Umesh Padval and Ashish Kakran discuss the intersection of investing and AI

AI security gold rush: VCs seek ‘real AI rather than marketing AI’

The media buzz around Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and GPT-5 is undeniable, but the market dynamics are more nuanced than headlines suggest.

Debunking common market misconceptions about LLMs

Cisco Completes Acquisition of Isovalent to Define the Future of Multicloud Networking and Security

Thomvest's Ashish Kakran named one of the 66 rising stars of VC by Business Insider

Meet the 66 rising stars of venture capital, who shook up the industry in 2023

Generative AI: a new gold rush for software engineering innovation

Nvidia’s Supercharged Investment Strategy Is About More Than Returns

Philosophy of Jensen Huang extends beyond the bounds of the present

Nvidia’s Stunning Ascent Has Also Made It a Giant Target

Ashish Kakran named one of VC's rising stars

Cisco to acquire Thomvest portfolio company, Isovalent.

Thomvest Ventures announces seed investment in appCD

Thomvest invests in AppCD: the future of cloud infrastructure automation

deep-dive on housing affordability, mortgage activity, supply and demand dynamics, and loan performance

2023 Thomvest Housing Report: How Have Rising Rates Impacted Supply, Demand & Affordability?

Decoding Finance Team Structures at the Series C Milestone

Investors are souring on OpenAI’s nonprofit governance model

Investors Are Souring on OpenAI’s Nonprofit Governance Model

An Exciting Journey with the Newest Unicorn, Clari!

Thomvest Turns 25: Reflections on the Road Less Travelled in Venture

Thomvest Ventures Invests in Harness, the DevOps Automation Leader

Capchase and the Evolution of Enterprise Lending

When Will Valuations Bottom Out? Lessons From Past Downturns

Thomvest Invests in Isovalent: Transforming Cloud Networking, Security and Observability

Venture funding for cybersecurity startups in Q3 showed a slight increase compared to Q2 but remained down 30% YoY

Cybersecurity Funding Sees Slight Bounce Back From Q2, But Still Down From 2022

Padval believes Meta wants all the benefits of open source for their business while keeping the competition away

Meta’s Unique Approach to Developing AI puzzles Wall Street, but Techies Love It

Behind the Surge: Exploring the Factors Driving Mortgage Rates & Housing Demand

Dave Hafford discusses the history of fixed-income markets and the potential opportunity for new entrants providing software to better facilitate trading.

Fixing Fixed-Income: The Case for Better Trading Tools

Though we are still in the early stages of its widespread adoption, there has been a major inflection point in the evolution of generative AI

The AI Revolution: Transforming Employment and Securing U.S. Global Competitiveness

The cloud infrastructure and cybersecurity industries have demonstrated relatively strong performance compared to other sectors.

4 Key Cloud Infrastructure Trends to Watch in 2023

In this post I’ll dig into the company’s financials, product ambitions and valuation expectations as a public company.

In the venture capital world, we find ourselves navigating a peculiar period labeled as the Schrödinger’s Valuation Period. 

Reading Between the Quartiles — Q1 2023 Valuations

We’re excited to announce our investment in Willow Servicing, a mortgage servicing software platform

We're excited to share our first SFR Technology Market Map which highlights many of the companies building across every segment of the SFR ownership lifecycle.

Market Map: The Emerging Technology Opportunity in Single-Family Rentals

We are thrilled to announce our Series C investment in Cohere, a leader in generative AI for enterprises. 

