Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid-stage, growth, and late-stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, the infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services, consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.

Andreessen Horowitz

Madrona Venture Group is a Seattle-based venture capital firm. The firm prefers to invest in businesses that are involved in information technology, e-commerce, digital media, advertising, software, gaming, data, analytics, mobile, and infrastructure.

Madrona

Shasta Ventures invests in startups in sectors. Their program consists of a proven methodology and a set of comprehensive playbooks that dive deep into the obstacles and challenges of early-stage startups. There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to early-stage, so this agile program allows founders to tap into the resources they need when they need them.

Shasta Ventures

Greylock Partners invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer and enterprise software companies. The firm invests in companies that define new markets, including Airbnb, AppDynamics, Apptio, Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET), Cloudera, Docker, Dropbox, Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Medium, Nextdoor, Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), Pandora (NYSE: P), Pure Storage, and Workday (NYSE: WDAY). It was founded in 1965 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Greylock

Ignition is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity. With over $2B under management, Ignition invests in emerging and future leaders in enterprise software.  Ignition brings together an unparalleled combination of domain focus, technical expertise, and global operational experience. Ignition's partners are proven business leaders who have built some of the world's most successful businesses of the last two decades, including Microsoft Windows and Office, McCaw Cellular Communications, AT&T Wireless and Starbucks.  Ignition helps entrepreneurs by turning their early idea into a business, to hiring the right team, providing the right industry and functional insight and connections, to growing the business strategically, globally, financially, to realizing the best ultimate outcome, Ignition is ready to go the distance.

Ignition Partners

T. Rowe Price is an investment management firm dedicated to funding technology startups. The firm serves individuals, financial intermediaries, and institutions and offers a full range of investment strategies across a broad spectrum: debt, equities, and private equities.

T. Rowe Price

Janus Capital Group is a global investment management firm managing $160 billion in global assets through product offerings across growth, mathematical, value and fixed-income. They work hard, think smart, and exist to create success for their clients.

Janus Capital Group

The Hillman Group is a provider of complete hardware solutions, delivered with industry best customer service to over 26,000 customers. Hillman designs innovative product and merchandising solutions for complex categories that deliver an outstanding customer experience to home improvement centers, mass merchants, national and regional hardware stores, pet supply stores, and OEM & Industrial customers. Leveraging a world-class distribution and sales network, Hillman delivers a ''small business'' experience with ''big business'' efficiency.

Hillman

137 Ventures is a San Francisco-based growth-stage venture firm with an innovative investing model. The fund has a flexible mandate with an emphasis on structured transactions with founders, senior executives, early investors and early employees at venture-backed companies with proven business models. With more than $850 million of assets under management, the firm invests in companies across a broad range of areas including: space exploration, digital health, financial technology, enterprise SaaS, and consumer internet.

137 Ventures

Cisco is a technology company specializing in networking hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment. The company continues to offer a wide range of networking solutions, including routers, switches, network security products, wireless and mobility solutions, collaboration tools, data center technologies, and more. Cisco's products and services are still used by businesses, organizations, service providers, and individuals to build and manage networks, facilitate communication, and enhance connectivity across various industries.

Cisco

Apptio

Apptio is the leading provider of cloud-based Technology Business Management (TBM) software that helps CIOs manage the business of IT. Apptio’s suite of applications use business analytics to provide facts and insights about technology cost, value, and quality, so IT leaders can make faster, data-driven decisions. The purpose-built applications help companies align technology spend to business outcomes and automate IT processes like cost transparency, benchmarking, showback/chargeback, operational efficiency, and planning. Powering Apptio’s applications is a next generation, in-memory cost analytics platform that takes data directly from all financial, operational, and billing systems, and powers applications that give customers deep insight.

IBM To Buy Software Provider Apptio For $5 Billion

Giving firms greater control over their SaaS stack

B2B SaaS Management Platforms

Platforms for cataloging, tracking and benchmarking a firms existing SaaS stack and discovering and purchasing new solutions that are a better fit for the organization

Platforms that help identify potential securities vulnerabilities of a firm's SaaS stack and provide a solution to ensure compliance with regulations.

Platforms that help eliminate SaaS wastage and optimize costs by providing spending analysis reports, contract renewal planning, and vendor management.

Integrated product offerings that provide complete solutions covering the entire life cycle of SaaS usage. A number of firms also offer managed services such as price negotiations with vendors

IBM combined Apptio's FinOps offerings (ApptioOne, Cloudability, TargetProcess) with its automation portfolio of Turbonomic, AIOps, and Instana to deliver an automated management and optimization virtual command center for cloud spend. Further, IBM planned to bolster its watsonx AI and data platform with Apptio's annonymized IT spend data to create new innovations, value, and insights.

Platforms to make the most of cloud infrastructure

Cloud Optimization Tools

Tools that improve performance per spend by offering visibility and insights as well as leveraging pricing models such as reserved and spot instances. These also provide financial guardrails to enforce budgetary limits and other cost-saving opportunity recommendations

Oracle

Integrated Apptio's Cloudability suite of products to offer Oracle Cloud Infrastructure customers a solutions for visualizing and optimizing cloud costs and resources.

Acquired Apptio Inc., a financial and operational IT management and optimization (FinOps) software. The acquisition of Apptio will accelerate the advancement of IBM's IT automation capabilities and enable enterprises to deliver enhanced business value across technology investments.

Microsoft

Apptio forms a collaboration with Microsoft to deploy Apptio's financial decisioning platform on the Microsoft Cloud to help enterprises migrate and optimize workloads.

Wipro

To launch a Technology Business Management (TBM) Practice aimed at providing clients with valuable insights into the cost, quality, and value of their technology investments, thereby guiding their digital transformation efforts.

Apptio and IBM have collaborated to assist clients in making informed decisions regarding hybrid cloud technology. The partnership aims to drive the adoption of Red Hat OpenShift and IBM's open hybrid cloud approach.

Building future-ready applications in the cloud

Cloud-native Tech

Vendors that bundle different tools from different layers together into a platform, solving a larger problem. These can include an orchestration tool, a container runtime, service discovery, networking, an API gateway, etc.

The collaboration leveraged Apptio's financial decision engine to offer customers greater visibility of their hybrid cloud migrations. Further, IBM integrated products such as ApptioOne to provide technology spend and resource optimization services.

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