Lead Ventures

Founded by principals with decades of investing and operating experience, Navigate Ventures is a venture fund focused on early/mid growth stage capital for emerging B2B Enterprise SaaS & Internet companies between their Series A and Growth rounds, outside of Silicon Valley. Navigate looks to invest in companies with great teams, strong traction, and demonstrated product market fit, where the early venture risk is mitigated. The team is focused on helping entrepreneurs prepare for rapid growth, scaling, expansion, and getting to a growth round. We are sector & stage focused, value-add, founder-friendly investors. We bring significant experience, deep domain expertise, and a broad base of resources and contacts to each investment to help them get to the next level and subscribe to practice of incorporating ESG factors when evaluating investment opportunities. A Unique Thesis & Market Phenomenon Most Startups Never Make It Past Series AEach Year, Hundreds of New, Promising Startups Look for Growth Capital Less than 25% Make it to the Growth Round Lack of Product Market Fit and Team Issues are Common Lack of Access to Growth Capital is the Most Common Issue Size and expectations for Growth Rounds have risen dramatically Growth Round is the hardest to raise as the goal post has moved It takes longer to achieve the required metrics to raise a Growth Round Many CEOs lack the experience, time, resources or relationships to successfully raise a Growth Round The end result is many companies with Good Teams, Product Market Fit, and Strong Unit Economics find they need more Time & Capital to be able to raise a Growth Round.

Venture capital for the most impactful digital-first green transition startups. With significant positive impact. Greencode Ventures is a digital-first green transition venture capital firm supporting startups that have a positive environmental and social impact while building scalable profitable businesses. We focus on sustainable investments as in article 9 of Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 on sustainability-related disclosures in the financial sector (‘SFDR’). We focus on companies whose products or services inherently contribute towards our sustainable investment objective. Do you agree with these principles? Join forces with us. Together we can drive the impact we wish to see in this world! Green transition is complex. That's why you need substance matter expertise Green transition is complex. We are strongly convinced that it goes beyond CO2. Therefore a systemic approach and a broader horizon is key to finding solutions fast. Innovative and breakthrough solutions are created by small teams and startups challenging the status quo. In the field of green transition, established corporations play an important role as customer or market enabler. The Greencode team is strongly rooted in green transition industries. We will leverage our business understanding and corporate global network to accelerator go-to-market and fast scalabililty. To create a sustainable impact, disruptive solutions In addition to the disruptive solution, innovative companies need ato be able to build the viable business case for their B2B corporate customers, they need to build an organization which is scalable, and a culture that attracts the very best talent. Our team has a unique set of competences and experiences. We support our founders and teams in strategy creation and business development, international go-to-market, as well as in leadership and company culture building. Given our unique industry knowhow and experience, we know that the journey to creating sustainable impact for the green transition is challenging. We are in for the ride. Now you choose which future you want to go on.

We are patient and committed investors with a view towards the entrepreneur’s long-term success. We take an artisan approach to venture capital because every company is unique and different. Our portfolio companies benefit from our extensive enterprise relationships by building strategic partnerships and accelerating revenue. The strength of our firm resides in our team approach to venture capital. STAGE: We invest in expansion-stage companies post product with early customer success. SECTORS: We focus on software, hardware and technology enabled services. VALUE-ADD: We help entrepreneurs accelerate revenue and reduce costs. From Humble Beginnings to Lifetime Friends Our families came to America with a one-way ticket, little money, and our entire lives packed in a few suitcases. Growing up in immigrant households, we lived by stretching a dollar as far as possible. And in order to assimilate into the American culture, we’ve developed an insatiable curiosity to learn from anyone, anywhere. We do not take anything for granted. Even though we grew up with very little, we embraced the American Dream that by doing an honest day’s work, we can achieve success. Through grit and determination, we fought our way and worked all throughout our childhood and school to pay for our own education. Our paths crossed after college, where we became roommates and have remained friends for the past 15 years – and counting. We believe it’s not a coincidence that some of the most valuable and iconic technology companies in the U.S. were founded or co-founded by immigrants or children of immigrants. These entrepreneurs include Steve Jobs (Apple), Sergey Brin (Google), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Eduardo Saverin (Facebook), Larry Ellison and Bob Miner (Oracle), Andrew Viterbi (Qualcomm), Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Max Levchin, Luke Nosek, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk (PayPal), Jerry Yang (Yahoo), Pierre Omidyar (eBay), Eric Yuan (Zoom) and many more. Our history shapes our firm’s values of being budget conscious, building authentic relationships, and upholding integrity. We take our values seriously, and we consider ourselves lucky to have landed in venture capital careers where we can help the next generation of entrepreneurs with those similar values achieve their success. Our Professional Background Our careers have included experience in finance, operations, and venture capital. We have been trained by leaders and legends on Sand Hill Road having invested at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) – both firms were founded in the early 1970s and have backed some of the most iconic companies in the world including Amazon, Google, Netflix, and Twitter.

