Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (HWVP)
Venture capitalSan Francisco · Seed–Series A · 6 people tracked
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Investment thesis
HWVP invests exclusively in early-stage enterprise software companies, providing first institutional capital and partnering with founders through the long term. The team, made up of technologists and engineers with operating experience, focuses solely on software and SaaS. They support portfolio companies across product development, scaling, partnerships, team building, strategy, positioning, recruiting, and customer introductions, positioning themselves as hands-on, entrepreneur-focused partners through both good and difficult periods.
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Team · 6 people
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What they invest in
from 17 of 100 portfolio companiesSaaS ×10Enterprise Software ×8AI & Machine Learning ×6Cloud Computing ×5Marketing Tech ×5Data & Infrastructure ×3Developer Tools ×3Fintech ×3
HQs:United States×14Canada×1United Kingdom×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 16 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×92 founders×43 founders×3
Where their founders studiedfrom 17 founders with education data
Brigham Young University ×3Babson College ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 19 founders with career history
Immunio ×2Impellent Ventures ×2Unified ×2Vendr ×2
Investments · 100 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2021 · 12018 · 12016 · 12015 · 52014 · 311 dated
Utah-based cloud analytics, data management and AI platform, publicly traded as DOMO, selling its business to Progress Software.
Amberdata provides institutional-grade data, analytics, and infrastructure solutions for digital assets and Web3, covering market data, portfolio and risk management, compliance, and tax management.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintechFremont, US
Joanes Espanol(Executive Officer, Promoter)inTongtong Gong(Executive Officer, Promoter)inShawn Douglass(CEO)in
Board seatLars Leckie· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsAspenwoodCoinbase VenturesFenbushi CapitalVU Venture Partnersboldstart venturesChicago Trading Company+5 more
San Francisco, US
Caitlin Haberberger(Executive Officer)Giles Goodwin(Executive Officer, Director)Ali Diab(Director)
BoardWilliam Price(Director)Neil Sequeira(Director)
Board seatMitchell Kertzman· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsAdvance Venture PartnersGeneral CatalystHummer Winblad Venture PartnersSequoia Capital
InsideSales offers the Revenue Acceleration Cloud, a platform providing data, insights, and tools for enterprise revenue and sales teams to drive growth.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales TechProvo, US
DAVID ELKINGTON(Executive Officer, Director)KEN KROGUE(Executive Officer, Director)inJOSHUA JAMES(Director)
BoardDAFINA TONCHEVA(Director)inMARK GORENBERG(Director)in
Board seatLars Leckie· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsEPIC VENTURESQuestMark PartnersUS Venture PartnersZetta Venture Partners
MuleSoft is a San Francisco enterprise software company providing integration, API management and automation via its Anypoint Platform.
San Francisco, US
Ross Mason(Executive Officer, Director)inGregory G. Schott(Executive Officer, Director)Matthew Langdon(Executive Officer)Robert Horton(Executive Officer)Michael DiFilippo(Executive Officer)
BoardRavi Mhatre(Director)in
Board seatAnn Winblad· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsCanvas VenturesCategory VenturesIVP (Institutional Venture Partners)Lightspeed Venture PartnersLumia CapitalNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)+10 more
NuoDB is a distributed SQL database that lets enterprises run and scale mission-critical SQL applications across private, public, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments with ACID compliance and continuous availability.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareCambridge, US
John Wagner(Executive Officer)Barry Morris(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardGary Morgenthaler(Director)Nilanjana Bhowmik(Director)in
Board seatMitchell Kertzman· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsConverge
OptiMine provides marketing measurement and scenario planning software to brands, helping them optimize marketing effectiveness and efficiency through advanced analytics and decisioning tools.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSMinneapolis, US
Dr. Rob CooleyTom Donnelly(Executive Officer, Director)Sharri Major(Executive Officer)James Moar(Executive Officer, Director)Bryon Bequette(Executive Officer)
Board seatAnn Winblad· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsWisconsin Investment PartnersZetta Venture Partners
San Francisco company that built enterprise OpenStack private-cloud software; acquired by Cisco in June 2015.
San Francisco, US
Christopher MacGown(Director, Promoter)James Morrisroe(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardPuneet Agarwal(Director)in
Board seatLars Leckie· per SEC Form D · $6.4M raise · filed Apr 2015
Co-investorsDCVC (Data Collective)True Ventures
Sonatype provides software supply chain management and security solutions for managing open source software and AI dependencies.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFulton, US
Brian Fox(Chief Technology Officer and co-founder)inWAYNE JACKSON(Executive Officer, Director)inDAVID C. MILLER(Executive Officer)
BoardSAMEER GANDHI(Director)inMICHAEL O'DELL(Director)
Board seatAnn Winblad· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsAccelAspenwoodBlue Delta CapitalCanvas VenturesFounders Circle CapitalGolub Growth+2 more
Software-defined compute platform enabling flexible server scaling at lower cost than traditional infrastructure
Campbell, US
Isaac R Nassi(Executive Officer, Director)Gary Smerdon(Executive Officer, Director)inFred Weber(Director)
BoardEnrique Salem(Director)in
Board seatLars Leckie· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsAspenwoodSamsung Catalyst FundBain Capital Ventures
6connect builds ProVision, an API-first platform for IPAM, DNS, DHCP and DDI automation across distributed networks.
