Sutter Hill Ventures has financed technology-based start-ups and assisted entrepreneurs in building companies since 1962. Through their decades of experience, they have developed strong industry networks, considerable operating and venture capital experience, and an understanding of the challenges that early-stage and high-growth companies face. They offer expertise in developing business strategies and partnerships, building management teams, and financing companies in both public and private markets. They have experienced operating executives who love building companies. Their approach is straightforward. They have a collegial and uncomplicated operating style that is direct and results-driven. They work as a team to respond quickly to new investment proposals and to their portfolio companies needs. Once they invest in a company, they bring to bear their time, expertise, and extensive industry networks to help these companies succeed. Building companies is their top priority and their favorite occupation. They have structured Sutter Hill to allow them to invest in a focused portfolio of early-stage companies and build value for the long term. They are always available to their CEOs and founders as advisors and mentors ready with practical and strategic advice from their own venture capital and operating experiences. They don't insist on winning every argument, but they will always tell you what they think. They also have a network of executives, advisors, and support infrastructure to help their portfolio get going in the right direction quickly. As former line managers themselves, they know the vision, energy, and commitment that building a successful company requires. They strive to build partnerships with entrepreneurs that combine dedicated support from Sutter Hill with trust that the teams they back can make good decisions and execute on the details. Their limited partners have committed long-term support to their evergreen fund which allows them to make long-term commitments to their companies. In addition, a significant portion of every dollar they invest in their own money, and each one of them participates in every investment. This direct investment reinforces each partner's commitment to every company in their portfolio and ensures that they bring every available resource to bear in helping their companies succeed.

Sutter Hill 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

Redpoint has partnered with visionary founders to create new markets and redefine existing ones since 1999. The firm invests in startups across seed, early, and growth phases. In total, Redpoint manages $4 billion across multiple funds.

Redpoint

Index Ventures is a venture capital firm based in London, San Francisco, and Geneva, helping entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.  Since 1996, Index has partnered with exceptional entrepreneurs who are using technology to reshape the world. The companies they’ve started include Adyen, Deliveroo, Dropbox, Farfetch, King, Slack, and Supercell.

Index Ventures

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

The primary responsibilities of the group are to source, qualify, and invest in technology related companies. Our major investment areas include semiconductors, materials, mobile service, internet, software, security, enterprise solutions, bio engineering & medical, while potential investment subjects range from early-stage startups to pre-IPO companies. Currently, the group has over $1.8B under management and invests $250M annually.  Samsung Ventures was founded on October 8, 1999, and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Samsung Ventures

Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossover strategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.

Tiger Global Management

IVP turns breakout companies into enduring market leaders. With a 40-year record of driving growth and 130+ IPOs, we’ve partnered with over 400 companies including Amplitude, Brex, Coinbase, Crowdstrike, Datadog, Discord, Klarna, Slack, Snap, and Twitter. As trusted allies, IVP helps founders and CEOs meet the challenge of leading a rapidly growing company. Its proven system bolsters functions including those that are sometimes overlooked and partners serve as trusted allies to companies seeking to realize their full potential.

In-Q-Tel identifies and partners with companies developing cutting-edge technologies to help deliver these solutions to the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) to further their missions.

In-Q-Tel

Wellington Management focuses on investment management. The company applies its full resources to meet the needs of the institutional clients they serve. Their investment approaches span equity, fixed income, currency, commodity, and alternative markets. They also offer asset allocation, multi-manager, and speciality approaches.

Wellington Management

Pure Storage

Pure Storage is pioneering a new class of enterprise storage that has been designed from the ground up to take full advantage of flash memory. The company's products accelerate random I/O-intensive applications like server virtualization, desktop virtualization (VDI), database (OLTP, rich analytics/OLAP, SQL, NoSQL), and cloud computing. Pure Storage makes it cost-effective to broadly deploy flash within the data center, enabling organizations to manage growth within existing power and space constraints. Launching later this year, the company's products are in private beta with select customers. Pure Storage is funded by Greylock Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures.

<div>Portworx by Pure Storage is a cloud-native storage and data management platform to run mission-critical applications in containerized environments.</div>

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 Portworx by Pure Storage is a cloud-native storage and data management platform to run mission-critical applications in containerized environments.
 
