Blumberg Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with visionary entrepreneurs to build successful technology companies that empower individuals, businesses and society through the innovative use of AI, big data and other transformative technologies. We are passionate about nurturing B2B technology companies from Seed stage through their growth journey, as active board members and hands-on advisors. We were among the first investors in industry leaders including Addepar, Braze, Credorax, DoubleVerify, Fundbox, HootSuite, Katapult, Nutanix, Trulioo and Yotpo. Find us in San Francisco, Tel Aviv, Miami and New York or at blumbergcapital.com.

Blumberg Capital

Accelerator Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that invests in early stage technology companies. Accelerator Ventures works with talented entrepreneurs to create the next generation of great companies.  Accelerator Ventures brings to entrepreneurs its strong understanding of technology, capital, and venture markets. We actively help companies with financing strategy, business development, customer introductions and management team development. Our goal is to invest at the earliest stages of a company's fund raising efforts and to leverage our domain expertise in order to help companies get on the path toward profitability. We leverage our network of angel investors, early stage funds and venture capital firms in order to meet the funding needs of our portfolio companies.  Typically Accelerator Ventures invests in the earliest stages of a company. Investments fall into two categories: - Startups that want to build up and prove their business before getting institutional venture capital - Startups whose capital requirements are too small for institutional venture capital, typically raising less than $2 Million in the life of the company. Both of these are very startup friendly and focus on maximizing the returns for both the entrepreneur and Accelerator Ventures.

Accelerator Ventures

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies. Lightspeed Venture Partners invests in various sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social. It mainly invests in countries such as the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India.

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early, and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs. Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech, digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics, and frontier technology.

Khosla Ventures

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services, as well as financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Its Investment Banking segment offers financial advisory services, including advisory assignments concerning mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense, risk management, and restructurings and spin-offs; and underwriting services comprising public offerings and private placements of a range of securities, loans, and other financial instruments, and derivative transactions. The company’s Institutional Client Services segment provides client execution services, such as fixed income, currency, and commodities client execution related to making markets in interest rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies, and commodities; and equities related to making markets in equity products, as well as executes and clears institutional client transactions on stock, options, and futures exchanges. This segment also engages in the securities services business providing financing, securities lending, and other brokerage services to institutional clients, including hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, and foundations. Its Investing and Lending segment originates longer-term loans; and invests in debt securities, loans, public and private equity securities, real estate, consolidated investment entities, distressed assets, currencies, commodities, and power generation facilities. The company’s investment management segment provides investment products and services, as well as offers wealth advisory services, including portfolio management and financial counseling, and brokerage and other transaction services.

Goldman Sachs

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

Riverwood Capital is a growth-stage technology investment firm that invests in technology companies in need of financial and intellectual capital to scale.

Riverwood Capital

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

Greenspring Associates is a global investment firm that provides commingled funds and customized partnership capabilities to a diverse group of institutions and individuals in North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia. Through a synergistic platform, the firm invests in established and emerging venture capital fund managers, in early and growth stage venture-backed companies and in secondary venture capital fund and secondary direct investments. Currently managing over $7.3 billion of committed capital, its dedicated investment team combines broad venture fund and direct investment expertise.

Greenspring Associates

Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital is a private equity platform targeting late-stage growth investments in technology, health care, consumer, digital media and other high-growth sectors. For nearly three decades, Morgan Stanley has successfully pursued growth investment opportunities. Expansion Capital’s experienced investment team combines extensive growth equity and franchise experience to pursue a value-creation strategy focused on operational and financial measures. The team works closely with the successful entrepreneurs and business professionals underlying its investments to assist in building proprietary advantage for portfolio companies. Expansion Capital also leverages the brand and global network of Morgan Stanley to source investment intelligence and opportunities.

Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital

Fidelity is a privately owned investment management firm that serves a wide range of clients. It offers services including IRAs, 401(k) rollovers, annuities, discount brokerage, retirement planning, estate planning, wealth management, securities execution and clearance, and life insurance. Fidelity serves individual investors, businesses, financial advisors, and institutions. The firm manages equity, fixed-income, and balanced mutual funds, and invests in public equity and fixed-income markets worldwide. It also conducts in-house research to inform its investment decisions.

Fidelity

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

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Nutanix

Nutanix specializes in cloud software, offering organizations a single platform for running apps and data across clouds. Nutanix is the first company to offer a radically simple computing and storage infrastructure for implementing enterprise-class virtualization without complex and expensive network storage (SAN or NAS). Built on architectural techniques employed in core infrastructure systems at Google, Nutanix Complete Cluster's converged compute and storage architecture can scale to manage petabytes of data while running thousands of virtual machines and aims to disrupt the multi-billion dollar virtualization industry. Since emerging from stealth mode in April 2011, Nutanix has raised $71 million in three funding rounds from top-tier VCs that include Kholsa Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs, Battery Ventures, and Blumberg Capital. Nutanix has been named to Gigaom's Top 50 Cloud Innovators list and won the 2011 Best of VMworld Gold award.

<div>  <p>    Founded in 2009, Nutanix is the first company to offer a radically simple compute and storage infrastructure for implementing enterprise-class virtualization without complex and expensive network storage (SAN or NAS)  </p>  <p>    Built on architectural techniques employed in core infrastructure systems at Google, Nutanix Complete Cluster's converged compute and storage architecture can scale to manage petabytes of data while running thousands of virtual machines and aims to disrupt the multi-billion dollar virtualization industry.  </p>  <p>    Since emerging from stealth mode in April 2011, Nutanix has raised $71 million in three funding rounds from top tier VCs that include Kholsa Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs, Battery Ventures, and Blumberg Capital. Nutanix has been named to Gigaom's Top 50 Cloud Innovators list and won the 2011 Best of VMworld Gold award.  </p></div>

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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.

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<p>Cloud infrastructure and services provider, Nutanix, has introduced a new platform called Nutanix Cloud Platform 2.0. This platform has been designed to assist businesses in managing their cloud environments.</p>
<p>The platform integrates AI-driven insights for operational resource optimization and cost reduction, encryption and multi-factor authentication for enhanced data security, and features for energy consumption optimization and electronic waste reduction, contributing to sustainable practices.</p>

</div> <p><b>Analyst QuickTake:<br>
</b> &nbsp;Nutanix is well-positioned to benefit from the <a href="https:<br>
//www.everestgrp.com/cloud-infrastructure/broadcoms-acquisition-of-vmware-navigating-the-impact-on-pricing-blog.html"> uncertainty </a> surrounding Broadcom's <a href="https:<br>
//www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/broadcom-completes-acquisition-of-vmware-301995900.html"> acquisition </a> of VMware, particularly the pricing, roadmap, innovation, and support changes that have concerned VMware customers. Many VMware customers, locked into multi-year agreements, are now open to alternatives. The recent <a href="https:<br>
//www.axios.com/2023/12/09/nutanix-acquires-d2iq"> acquisition </a> of D2iQ's Kubernetes platform adds mature management capabilities and credibility in the open-source community.</p>

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