Acemetrix analyzes TV and digital video ad performance, allowing brands to benchmark their campaigns against competitors across categories within 24 hours of ads launching.
AdTechData & InfrastructureMarketing TechMountain View, US
Peter Daboll(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardAnn Winblad(Director)Jim Gauer(Director)Greg Drew(Director)George Rogers(Director)Pete Sinclair(Director)
Akimbi Systems built software for automating the setup and teardown of virtual machine test environments; acquired by VMware in 2006.
Fintech software company whose platform helps banks and credit unions optimize digital marketing funnels and originations.
Aria provides a cloud-based billing and monetization platform that enables businesses to automate complex billing processes and deliver enhanced customer experiences.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Brendan O'Brien(Founder)inEdward Sullivanin
Co-investorsAspenwoodRembrandt Venture PartnersRunway Growth CapitalVenrockBain Capital VenturesDell Technologies Capital+2 more
AspireIQ (Aspire.io) runs an end-to-end social commerce platform for influencer, ambassador, affiliate and user-generated content marketing.
Collective Intelligence Platform for visitor-driven recommendations and social search on websites.
San Jose, US
Jack Jia(Director)William P. Hustad(Executive Officer, Director)Doug Merritt(Director)Liping Fan(Director)Kendra Borrego(Executive Officer)
BoardTasha Seitz(Director)
Co-investorsJK&B CapitalSingTel Innov8 Pte Ltd.
Berkeley, California software company (1987-2000) behind After Dark screensavers, You Don't Know Jack and Macintosh accessibility tools.
Birst is a San Francisco-based cloud business intelligence platform, acquired by enterprise software vendor Infor in 2017.
Blissfully was a SaaS management platform that helped companies discover, manage, and optimize their SaaS applications, spend, and vendor workflows.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSLong Island City, US
Ariel Diaz(Executive Officer, Director)inAaron White(Director)inRyan Neu(Founder)in
BoardEric Paley(Director)in
Co-investorsCraft VenturesSoftBank Vision FundTiger Global ManagementAspenwoodFounder Collective
Bridgestream was an enterprise software company in role-based access management, acquired by Oracle in 2007.
Central Point Software made PC utilities including PC Tools, Copy II and Central Point Anti-Virus; acquired by Symantec in 1994.
Cenzic is an application security company offering cloud, mobile and web vulnerability assessment; it is now part of Trustwave.
Cittio was a network monitoring and IT operations software company whose IP assets were acquired by Nimsoft in 2009.
Communicado (formerly SyncVoice Communications) develops unified management software for converged voice, video and conferencing networks.
Upscale gourmet food retailer founded in 1977 in New York's SoHo, now Thai-owned and operating a reduced store footprint.
Elastra develops cloud computing software for designing, deploying and managing application infrastructure, servers and database stacks.
EvoStor was a Los Gatos, California software company building storage virtualization technology for VMware environments.
Extensity built web-based enterprise applications for expense reports, purchase requisitions and timesheets; it IPO'd and was later acquired by Infor.
Five9 is a Nasdaq-listed provider of cloud contact center (CCaaS) software marketed as the Intelligent CX Platform.
Co-investorsSilver Lake Partners
San Francisco-based IT solution provider and systems integrator acquired by UK systems integrator Computacenter.
Aspenwood Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage software companies, with deep roots in technology and a team of former engineers and entrepreneurs who mentor portfolio companies.
Enterprise SoftwareSaaS
Ann Winblad(Co-founder)John Hummer(Co-founder)
BoardLars LeckieSteve Kishi
HomeGrocer.com was a 1997-founded U.S. online supermarket delivering groceries by truck; it IPO'd in 2000 and was acquired by Webvan.
Homes.com is a US residential real estate listings marketplace owned by CoStar Group since 2021.
RingCentral Events (formerly Hopin) is a platform for hosting and managing virtual and hybrid events that enables organizations to create live experiences, engage audiences remotely, and generate business outcomes through video conferencing and event management tools.
