Costanoa Ventures leads Formation, Seed, and Series A stage investments in companies that change the way the world does business.

Costanoa Ventures

Silicon Valley Data Capital fuels that change connectivity and artificial intelligence drive an explosion of data, today’s enterprises are ill-equipped to handle the changes. Traditional enterprises cannot ignore their data-driven challengers, but are invested deeply with legacy vendors, who are slow to realize that the game hasn’t just gotten faster, but that it’s changing altogether.

Silicon Valley Data Capital

ClearSky is a venture capital/growth equity group that invests in innovative companies, with a special focus on (i) technologies driving the energy transition, climate related technologies, and sustainability, (ii) the digital transformation of enterprise customers’ operations and communications, and (iii) disruptive solutions for cybersecurity, industrial security, and critical infrastructure security.

ClearSky

Inner Loop Capital invests in seed-stage start-ups across a range of enterprise technologies. Inner Loop Capital focuses on Cyber Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Data Analytics, and Enterprise SaaS.

Inner Loop Capital

Scale Venture Partners is a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on intelligent business software with a Scaling Platform that has helped companies like Box, Bill.com, Hubspot, Docusign, JFrog, and WalkMe move from founder-led growth to a repeatable go-to-market machine. ScaleVP partners with entrepreneurs to support accelerated growth from the first customer to market leadership.

Scale Venture Partners

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

Thoma Bravo is a private equity firm with a 40-year history, including over $30 billion in investor commitments, and a focus on investing in software and technology companies. It pioneered the buy-and-build investment strategy and applied it to the software and technology industries.

Thoma Bravo

The Syndicate Group was created to help startups scale faster by organizing exclusive investment access for their channel partners.

The Syndicate Group

AppOmni

AppOmni is the leading provider of SaaS security. AppOmni provides unprecedented data access visibility, management, and security of SaaS solutions, enabling organizations to secure mission-critical and sensitive data. Its patented technology deeply scans APIs, security controls, and configuration settings to evaluate the current state of SaaS deployments and compare against best practices and business intent.  With AppOmni, organizations can establish rules for data access, data sharing, and third-party applications that will be continuously and automatically validated. The company’s leadership team brings expertise and innovation from leading SaaS providers, high tech companies, and cybersecurity vendors. Backed by Cisco Investments, Salesforce Ventures, ServiceNow Ventures, Scale Venture Partners and more, AppOmni was recently named as a PURE CYBER 100 “Companies To Watch In 2023” and one of CyberTech 100’s Companies for 2022. The company has been recognized as a Dark Reading Cyber Security Vendor to Watch and a SINET16 Innovator.

AppOmni is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) security management company founded in 2018. Its platform offers a comprehensive security framework that enables customers to identify, protect, and monitor risks across their entire SaaS ecosystem. The solution performs in-depth scans of application programming interfaces (APIs), security controls, and configuration settings to assess the current state of SaaS deployments against best practices and business requirements.

SaaS security management startup AppOmni raises $70M

AppOmni Awarded Frost & Sullivan's 2023 Global Company of the Year Award for Providing End

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AppOmni raises $70M to secure SaaS app stacks

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Prevent SaaS Data Breaches with AppOmni

AppOmni Raises $70 Million in a Series C Funding Round Led by Thoma Bravo to Scale Market-Leading SaaS Security Solution

AppOmni Announces Strategic Investment from Cisco Investments and Expands SaaS Coverage and Developer Platform Capabilities

Giving firms greater control over their SaaS stack

B2B SaaS Management Platforms

AppOmni and Cisco Partner to Extend SaaS Security with End-to-End Zero Trust From Endpoint to the Application

KPMG

This collaboration  will create a streamlined path for KPMG to deploy AppOmni’s comprehensive SaaS security solution to Canada-based clients that helps ensure operational continuity and cyber resilience for their respective organizations.

AI-based solutions for evolving digital threats

Next-gen Cybersecurity

Companies which provide solutions for enterprises to secure their cloud-native applications and workloads, across the entire development lifecycle.

AppOmni is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) security management company founded in 2018. Its platform offers a comprehensive security framework that enables customers to identify, protect, and monitor risks across their entire SaaS ecosystem. The solution performs in-depth scans of application programming interfaces (APIs), security controls, and configuration settings to assess the current state of SaaS deployments against best practices and business requirements.
AppOmni's platform provides centralized visibility into data access across SaaS applications, allowing organizations to establish and enforce rules for data sharing, user activity, and third-party integrations. It secures sensitive data from unauthorized access, loss, and compromise. As of June 2022, AppOmni protected over 78 million users and secured more than 230 million exposed data records across a wide range of SaaS platforms, including Box, Confluence, Fastly, GitHub, Google Workspace, Jira, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, Workday, and Zoom.
In April 2022, AppOmni introduced the AppOmni Developer Platform, enabling customers to extend its security capabilities to custom applications and any SaaS application, whether purchased from a vendor or built in-house. The company has achieved strong triple-digit annual recurring revenue growth and a near 100% customer retention rate since its inception.
In December 2023, AppOmni was named the Global Company of the Year by Frost & Sullivan for its comprehensive SaaS security posture management (SSPM) solutions, which address the industry's most pressing security gaps through automated application discovery, identity governance, control, and visibility into SaaS 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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 AppOmni, a SaaS security company, has introduced a new tool, Zero Trust Posture Management (ZTPM) that strengthens zero-trust security to the level of application layer.
 ZTPM provides extensive insights into SaaS applications, encompassing application configuration, security posture, and user engagement within the application.
 This product by AppOmni addresses the shortcomings of conventional zero-trust architecture by allowing detailed access and configuration control of SaaS applications across a company's environments. 
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