Sequoia is a venture capital focused on energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile startups. The firm helps a small number of daring founders build legendary companies. It spurs them to push the boundaries of what’s possible. The firm seeks to invest in all sectors with a focus on energy, financials and financial services, healthcare and healthcare services, Internet, mobile, outsourcing, and technology.

Sequoia Capital

Wing Venture Capital primarily invests in technology-based businesses. It emphasizes craftsmanship over volume and engages deeply with founders to help them build companies that matter. The body of work of Wing's team spans more than two decades and dozens of successful early-stage companies, 21 of which went on to achieve billion-dollar-plus outcomes following IPOs or acquisitions. Its portfolio companies include Cohesity, Gong, Instart Logic, Juvo, Moogsoft, Palerra, Shape Security, and Snowflake.

Wing Venture Capital

Qualcomm Ventures is the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated. Founded in 2000, Qualcomm Ventures is a corporate venture capital fund with over 150 active portfolio companies and more than 20 exits over a billion dollars, including 99 Taxis, Cruise Automation, Fitbit, Invensense, NQ Mobile, Waze, and more. As a global investor, Qualcomm Ventures helps connect entrepreneurs to the resources, relationships, and deep industry expertise they need to succeed in the mobile technology ecosystem.

Qualcomm Ventures

ARTIS Ventures is a financial services firm that finances early-to-late-stage venture investments. The team supports its portfolio companies through their entire life cycle, from initial venture investment to public offering and beyond.

Artis Ventures (AV)

Trinity Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with passionate entrepreneurs to transform revolutionary ideas into reality. With over $1 billion under management, Trinity Ventures believes in personal engagement, mutual respect and goal alignment with the entrepreneurs. Trinity focuses on early stage and seed technology investments with particular emphasis on social commerce and entertainment, digital media, Saas, and cloud and infrastructure.    Trinity Ventures has invested in such leading companies as Aruba Networks, 21Vianet, Blue Nile, LoopNet, Photobucket, SciQuest, Starbucks, BeachMint, Infoblox, Trion Worlds and Zulily.

Trinity Ventures

Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that powers a global community of entrepreneurs. Accel backs entrepreneurs who have what it takes to build a business.  Accel’s vision for entrepreneurship and business enables it to identify and invest in the companies that will be responsible for the growth of next-generation industries. Accel-backed companies include Atlassian, Braintree, Cloudera, DJI, Dropbox, Dropcam, Etsy, Facebook, Flipkart, Lookout Security, MoPub, Qualtrics, Slack, Spotify, Supercell, Vox Media, and others.

Accel

Battery Ventures is a investment firm that focuses on technology. It invests in potentially, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure technologies, consumer-internet and mobile services, and industrial technologies.

Battery Ventures

GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward. We invest across the life sciences, consumer, enterprise, crypto, climate, and frontier technology sectors. With Alphabet as a sole limited partner, GV operates on long time horizons and deals in decades, not rounds. Our operating partners support startups at the earliest stages of company-building across design, equity, diversity & inclusion, talent, and engineering. We also help startups interface with Google, providing unique access to the world's best technology and talent. Launched as Google Ventures in 2009, GV has over $8 billion in assets under management and 400 active portfolio companies across North America and Europe. Notable investment outcomes include Uber, Nest, Slack, GitLab, Duo Security, Flatiron Health, Verve Therapeutics, and One Medical. GV is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices in Cambridge, New York, and London.

Google Ventures

We believe entrepreneurs need more than just capital to grow their businesses-- they need better access to market resources to test their innovations, a network of domain experts with proven strategies to reduce risks, and efficient go-to-market strategies. Our partnership provides a faster and more effective way for young enterprise IT companies to bring their products to market, bridging the gap between common technical challenges experiences by IT leaders, and the companies who are developing next generation solutions.

InstantScale Ventures

DHVC is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. We invest in Enterprise, Consumer, FinTech, and Healthcare sectors. Our team brings together decades of combined experience in entrepreneurship, operations, investment, and research to serve our portfolio companies in growing and achieving success.

DHVC

Oryx Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in growth stage technology companies based out of the USA.

Oryx Ventures

SoftBank Vision Fund is a subsidiary of Softbank Group that specializes in growth capital and social impact investments. Sectors that the fund invests in include the internet of things, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, communications infrastructure, telecoms, computational biology, biotech, cloud technologies and software, consumer internet businesses, financial technology, and mobile apps. The Fund is designed to be a catalyst for technology progress in anticipation that it will expand SoftBank's capabilities, accelerating progress towards SoftBank 2.0. It aims to invest in businesses and foundational platforms that SoftBank believes to revolutionize and innovate the world tomorrow.