We drive meaningful equity value creation by executing on what we know best -expanding the sales funnels of our partnership companies, putting ready-to-close opportunities in front of their commercial teams. Investment Criteria We make minority investments ($0.5M-10M check sizes) in B2B product and services companies with at least $0.5M in annual recurring revenue. Our value-add comes via implementing our lead generation engine, which pairs best with companies whose addressable market consists of SMBs with ARRs above $5k per client. Applied Expertise We are a noninvasive, minority equity partner that supports founders who are operationally prepared to grow 5-10x in the next couple of years through the application of our expertise in sales leads generation and talent acquisition. Flexible Participation 100% of our capital comes from the founders of BairesDev, meaning we have no predetermined time frame to realize exits. Our participation can come in the form of cash and implementation of our proprietary growth engine, or solely implementation of our growth engine if cash is not a need. Growth Accelerators BDev Ventures is the investment arm of BairesDev, a leading nearshore technology solutions company with a reach all across the U.S. and Latin America. We invest in and accelerate B2B product and services companies by implementing the same lead generation and talent recruiting engine that has allowed BairesDev to become the largest 100% bootstrapped and organically-grown IT services company in history, and the fastest-growing software development company in the world. As a result of our momentum with BairesDev, we created BDev Ventures to invest in and transform already promising companies into world-class organizations by powering them with the same growth framework that fuels BairesDev. We make minority equity investments in high-potential B2B product and services companies that are operationally prepared for exponential growth with a jolt from our proprietary growth framework. Our value-add is much more tangible and transparent than what traditional VC groups pitch, with our partnership companies seeing the top of their sales funnels expand by several orders of magnitude thanks to our growth framework.

Pravega, believing deeply in the transformative power of entrepreneurs, invests financial and professional resources, to build the future leaders of India's Fintech and Enterprise sectors.

Founded in 2007, Ridge Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund investing in experienced founders redefining how the world interacts with software. We back companies delivering advanced technologies, new distribution models and incredible user experiences to market. Our approach - fast, flexible and founder-focused - creates the right relationship from the word “go” helping companies become market leaders quickly. Alignment matters. Here’s the proof: Krux, MindMeld, Sapho, Minted, Braze, ThirdLove, Fastly, for starters. Ridge Ventures was formerly IDG Ventures USA. Our PrioritiesPeople Matter: We refer to teams we back as “The Ridge Familia” for good reason. We have deep respect for the people who call themselves founders. No matter how innovative the technology or massive the TAM, we prioritize character. We think founders should prioritize character as well. Patience, transparency, and follow-through matter; so does remembering it’s about partnership, not control. At Ridge, no investment terms are sacred because we know that it’s the best founders that deliver long-term success, not the best deal terms. Shared Passion: We are passionate about the decades of enterprise innovation and growth that lie ahead. We are equally passionate about helping experienced founders build massive enterprise software companies. As a focused fund, each investment we make matters. We only back companies where our excitement equals (or at least comes very close) the founder’s. This alignment helps drive quick investment decisions and is a key predictor of long term collaboration. Company building is hard work. Shared passion makes it possible. Revenue-Focused: Nailing product market fit and scaling revenue systems are all that matters. Full stop. We have helped build hundreds of companies from seed to billions in outcomes, forging deep buyer relationships along the way. These form the basis of our 100+ company-strong Ridge Revenue Network, with CXO’s from all corners of the Fortune 500. We thoughtfully connect founders to customers to crystallize market fit and drive early revenue. We’ve even been known to write customer intro commitments into our term sheets. Building Revenues Over Hype We are fanatical about substance over hype and backing experienced entrepreneurs building revenue-first enterprise software companies. As late Seed and early Series A experts, typically writing checks in the $2-7M range, we believe in flexible terms that align our incentives, and a transparent process to reduce your fundraising distraction. We approach our investments with the long view at the forefront, knowing well that company building is anything but a straight line. We back experienced entrepreneurs who trust their own vision and voice, and want venture support rooted in mutual trust that serves them as people-first, founders second.