What stage does Converge invest at?

Converge invests at the Seed, Series A stages.

What is Converge's typical check size?

Converge typically writes checks of $500K – $5M.

Where is Converge located?

Converge is headquartered in Cambridge, US.

Converge

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Cambridge · Seed–Series A · 6 people tracked

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Investment thesis

Converge is a venture capital firm based in Boston that invests in B2B technology companies. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in the technology sector.

Invests inConsumer Data & Infrastructure Enterprise Software Hardware SaaS SemiconductorsCambridgeGlobalUnited States

Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.

Stage

Seed–Series A

Check

$500K – $5M

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Instruments

Equity

Founded

2017

AUM

$560M

Tracked investments

125

Team · 6 people

from the firm's website

Anshu Agarwal· General Partner· Silicon Valleyin

Anshu Agarwal is a General Partner at Converge, which she joined in 2023 to build the firm's Silicon Valley presence. Over more than 20 years she was a founding member or early executive at four B2B startups—Speedera Networks, Ankeena, ConteXtream, and Cedexis—each acquired by a public company, and later co-founded Nimbella as CEO, leading it to acquisition by Digital Ocean in 2021. After that acquisition she served as VP and GM of Digital Ocean's Serverless & Kubernetes business unit. She holds a Bachelor's in Electronics & Communications Engineering from IIT Roorkee, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers, and an MBA from Kellogg at Northwestern.

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Maia Heymann· Founder & General Partner· Cambridge, Massachusetts, United Statesin

Maia Heymann is Founder & General Partner at Converge, with 25 years of experience investing in and financing B2B technology companies, including 20 years in venture capital. She previously launched BancBoston Ventures' Palo Alto office and later served as President overseeing its $340M portfolio after the Bank of America merger, and was a Managing Director at Shott Capital, which oversaw $2.7B in LP commitments before its acquisition by Hamilton Lane. Her career spans over 60 M&A transactions, 7 IPOs, and 25 board and observer roles, and she is a Wellesley College alumna and Trustee.

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Nilanjana Bhowmik· Founder & General Partner· Cambridge, Massachusetts, United Statesin

Nilanjana Bhowmik is Founder & General Partner at Converge, focusing on B2B technology, with over 20 years of experience as a venture capitalist, investment banker, and operating executive. Before founding Converge, she was a General Partner at Longworth Venture Partners, where she led enterprise tech investments, and earlier worked as an investment banker at Broadview and ran the Americas professional services organization at Object Design Inc. She holds a B.Eng. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina, and an MBA from INSEAD.

James Falkoff· Partner· Cambridge, Massachusetts, United Statesin

James Falkoff is a Partner at Converge with over a decade of venture investing experience and more than 16 years in technology investing across public and private markets, having participated in over 25 early-stage venture investments. Before Converge, he was a Principal at Longworth Venture Partners, and earlier worked as an equity research analyst covering network equipment at Robert W. Baird & Co. from 2006 to 2010. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a CFA charter holder.

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Jason King· Chief Financial Officer· Portland, Maine, United Statesin

Jason King joined Converge in January 2018 as a part-time CFO, where he oversees finance and reporting activities. He has more than 20 years of experience across the private equity and venture capital industries, having worked as an auditor, CFO, Director, Partner, and portfolio company board member at firms including Castile Ventures, Standish Management, Summit Partners, Deloitte, and KPM & Associates CPAs. He is a CPA and holds a BS in Accounting from Bryant College.

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Lourenço Belleau· Associate· New York, New York, United Statesin

Lourenço Belleau is an Associate at Converge who focuses on early-stage machine learning and AI opportunities, assessing the technical feasibility and competitive positioning of startups across the AI stack. Before joining the firm, he held several engineering roles building, scaling, and deploying AI and machine learning systems. He holds a Master of Engineering in Data Science from Cornell Tech and a bachelor's degree from Cornell University.

What they invest in

from 41 of 125 portfolio companies

SaaS ×25Enterprise Software ×24AI & Machine Learning ×23Data & Infrastructure ×13Fintech ×6Cybersecurity ×4Developer Tools ×4E-commerce ×4

HQs:United States×46

Investments · 125 tracked

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3D SystemsNYSE: DDD

Driving a new paradigm in product design through AI and 3D printing.

