Crescent Capital is a Belfast based venture capital fund manager. Their primary investment focus is with Northern Ireland based companies operating in the information technology, life sciences, and manufacturing sectors. Since 1995 Crescent Capital has been supporting and building high-grade venture backed companies in Northern Ireland.

Crescent Capital

Invest Northern Ireland is Northern Ireland's economic development agency. Their overall goal is to help create wealth for the benefit of the whole community by strengthening the economy and helping it grow.

Invest Northern Ireland

Clarendon Fund Managers is a venture capital fund manager based in Belfast, focused on co-investments with business angel and private investor lead deals. It manages £42.5m of regional VC Funds in Northern Ireland including the £30m Co-Investment Fund and has invested in over 60 companies since it began investing in 2001.

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Ampliphae

As employees independently discover and adopt hundreds of Cloud-delivered SaaS applications, the business is exposed to risks of all sorts - data loss, regulatory compliance, continuity and cost. Ampliphae automates the process of discovering all the SaaS used in the organization, assessing the risks of each and putting in place effective SaaS management to mitigate those risks.

Ampliphae is a cyber-security software company that develops SaaS-based solutions to protect government and citizen data from security threats as it transits networks and moves to the cloud. The company's SaaSGuard analysis technology identifies and secures cloud (SaaS) applications used across an organization, providing actionable risk insights and security precautions for these applications. Ampliphae's Encryption Analysis builds a comprehensive view of all encryption technologies utilized internally and externally with partners and applications. By identifying weak encryption schemes, Ampliphae helps mitigate data theft, eavesdropping risks, and prepares organizations for future quantum threats to encrypted data. The company was founded in November 2020.

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Ampliphae is a cyber-security software company that develops SaaS-based solutions to protect government and citizen data from security threats as it transits networks and moves to the cloud. The company's SaaSGuard analysis technology identifies and secures cloud (SaaS) applications used across an organization, providing actionable risk insights and security precautions for these applications. Ampliphae's Encryption Analysis builds a comprehensive view of all encryption technologies utilized internally and externally with partners and applications. By identifying weak encryption schemes, Ampliphae helps mitigate data theft, eavesdropping risks, and prepares organizations for future quantum threats to encrypted data. The company was founded in November 2020.
Key customers and partnerships
In January 2022, Ampliphae partnered with RiskXchange, a leading provider of cybersecurity risk scoring solutions. This partnership enabled Ampliphae customers to access RiskXchange's cyber risk scores directly within the SaaSGuard platform, providing additional data to assess the suitability of SaaS applications in their supply chain. RiskXchange subscribers could also initiate timely cybersecurity monitoring of third-party SaaS cloud apps through this collaboration.

G2 is a leading software review platform that leverages artificial intelligence to transform revenue and customer-facing teams. The company's Reality Platform automatically captures customer interactions and utilizes that data to help teams improve business performance. G2's platform provides insights at scale, empowering companies to determine the best actions for achieving successful outcomes. As of February 2022, G2 earned the #1 spot on both the Best Software Products and Highest Satisfaction Products lists. The platform distinguishes itself through its ability to automatically capture customer interactions, derive valuable data-driven insights, and deliver optimal results for sales, customer service, marketing, and other customer-facing roles across diverse industries.
In March 2024, G2 announced surpassing 2 million authentic user reviews on its platform. This milestone underscores the company's rapid growth and success in establishing itself as the world's largest software marketplace, consistently attracting over 60 million visitors annually. Over the years, G2 has witnessed substantial expansion across various regions, with North America remaining its core market while witnessing explosive review growth in the Asia-Pacific region as well.

