TLV Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in Israeli entrepreneurs who are pushing the boundaries of what is possible. With over $1 billion in assets under management, we invest in untapped markets and wherever breakthrough technologies may be found, including Cybersecurity, Data, AI, DevTools, Fintech, Biotech, eCommerce, and more. Driven by a passion for innovation, our team partners with the most exceptional founders and empowers them to transform their disruptive ideas into successful, category-defining companies. Since 2015, the firm has backed Israel's most promising companies, including Aqua Security, Next Insurance, Unit, Firebolt, Immunai, Granulate (acquired by Intel), Puresec (acquired by Palo Alto Networks), Oribi (acquired by LinkedIn), Neosec (acquired by Akamai), and more. For more information visit www.tlv.partners.

TLV Partners

Emerge is an early stage, Tel-Aviv based Venture Capital firm, partnering with exceptional tech-innovators and helping them do whatever it takes to win.

Emerge

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

Binder & Partners Ventures is the investments' capital arm of Binder & Partners multi-family office. The ambition of BPV is to connect our investors with the most promising startup companies.

Binder & Partners Ventures

R136 Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm based in Woodside, California, primarily focused on enterprise SaaS, financial technology, data & analytics, cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, workflow automation and b2b marketplaces in the United States and Israel.

R136 Ventures

Mighty Capital is an early-growth Silicon Valley venture capital (VC) firm. We invest in great products that are also great businesses, like Airbnb, DigitalOcean and Amplitude. Founders and other VC firms invite us to invest because we help our portfolio companies sell faster, hire top talent, and generate liquidity, by giving them exclusive access to over 300,000 product managers through the original & most influential product acceleration platform, Products That Count. Amplitude calls us the “best value for the dollar invested''.

Mighty Capital

Lian Group is a specialized direct investment firm focused on creating tech market leaders.

LIAN Group

Rookout

Rookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collect any piece of data - including logs, traces, and metrics - from the deepest levels of live code in their production environments, with the click of a button. Unlike traditional monitoring tools and APMs, which tend to focus on metrics that DevOps engineers and SREs care about on the infrastructure level, Rookout is built from the ground up for developers, who care more about the actual code and business logic of their applications.

<div>Rookout is a technology company that provides a debugging and data extraction platform to simplify and accelerate the debugging process in modern software applications.</div>

Building future-ready applications in the cloud

Cloud-native Tech

Rookout is a developer-first observability platform that enables software engineers to debug and troubleshoot code in production environments. The company's technology allows developers to collect any piece of data from live code without requiring additional coding, redeployments, or restarts. This capability is particularly useful for debugging cloud-native applications, including those based on Kubernetes, microservices, and serverless architectures. Rookout's platform is designed to work across various industries and is utilized by numerous Fortune 500 companies.

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 Rookout is a technology company that provides a debugging and data extraction platform to simplify and accelerate the debugging process in modern software applications.
 
 
 Rookout enables developers to gain real-time visibility into their code's execution and extract valuable data without code changes or redeployments. By enabling on-the-fly code instrumentation and data collection, Rookout promises faster development cycles and improved application reliability.
 
 
 Rookout&rsquo;s sales model is a subscription-based pricing model.
 
 
 In 
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 July 2023
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 , Dynatrace, a leader in unified observability and security, agreed to acquire Rookout. Integrations of Rookout to the Dynatrace platform will provide developers with increased code-level observability in production environments.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Rookout&rsquo;s portfolio of customers consists of Santander, Seagate, Autodesk, Hexa, Cisco, and UPS.
 
 
 Rookout integrates with most major cloud service providers and technology platforms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Dynatrace, Gitlab, and Datadog.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 As of June 2023, Granulate&rsquo;s latest fundraising was in 2021 from a USD 30 million Series B round led by Red Dot Capital Partners.
 
 
 
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SingleStore is a company that provides a distributed SQL database platform for real-time analytics and operational applications.SingleStore’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.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 partnershipsSingleStore 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 financialsAs of June 2023, SingleStore’s latest fundraising was in October 2022 from a USD 30 million Series F round led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Prosperity7 Ventures. The funds were slated to fuel SingleStore’s growth and various strategic initiatives.