Rock Hill, US

Thomas W. Erickson(Director)Kevin S. Moore(Director)Charles G. McClure, Jr.(Director)Andrew M. Johnson(Executive Officer)David Leigh(Executive Officer)John J. Tracy(Director)

photoriskified.cominNYSE: RSKD

Tel Aviv

Naama Ofek Arad(Executive Officer)Aglika Dotcheva(Executive Officer)Jennifer Ceran(Director)Tanzeen Syed(Director)Aaron Mankovski(Director)Eyal Kishon(Director)

ZoomInfozoominfo.comin 𝕏NASDAQ: GTM

Cybera GlobalSEC filingmedium confidence

Brooklyn, US

Maia Heymann(Director)Claudio Staub(Director, Founder)Nicola Staub(Founder, CEO, Director)

Board seatMaia Heymann· per SEC Form D · $2.5M raise · filed Jun 2024

Emissaryemissaryhealth.orgSEC filingmedium confidence

New York, US

Tony Jaros(Executive Officer, Director)Dino Di Palma(Director)Allen Mueller(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardRobert Hower(Director)

Board seatMaia Heymann· per SEC Form D · $7.2M raise · filed Jul 2024

Nuodbnuodb.com

Cambridge, US

Mitchell Kertzman(Director)Gary Morgenthaler(Director)John Wagner(Executive Officer)Barry Morris(Executive Officer, Director)

Board seatNilanjana Bhowmik· per SEC Form D

Rapidminerrapidminer.com

RapidMiner is an enterprise AI and analytics platform that unifies disparate data sources and activates insights through advanced analytics, machine learning, and generative AI capabilities to modernize organizational systems.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareCambridge, US

Ingo Mierswa(Executive Officer, Director)Peter Lee(Executive Officer, Director)Luke Burns(Director)Jason Whitmire(Director)Patrik Backman(Director)Nilanjana Bhowmik(Director)

Board seatNilanjana Bhowmik· per SEC Form D

ReturnSafe, Inc.SEC filingmedium confidence

Dallas, US

Tarun Nimmagadda(Director)Jikku Venkat(Executive Officer, Director)

Board seatNilanjana Bhowmik· per SEC Form D · $4.7M raise · filed Oct 2021

RIZE INC.SEC filingmedium confidence

Concord, US

Board seatNilanjana Bhowmik· per SEC Form D · $1M raise · filed Jun 2021

Swirl NetworksSEC filingmedium confidence

Boston, US

GRETCHEN FLEMING(Executive Officer)RONALD D. FISHER(Director)HILMI OZGUC(Executive Officer, Director)WOODY BENSON(Director)MICHAEL GOLDEN(Director)SCOTT ENGLISH(Director)

Board seatNilanjana Bhowmik· per SEC Form D · $18M raise · filed Apr 2015

Trackviatrackvia.comin 𝕏

TrackVia is a low-code platform that lets citizen developers replace paper- and spreadsheet-based methods with digital applications for collecting data and managing work processes and field service workflows.

Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSDenver, US

Frank Mendicino(Director)Richard Grinnell(Director)Todd Benge(Vice President, Engineering)Mark Goines(Director)Jennifer Panning(Chief Financial Officer)Charles Var(Vice President, Marketing)

Board seatNilanjana Bhowmik· per SEC Form D

15Five

AI-powered 360 and performance management.

Agora

Bringing the facilities management industry into the digital age.

Alify

Agentic AI researcher for consumer insights.

Amperamper.xyzin

Anodot

Radically simple machine monitoring to digitally transform any factory.

Apdscorporateapdscorporate.com

Aragon

The easiest way to start and manage a DAO.

Askstyloaskstylo.com

AU10TIXau10tix.comin 𝕏

Identity verification flows loved by users, hated by bad actors.

Balderton eFrontCloudefrontcloud.com

Basetext

Verified knowledge foundation that makes enterprise AI agents work.

BetterUp

Empowering employees through purposeful work.

Bitpart AIbitpart.aiin 𝕏

Methuen, US

Sarah Rudzki(Executive Officer, Director)Jeffrey Orkin(Executive Officer, Director)

Bland AIbland.comin 𝕏

Bland builds proprietary voice AI infrastructure for automated phone calls using in-house models for voice, language, and speech processing.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

Isaiah Granet(Founder)inSobhan Nejad(Founder)in

BlueConicblueconic.comin

Bluefield Technologies

IoT climate tech for methane emissions reduction.

EnergyWalnut, US

Yotam Ariel(Executive Officer, Director)

Canixcanix.comin 𝕏

Canix provides an ERP and seed-to-sale software platform designed for cannabis cultivators, distributors, and manufacturers to manage inventory, integrations with state regulatory systems, and business operations.

AgTechCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

Stacey Hronowski(Founder)in

Career opportunitiespersonio.de

Centrify

Remove local administrator privileges from business users and control applications on Windows endpoints and servers.

Chainalysischainalysis.comin 𝕏

Chainalysis provides investigative services and training programs for cryptocurrency compliance and risk mitigation.

AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3CybersecurityData & InfrastructureFintechNew York City, US

Rakib Azad(Executive Officer)Jonathan Levin(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Michael Gronager(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)

BoardPhilippe Botteri(Director)Sarah Tavel(Director)

Chimneychimney.ioin

Civ Roboticscivrobotics.comin

Civ Robotics manufactures autonomous marking robots (CivDot+/CivDot) that use laser precision to stake construction points on job sites.

CleantechConstruction TechRobotics

CockroachDB

The only database that can maintain transactional consistency and integrity at global scale.