Marketing TechSaaS
Johnny Boufarhat(Founder)in
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzAspenwoodNorthzoneTapestry VCWaverley CapitalWorklife Ventures+3 more
HubPages was a San Francisco user-generated online publishing platform that shared ad revenue with amateur writers.
American children's edutainment game developer behind Putt-Putt, Freddi Fish, Pajama Sam, Spy Fox and Backyard Sports.
Influitive provides a SaaS platform and professional services for customer advocate marketing, helping companies discover and mobilize their customer advocates to drive sales and customer lifetime value.
Marketing TechMedia & EntertainmentSaaS
Mark Organ(Founder)inPuneet ArorainRich Stollerin
Co-investors500 GlobalExtreme Venture PartnersExtreme Venture Partners LLPGolden VenturesLightspeed Venture PartnersNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)+3 more
Utah-based ecommerce software company whose Infopia Transact platform supports multi-channel merchandising for online merchants.
InMage Systems builds DR-Scout continuous data protection and disaster recovery software for mid-market and large enterprises.
Los Angeles independent record label founded in 2010 with a genre-spanning roster spanning rock, soul, jazz and electronic music.
Sage Intacct provides accounting and financial management software with integrated AI capabilities for invoice processing, bill management, month-end close automation, and financial data analysis.
Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersJK&B CapitalMoai Capital
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechMedia & EntertainmentSaaS
Co-investorsAspenwoodANRIDG Daiwa VenturesHummer Winblad Venture PartnersXTech Ventures
Enterprise IT automation software vendor for server, network and storage provisioning; acquired by Veritas in 2003.
Karmasphere built business intelligence and analytics software for Hadoop; it was acquired by FICO in 2014.
Kiip was a US mobile advertising and rewards network that delivered brand rewards to app users at moments of achievement.
Co-investorsHinge CapitalTransmedia CapitalTrue Ventures
Kwiry was a San Francisco startup whose free SMS service let users text themselves reminders and retrieve them online.
Lathian Systems was a life-science ePromotion company selling digital marketing software and services to pharmaceutical and biotech firms.
Boston-based analytics software company offering data preparation and advanced analytics tools; acquired by Infogix in 2018.
Liquid Audio was a Redwood City digital music company selling copy-protected download and streaming software to labels and retailers.
Online press release and content distribution service, founded as Internet Wire and later renamed Marketwire/Marketwired.
Adobe is a multinational software company that develops creative, design, and business productivity applications.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyEnterprise Software
Phil Fernandez(CEO)
Co-investorsAsia GreenTech FundBattery VenturesCrosslink CapitalEntrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA)fronttrail Equity Partners GmbHFuel Ventures+16 more
Utah-based developer of adaptive streaming technology for Internet television, whose assets were acquired by EchoStar in 2011.
Moxie Software is a US enterprise software company providing social software for employee and customer engagement.
Co-investorsOak Investment Partners
Napster is a music brand turned AI platform for creating and experiencing music, owned by the former Infinite Reality.
Minnesota software maker whose recommendation engine suggested products to online shoppers before winding down in 2003.
NetDynamics built an early Java-based application server linking web clients to back-end systems; acquired by Sun Microsystems in July 1998.
Alameda, California networking and Internet software company, formerly Farallon Communications, acquired by Proxim in 2001.
Web analytics and online marketing optimization provider, acquired by Adobe Systems in 2009 for about $1.8 billion.
Josh James(Founder)inJohn Pestana(Founder)in
Co-investorsBattery VenturesCrosslink CapitalScale Venture PartnersSTARTUP IGNITION VENTURES
Mumbai-registered private limited company incorporated in 2017 and classified under business services.
Virtual storage optimization software vendor whose Unite appliance sped VM backup and replication; acquired by Quantum in 2011.
Peerlyst ran an ad-free social network for security professionals; the site shut down in August 2020.
Pets.com was a San Francisco online pet supply retailer that launched in 1998, IPO'd in 2000 and liquidated the same year.
Piston is a cardless, QR-code-based fuel payments network connecting commercial fleets and independent gas stations.
PLUMgrid was an SDN startup whose IO Visor Linux-kernel technology and IP were acquired by VMware in December 2016.
Italian manufacturer of Class-D power amplifiers and audio technologies for the professional audio market, listed on Euronext Growth Milan.
Redwood City software vendor whose ReplayDIRECTOR product records and replays application execution to reproduce defects.
Sapias was a San Francisco software company selling web-based mobile resource management applications to enterprise fleet operators.
Scalent Systems built data center software for on-the-fly server repurposing and failover; acquired by Dell in 2010.
SignalDemand was a San Francisco SaaS provider of price and margin optimization software for food manufacturers, acquired by PROS in 2013.
SlideRocket was a San Francisco SaaS platform for building, sharing and measuring online presentations.