SoftBank Vision Fund

Cisco Investments is an active investor with more than 40 investment professionals with deep market and technology expertise located in major geographies, including US, Canada, China, India, Israel, and Europe. Over the last 20 years, Cisco Investments has invested in hundreds of companies across different segments and helped them build to successful IPOs or acquisitions. They currently have an active portfolio of $2B with over 80 direct investments around the world, and they also hold Limited Partner positions in over 35 funds globally.

Cisco Investments

MVP is a principal investor and advisory specializing in the secondary market for private venture-backed technology companies. MVP pioneered the institutionalization of this once-democratized asset class. Since 2010, the partners at MVP VC have been integral in the institutionalization of the Direct Secondary market. We are pioneers in this space, and the partners have collectively engaged in more than $10B of primary and secondary venture investments. Our belief is that Direct Secondaries are the evolution of the Secondary LP investing strategy established in the early 1980s and should be treated accordingly. MVP differentiates itself through its unique research and ability to streamline the secondary process by being a principal and advisory to private companies and their shareholders, as well as GPs and LPs. This is accomplished by bringing together the full expertise of our Secondary as a Service™ platform, investment banking expertise, research team, and the All-Star Funds (~$1B AUM Jan 2022).

Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP)

Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital is a private equity platform targeting late-stage growth investments in technology, health care, consumer, digital media and other high-growth sectors. For nearly three decades, Morgan Stanley has successfully pursued growth investment opportunities. Expansion Capital’s experienced investment team combines extensive growth equity and franchise experience to pursue a value-creation strategy focused on operational and financial measures. The team works closely with the successful entrepreneurs and business professionals underlying its investments to assist in building proprietary advantage for portfolio companies. Expansion Capital also leverages the brand and global network of Morgan Stanley to source investment intelligence and opportunities.

Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an edge-to-cloud platform-as-a-service company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open, and intelligent technology solutions.  HPE's focus is primarily on enterprise-level solutions, including servers, storage, networking, software, and consulting services. They cater to various industries, offering technologies for data centers, cloud computing, edge computing, and other IT infrastructure needs. HPE has a long history in the technology sector and is known for its contributions to the development of computing and IT systems.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Innovating Capital is a family-office backed technology fund specializing in investing in start-ups, early stage, and growth stage companies. It invests in disruptive sectors and cutting-edge technologies with a focus on enterprise industry verticals such as infrastructure, financial technologies, cybersecurity, life sciences, and insurance technologies.

Innovating Capital

The Syndicate Group was created to help startups scale faster by organizing exclusive investment access for their channel partners.

The Syndicate Group

Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm dedicated to the proposition that one entrepreneur's idea, with the right support, can become a business that changes the world. The company is made up of former entrepreneurs who set out to create the firm they wanted as founders. This forward-thinking team of VCs has helped companies like Lending Club change the way money is lent and borrowed, Sunrun reinvent the residential clean energy market, and Netflix revolutionizes media distribution and consumption, among many others. Foundation Capital is currently invested in more than 60 high-growth ventures in the areas of consumer, information technology, software, digital energy, financial technology, and marketing technology. These investments include AdRoll, Beepi, Bolt Threads, DogVacay, Kik, ForgeRock, Lending Home, Localytics, and Visier. The firm's twenty-six IPOs include Lending Club, OnDeck, Chegg, Sunrun, MobileIron, Control4, TubeMogul, Envestnet, Financial Engines, Netflix, NetZero, Responsys and Silver Spring Networks.

Foundation Capital

DFJ Growth invests in growth stage technology companies that are scaling rapidly and poised for market leadership.  Based in Silicon Valley, DFJ Growth is the later stage investing practice of [Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)](http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/draper-fisher-jurvetson), a global venture capital firm. DFJ Growth partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs who set out to change the world by creating a new generation of iconic technology-driven businesses.

DFJ Growth

Greenspring Associates is a global investment firm that provides commingled funds and customized partnership capabilities to a diverse group of institutions and individuals in North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia. Through a synergistic platform, the firm invests in established and emerging venture capital fund managers, in early and growth stage venture-backed companies and in secondary venture capital fund and secondary direct investments. Currently managing over $7.3 billion of committed capital, its dedicated investment team combines broad venture fund and direct investment expertise.

Greenspring Associates

Sozo Ventures was formed in 2011 to invest in and support IT ventures with their global expansion. We invest in category leaders in advanced data technologies, ecommerce, enterprise cloud, fintech, IOT and healthcare IT, among other emerging sectors. We are structured to connect the most ambitious entrepreneurial teams with the world's most advanced and respected customers and distributors. We are at our best when we can share our expertise well before expansion strategies are set.