SingleStore

Platform9 is an open-distributed cloud company that offers solutions for managing hybrid clouds, Kubernetes, and more. Platform9 offers several products and solutions, including Managed Kubernetes, Managed OpenStack, and Managed Bare Metal.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.Key customers and partnershipsPlatform9 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. Additionally, in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/32723">August 2024</a>, Platform9 partnered with Fairwinds, a managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service provider, to tackle issues related to Kubernetes over-provisioning and cost management costs in public cloud deployments.

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 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22579">
 October 2023
 </a>
 , 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

Rafay Systems is a cloud-native platform that automates deployment, life cycle management, and scaling of containerized applications across all cloud infrastructure.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, and includes capabilities to include support for graphics processing unit-based workloads.Additionally, Rafay Systems offers an AI suite to simplify AI application development and deployment. This suite includes pre-configured LLMOps Playgrounds, a turnkey MLOps pipeline, central management of LLM providers and prompts, and AI data source integrations and governance. It also offers a cost optimization suite to help IT professionals manage Kubernetes expenses with dynamic cluster scaling, auto-rightsizing, policy application, and simplified infrastructure.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 partnershipsRafay’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’s public cloud and managed Kubernetes partners include Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Oracle.

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

Vendors offering cloud-native infrastructure or provisioning, which is the first layer in the cloud-native landscape. It encompasses tools to create and harden the foundation of cloud-native apps.

Vendors offering execution environment (runtime) solutions. This encompasses everything a container needs to run in a cloud-native environment, including the code used to start a container.

Vendors offering solutions for application definition and development. This layer focuses on the tools that enable engineers to build cloud-native applications

Vendors offering orchestration and management solutions including tools to handle running and connecting cloud-native applications.

Vendors offering observability, including tools to understand a cloud system from its external outputs, measured by CPU time, memory, disk space, latency, errors, etc.

Vendors that bundle different tools from different layers together into a platform, solving a larger problem. These can include an orchestration tool, a container runtime, service discovery, networking, an API gateway, etc.

Provide tools to design and build applications for deployment and operation in cloud environments

Disruptors are using Generative AI for AI-based assistants and help-bots, while others provide the technology for developing and deploying Gen AI applications and models.

Rookout is a developer-first observability platform that enables software engineers to debug and troubleshoot code in production environments. The company's technology allows developers to collect any piece of data from live code without requiring additional coding, redeployments, or restarts. This capability is particularly useful for debugging cloud-native applications, including those based on Kubernetes, microservices, and serverless architectures. Rookout's platform is designed to work across various industries and is utilized by numerous Fortune 500 companies.
The core functionality of Rookout's solution is its ability to provide instant insight into cloud-native applications, addressing developers' needs for rapid troubleshooting and debugging. By allowing engineers to capture application state accurately and efficiently, Rookout significantly reduces the mean time to resolution (MTTR) for most issues, with some customers reporting up to an 80% reduction in debugging time. The platform also introduces "Snapshots" as a fourth pillar of observability, complementing traditional metrics, logs, and traces. Snapshots offer a secure method to capture and process data, eliminating risks associated with traditional logging practices.
In August 2023, Dynatrace announced a definitive agreement to acquire Rookout. The acquisition aims to integrate Rookout's capabilities into Dynatrace's unified observability and security platform, enhancing the ability of software engineers, security personnel, and IT teams to identify and remediate issues quickly in production environments.
Key customers and partnerships
Rookout's platform is used by several prominent companies across various industries. Notable customers include Amdocs, Cisco, Dynatrace, Jobvite, Santander Bank, and UPS. The company's technology has been particularly well-received in enterprise environments.
In October 2022, Rookout announced the release of IDE plugins for JetBrains, enabling developers to integrate Rookout's capabilities directly into popular development environments such as IntelliJ, PyCharm, Webstorm, and Goland. This partnership aims to help developers catch and address issues earlier in the development process, potentially saving significant time and resources in debugging efforts.

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.

Sonar Source

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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.
 
 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 
 
 
 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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Asana

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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.
 
 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 
 
 
 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.

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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