Capnamic is a venture capital firm from Berlin/Cologne doing early-stage investments in outstanding teams in Germany/Austria/Switzerland. The team’s expertise includes 70+ investments, 30+ successful trade sales and 13+ IPOs as well as broad professional experience across various industries and functions.  Capnamic unites institutional and corporate investors thus offering its portfolio companies a unique network of sparring partners and customers. The firm’s general partners are Jörg Binnenbrücker, Olaf Jacobi, and Christian Siegele.

Capnamic Ventures

Iris Capital is a European VC specialized in digital, fueling entrepreneurs from early stage to growth since 1986.  From Paris, Berlin, San Francisco, Tel Aviv, Tokyo and Dubai, Iris Capital supports start-ups and scale-ups in their global expansion with the unique support on its multi corporate partners, including Orange, Publicis, Valeo and BRED. Iris Capital invests in various industries, from platforms to Saas, AdTech, IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, IoT, robotics and mobile services, and is always looking for ambitious industry disrupters led by unique entrepreneurs across the world.

IRIS

DTCP is an investment management firm focused on growth equity and digital infrastructure. Founded in 2015, the firm has raised more than $1 billion in funds from corporate and institutional investors and invested in over 60 companies. DTCP Growth invests in enterprise application and infrastructure software companies. DTCP Infra invests in mobile access, fiber, and data center infrastructure.

DTCP

Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with growth-stage technology and software companies. Insight has a deep focus in Fintech, Cybersecurity, AI/ML, DevOps, and Healthcare sectors. Across their people and their portfolio, they encourage a culture around a core belief growth equals opportunity. As of December 31, 2022, the firm has over $75B in regulatory assets under management. Insight Partners has invested in more than 750 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO.

Insight Partners

As part of the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs, GS Growth is the firm’s investment platform dedicated to providing preferred equity and mezzanine capital to high-growth companies. As of June 2019, Goldman Sachs' investing groups (Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, Principal Strategic Investments, and Private Capital Investing) have combined to form the GS Growth team. The team targets investments of $20-250 million.

GS Growth

LeanIX

LeanIX offers a SaaS for enterprise architecture (EA) that enables organizations to take faster, data-driven decisions in their IT.

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 Launches Free Academic Edition of Enterprise Architecture Management Tool

LeanIX Recognized as a Visionary in Gartner's 2019 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools

SAP buys Enterprise Architecture firm LeanIX

Solution Architecture Vs Enterprise Architecture

LeanIX is Recognized as a 2022 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers' Choice for Enterprise Architecture Tools

Only Continuous Transformation Cultures Will Survive

Enterprise Architecture with LeanIX (EAM)

Enterprise Architecture Vs Business Architecture

Giving firms greater control over their SaaS stack

B2B SaaS Management Platforms

LeanIX is a German company specializing in Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) solutions.

Building future-ready applications in the cloud

Cloud-native Tech

LeanIX, an SAP company, placed as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Architecture Tools

LeanIX complements the transformation capabilities of SAP Signavio solutions and will provide a comprehensive foundation for AI-enabled process optimization as SAP plans to further embed generative AI.

Azure

LeanIX partners with Microsoft to introduce LeanIX AI Assistant, leveraging generative AI through Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to transform enterprise architecture 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

To accelerate delivery of business and IT architecture transformations

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.

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

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.

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

LeanIX is a German company specializing in Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) solutions. LeanIX’s products include Enterprise Architecture Management, which allows users to manage the risk and transformation of their IT landscape; SaaS Management Platform (SMP), which is a fully automated SaaS management solution that optimizes cost and productivity; and Value Stream Management (VSM), which helps software engineers achieve transparency across their supply chain and identify vulnerabilities. LeanIX allows customers to gain control and transparency over SaaS, enterprise architecture, and microservices landscapes. LeanIX follows a direct sales model. In March 2021, LeanIX acquired Cleanshelf, a SaaS management provider, which was absorbed into the company. In September 2023, SAP announced it had agreed to acquire LeanIX with the deal expected to close in Q4 2023. Key customers and partnerships LeanIX counts around 1,000 enterprise customers who operate in industries and sectors such as healthcare/pharma, automotive, public sector/education, industrial/manufacturing, energy/utilities, tech/media/telecom, consumer/retail, and logistics/travel/transportation. Some notable customers are DHL, Volkswagen, Dropbox, Bosch, Audi, Bentley, Decathlon, Discover, Ducati, Hermes, Lamborghini, Swarovski, and Vodafone. LeanIX’s technology partners include Apptio, Collibra, Atlassian, Lucidchart, CAST, SAP Signavio, and MuleSoft. Funding and financials LeanIX’s latest funding was in July 2020 from a USD 80 million Series D round led by GS Growth.

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

Mirantis is a technology company that provides cloud-native software and services to help businesses modernize their IT infrastructure.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 partnershipsMirantis focuses on enterprise customers who deploy and manage large-scale private clouds. Some of its high-profile customers include Volkswagen Group, Société Générale, 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.

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 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/29580">offers an AI suite</a> 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.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.

LeanIX

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