Tenaya Capital
Venture capitalPalo Alto · Series A–Late Stage · 8 people tracked
Also known as TENAYA CAPITAL, LLC
Investment thesis
Tenaya Capital invests early-growth stage capital in exceptional entrepreneurs building technology companies. Its portfolio spans enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, semiconductors, data infrastructure, marketing technology, healthcare IT, fintech, and consumer internet, with investments across North America and Asia (notably China and India).
Source: firm website, verified Aug 25, 2026.
Team · 8 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 48 of 193 portfolio companiesSaaS ×26AI & Machine Learning ×21Enterprise Software ×21Cloud Computing ×11Marketing Tech ×11Cybersecurity ×9Data & Infrastructure ×7Fintech ×5
HQs:United States×39
Who they back
founder profiles across 31 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×112 founders×103 founders×74+ founders×3
Where their founders studiedfrom 17 founders with education data
California State University-Sacramento ×2Stanford University ×2UC San Diego ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 17 founders with career history
Autodesk ×2Lennar ×2WebSideStory ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 193 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2024 · 22023 · 12021 · 12020 · 22019 · 12018 · 42017 · 12015 · 82014 · 525 dated
Northborough, US
Donald R. Young(Executive Officer, Director)George L. Gould(Executive Officer)Gregg R. Landes(Executive Officer)John F. Fairbanks(Executive Officer)Harry R. Walkoff(Executive Officer)Kevin A. Schmidt(Executive Officer)
Stephen Snyderin
Co-investorsDot CapitalNorwest Venture PartnersRunway Growth Capital
Provider of prepaid financial services, and owns and operates the Green Dot Network, the largest cash reloading network in the United States.
Provo, US
George Gresham(Executive Officer, Director)Jess Unruh(Executive Officer)Teresa Watkins(Executive Officer)Amy Pugh(Executive Officer)Chris Ruppel(Executive Officer)Konstantinos Sgoutas(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsMillennium Technology Value PartnersTTV Capital
Health Catalyst provides a data platform, analytics applications, and AI-powered insights that help healthcare organizations improve clinical, financial, and operational performance.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDigital Health
Co-investorsDecheng CapitalEPIC VENTURESFifty YearsKaiser Permanente VenturesNorwest Venture PartnersOSF Ventures+1 more
Lyft is an on-demand ridesharing platform that connects passengers with drivers for various ride types, including standard rides, premium options, and other transportation services.
MarketplacesMobility & TransportationSan Francisco, US
Logan Green(Co-founder & CEO)inJohn Zimmer(Co-founder & President)inDavid Risher(CEO)in
Co-investorsAglae VenturesAllied Venture PartnersAlpha Wave GlobalAndreessen HorowitzBling CapitalCoatue Management+35 more
LeanData provides AI-powered revenue orchestration software that routes and connects data, teams, and systems across the buyer journey for B2B companies' go-to-market and RevOps teams.
Marketing TechSaaSSales Tech
Evan Liang(Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer)Kelvin Cheung(Co-founder)Katy Keim(Chief Executive Officer)Brian Birkett(Sales Leadership)Jaya Jaware(CFO)Jim Bell(Head of Global Marketing)
Co-investorsSapphire VenturesShasta VenturesFundersClubFelicis Ventures
Salt Security provides an AI-infused platform for protecting APIs and applications from security threats across discovery, posture management, and runtime protection.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareNew York City, US
Roey Eliyahu(Founder/CEO)Michael Nicosia(COO, Co-Founder)
BoardHaim Sadger(Director)in
Board seatTom Banahan· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsAlkeon InnovationCapitalGFoundersX VenturesSequoia CapitalY CombinatorS Capital
Provides access processing semiconductors enabling the delivery of new services for the evolving communications network infrastructure.
Acquia provides digital experience platform software and services built around Drupal that enables enterprises to manage content, build websites and applications, and deliver experiences across multiple channels.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSBoston, US
Dries Buytaert(Co-Founder, Executive Chairman)inThomas N. Erickson(Chief Executive Officer, President)Michael Cayer(General Counsel and Secretary)William Sorenson(Chief Financial Officer)
BoardRavi Viswanathan(Director)inBrian Paul(Director)in
Co-investorsVista Equity PartnersBantam GroupCenterview Capital TechnologyG20 VenturesGolub GrowthNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)+3 more
Active-Semi International develops power management semiconductor products, including battery management devices, DC/DC converters, intelligent motor controllers, and power application controllers for brushless DC and permanent magnet synchronous motors.