Thomvest Ventures Announces Series C Investment in Cohere, a Leader in Generative AI for Enterprise Solutions

Compass, a technology-enabled real estate brokerage, filed its S-1 in early March

The startup and venture capital sphere has turned its attention to self-examination

CFOs Bank on Ingenuity: Steering Startups Through SVB’s Aftershocks

The company brings to life what Gartner calls External Attack Surface Management

This market map includes more than 220 technology companies operating across every aspect of commercial real estate

Market Map: 220+ Technology Companies Reshaping Commercial Real Estate

Thomvest doubles down on the intersection of cloud infrastructure and security

East-west security beyond the firewall — our investment in ShieldX

Thomvest is thrilled to announce our Series A investment in Opaque Systems, the company behind open source MC2

Thomvest invests in Opaque Systems — from friendship to company-building

Over time, we believe that AI will revolutionize the way we interact with technology across several industries

Startups Building at the Intersection of Real Estate and AI

Opendoor, the nation’s largest iBuyer, is going public. It is doing so via a merger with Social Capital Hedosophia Corp II (NYSE: IPOB)

There are three different core roles that are involved in ML modeling but each one has different motivations and incentives...

MLOps is accelerating enterprise AI adoption

In the wake of lending 1.0, fintech is dominating private capital markets.

Here are our six predictions for what we are expecting to unfold throughout the course of 2023

Predictions for 2023, a Pivotal Year In Tech

Engineers at fast-paced startups often wear both dev and DevOps hats

To better understand the tax technology space, we spoke with corporate tax software executives, startups building disruptive solutions...

Tax Tech Tango: Balancing Innovation, Optimization, and Compliance

The right finance tools lay the foundation for the company and ultimately drive efficiency and improved insights

Early Stage SaaS CFO-Tech Stack Starter Pack

ShiftLeft provides a new breed of holistic application security unlike anything we’ve seen before, amalgamating code analysispre-deployment

Thomvest Ventures leads the $20m Series B in next-gen AppSec leader ShiftLeft

Half of the customers looking to sign up for FP&A tech are shifting away from Excel

Evaluating FP&A Tools? Here's a Breakdown of the Landscape

Isovalent is passionate about networking, security, and observability and is the company behind the open-source Cilium and eBPF projects. Isovalent helps customers connect, secure, and observe cloud-native applications in multi-cluster, multi-cloud environments. Isovalent was purchased by Cisco in 2024.

Isovalent helps customers connect, secure, and observe cloud-native applications in multi-cluster, multi-cloud environments.

appCD generates Infrastructure from Code automatically based on application code with golden standards applied. IaC is standardized by default when created to ensure consistency, security and policy are built-in (not scanned after creation). Applications are provisioned with least-privileged access controls. 

appCD provides the only Generative Infrastructure from Code solution. It auto-generates secure and compliant IaC from the application code without requiring source code changes.

Alsym is working to ensure that the future of energy will be cleaner, safer, and more affordable for people around the world by developing cutting-edge non-flammable, high-performance rechargeable battery chemistry that’s free of lithium, cobalt and ideal for a range of stationary storage use cases, including utility grids, home storage, microgrids, industrial applications, and more.

Alsym is working to ensure that the future of energy will be cleaner, safer, and more affordable by developing cutting-edge rechargeable battery technology.

Avalanche Technology is the world leader in Spin Transfer Torque Magnetic RAM (STT-MRAM) non-volatile memory, leveraging perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (pMTJ) cell structure. Backed by over 270 granted patents around the cell, circuit, and system design leveraging MRAM, the technology and products provide breakthrough speeds, unlimited endurance, and non-volatility while reducing power and cost.

Avalanche provides technology and products with breakthrough speeds, unlimited endurance, and non-volatility, while reducing power and cost.

Carbon Engineering is a Canadian-based clean energy company leading the commercialization of groundbreaking technology that captures CO₂ directly from the atmosphere and a second technology that synthesizes it into clean, affordable transportation fuels.

Carbon Engineering is a Canadian-based clean energy company leading the commercialization of technology that captures and synthesizes atmospheric CO₂.

Opaque leverages a novel combination of two critical technologies layered on cloud security—secure hardware enclaves and cryptographic fortification. This combination ensures the overall computation is safe, fast, and scalable. Opaque’s confidential AI platform enables collaborative, scalable analytics on encrypted data while protecting data end-to-end and enabling organizations to comply with legal and regulatory mandates.

Opaque leverages a novel combination of two critical technologies layered on cloud security—secure hardware enclaves and cryptographic fortification.

