that typically solves a pain-point in compliance, workflow, security, and/or optimization

Arrowroot Capital Management

TRI HoldCo creates financial security for our stakeholders by building and investing in uniquely positioned companies across industries.

TRI HoldCo

Appvance.ai

Appvance is the leader in generative AI for Software Quality. Its premier product AIQ is an AI-native, unified software quality platform that delivers unprecedented levels of productivity to accelerate digital transformation in the enterprise. Leveraging generative AI and machine learning, AIQ robots autonomously validate all the possible user flows to achieve complete application coverage™. Appvance.ai is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Costa Rica and India. Investors in the company include Arrowroot Capital, Javelin Venture Partners, TRI HoldCo, Staenberg Ventures, Social Internet Fund, FundersClub, Three Bridges Ventures and HB Asset Management.

Appvance is a software company that specializes in AI-driven quality assurance solutions for enterprise applications. The company's flagship product, Appvance IQ (AIQ), is an AI-native software quality platform designed to improve application quality, performance, and security while enhancing the efficiency of development and testing teams. AIQ leverages generative AI and machine learning to autonomously validate user flows and achieve comprehensive application coverage. In December 2023, Appvance launched AIQ 5.0, featuring Generative AI V3, which significantly enhances performance, reporting, visual object recognition, and bug-finding accuracy. This update includes a no-code fully visual user experience, improved bug detection capabilities, real-time visibility, and data-driving simplicity. AIQ 5.0 also introduces Autonomous Testing bots that can adapt to different application variants, enabling a wide variety of test scenarios and configurations. Appvance claims their AI-driven approach can identify ten times more bugs than teams using legacy scripting or modern recorders, potentially rendering manual testing and legacy scripting methods obsolete.

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Appvance is a software company that specializes in AI-driven quality assurance solutions for enterprise applications. The company's flagship product, Appvance IQ (AIQ), is an AI-native software quality platform designed to improve application quality, performance, and security while enhancing the efficiency of development and testing teams. AIQ leverages generative AI and machine learning to autonomously validate user flows and achieve comprehensive application coverage. In December 2023, Appvance launched AIQ 5.0, featuring Generative AI V3, which significantly enhances performance, reporting, visual object recognition, and bug-finding accuracy. This update includes a no-code fully visual user experience, improved bug detection capabilities, real-time visibility, and data-driving simplicity. AIQ 5.0 also introduces Autonomous Testing bots that can adapt to different application variants, enabling a wide variety of test scenarios and configurations. Appvance claims their AI-driven approach can identify ten times more bugs than teams using legacy scripting or modern recorders, potentially rendering manual testing and legacy scripting methods obsolete.

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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GitLab

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.

CloudBees

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.

BigPanda

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.

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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