Compliant

Voice of Customer reimagined with AI.

Cookiycookiy.ai

Crayoncrayon.coin 𝕏

Crayon provides a competitive enablement and competitive intelligence platform that gathers real-time market and competitor information to help sales and go-to-market teams win competitive deals.

Enterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechBoston, US

Eric Paley(Director)John Osborne(Executive Officer, Director)Benedict Rocchio(Director)Jonah Lopin(Executive Officer, Director)

Customilycustomily.comin 𝕏

Customily is a product customizer app for e-commerce platforms that enables merchants to sell personalized products with real-time design previews.

Developer ToolsE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareRetail TechSaaSSt. Louis, US

Martina Möring(Founder)inAlejandro Lozdziejski(Founder)in

Cyberacybera.ioin

DappHub

Business intelligence for blockchain organizations.

Data Robotdatarobot.comin

DataRobot develops an AI and machine learning platform that automates model development and deployment for enterprises.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareBoston, US

Jeremy Achin(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Harry Weller(Director)Thomas de Godoy(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Christopher Lynch(Director)

Decentraland

Bringing the power of generative AI to the video games industry.

Devin

Dolly

Healthcare pricing, made transparent.

Drata

AI-native security assurance platform for GRC transformation.

Easymateeasymate.aiin 𝕏

Employee Cycleemployeecycle.comin 𝕏

EmployeeCycle provides HR data management and analytics tools for human resources professionals to optimize workforce insights and decision-making.

Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaSPhiladelphia, US

David Brown(Director)Salas Saraiya(Director)Bruce Marable(Executive Officer, Director)

FeatureBytefeaturebyte.comin

FeatureByte automates the end-to-end data science lifecycle, converting business questions into production-ready AI models and metrics.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software

Flipside Cryptoflipsidecrypto.com

Edisyl builds a semantic layer that encodes organizational understanding of data meaning, metrics definitions, and institutional knowledge to enable enterprise AI tools to answer questions aligned with business logic.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software

Forecastrforecastr.coin 𝕏

Forecastr provides financial planning and CFO services to early-stage founders and startups, helping them prepare for funding rounds and manage company growth.

Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSLouisville, US

Steven Plappert(Founder)Logan Burchett(Founder)Jonathan Frazier(Founder)Steven Ambs(Founder)John Shumate(Director)

BoardRobert Penta(Director)

Forefront

AI automation for wealth managers.

Fortify Software

Leading provider of web application vulnerability assessment and compliance solutions.

Founder Studionotion.sitein 𝕏

Notion is an AI-powered workspace platform that enables teams to capture context, find answers, and automate tasks through collaborative tools.

AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkSaaS

FurtherAIfurtherai.comin 𝕏

FurtherAI develops AI software that automates administrative tasks for insurance teams, allowing them to focus on complex decisions and client relationships.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareInsurTechSan Francisco, US

Aman Gour(Founder)inSashank Gondala(CTO/Co-founder)in

Ghost Roboticsghostrobotics.ioin 𝕏

Gigasheetgigasheet.comin 𝕏

Gorgiasgorgias.comin

Gorgias provides a helpdesk platform for customer support agents, serving e-commerce merchants and brands.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureE-commerceRetail TechSaaSSan Francisco, US

BoardAlex PlugaruRomain Lapeyre

Guicklyguickly.ai

San Jose, US

Prashant Jalan(Executive Officer, Director)Monica Malhotra(Director)Anil Advani(Director)

Hedgehoghedgehogfoods.comin 𝕏

Hedgehog uses AI and proprietary bioreactors to optimize fungal cultivation for producing food, biochemicals, animal feed, enzymes, and other products from fungi that can recycle waste.

Advanced ManufacturingAgTechAI & Machine LearningClimate TechFoodTechRoboticsSan Francisco, US

James Laurence Balsillie Jr.(Executive Officer, Director)Jamie Balsillie(Founder)inWilson Ruotolo(Founder)in

BoardTrey Ward(Director)

Help Scouthelpscout.comin 𝕏

Help Scout builds a customer communication platform for growing businesses that want to provide personalized support at scale.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSCambridge, US

Nick Francis(Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board)Denny Swindle(Distinguished Architect & Co-Founder)Jared McDaniel(VP of Product Design and Co-Founder)

Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.

Frequently asked questions

What stage does Converge invest at?: Converge invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
What is Converge's typical check size?: Converge typically writes checks of $500K – $5M.
What sectors does Converge focus on?: Converge focuses on Consumer, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Hardware, SaaS, Semiconductors.
Where is Converge located?: Converge is headquartered in Cambridge, US.

Media · Podcasts & interviews

featuring the team

204th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Nilanjana Bhowmik, Converge

1Mby1M Roundtables · Nilanjana Bhowmik

Converge VC's Anshu Agarwal talks its investment focus and her pivot from entrepreneurship to VC

New York Stock Exchange · Anshu Agarwal

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