SOP execution software that ties distribution-center frontline workflows, coaching and analytics to operational outcomes.
Stackery provides tools for building, deploying, and operating serverless applications on AWS, including support for AWS SAM, Lambda, SNS, and HTTP APIs.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaSPortland, US
Chase Douglas(Executive Officer)inNathan Taggart(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardDiane Fraiman(Director)in
Co-investorsAscend Venture CapitalAspenwoodTechstarsVoyager CapitalPIPELINE CAPITAL PARTNERS
StackMob was a San Francisco mobile backend-as-a-service platform, acquired by PayPal in 2013 and shut down in May 2014.
Co-investorsBaseline Ventures
Redwood City business analytics software maker for process automation and application integration, acquired by IBM in 2013.
StarMine provides equity research analytics and objective analyst performance ratings; acquired by Reuters in 2007 and now part of LSEG.
Strobe Power is a New York start-up power marketer that aggregates distributed energy resources and trades their output in wholesale markets.
San Francisco company offering instant permitting software for residential decarbonization projects using its Complaw regulatory-analysis technology.
Wedding-planning platform, later renamed XO Group, offering vendor listings, registries, wedding websites and planning content.
Co-investorsBenchmark
Tizor Systems is a provider of enterprise data auditing and protection solutions for the data center.
TMAKER is a bootstrapped SaaS portfolio studio run by Tibo Louis-Lucas that builds and acquires products around shared distribution.
Utah-based creator and publisher of 3D digital model libraries and modeling services for artists, animators and engineers.
VKernel built virtual-appliance capacity, performance and chargeback management software for virtualized data centers; acquired by Quest Software in 2011.
Enterprise privacy management platform protecting digital communication
Cupertino, US
Matt Pauker(Director)inTerence Spies(Executive Officer)inJohn Peters(Executive Officer)inSathvik Krishnamurthy(Executive Officer, Director)inLisa Viso(Executive Officer)in
BoardAnn Winblad(Director)
Co-investorsIcon VenturesMenlo Ventures
Southeast Asia-focused venture capital group investing in early-stage and growth-stage Enterprise, Deep Tech and Sustainability startups.
Wind River develops software platforms and solutions for mission-critical embedded, real-time, and edge computing systems serving aerospace, defense, automotive, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries.
Cloud ComputingDeep TechDefense TechEnterprise SoftwareIoTSemiconductors
Jay Bellissimo(President)inPaul Miller(Chief Technology Officer)inSandeep Modhvadia(Chief Revenue Officer)inEd Harbour(Chief Customer Officer)inViral Mehta(Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Engineering)inDarrell Jordan-Smith(Chief Commercial Officer)in
Yosemite Technologies is a Fresno, California provider of data backup and recovery software for small and mid-sized businesses.
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.
Exits · 4
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioDomo TechnologiesNASDAQ: DOMOBlissfullyacq. by VendrJammacq. by HopinNeuvectoracq. by SUSE
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Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (HWVP) made?
- Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (HWVP) has 99 tracked investments, 55 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO.
- What stage does Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (HWVP) invest at?
- Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (HWVP) invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (HWVP) focus on?
- Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (HWVP) focuses on Cloud Computing, Crypto & Web3, Enterprise Software, SaaS.
- Where is Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (HWVP) located?
- Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (HWVP) is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Who does Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (HWVP) co-invest with?
- Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (HWVP) most often shares deals with New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Battery Ventures, Crosslink Capital, among 76 tracked co-investors.
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Canvas Prime (formerly Canvas Ventures) is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in AI transforming digital health and fintech, leading Series A and B rounds in companies ready to scale.
Zetta Venture Partners provides early-stage capital and hands-on support to founders building AI-native applications, infrastructure, and developer tools.
Benchmark is a venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco and Woodside that invests in early-stage startups.
Sapphire Ventures partners with expansion-stage enterprise software companies aiming to become category leaders.
Meritech Capital Partners is a venture capital firm, founded in 1999, that invests in market-leading technology companies, having backed 200+ investments with 60+ IPOs.
Voyager Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage entrepreneurs across the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada, focusing on the modern economy.
Founders Circle Capital is a venture firm focused on growth-stage companies, offering flexible primary and secondary financing alongside community-based support for company leaders and teams.
Emergence Capital is a venture capital firm that partners with founders building B2B software companies, from early-stage cloud and SaaS pioneers to AI-native innovators.
NewView Capital is a venture capital firm that provides flexible capital to growth-stage companies, investing on a primary, secondary, or hybrid basis and offering operational guidance on scale-up decisions.
StageOne Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs founders building enterprise and deep-technology companies, having invested across five funds.
Inventus Capital Partners is an early-stage venture firm that leads seed rounds for Silicon Valley startups and supports them toward Series A milestones.
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