SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven our strategy. They are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

SV Angel

High Alpha, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, is a B2B SaaS venture studio. High Alpha Studio conceives, launches, and scales B2B SaaS companies by providing a blend of studio services, including design, finance, talent, marketing, brand, and go-to-market. High Alpha Capital invests in High Alpha Studio companies and emerging B2B SaaS companies. The combination of High Alpha Studio and High Alpha Capital represents a new model for entrepreneurship — the venture studio model — that seeks to help companies reduce friction, increase velocity, and achieve enterprise scale.

High Alpha

Notable Capital is named for the founders we invest with, the ideas they pursue, the causes they champion, and the remarkable companies they build. Notable is a U.S.-based venture capital firm focused on early-to-growth stage companies in cloud infrastructure and business and consumer applications across the U.S., Israel, Europe, Latin America, and select go-global opportunities. Notable portfolio companies include Affirm, Airbnb, Block, Brightwheel, Drata, Handshake, HashiCorp, Ibotta, Orca Security, Quince, Slack, Slice, StockX, Stori, Vercel, Zendesk, and more.

Notable Capital

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

Hyde Park Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm focused on high-growth, mid-continent technology startups. We seek companies with an exceptional founding team and fast-growth potential, looking to raise a first or second round of capital. With offices in Chicago and Indianapolis, our team is tenacious, responsive, and committed to adding value to each investment.

Hyde Park Venture Partners

Haystack is a venture capital firm that backs outlier founders at the earliest stages.

Haystack

Salesforce Ventures helps enterprising founders build companies that reinvent the way the world works. Since 2009, they’ve invested in and partnered with more than 400 of the world's tenacious enterprise software companies from seed to IPO, including Airtable, Databricks, DocuSign, Guild Education, Hopin, Monday.com, nCino, Snowflake, Snyk, Stripe, Tanium, and Zoom. Salesforce Ventures leverages decades of expertise in the cloud and long-term relationships with key decision-makers at thousands of businesses around the world to give portfolio companies an unfair advantage, help them build credibility, and accelerate growth.

Salesforce Ventures

The Slack Fund is an investment fund to support slack teams building products that enable more productive workplaces.

Slack Fund

Menlo Ventures provides capital for multi-stage consumer, enterprise, and life sciences technology companies. Since 1976, the firm’s market-driven analysis has led to the identification of opportunities and successful investments in innovative markets. Notable areas of investment include Marketplaces (Uber, Rover.com, Poshmark); Consumer Services (Tumblr, Betterment, Roku, Siri); Dev/Ops (Harness, Edge Delta, Fire hydrant); SaaS (Carta, ScoutRFP, Qualia, Benchling, Everlaw); Fintech (Betterment, Bluevine, Chime); Cybersecurity (Cavium, IronPort, BitSight, Abnormal, StackRox); and Life Sciences Technology (Synthego, Cofactor Genomics, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, 3T Biosciences). Menlo’s portfolio includes more than 70 public companies, and more than 100 mergers and acquisitions, with $5 billion under management. The firm is currently investing in Menlo Ventures XV, a $500 million early-stage fund, as well as its $500 million Inflection Fund, which targets early-growth investments.

Menlo Ventures

Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund is an outgrowth of Revolution’s Rise of the Rest platform, a national initiative launched in 2014 to spotlight emerging startup hubs. Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund invests in seed- and early-stage companies located outside of New York City, Silicon Valley, and Boston. By partnering with regional ecosystem leaders and co-investors, Rise of the Rest is helping to build and scale the next wave of transformational companies. The Rise of the Rest Seed Funds are backed by a group of iconic entrepreneurs and business leaders committed to the vision that the next great startups will be located outside of the coastal tech hubs.

Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund

Baird Capital makes venture capital, growth equity, and private equity investments in strategically-targeted sectors around the world.  The company values its creators who identify exceptional opportunities and partners with senior industry executives to build world-class companies. Its in-depth sector knowledge, deep relationships with entrepreneurial management teams, and global network of 60 investment and operating professionals in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Asia help ensure that the company consistently drives value in its portfolio companies.  Baird Capital was founded on January 1, 1919 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Baird Capital

Spring Lake Equity Partners is a Boston-based private equity firm.  We invest equity capital primarily in later-stage, technology-oriented private companies.  We formed our current investment vehicle, Spring Lake Equity Partners LLC, in 2013.  The principals at Spring Lake formerly constituted the private equity arm of Tudor Investment Corp., a global hedge fund, prior to spinning off in 2013 to form Spring Lake.  Spring Lake is led by Managing Partners Bob Forlenza and Carmen Scarpa, who formed the predecessor group to Spring Lake in 1995.  Partners Jeff Williams, Dan MacKeigan, and Jon Danielson comprise the remainder of the senior investment team, which has been investing together as a group since 2001.  While at Tudor, we invested over $650 million in 75 companies across four investment funds and continue to sub-advise several of these funds today.  Our investment philosophy is simple and has remained consistent over time – we seek to partner with great management teams to take their businesses to the next level, creating value for all stakeholders.  Spring Lake strives to add value to our portfolio companies through active Board participation and accessing our network of contacts which includes our own and those of our key strategic partners, WestRiver Equity Partners, Tudor Investment Corp., and the George Kaiser Family Foundation.

Spring Lake Equity Partners

Coupa Ventures invests in early- and growth-stage companies. Coupa Ventures invests alongside other well-known industry investors to offer our portfolio companies unique benefits, access, and exposure. It's targeting companies that are Series A or beyond, we do have the capability to invest in seed rounds as well.

Coupa Ventures

MMV is a multi-stage, global venture capital firm investing in enterprise software, cybersecurity, financial technology, and digital health companies. We help accelerate the growth of the companies we partner with by providing capital, connections and advice. MMV’s sole limited partner is MassMutual, a Fortune 500 financial services company with assets under management of $616 billion (Dec 2020).

MassMutual Ventures

Zylo

As the leader in SaaS Management, Zylo empowers companies to discover, optimize and govern their SaaS applications while elevating the employee experience. Organizations large and small trust Zylo’s enterprise-proven technology and unparalleled SaaS Management expertise to optimize more than 30 million SaaS licenses and $7 billion in SaaS spend. Zylo’s patent-pending, AI-powered Discovery Engine provides continual, frictionless monitoring of SaaS spend, licenses, and usage to create the industry’s most trusted SaaS system of record. Fueled by more data than any other provider, Zylo delivers actionable insights that allow you to take action quickly to optimize growing SaaS portfolios. For more information, visit zylo.com.

Zylo is a leading enterprise SaaS management and optimization platform that helps organizations gain visibility and control over their rapidly growing SaaS portfolios. The company's platform leverages AI to analyze an organization's SaaS spend and usage in real-time, creating a comprehensive system of record. It provides insights into license utilization, overlaps, and potential cost savings opportunities, enabling IT, finance, and procurement teams to make data-driven decisions.

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Zylo is a leading enterprise SaaS management and optimization platform that helps organizations gain visibility and control over their rapidly growing SaaS portfolios. The company's platform leverages AI to analyze an organization's SaaS spend and usage in real-time, creating a comprehensive system of record. It provides insights into license utilization, overlaps, and potential cost savings opportunities, enabling IT, finance, and procurement teams to make data-driven decisions.
As of August 2022, Zylo had over 30 million SaaS licenses and USD 25 billion in SaaS spend under management. The platform's key features include discovery of an organization's entire SaaS footprint, tracking of spend, usage, and adoption trends, analysis of user activity and license utilization, and departmental visibility into adoption. Zylo's platform empowers organizations to optimize SaaS renewals, eliminate waste, and drive cost savings while improving employee productivity.
Prominent customers leveraging Zylo's solutions include Adobe, Atlassian, Coupa, DoorDash, Intuit, Slack, Salesforce, and Yahoo. In March 2023, Zylo launched App Overview, a feature that centralizes app spend, usage, adoption trends, and insights on a single screen, enabling quick identification of underutilized licenses and redundant applications.

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.

Vendr

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.

BetterCloud

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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