FlashSoft offered an all-software solution that enabled enterprise users to utilize any standard SSD as a high-performance memory cache in the server to economically increase application performance and scalability. The company was acquired by SanDisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) in February 2012.

FlashSoft offered an all-software solution that enabled enterprise users to utilize any standard SSD as a high-performance memory cache in the server. Acquired by SanDisk.

Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.

Quid delivers the social intelligence that global brands and agencies use to publish, monitor, analyze, and engage with customers in real time. Using a high-precision natural language processing (NLP) engine, their platform processes billions of social media posts to extract structured insights via customizable dashboards.

Quid delivers social intelligence used by global brands and agencies. Their platform uses natural-language processing to analyze social posts and build insights.

Baffle is pioneering a solution that makes data breaches irrelevant by keeping data encrypted from production through processing.

Unqork is a no-code application platform that helps large enterprises build complex custom software faster, with higher quality, and lower costs than conventional approaches.

Unqork is a no-code application platform that helps large enterprises build complex custom software faster.

Baselane is an all-in-one banking and financial platform for individual real estate investors and landlords, designed to help them save time, increase returns, and automate their finances. Baselane offers banking, bookkeeping, rent collection, analytics, and more, in one simplified platform.

Baselane is an all-in-one banking and financial platform, offering banking, bookkeeping, rent collection, analytics, and more, in one simplified platform.

Ecobee, Inc. delivers energy conservation solutions. The company offers ecobee Smart Thermostat, a digital programmable thermostat that helps in customizing temperature settings.

ecobee, Inc. delivers energy conservation solutions, and offers a digital programmable thermostat that helps in customizing temperature settings.

Clari helps optimize your entire revenue process. With Clari’s AI platform, sales reps know where to focus, managers can immediately spot risk in the pipeline, and execs forecast with confidence. In any environment, Clari's Revenue Platform automatically gathers data from your entire organization—everything from emails and meetings to outbound marketing and conversations. Then they apply AI to synthesize that data into the real-time status and actionable insights. The result? Superior alignment and execution that generate predictable revenue, quarter after quarter, year after year.

Clari's Revenue Platform automatically gathers data across organizations and synthesizes it with AI to identify actionable insights and execution strategies.

Cotendo was a leading content distribution network (CDN) specializing in accelerating mobile websites. The company was acquired by Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) for over $250 million in December 2011.

Cotendo was a leading content distribution network (CDN) specializing in accelerating mobile websites. The company was acquired by Akamai Technologies in December 2011.

Harness is the industry’s first Software Delivery Platform to use AI to simplify your DevOps processes - CI, CD & GitOps, Feature Flags, Cloud Costs, and much more. It is the only end-to-end platform for intelligent software delivery designed to provide a simple, safe, and secure way for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production. 

Harness is the industry’s first Software Delivery Platform to use AI to simplify your DevOps processes - CI, CD & GitOps, Feature Flags, Cloud Costs, and much more.

Telivy allows Managed Service Providers to automate their clients' cybersecurity risk assessments and reduce over 80% of SecOps workload.

Tallied is an operating system for modern credit card programs. Tallied provides a fully integrated, single infrastructure and program management solution for both consumer and commercial credit card programs providing brands, fintechs, and marketplaces with advanced and secure credit card launching and building tools.

Tallied provides end to end infrastructure for building, launching and scaling consumer and corporate credit card programs.

Capchase is a platform for recurring-revenue companies to secure non-dilutive capital. Founded in 2020, the company provides financing by bringing future expected cash flows to the present day – thereby extending an immediate line of credit. 

Capchase is a platform for recurring-revenue companies to secure non-dilutive capital. Capchase is able to extend an immediate line of credit.

Maxwell was founded in 2015 by homebuyers who believed a better mortgage process was possible for lenders and borrowers. The founding team set out to build solutions to help lenders gain efficiency, streamline their processes, and focus on high-value work to grow their businesses. They channel mortgage and technology expertise to help small and midsize lending teams thrive.