Sozo Ventures

Baillie Gifford is an independently owned investment management firm. It is owned and run by 39 of its senior executives, who operate as a partnership, a structure that has endured for over a century and provides stability for clients and motivation for employees. It enables them to manage the business for the future as well as the present, with an emphasis on genuine long-term thinking rather than lurching haplessly between short-term targets.

Baillie Gifford

Unanimous Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments while opportunistically participating in later stages. The firm also invests in founders solving meaningful problems by creating or disrupting markets at scale. Their range of operational experience allows them to capitalize on the current gap in early-stage funding and makes us uniquely qualified to help companies thrive. Unanimous Capital was founded in 2018 and is based in San Mateo, California, USA.

Unanimous Capital

Singh Capital Partners is a private equity firm that directly invests in venture capital, real estate, and growth equity. It was established in 2018 and is headquartered in Potomac, Maryland, United States.

Singh Capital Partners

Toy Ventures is an operator led early stage venture fund.

Toy Ventures

Northstar.vc is a venture capital and private equity firm that provides access to global networks. The firm backs technologies that bear the potential of altering the trajectory of their respective industries. Northstar was founded in 2019 and is based in London, England.

northstar.vc

50 South Capital is an alternatives asset management firm designed to meet the core strategic needs of investors seeking access to hedge funds, private equity, and real assets solutions.  50 South Capital is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Northern Trust Corporation.

50 South Capital

Junipero is a private investment firm with assets under management across a family of funds.

Junipero Capital

IBM is a technology and innovation company that offers a wide range of technology and consulting services; a broad portfolio of middleware for collaboration, predictive analytics, software development, and systems management.

NVIDIA is a computing platform company, innovating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI. The company specializes in the manufacture of graphics-processor technologies for workstations, desktop computers, and mobile devices. The company is a major supplier of integrated circuits used for personal computer motherboard chipsets, graphics processing units (GPUs), and game consoles. Founded in 1993, NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

NVIDIA

Cohesity

Cohesity makes data work by consolidating secondary storage silos onto a hyperconverged, web-scale data platform that spans both private and public clouds. Enterprise customers begin by radically streamlining their backup and data protection, then converge file and object services, test/dev instances, and analytic functions to provide a global data store. Cohesity counts many Global 1000 companies among its rapidly growing customer base. CRN named Cohesity a Top 25 Disrupter and one of the 10 Coolest Hyperconverged Products of 2016.  Cohesity is a group of passionate individuals working together to bring innovation to the storage landscape. Their group has employees from renowned companies such as Google, Nutanix, Riverbed, VMware, Netflix, Aster Data, and others in the heart of Silicon Valley.

<div>Cohesity offers a cloud data management platform for securing and managing enterprise data. The platform eliminates data silos, providing users access to data stored in data centers, edge sites, and public cloud environments. It also incorporates zero-trust features, such as encryption and role-based access control, along with ML- and AI-powered threat detection and recommendations to protect data. The platform also provides backup and recovery for traditional and modern data sources and ensures business continuity with automated failover and failback orchestration for mission-critical workloads.</div>

Data Infrastructure & Analytics

Cohesity report: firms overconfident in cyber resilience abilities

Cohesity, a data security and management company, has entered a partnership with NVIDIA to deploy advanced GenAI capabilities into Cohesity's platform, Gaia.

Empowering Tomorrow's Innovations with Generative AI Infrastructure

Generative AI Infrastructure

Platforms that assist with fine-tuning pre-trained GenAI models or custom models tailored to specific use cases. Includes services that train models from scratch or use existing models

Microsoft

Cohesity has strengthened its collaboration with Microsoft to enhance backup and recovery performance for Microsoft 365 environments.

Providers of storage solutions that help accelerate data analytics. These include primary storage solutions, such as data warehouses and data lakes, and secondary storage solutions for non-mission-critical data.

Amazon Web Services

Collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to integrate with Amazon Bedrock for enhanced operational efficiency, security insights, and data value extraction.

Solutions that enable businesses to carry out data processing and create ML models on the underlying data for predictive analysis.

Red Hat

Cohesity has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the foundational operating system of its Cohesity Data Cloud platform.

Cisco

Cisco partners with Cohesity to help deliver the benefits of the Cohesity Data Cloud to nearly 1,000 joint customers worldwide.

