Vertex Ventures

Our strategic alignment with AWS and cloud expertise provides unrivaled growth opportunities to early-stage businesses Our experienced management team has an intricate understanding of the challenges early-stage companies face at each stage of their journey. Our core value proposition is centered around a strategic alignment with AWS, complimented by our own in-house technical and commercial cloud expertise. This powerful combination provides unrivaled growth opportunities to early-stage businesses, transforming visions into reality. Our value proposition has been designed to offer value-added, programmatic services, encompassing the following areas: Technical: Access to a deep bench of cloud specialists who can be instantly deployed to help in areas such as information security, compliance, workload migration, cost and infrastructure optimisation, plus much more. Commercial: Enterprise go-to-market expertise and access to a carefully curated community of global Enterprise decision-makers. We go beyond surface-level Enterprise introductions to provide tangible growth opportunities through bespoke Innovation workshops. AWS Expertise: Underpinning the above is our in-depth knowledge of AWS teams, services, products, and programs, which foster the connections required for seamless growth.

At Costanoa, we back entrepreneurs who are a lot like us: hungry, thoughtful, tenacious and looking to solve big problems. We specialize in enterprise and fintech, and that focus has given us experience and expertise to be exceptionally helpful to founders building in those markets. We lead at Seed and Series A. We want to be your first call to both cheer you on when the good stuff happens and help tackle challenges when they come up (and they will!) We will be your advocate through the ups and downs of your journey. Early stage is our thing. We invest early in industry-changing companies, specifically in fintech, data and developer infrastructure, applied AI and security. Our team’s vast B2B experience supports founders in these (sometimes unloved) spaces with keen insight and sharp instinct. Boutique on purpose. You are never just a number with us. We invest in only a handful of great companies a year so we can allocate our time, experience, and capital generously. Very early companies are faced with a number of pivotal threshold moments and we are all-in with you and your team to do the hard work to get through them together. We invest in a diverse set of founders–twenty of our companies started or are focused on Latin America, Europe, Africa and Australia. By balancing fast growth and fiscal responsibility, we can help your company survive and thrive in all kinds of market environments. Right-time help from Day One. Our BuilderOps team is purpose built for early-stage enterprise. Working closely with our investment team, we support all our portfolio companies with hands-on operational expertise in hiring, sales, marketing, and company building from Day One. We are as invested in your company’s success as you are, from the very beginning all the way to the finish line.

At Menlo Ventures, we go ALL IN. This isn’t just a motto, but how we show up everyday for the companies we back, the investors who back us, and each other. When we win, we win as a team. 47 Years 80+ Public Companies 165 + Mergers + Aquisitions $5B+ Under Management We focus on the "three stages of early" We are investors and company builders - we know what it takes to turn a budding idea into a scalable business. We work with early-stage founders to find product-market fit, develop go-to-market strategies, scale their organizations, and support them as they grow. Inception: Our Menlo Labs team helps founders validate early-stage ideas, de-risk opportunities, and build successful foundations. Venture: Our venture team provides series A and B startups with guidance and hands-on help as they build their teams and products. Inflection: Our inflection team supports early growth-stage startups during critical points as they prepare to scale. Our focus areas At every stage from inception through IPO, we invest in game-changing ideas that reinvent life and work. Although we remain open to new ventures within consumer, enterprise, and healthcare, we go deep in the following seven focus areas: AI: Generative AI is breaking into every software vertical, and winners in these markets will create massive economic and societal value. Menlo Ventures is placing bets on the most promising GenAI companies at the infrastructure and application layers, where we see immense potential for groundbreaking businesses that will reshape industries and push the boundaries of what we can achieve. Bio + Healthcare: Innovations at the intersection of advancements in technology and biology will drive major improvements in the quality of our health and the cost of healthcare. At Menlo, we invest at that intersection - backing breakthrough digital health companies (vertical SaaS and digital care) and novel life sciences companies (therapeutic platforms and transformative technologies). Consumer: The world we live in today is enhanced by technologies we might not have thought possible even 10 years ago. There is so much still to come. At Menlo, we invest in the game-changing companies of the future, those that will help us do things better, faster, or cheaper than we can today. Cloud Infrastructure: As enterprises continue migrating to the public cloud, a new generation of companies will write the playbook for the underlying infrastructure that powers their applications. These tools and platforms are built for and cater to the developer, optimized for time-to-integration with beautiful, easy-to-use UIs and APIs. Cybersecurity: In a complex, post-pandemic world, rapid cloud adoption and the proliferation of open-source software have dramatically expanded the attack surface for bad actors against enterprises, governments, and their applications. Additionally, the shift-left approach to software development requires developers to embrace a security-first mindset. As the cyber war continues, Menlo will back the best teams fighting on the frontlines. Fintech: Financial transactions and services power the global economy. Menlo invests in four fintech categories: dev-focused infrastructure and embedded finance (API layers), vertical banking, end-to-end financial services for consumers and SMBs, and tools that serve finance teams and the office of the CFO. SaaS: The shift to the cloud introduced an entirely new business model–Software-as-a-Service–and created unprecedented opportunities for enterprise software companies. Menlo divides the SaaS landscape into three categories, each with a distinct point of view that guides our investment, research, and resources: Departmental SaaS, Vertical SaaS, and Horizontal SaaS. Supply Chain + Automation: This once-in-a-generation reinvention/reinvigoration of the supply chain will create a world that is more efficient, resilient, and sustainable because of the operational efficiencies we gain. With an eye on a more functional future, Menlo invests in a broad range of technologies–robotics and industrial automation among them.