Maxwell channels mortgage and technology expertise to help small and midsize lending teams thrive.

Social Finance (SoFi) is a finance company that offers a range of lending and wealth management services. The company primarily caters to early-stage professionals and offers variable and fixed-rate parent, personal, and MBA loans, mortgage refinancing, and more. SoFi went public (NASDAQ: SOFI) in June 2021. 

Social Finance (SoFi) is a finance company that offers a range of lending and wealth management services - primarily catered to early-stage professionals.

Obie offers property and casualty insurance specifically designed for landlords and rental property investors. Whether a seasoned investor or just starting out, Obie makes requesting a quote and getting coverage simple and transparent.

Obie offers property and casualty insurance specifically designed for landlords and rental property investors.

LoanSnap has developed a platform to make mortgage originations faster and easier for borrowers and loan officers. The company developed the world’s first smart loan technology that uses artificial intelligence to analyze a person’s entire financial picture and shows simple ways to benefit from a more innovative loan now and into the future.

LoanSnap developed the world’s first smart loan technology that uses artificial intelligence to analyze a person’s entire financial picture.

Nexabit developed novel switches that can route up to trillions of bits of digital information a second. The company was acquired by Lucent Technologies (NYSE: ALU) for approximately $900 million in June 1999.

Nexabit developed novel switches that can route up to trillions of bits of digital information a second. The company was acquired by Lucent Technologies in June 1999.

Milyoni, Inc. was the leader in social video for entertainment companies, brands, and artists all over the globe. Milyoni’s Social Video Platform presented a highly differentiated video experience with the power to extend audience reach and the analytics to measure success. Photobucket acquired the company in April 2015. 

Milyoni’s Social Video Platform presented a highly differentiated video experience with the power to extend audience reach and the analytics to measure success.

Ocrolus is a document automation platform that powers the digital lending ecosystem, automating credit decisions across fintech, mortgage, and banking. Ocrolus enables financial services firms to make high-quality decisions with trusted data and unparalleled efficiency.

Ocrolus is a document automation platform that powers the digital lending ecosystem, automating credit decisions across fintech, mortgage, and banking.

Ladder combines innovative technology with world-class financial and insurance expertise to make it easy for anyone to access life insurance.

CyCognito empowers companies to take complete control over their attack surface by uncovering and eliminating critical security risks they didn’t even know existed.CyCognito is solving one of the most fundamental business problems in cybersecurity: understanding how attackers view your organization, where they are most likely to break in, and how you can efficiently analyze, monitor and eliminate that risk.

CyCognito empowers companies to take complete control over their attack surface by uncovering and eliminating critical security risks they didn’t even know existed.

Glide provides Realtors with a modern online transaction experience that delights clients and keeps deals on track, making it easy to track progress, automate paperwork, integrate with service providers, and close more deals. The company was acquired by Compass (NYSE: COMP) in April 2021.

Glide provides Realtors with a modern online transaction experience that delights clients and keeps deals on track, making it easy to close more deals.

Certicom was a leading provider of information security software and services for wireless security. Certicom went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange in December 1995 and was acquired by Research in Motion in early 2009.

Certicom was a leading provider of information security software and services for wireless security. Certicom was acquired by Research in Motion in early 2009.

Powered by the world’s largest Wi-Fi network, iPass’ global Wi-Fi service offered simple, secure, always-on intelligent connectivity for any mobile device. The company went public (NASDAQ: IPAS) in August 2003.

iPass’ global Wi-Fi service offered simple, secure, always-on intelligent connectivity for any mobile device. The company went public (NASDAQ: IPAS) in August 2003.

Public Mobile was a Canadian wireless entrant that received its license to provide talk and text services to 19 million Canadians across Ontario and Quebec, commencing in the fourth quarter of 2009. The company was acquired by another leading Canadian wireless provider, TELUS Corporation (NYSE: TU), in October 2013.

Public Mobile was a Canadian wireless entrant that received license to provide talk and text to 19 million Canadians. Acquired by another leading Canadian wireless provider.

