Who founded Greenlight Guru?

Greenlight Guru was founded by Jon Speer, David DeRam in 2013.

Who are Greenlight Guru's investors?

Greenlight Guru's investors include Elevate Ventures, JMI Equity, Andreessen Horowitz, Bond Capital Management, Canapi Ventures, Goodwater Capital, LionTree, Owl Ventures and 3 more.

Greenlight Guru

Founded 2013 · 138 employees on LinkedIn · 11 known investors

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Greenlight Guru provides quality management, product development, and clinical evidence software built specifically for medical device companies. Its platform helps medtech teams manage compliance, design controls, risk, and clinical data collection across the product lifecycle.

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Founders & leadership

Greenlight Guru was founded in 2013 by Jon Speer and David DeRam.

Jon Speer Founder2013–2022He is a founding LP at TipTop VC and an advisor and investor at Dreamfuel, where he also works as a mental performance coach. He owns several ExSpeerience entities spanning holdings, ventures, and real estate, and has served on the Biology and Biomedical Engineering advisory board at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology since 2010.

David DeRam Co-founder · Executive ChairmanHe led Greenlight Guru as CEO from 2013 to 2024 before moving into the executive chairman role. Earlier, he owned Objex, Inc., Progeny Software, and Scrip Pro Software, and he founded The Progeny Foundation in 2007; he is also a founding LP at TipTop VC and an advisor to Dreamfuel.

Ed Holmes Chief Executive OfficerBefore joining Greenlight Guru in 2024, he was CEO of n2y LLC, CEO of FairWarning (an Imprivata company), SVP of Workforce & Revenue Cloud at Bullhorn, and CEO of Peoplenet. His earlier roles include vice president at Rural Sourcing, Inc. and global CIO at Stiefel Laboratories, and he sits on the board of directors at SimpliGov.

Investors · 11

Elevate Ventureslisted by Elevate VenturesIndianapolis · $20K – $2M

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JMI Equitylisted by JMI EquitySan Diego · $25M – $250M

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Andreessen HorowitzreportedMenlo Park · $500K – $50M

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Bond Capital ManagementreportedSan Francisco · $100K – $25M

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Canapi VenturesreportedNew York

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Goodwater CapitalreportedBurlingame · $5M – $50M

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LionTreereportedNew York

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Owl VenturesreportedSan Francisco · $5M – $50M

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TTV CapitalreportedAtlanta · $250K – $7M

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Wellington ManagementreportedBoston · $5M – $50M

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Wells Fargo Strategic CapitalreportedSt. Louis

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Related companies · 5

QualioQualio provides a compliance platform for life science companies that combines quality management, regulatory intelligence, and AI agents to accelerate product delivery. The platform helps organizations optimize their quality and compliance systems.

ScilifeScilife builds an electronic quality management system for regulated industries such as healthcare and life sciences, helping teams automate compliance workflows and advance quality operations beyond minimum standards.

MasterControl Solutions, Inc.MasterControl provides an integrated software platform for life sciences manufacturers that combines quality management, manufacturing execution, and asset management with built-in AI and business intelligence capabilities.

ArenaArena, part of PTC, provides cloud-native product lifecycle management (PLM) and quality management system (QMS) software that unifies product information, teams, and supply chain partners. It serves global product companies and electronic manufacturing service (EMS) providers to manage new product development, launch, and regulatory compliance.

Safety CultureMitti (SafetyCulture) offers a workplace operations platform for improving safety and operational processes across teams. The page shown provides no substantive detail about the product's features or target customers.

Companies working in the same space as Greenlight Guru.

Acquisitions · 1

Early investors' stakes continue via these deals

Enzyme

Enzyme develops a Quality Management System (QMS) software platform for life science companies including drug, biologic, device, and digital product manufacturers, designed to streamline regulatory workflows and generate FDA-ready documentation.

Frequently asked questions

What does Greenlight Guru do?: Greenlight Guru provides quality management, product development, and clinical evidence software built specifically for medical device companies. Its platform helps medtech teams manage compliance, design controls, risk, and clinical data collection across the product lifecycle.
Who founded Greenlight Guru?: Greenlight Guru was founded by Jon Speer, David DeRam in 2013.
Who are Greenlight Guru's investors?: Greenlight Guru's investors include Elevate Ventures, JMI Equity, Andreessen Horowitz, Bond Capital Management, Canapi Ventures, Goodwater Capital, LionTree, Owl Ventures and 3 more.