Tech Square Ventures is an Atlanta-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in enterprise, marketplace, platform, and tech-enabled service companies. We are a team of founders, operators, and investors that partner with visionary entrepreneurs to help them with what they need most – access to markets and customers. Our platform is built on a strategic network of innovation ecosystem and corporate, and university relationships that help founders inform and accelerate go-to-market strategies.

Tech Square Ventures

Starting a company is an act of courage. Defiance against the status quo. A statement. But scaling a company is an act of determination. It requires boundless energy, tenacity, creativity, resiliency, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. At BIP Capital, we get that. We’re the entrepreneurs behind the entrepreneurs. Visionaries. Doers. Partners in the journey. Late nights. Writing on walls. Side-by-side, long after the honeymoon is over. And long after everyone else has gone home. They get that it’s hard, and disruption gets messy. Winning demands grit and an indomitable warrior spirit – in ourselves, our leaders, and in the entire tribe. And those are the types of partners we are looking for. We’re looking for daring entrepreneurs and partners who want to go to battle…and win.

BIP Capital

We look for smart entrepreneurs that focus on execution within growing markets in which they have relevant experience, keen insights or deep relationships. Our investment model is geared towards building long-term partnerships with both our companies and the markets they serve.

BLH Venture Partners

Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations to build and forge long-standing companies. Their portfolio includes pinterest, shopify, twilio, yelp, linkedin, pagerduty, docusign, wix, fiverr, and toast, and has $19 billion of assets under management.

Bessemer Venture Partners

Las Olas Venture Capital (LOVC) is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in startups in various industries. Their core mission is to amplify the impact of founders building the future in nonobvious geographies and industries. As active lead investors with a concentrated early-stage portfolio, their support extends beyond capital. LOVC provides tailored strategic and operational guidance to our founders and connects them to our networks of capital, talent, and potential customers. Investment themes reflect their view on the emerging technologies and business architectures that they think will fundamentally impact how the world runs. LOVC focuses on investing in B2B software companies. This approach to B2B software investing stems from their deep operational expertise in scaling these types of companies and our conviction that a unique market opportunity exists for innovation within the enterprise. They believe that regardless of background or location, when determined, intelligent people make it their mission to solve a challenging problem and change the world, they often do. They are generalist investors within B2B and target investments in vertical SaaS, software-enabled marketplaces, and knowledge worker tools. Consumer-facing technology, hardware or service-based businesses, and industries like biotech and Web3 that require deep domain expertise to develop conviction fall outside their thesis. LOVC's investments typically demonstrate early product-market fit signals. $15-75K MRR is their sweet spot for recurring revenue businesses, but they understand that product market fit also manifests in other ways. LOVC invests in companies based in the Eastern United States.

Las Olas Venture Capital

Buckhead Investment Partners is a Financial Services.

Buckhead Investment Partners

OpenView is an expansion stage venture firm that helps grow software companies like Instructure, Kareo, Datadog, and Expensify into market leaders. Through OpenView's Expansion Platform, they help companies hire the best talent, acquire, and retain the right customers and partner with industry leaders so they can dominate their markets. OpenView's focus on the expansion stage makes it suited to provide truly tailored operational support to their portfolio companies. OpenView Partners has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

OpenView

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

Stripes is a growth equity firm that invests in software and consumer businesses. Stripes’ software practice invests in leading horizontal and vertical software platforms servicing customers from SMB to Enterprise. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Stripes

Sapphire is a global software venture capital firm with more than $11 billion in AUM and team members across Austin, London, Menlo Park and San Francisco. For over a decade, Sapphire has partnered with visionary management teams and venture funds to back companies of consequence. Since its founding, Sapphire has invested in more than 170 companies globally resulting in more than 30 Public Listings and 45 acquisitions. The firm’s investment strategies — Sapphire Ventures, Sapphire Partners and Sapphire Sport — are focused on scaling companies and venture funds, elevating them to become category leaders. Sapphire’s Portfolio Growth team of experienced operators delivers a strategic blend of value-add services, tools and resources designed to support portfolio company leaders as they scale.

Sapphire Ventures

Cypress.io

Cypress.io develops an automated end-to-end and component testing solution for anything that runs in a browser. The company offers the open-source Cypress App, a test engine that combines existing testing tools with a graphical user interface to monitor and debug tests. Additionally, Cypress Cloud is a hosted service that aggregates and applies powerful intelligence from past Cypress App test runs to support better CI failure debugging workflows, test suite analytics, and intelligent CI orchestration capabilities that improve developer velocity while reducing CI costs. Cypress has more than 3,700 customers across 78 countries and  65 industries who have recorded over 5 billion tests. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Cypress.io is an open-source end-to-end testing framework designed for modern web applications. It provides a comprehensive solution for automated testing, addressing key pain points faced by developers and QA engineers. The framework is built on JavaScript and runs on Node.js, leveraging the Mocha testing framework and Chai assertion library. Unlike Selenium, Cypress executes within the browser's run loop, eliminating network lag and improving test reliability. The tool offers features such as time travel debugging, automatic waiting for elements, and network traffic control. Cypress supports testing on major browsers including Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. It also facilitates unit testing, visual testing, and accessibility testing through its plugin ecosystem. In July 2023, Cypress expanded its capabilities to include API automation testing, further enhancing its utility for developers.

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Cypress.io is an open-source end-to-end testing framework designed for modern web applications. It provides a comprehensive solution for automated testing, addressing key pain points faced by developers and QA engineers. The framework is built on JavaScript and runs on Node.js, leveraging the Mocha testing framework and Chai assertion library. Unlike Selenium, Cypress executes within the browser's run loop, eliminating network lag and improving test reliability. The tool offers features such as time travel debugging, automatic waiting for elements, and network traffic control. Cypress supports testing on major browsers including Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. It also facilitates unit testing, visual testing, and accessibility testing through its plugin ecosystem. In July 2023, Cypress expanded its capabilities to include API automation testing, further enhancing its utility for developers.
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Cypress has gained significant popularity within the open-source community. It has been adopted by developers and QA teams across various industries.

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.
 
 
 
 
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 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.
 
 
 
 
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 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.

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their product offering for DevOps

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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