Neo Financial is a Canadian financial technology company that provides spending, savings, and rewards programs. Founded in 2019 by the co-founders of SkipTheDishes, Neo uses technology to simplify finances and create rewarding experiences for all Canadians.

Neo Financial is a Canadian financial technology company providing spending, savings, and rewards programs.

Cohere is the pioneer of large language models. It provides natural language processing models for businesses and developers to search and explore information in a new, intuitive way. Cohere’s cutting-edge large language models are built on Transformer architecture and trained on supercomputers, providing NLP solutions that don’t need expensive ML development. The platform enables developers to build intelligent systems that can read, summarize and translate texts and predict future events. It allows users to upload their own data and build custom models, providing a tailored experience for specific use cases.

Cohere: Empowering businesses & developers with a novel NLP platform to explore, read, summarize, and translate text, as well predict events intelligently.

Pine is a digital direct-to-consumer mortgage originator that streamlines the traditionally complex process and puts savings back in Canadians’ pockets.

Covalto is a leading digital banking and services platform for SMEs in Mexico. The company provides a one-stop solution by bringing together a multi-product credit offering, banking services, and a full suite of business analytics tools.

Covalto: Mexico's top SME digital banking platform. One-stop solution with credit, banking services, and powerful business analytics.

Plum combines AI and Industrial/Organizational Psychology to help companies hire, grow, and retain top talent.

Evidence Partners (DistillerSR) is the market leader in AI-enabled literature review automation software. Used by more than 300 of the world’s leading research orgs.

Willow Servicing was founded in 2021 with the vision of modernizing the core technology that orchestrates the collection of $18 trillion of US mortgage debt. Willow’s cloud-based mortgage servicing platform automates routine servicing tasks and compliance, allowing small and large servicers to efficiently service loans in-house.

Willow’s cloud-based mortgage servicing platform automates routine servicing tasks and compliance, allowing servicers to efficiently service loans in-house.

Blend’s technology empowers top mortgage lenders to be more efficient, compliant, and borrower-friendly. Blend’s technology delivers speed and efficiency to lenders, so they can serve the modern borrower and safely navigate the industry’s changing rules and regulations.  The company went public (NYSE: BLND) in July 2021. 

Blend’s technology empowers top mortgage lenders to be more efficient, compliant, and borrower-friendly. The company went public (NYSE: BLND) in July 2021.

Figure is a financial technology company with the mission of leveraging blockchain, AI, and advanced analytics to unlock new access points for consumer credit products that can transform the financial lives of our customers. They provide home equity release solutions, including home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, and home buy-lease back offerings for retirement.

Figure is a financial technology company leveraging blockchain, AI, and advanced analytics to unlock new access points for consumer credit products.

Dataxu was a leading programmatic media activation, marketing analytics & data management solution. The company worked with more than 700 brands across the globe to better understand and engage consumers in a programmatic world, no matter what device they’re using. The company was acquired by Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) for approximately $150 million in October 2019.

Dataxu was a leading programmatic media activation, marketing analytics & data management solution. The company was acquired by Roku in October 2019.

Mynd democratizes access to real estate investing by combining deep technology and industry expertise to provide a revolutionary, institutional-grade platform that enables anyone to buy, manage or sell single-family rental (SFR) properties across the United States.

Mynd enables anyone to buy, manage or sell single-family rental (SFR) properties across the United States.

Tala offers a modern credit solution for the mobile world. Tala’s app for Android underwrites customers in real-time using alternative data and delivers fast, affordable credit for customers in emerging markets.

Tala’s app for Android underwrites customers in real-time using alternative data and delivers fast, affordable credit for customers in emerging markets.

Vungle was the leading in-app video platform for performance marketers. Its mission is to deliver the highest value to users through engaging video ads. Advertisers depend on Vungle’s LTV and creative optimization technologies, targeting, and HD video ad delivery to reach and acquire high-value users worldwide.  The company was acquired by Blackstone (NYSE:BX) in September 2019. 