Differential invests in solutions that will transform the way businesses operate and succeed in tomorrow’s markets. AI-Powered Business As the world of software-as-a-service (SaaS) continues to evolve, we will see the emergence of a new class of solutions driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. These cutting-edge models will be tailored to address the unique challenges and needs of both individual users and entire industries, helping to alleviate pain points and drive innovation. Advancing the ML Tech Stack While Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) is still in its infancy, organizations seeking to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning on a large scale will need specialized tools and solutions to streamline their workflows and keep costs under control. Evolution of Engineering and Infrastructure As coding and computing processes become increasingly complex, distributed, and intensive, new technology will emerge to better manage the many challenges that arise in these new environments and keep projects running smoothly. Responsible Data Management and Information Analysis The astronomic increase in data and availability of raw, unfiltered information available on the internet has created a social, regulatory, ethics, and security crisis. As regulatory pressure and complexity continue to mount, enterprises will be required to take a more proactive role in protecting their customers' and users' data, ensuring that it is handled ethically and securely.

Flybridge Capital Partners is a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on supporting and investing behind ambitious founders, at the earliest stages of company building across a range of sectors who share our vision for leveraging the power of community as a source of competitive advantage. While our core team operates from our offices in Boston, Massachusetts and New York, New York, we leverage a nationwide network of investment partners via our proprietary Network Funds to invest globally in the most attractive opportunities. Each of these funds is a separate pool of capital, anchored by Flybridge, with a distinct brand and a distributed team of Investment Partners that bring unique sector insights and deep connections into their respective communities. We currently operate four Network Funds: The Graduate Syndicate and LTV Operators (both focused on the Harvard community), XFactor Ventures (focused on female founders), and The Community Fund (focused on under-estimated and under-represented founders). Together, they have nearly 45 Investment Partners and have in total invested in over 230 new companies in the last five years. With over $1B under management across six seed funds and seven pre-seed network funds, portfolio companies include BetterCloud, BitSight, Bowery, Chief, Codecademy, FalconX, Habi, Infracommerce (B3: IFCM3), MadeiraMadeira, MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB), Open English, Plastiq, and Splice.

33N invests globally in B2B Cybersecurity and Infrastructure software technology companies. With a global track record, we are recognized as one of the most active European-based cybersecurity and infrastructure software investors, with over 20 investments across the globe. Domain Expertise: 33N provides expertise in cybersecurity and infrastructure software domains. We understand your business and the nuances of the market landscape as well as the key roadblocks to scaling. Direct Market Access: We’ve built a network of CISOs, CTOs and tech executives with profound expertise in critical domains related to cybersecurity and infrastructure software, getting our founders in front of decision makers for direct market access opportunities. Indirect Market Access: Leveraging our track-record in professional and managed services, we’ve built a network of resellers as well as product and services partners, providing the opportunity to forge unique channel relationships.