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 first applied this strategy to the software and technology industries nearly 20 years ago. Since then, the firm has acquired more than 200 software and technology companies representing over $50 billion in value. Its investment philosophy is centered around working collaboratively with existing management teams to drive superior operating results and innovation. They execute through a partnership-driven approach supported by a set of management principles, operating metrics, and business processes. It supports companies by investing in growth initiatives and strategic acquisitions that drive long-term value.

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.

<div><p>AppOmni provides a SaaS security and compliance platform that helps businesses identify and manage their SaaS applications and ensure compliance with regulations.</p></div>

Giving firms greater control over their SaaS stack

B2B SaaS Management Platforms

SaaS Security Pioneer AppOmni Brings Aboard Industry Veteran Joel Wallenstrom

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    AppOmni provides a SaaS security and compliance platform that helps businesses identify and manage their SaaS applications and ensure compliance with regulations.
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    G2 provides a SaaS spend management platform to reduce costs and eliminate waste for IT, Finance, and Procurement teams. It offers an integrated approach to recognize, analyze, and keep track of SaaS stacks, employee SaaS consumption, manage contracts and compliance, synchronize software requests, and gain insights and analytics.
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    Vendr (formerly Blissfully) offers a SaaS buying platform that leverages AI to find the best software to buy and manage the expanding stack in a single system of record for finance and procurement teams. The platform makes use of benchmarking data, SaaS buying experts, automated workflows and analytics and insights to streamline the purchase, renewal, and deal updates. 
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Vendr

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    BetterCloud offers a SaaS management solution, which it claims to be the market leader for SaaS operations, that aids enterprises in consolidating data protection and streamlining user lifecycle management. The platform features automated app discovery, app insights, automated workflows and user data. 
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BetterCloud

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    LeanIX provides an automated SaaS management system to help businesses reduce costs and boost productivity. The platform is designed to focus on tracking, managing, and benchmarking subscribed SaaS applications. 
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LeanIX

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    Flexera One offers an IT and cloud management software platform to improve app usability and cost effectiveness for enterprises. The platform allows analytics, insights, asset management, cloud application modernization, licensing use and compliance, and maximizing technological returns.
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Flexera One

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

AI-based solutions for evolving digital threats

Next-gen Cybersecurity

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 <p>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.</p>
 <p>ZTPM provides extensive insights into SaaS applications, encompassing application configuration, security posture, and user engagement within the application.</p>
 <p>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.</p> 
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AppOmni brings Zero Trust Posture Management to application layer

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.

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

AppOmni

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