Vungle was the leading in-app video platform for performance marketers. It delivers the highest value to users through engaging video ads. Acquired by Blackstone.

Qwiet.ai is the modern AppSec platform that brings software developers and security practitioners together. It delivers a new model for protecting cloud or data center-hosted software by understanding the Security DNA of each new version of any application or micro-service and limiting its attack surface at runtime. This helps businesses increase the speed at which security issues can be identified and automatically triaged.

Qwiet.ai is the modern AppSec platform that brings software developers and security practitioners together.

Skyport Systems developed Hyper-Secured Infrastructure (HSI) that ensures the security of mission-critical IT and corporate assets, with tight integration of compute, security, virtualization, and policy management. The company was acquired by Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) in January 2018.

Skyport Systems developed Hyper-Secured Infrastructure (HSI) that ensures the security of mission-critical IT and corporate assets. Acquired by Cisco Systems in 2018.

Bolster builds AI/ML technology to protect enterprise brands from bad actors on the internet. The only platform that automates the detection, analysis, and takedown of threats across domains, social media, app stores, and the dark web.

Bolster builds AI/ML technology to automate the detection, analysis, and takedown of threats across domains, social media, app stores, and the dark web.

Carta is building a global ownership management platform to help companies, investors, and employees manage their equity.

Keep is a financial technology company that empowers companies to provide flexible vesting cash bonus incentives to their employees.

Keyway is a technology platform that provides programmatic access to sub $20M commercial real estate transactions. The company builds and manages portfolios of assets creating an institutional asset class in a sector generally ignored by large investors.

Keyway is a technology platform that provides programmatic access to sub $20M commercial real estate transactions.

Cylance was the first company to apply artificial intelligence, algorithmic science, and machine learning to cyber security and improve how companies, governments, and end users solve the world’s most challenging security problems proactively. The company was acquired by Blackberry Ltd (NYSE: BB) for $1.4 billion in November 2018. 

Cylance was the first company to apply artificial intelligence, algorithmic science, and machine learning to cyber security. Acquired by BlackBerry.

ShieldX was a cloud-native network security platform that elastically delivers a full stack of agentless security controls—micro-segmentation, IPS, firewall, malware prevention, and more–to protect data centers, cloud infrastructure, applications, and data.  The company was acquired by Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) in March 2021.

ShieldX was a cloud-native network security platform delivering a full stack of agentless security controls. ShieldX was acquired by Fortinet in March 2021.

Lastline provided the best-in-class malware protection platform to detect and stop advanced persistent threats, zero-day exploits, and evasive malware. The company was founded in 2011 by world-renowned security researchers and creators of Anubis and Wepawet.  The company was acquired by VM Ware (NYSE: VMW) in June 2020. 

Lastline provided best-in-class malware protection platform to detect and stop advanced persistent threats, zero-day exploits, and evasive malware. Acquired by VM Ware.

GuardianEdge was a leading provider of endpoint data protection for corporations and government clients. Symantec acquired the company in June 2010.

Singular enables data-oriented marketers to connect, measure, and optimize siloed marketing data, giving them the most vital insights they need to drive ROI. The unified analytics platform tracks over $7 billion in digital marketing spend to revenue and lifetime value across industries, including commerce, travel, gaming, entertainment, and on-demand services.

Singular enables data-oriented marketers to connect, measure, and optimize siloed marketing data, giving them the most vital insights they need to drive ROI.

Skyhigh was a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) that addresses organizations’ cloud security challenges via increased visibility, policy enforcement, and threat protection. The company was acquired by McAfee (NASDAQ: MCFE) in November 2017.

Skyhigh was a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) that addresses organizations’ cloud security challenges. Acquired by McAfee in November 2017.

Kabbage was a financial technology company that pioneered a new, automated way to lend money to small businesses. The company enabled applicants to connect their back-office systems in order to submit data and receive a lending decision within minutes.  The company was acquired by American Express (NYSE: AXP) in 2022. 