Vendr is the world's first SaaS buying platform that helps companies find, buy, and manage software quickly and with guaranteed savings. The platform combines a product and people-powered service, enabling organizations to streamline the software purchasing process, reduce overspending, and eliminate duplicative products. Vendr harnesses insights from over 13,000 deals across more than 2,000 SaaS suppliers to facilitate critical transformation in how companies procure and manage software.
Through Vendr, businesses can maximize their return on SaaS investments by achieving cost savings, improving stack visibility across the organization, and accessing the best industry data. The platform offers insights and negotiation support to help buyers and sellers evaluate deal fairness, ensuring a smooth internal purchase process. It provides visibility into approval workflows and fast-tracked purchase request mechanisms, leading to smoother buyer-procurement relationships.
As of February 2023, Vendr's dynamic catalog, Explore, features over 19,000 software products, offering transparent market share insights, pricing trends, and compliance details. This empowers procurement teams to make informed decisions, compare alternatives, and identify opportunities for consolidation and cost optimization. Vendr guarantees fair pricing terms and risk-free purchases for many suppliers, buying out contracts if needed.
Vendr has processed over USD 1.5 billion in customer software spend and delivered over USD 240 million in savings. Its platform delights hundreds of customers, including Brex, Drift, and Dashlane. In June 2022, Vendr achieved a USD 1 billion valuation after raising USD 150 million in Series B funding led by Craft Ventures and SoftBank Vision Fund 2. The company has over 250 employees globally and is headquartered in Boston with a second location in Charleston, South Carolina.

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BetterCloud is a leading provider of SaaS Management Platform (SMP) solutions. Its platform enables IT professionals to streamline and automate critical tasks related to SaaS access and day-to-day operations. The company offers a no-code workflow builder that allows users to configure automations for employee onboarding, offboarding, and other processes. BetterCloud's platform centralizes the management of user permissions and access across SaaS applications, providing capabilities like bulk or automated admin access changes. It also helps identify underutilized resources and prevent overlap in subscriptions, driving spending efficiency.

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LeanIX is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that provides Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) solutions. Its flagship product, the Continuous Transformation Platform, enables organizations to gain comprehensive visibility and superior governance over their IT landscapes. Through an automated and data-driven approach, LeanIX helps companies organize, plan, and manage their application portfolios, SaaS contracts, and DevOps projects. The platform's core offerings include Enterprise Architecture Management, SaaS Management, and Value Stream Management.
LeanIX's EAM solution empowers organizations to visualize their entire IT application landscape, identify obsolete applications, design target architectures, and plan architectural roadmaps. The solution leverages a flexible, best-practice data model that serves as a foundation for addressing future business challenges. It provides real-time overviews of IT landscapes and business capabilities, enabling organizations to transform productivity and accelerate business transformation while reducing costs and risks.
In September 2023, LeanIX was acquired by SAP to expand its business transformation portfolio and facilitate AI-enabled process optimization. The acquisition aimed to provide customers with a comprehensive suite of tools for continuous business transformation, leveraging LeanIX's EAM capabilities in conjunction with SAP's offerings.

LeanIX

Flexera is a robust SaaS-based IT management solution designed for organizations with complex hybrid environments. It provides unparalleled visibility into the entire IT estate, enabling data-driven insights across on-premises, SaaS, and cloud environments. With Flexera One, organizations can optimize spend, reduce risk, and drive results across their enterprises.Flexera offers a suite of capabilities, including IT visibility, IT asset management, FinOps, cloud optimization, and migration. It visualizes the entire IT estate, providing complete insights to drive better decision-making. The IT asset management component enables organizations to manage and optimize their hybrid IT environments seamlessly.Flexera FinOps capabilities inform, optimize, and operate the cloud at scale, allowing for the visualization and allocation of cloud usage and billing, migration planning, and efficient hybrid IT estate management. Its cloud optimization and migration features provide actionable intelligence to navigate the cloud journey confidently.Flexera specializes in optimizing expensive data center software such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Windows Server, Oracle Database, Oracle Middleware, IBM Cloud Paks, IBM WebSphere, IBM DB2, and SAP engines. It automatically utilizes out-of-the-box content libraries to identify consumption, entitlements, and optimal license positions based on product use rights.

Flexera

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

Solutions in this industry focus on providing tools for firms to manage its SaaS subscriptions

Uses AI/ML to analyze a firms SaaS stack and ensure compliance with privacy standards

Provide greater visibility on the usage and spending on SaaS platforms

Growth in remote and hybrid work arrangements led to growth in cloud-based SaaS solutions

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