 
 
 
 The platform provides automated failover, snapshots, and performance optimization. Portworx provides high availability, scalability, and data mobility, enabling organizations to efficiently run stateful applications, accelerate DevOps workflows, and simplify data compliance. Its cost-efficiency, security, and support for hybrid and multi-cloud strategies further enhance its value proposition.
 
 
 
 
 Portworx provides a consumption-based pricing model.
 
 
 
 
 Portworx was acquired by Pure Storage in September 2020 for USD 370 million. The company was rebranded as Portworx by Pure Storage but continues to operate independently.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 
 
 Portworx serves customers in the healthcare, automotive, audio entertainment, and media sectors. Among its customers of cloud-native storage solutions are GE, Ford, Comcast, Adobe, and Airbus.
 
 
 
 
 The company has partnered with several major cloud companies including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Cisco, Docker, IBM, Red Hat Sysdig, and D2iQ.
 
 
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 
 
 Portworx&rsquo;s last funding round was in March 2019, when it raised USD 27 million in a Series C round led by Sapphire Ventures.
 
 
 
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 SingleStore is a company that provides a distributed SQL database platform for real-time analytics and operational applications.
 
 
 SingleStore&rsquo;s platform combines the scalability of NoSQL with the querying capabilities of SQL. It enables organizations to ingest, process, and analyze large volumes of data in real-time, making it ideal for applications that require fast and accurate data processing. SingleStore solves the problem of handling massive amounts of data and delivering real-time insights for use cases such as real-time analytics, operational analytics, and high-velocity transactional applications.
 
 
 SingleStore's competitive advantage is its ability to handle analytical and transactional workloads in a single platform. It allows businesses to consolidate their data infrastructure, simplifying management and reducing operational costs.&nbsp;
 
 
 SingleStore operates with a sales model that includes direct sales and partnerships with technology and solution providers. It offers different pricing and licensing options tailored to the needs of its customers, including subscription-based models.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 SingleStore serves some of the largest tech and non-tech enterprises across various industries, including Comcast, Cisco, Akamai Technologies, Fiverr, Goldman Sachs, Sony, Siemens, Hulu.
 
 
 SingleStore partners with all major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud) and has technology partnerships with Dell, Red Hat, Intel, HP Enterprise, and Looker.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 As of June 2023, SingleStore&rsquo;s latest fundraising was in 2022 from a USD 146 million Series F round led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Prosperity7 Ventures. The funds were slated to fuel SingleStore&rsquo;s growth and various strategic initiatives.
 
 
 
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SingleStore

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 clouds, Kubernetes, and more. Platform9 offers several products and solutions, including Managed Kubernetes, Managed OpenStack, and Managed Bare Metal.&nbsp;
 
 
 Managed Kubernetes allows businesses to deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters across any infrastructure, while Managed OpenStack offers a simplified way to deploy and manage private clouds. Managed Bare Metal enables businesses to run Kubernetes, OpenStack, and other workloads on dedicated hardware with bare-metal performance.
 
 
 Platform9 claims to deliver a seamless Kubernetes experience across any infrastructure. Platform9's SaaS-managed Kubernetes solution offers a single view to manage Kubernetes clusters running on any cloud or on-premises infrastructure, including bare metal servers, vSphere, and public clouds such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure, providing customers with a unified Kubernetes experience. In addition, Platform9 offers automated security patching, on-demand upgrades, self-healing clusters, multi-version support, and audit logging.
 
 
 Platform9 has a subscription-based sales model. It offers its services on a pay-as-you-go basis, with pricing based on the number of managed nodes or instances, with optional add-ons for additional features and support.&nbsp;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Platform9 targets enterprise customers who run and manage Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies on distributed cloud services, whether on-premises or in the public cloud. Its customers typically include large organizations with complex IT environments, such as financial services, healthcare, technology, and retail companies.
 
 
 As of mid-2022, Platform9 catered to more than 60 enterprise clients and powered 40,000 nodes across private, public, and edge clouds.
 
 
 Platform9 has partnerships with various cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.&nbsp;
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 Platform9&rsquo;s latest funding was a USD 26 million venture round, completed in June 2022. The funds were expected to support speeding up Platform9's go-to-market strategy and positioning the company to achieve scalable growth by executing more large-scale enterprise deployments.
 
 
 Platform9 stated that its revenue doubled in 2021, with a 132% net revenue retention rate, driven largely by its Kubernetes service.
 