Kabbage was a financial technology company that pioneered a new, automated way to lend money to small businesses.

LendUp’s mission is to provide anyone with a path to better financial health. We build technology, credit products and educational experiences for the 56% of the US population who are shut out of mainstream banking because of poor credit or volatile incomes.

Yottamark was one of the leading food traceability system providers in the US grocery category. The company was awarded the Red Herring Global 100 Award in 2009 and was acquired by Trimble Inc. (NASDAQ: TRMB) in 2015.  

Yottamark was one of the leading food traceability system providers in US grocery. Awarded the Red Herring Global 100 Award in 2009 and acquired by Trimble Inc.

Masergy helped the world’s largest organizations unleash the power of the cloud with dynamic networks designed at the intersection of users and applications. The company was acquired by a private equity firm (ABRY Partners) in June 2011.

Masergy helped the world’s largest organizations unleash the power of the cloud with dynamic networks designed at the intersection of users and applications.

Liminal BioSciences (TSX-LMNL) is an innovative biopharmaceutical corporation with a broad pipeline of small molecule therapeutics under development to treat unmet needs in patients with liver, respiratory, and kidney diseases, including rare diseases.

Traction Complete creates solutions that help teams manage data complexity effortlessly. The platform automates data cleanup, account hierarchies, matching, and routing so sales teams can focus on generating leads and closing the pipeline. 

Traction Complete creates solutions which automate data cleanup, account hierarchies, matching, and routing, so sales teams can focus on leadgen and closing the pipeline.

Lexar was a leading provider of flash memory cards and other memory devices. The company went public (NASDAQ: LEXR) in late 2000 and was acquired by Micron Technology for approximately $700 million in 2006.

Lexar was a leading provider of flash memory cards and other memory devices. The company was acquired by Micron Technology in 2006.

Axcient replaced legacy backup, business continuity, and disaster recovery software and hardware and reduced the amount of expensive copy data in an organization by as much as 80%. By mirroring an entire business in the cloud, Axcient makes it simple to access and restore data from any device, failover IT systems, and virtualize an entire office with a click. A private equity firm acquired the company in July 2017.

Axcient makes it simple to access and restore data from any device, failover IT systems, and virtualize an entire office with a click.

ThousandEyes monitored network infrastructure, troubleshoots application delivery, optimizes digital experience, and maps Internet performance across any network. ThousandEyes is central to the operations of the world’s largest and fastest-growing brands, including 100+ of the Global 2000, 60+ of the Fortune 500, 5 of the 6 top US banks, and 20 of the 25 top SaaS companies.  The company was acquired by Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSC) for approximately $1 billion in May 2020. 

ThousandEyes monitored network infrastructure, troubleshoots application delivery, optimizes digital experience, and maps Internet performance across any network.

Lending Club is an online financial community that brings together creditworthy borrowers and savvy investors, replacing the high cost and complexity of bank lending with a faster, smarter way to borrow and invest. The company went public (NYSE: LC) in December 2014.

Lending Club is an online financial community that unites creditworthy borrowers and savvy investors, replacing the high cost and complexity of bank lending.

Sequin is a fintech company that aims to educate and empower women to maximize their credit access with a suite of lending products tailored to women’s needs and aspirations, beginning with a debit card that builds credit. Sequin was founded by payments experts from Visa & PayPal.

Sequin is a fintech company that aims to educate and empower women to maximize their credit access with lending products tailored to women’s needs.

OmniMark was a specialist programming language for developing high-performance XML/SGML content processing applications.  The company was acquired by Stilo International (LON: STL) in April 2001. 

OmniMark was a specialist programming language for developing high-performance XML/SGML content processing applications.  Acquired by Stilo International.

PremFina is an innovative premium finance company providing insurance brokers with a high-margin white-label premium finance solution.

Okena developed leading-edge intrusion detection and prevention software for enterprises. The company was acquired by Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) for over $150 million in April 2003.

Okena developed leading-edge intrusion detection and prevention software for enterprises. The company was acquired by Cisco Systems in April 2003.

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