AI-based solutions for evolving digital threats

Next-gen Cybersecurity

Companies that provide platforms and technologies to protect enterprise data and infrastructure in the cloud from internal and external threats.

Alphabet

Through this collaboration, organizations can access their entire data infrastructure through a secure workflow that spans on-premises, multicloud, and edge environments.

Cohesity and Microsoft have announced an expanded partnership to help enterprises enhance data security globally.

New data privacy regulations have opened up space for a new wave of compliance-focused startups.

Digital Privacy Tools

Storage infrastructure for holding data in compliance with regulations such as GDPR or data residency requirements.

IBM and Cohesity Announce New Data Security and Resiliency Collaboration

Collaborated to improve data security and resilience in hybrid cloud environments by combining the expertise of both companies in areas such as data protection, cyber resilience, and data management. In addition, IBM launched Storage Defender solution that includes Cohesity's data protection as an integral part of the offering.

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 Cohesity offers a cloud data management platform for securing and managing enterprise data. The platform eliminates data silos, providing users access to data stored in data centers, edge sites, and public cloud environments. It also incorporates zero-trust features, such as encryption and role-based access control, along with ML- and AI-powered threat detection and recommendations to protect data. The platform also provides backup and recovery for traditional and modern data sources and ensures business continuity with automated failover and failback orchestration for mission-critical workloads.
 
 
 
 
 Cohesity offers its platform as a managed service&mdash;either through Cohesity directly or via one of its partners&mdash;or as a self-managed platform on private or public cloud platforms. The platform caters to enterprises in multiple industries, including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, retail, utilities, and media. The company operates through a usage-based SaaS model.
 
 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 The company served over 500 clients as of October 2022. Its notable customers include Nasdaq, AutoNation, California Department of Finance, Nationwide, Siemens, and Cisco.
 
 
 
 
 Cohesity has formed multiple partnerships with other technology companies to enhance its platform and offer new solutions. It teamed up with 
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 Funding and financials
 
 
 In April 2020, Cohesity raised USD 250 million in 
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 funding led by DFJ Growth, Foundation Capital, Greenspring Associates, and Wing Venture Capital. The round valued the company at USD 2.5 billion, more than double the valuation achieved from its Series D round. It planned to use the funds for R&amp;D and to build new capabilities.&nbsp;
 
 
 
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Fivetran is a cloud-based automated data integration platform that enables businesses to move data from various sources, including SaaS applications, databases, and files, into data warehouses, data lakes, and other destinations. The company's platform offers multiple deployment models to meet diverse business needs, ranging from stringent security requirements to maintaining on-premises databases even after partial cloud migration.The company's data movement platform is designed to automate and streamline the process of extracting, loading, and transforming (ELT) data, empowering organizations to focus on data-driven insights and decision-making. With real-time analytics, database replication, AI workflows, and cloud migrations facilitated by Fivetran, thousands of customers worldwide can leverage the platform to drive business growth.Fivetran's core offering revolves around its connector library, which supports over 500 data sources, including SaaS applications, databases, ERPs, and files. These connectors enable automatic, reliable, and secure data movement, regardless of whether the data resides on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment. The platform's scalable architecture allows businesses to seamlessly add or remove data sources as their needs evolve.To enhance the usability and accessibility of the ingested data, Fivetran employs a normalized schema approach. By delivering data in a normalized format, the platform enables customers to remix and reshape the data according to their specific requirements, facilitating efficient data analysis and reporting. Additionally, Fivetran offers pre-built data models and dbt Core integration, empowering customers to create analytics-ready tables tailored to their business use cases, such as analyzing deal opportunities from Salesforce, generating general ledger reports from QuickBooks data, or evaluating return on ad spend across advertising platforms.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30203">June 2024</a>, the company launched Managed Data Lake Service to simplify the process of managing data lakes for businesses of any size. Key benefits include the ability to centralize data for insights and convenience. Furthermore it reduces costs by discontinuing support for legacy data warehouses.Key customers and partnershipsOver the years, Fivetran has attracted a diverse range of customers across various industries, including ecommerce, finance, technology, and media. Notable clients include Autodesk, Conagra Brands, JetBlue, Lionsgate, Morgan Stanley, and Ziff Davis, among others. These companies leverage Fivetran's platform to streamline their data integration workflows, optimize their analytics capabilities, and gain a competitive edge through data-driven decision-making.To further enhance its offerings and enable seamless integrations, Fivetran has established strategic partnerships with various technology providers, including data warehousing solutions, cloud platforms, and business intelligence tools. For instance, Fivetran collaborates with Databricks, enabling customers to build an open lakehouse with Delta Lake powered by the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Additionally, Fivetran's integration with Unity Catalog provides out-of-the-box governance and security for Fivetran-generated tables.