 
 
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Platform9

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 Mirantis is a technology company that provides cloud-native software and services to help businesses modernize their IT infrastructure.&nbsp;
 
 
 Mirantis specializes in open-source software, focusing on Kubernetes, OpenStack, and related technologies. Its core offering is the Mirantis Cloud Native Platform, a managed Kubernetes service that provides a complete set of tools for deploying and managing containerized applications. The platform helps organizations adopt and scale Kubernetes quickly and easily, with features like automated provisioning, integrated monitoring, and self-service access to resources. Mirantis also offers professional services including consulting, training, and support for Kubernetes, OpenStack, and related technologies.
 
 
 Mirantis sells its products and services through a subscription-based model. Customers can choose from various annual subscription plans, depending on their needs.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Mirantis focuses on enterprise customers who deploy and manage large-scale private clouds. Some of its high-profile customers include Volkswagen Group, Soci&eacute;t&eacute; G&eacute;n&eacute;rale, S&amp;P Global, Paypal, Volkswagen, and GSK.
 
 
 Mirantis also has technology partnerships with several companies, including Arm, Cisco, Entrust, and Fujitsu, and hardware vendors like Dell EMC, Intel, and Supermicro.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In 
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 October 2023
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 , specialty finance company Horizon Technology Finance provided a USD 35 million venture loan facility to Mirantis, Inc. A sum of USD 20 million was initially funded.
 
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Mirantis

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 Rafay Systems is a cloud-native platform that automates deployment, life cycle management, and scaling of containerized applications across all cloud infrastructure.&nbsp;
 
 
 Rafay's platform provides enterprises with the tools to deploy and manage containerized applications, microservices, and serverless functions in a scalable and efficient way. The platform provides features including multi-cluster management, automated workload scaling, automated application recovery, and granular application-level access controls. Rafay also provides a Kubernetes-native API gateway that simplifies managing and securing microservices.
 
 
 Rafay has a subscription-based sales model and offers its platform as a service. The pricing is based on the number of clusters, nodes per cluster, and the amount of data transferred.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Rafay&rsquo;s target customer segments are enterprises, service providers, and software vendors. Some of its notable clients include Verizon, Equinix, Samsung, Moneygram, and the US Air Force.
 
 
 In 2022, Rafay launched its Technical Alliance Program (TAP), which brings together technology and solutions providers to develop joint solutions to simplify and streamline Kubernetes management and operations. Partners of the program include GitLab Inc., F5 NGINX, MinIO, New Relic, and Sysdig. Meanwhile, Rafay&rsquo;s public cloud and managed Kubernetes partners include Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Oracle.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 Rafay&rsquo;s latest funding was in August 2021 from a USD 25 million Series B round, led by Forgepoint Capital.
 
 
 
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Rafay Systems

Docker, Inc. is a technology company developing productivity tools centered around Docker, a software container platform that automates the deployment of code inside containers.Docker, Inc's major commercial products include Docker Hub, a central repository for containers, and Docker Desktop, a GUI application that enables Windows and Mac users to manage containers.Docker's ease of use, portability, resource efficiency, scalability, and strong ecosystem has made it a popular solution for deploying and managing applications in various environments.Docker has a subscription-based sales model. Docker also collaborates with various channel partners, including technology resellers, system integrators, and value-added distributors to expand its reach.Moreover, Docker has made several strategic acquisitions to enhance its capabilities: AtomicJar (2023), Nestybox (2022), SocketPlane (2015), and Tutum (2015), among others.Key customers and partnershipsAs of December 2022, the platform was used by more than 18 million developers. As of March 2022, the company served more than 56,000 commercial customers, including Adobe, Netflix, PayPal, Verizon, and Target.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27771">March 2024</a>, Docker expanded its partnership with Red Hat to integrate Testcontainers Cloud into the Red Hat OpenShift platform. This partnership aimed to streamline the process of building cloud-native applications and facilitate real-world testing using Docker containers.Funding and financialsIn March 2022, Docker raised USD 105 million in a Series C round led by Bain Capital Ventures at a valuation of USD 2.1 billion. The funds were to accelerate investments in its product and go-to-market initiatives, such as increasing investments in developer productivity, trusted content, and ecosystem partnerships and investing in new channels and geographies.Docker’s annual recurring revenue (ARR) was more than USD 50 million in 2021.

Docker

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