Fivetran

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 Domo is a cloud-based analytics platform that enables businesses to connect, transform, and visualize data from various sources. It provides a comprehensive solution for data management, analysis, and visualization, empowering organizations to make data-driven decisions. Domo's platform is designed to foster collaboration, efficient decision-making, and improved business outcomes through its user-friendly interface and powerful data manipulation capabilities.
 
 
 Domo's key offerings include data integration, data warehousing, business intelligence (BI), and intelligent applications. The platform leverages its Adrenaline engine and offers over 1,000 pre-built connectors to extract data from cloud applications, databases, spreadsheets, and other sources. This data is then stored in Domo's internal data warehouse or accessed through federated queries, enabling users to analyze and visualize it using Domo's extensive collection of visualization tools and dashboards.
 
 
 Domo&rsquo;s user experience is designed to be intuitive and accessible, fostering high adoption rates across organizations. Its user-friendly interface, seamless collaboration features, and mobile-first approach contribute to its widespread adoption and ease of use. Domo's platform is built for speed and scalability, allowing organizations to quickly access and analyze even large datasets without experiencing performance issues.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Domo serves over 2,300 customers across various industries, including major enterprises such as eBay, Walmart, Cisco, Citibank, HP, The National Geographic Society, Verizon, US Army, Vanguard, Microsoft, IBM, Thomson Reuters, Airbus, Orange, AT&amp;T, Caterpillar, Volvo Cars, and Comcast.
 
 
 The platform has been widely adopted by organizations seeking to leverage data for better decision-making, improved customer insights, and enhanced marketing analytics. Domo has formed strategic partnerships with companies like Regional One Health and Torchy's Tacos, enabling them to leverage Domo's capabilities for healthcare metrics and finance applications, respectively.
 
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Domo

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 Confluent streams real-time data to its customers via its data processing system software, Apache Kafka. This system is a publish-subscribe distributed messaging system that receives data and makes it available in real time to target systems. Using Apache Kafka, Confluent provides its customers a complete cloud native platform for data to be accessed anywhere. Its products are the Confluent Cloud, which has pricing options for every budget, and the Confluent Platform, a self-manageable platform. The company has office locations in the US and UK.
 
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Confluent

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 dbt Labs provides an open source data transformation tool that uses analytics engineering. It is aimed at programmers with knowledge of SQL to develop models with SELECT statements, test and document each model, and install safely with Git-enabled version control. The software enables the user to develop faster, work from the same assumptions, deploy with confidence, and&nbsp; ensure low risk with governance and safety. The company also offers dbt Core, which is an open source software for analytics engineers, and dbt Cloud Enterprise for secure, reliable access to data. JetBlue and Domain are some of its clients.
 
 
 
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dbt Labs

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 Starburst uses the open source Trino to give its customers a modern solution in the form of one of the fastest analytics search engines, with reliable security, around the clock support and connectors. The platform offers Starburst Enterprise, an option that allows users to deploy, connect, and manage data anywhere, and Starburst Galaxy, which provides a superior MPP SQL engine on an easy to use platform. Some of Starburst&rsquo;s customers are EMIS, Zalando, Finra and Priceline. The company also works with consultancy partners, cloud partners, technology partners, and managed service provider partners.
 
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Starburst

Solutions to unify data from disparate sources by extracting, transforming, loading, and storing data in a usable form (such as in data warehouses) for further analysis.

Tools to monitor data for quality issues in real-time, as it moves throughout the data pipeline.

Tools for enterprises to visualize data in a graphical form and obtain insights on the same using AI and natural language processing.

Leverages GenAI to help organizations extract insights and supports GenAI application development through data preparation

Offers data analytics and storage platforms for business under a B2B SaaS model

These are tools that help prepare data for AI/ML applications

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 Data security and management company Cohesity has partnered with NVIDIA to incorporate GenAI capabilities into its platform, Gaia. The partnership allows the integration of NVIDIA's AI Enterprise into Gaia, offering users access to advanced AI functionalities.
 Through NVIDIA's unique infrastructure management (NIM), Cohesity can empower clients to create specific AI models, use a GenAI assistant for in-depth data insights, and develop AI applications using the data from Cohesity's platform. The cooperation between the two companies is further strengthened by this mutual investment.
 The aim of this alliance is to increase operational efficiency, bolster security risk management, and procure more data-driven insights. This embodies Cohesity's commitment to enabling its customers to safely exploit AI to garner improved understanding from their data.
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