EnergyHardwareSemiconductors
Developer of a proprietary, easy-to-use blanket form of aerogels with broad application to a variety of markets.
Cloud-based predictive marketing platform that helps marketers connect with the individual.
Mountain View, US
Omer Artun(Executive Officer, Director)Anselme Le Van(Executive Officer)Dominique Levin(Executive Officer)Bill Kiriakis(Executive Officer)Saravanan Chettiar(Executive Officer)
BoardRajeev Batra(Director)
Co-investorsFour Rivers GroupMayfield FundNext World CapitalSequoia Capital
Provider of AI solutions for sales.
China-based chain of next-gen convenience stores powered by AI and IOT.
Aledade is an accountable care organization (ACO) partner that works with primary care organizations to improve patient outcomes and healthcare quality.
Enterprise SoftwareHealthtechBethesda, US
Bijan Salehizadeh(Co-founder)Farzad Mostashari(Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder)inMat Kendall(President and Co-Founder)in
BoardRobert Kocher(Director)in
Co-investorsActivate Venture PartnersARCH Venture PartnersEcho Health VenturesGV (Google Ventures)Intrepid Growth PartnersIVP (Institutional Venture Partners)+12 more
Provider of high performance all solid-state (SSD) SAN storage solutions.
Provider of an all-in-one HR platform.
Provider of all-in-one marketing software platform.
Open source software provider that develops, distributes, and supports the Apache Hadoop platform.
Apartment List operates an online rental marketplace that uses a quiz-based AI matching system to connect renters with apartments that fit their preferences and lifestyle.
AI & Machine LearningMarketplacesPropTechSan Francisco, US
John Douglas Kobs II(Executive Officer, Director)Charles Christopher Herndon(Executive Officer, Director)John Kobs(Founder)Chris Erickson(Co-founder)
BoardJosh Hannah(Director)Dana Stalder(Director)in
Co-investorsAndre IguodalaAUTHENTIC VENTURESCanaan PartnersGlynn Capital ManagementMatrixTribeca Early Stage Partners+3 more
Building the most liquid marketplace for renting an apartment in the United States.
Leading provider of API security solutions to protect SaaS, web, mobile, microservices and IoT applications.
Software-as-a-Service provider of application performance management solutions that enable developers and operations teams to monitor, troubleshoot, and tune application performance.
Offers Asterisk® software free to the open source community and offers Switchvox IP PBX software for small, medium, and large businesses.
Provider of Big Data Analytics Platform.
BigCommerce is an open, API-first ecommerce platform for building and scaling online stores, serving both B2C and B2B brands with drag-and-drop storefront building, customizable checkout, multi-currency/multi-language selling, and 600+ integrations.
E-commerceRetail TechSaaS
Co-investorsRevolutionTelstra VenturesTitanium VenturesFloodgateGeneral Catalyst
BigCommerce is a cloud-based ecommerce platform that enables merchants and retailers to build and manage online stores.
Cloud ComputingE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareRetail TechSaaSAustin, US
Wadih Machaalani(Director)Mitchell Harper(Director)Robert Alvarez(Executive Officer)Tim Schulz(Executive Officer)Steven Power(Executive Officer)
BoardLawrence Bohn(Director)in
Co-investorsFloodgateGeneral CatalystMillennium New HorizonsMillennium Technology Value PartnersNotable CapitalGoldman Sachs+1 more
Healthcare marketplace where dentists compete for patients based on price, quality, and convenience.
Provides broadband wireless access systems for service providers seeking to deliver high speed connectivity.
Canopy provides cloud-based, all-in-one practice management software for accounting firms, combining client management, CRM, document management, workflow, time and billing, engagements, and proposals with AI features.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Co-investorsHigh AlphaNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)NewView CapitalNycaNyca PartnersAnkona Capital+5 more
Canopy is a cloud-native, all-in-one practice management platform for U.S. accounting, CPA, tax, and bookkeeping firms, combining client management, documents, billing, workflow, and communication in one login.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSSouth Jordan, US
Kurt Avarell(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Davis Bell(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardNed May(Director)Josh Harmsen(Director)inAnkit Sud(Director)inChetan Puttagunta(Director)
Co-investorsAnkona CapitalNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)NewView CapitalPelion Venture PartnersPelion VenturesTen Coves Capital
Develops and manufactures Carrier Ethernet Edge and Aggregation Systems for business services and mobile backhaul.
Provides CDN services and is a leader in creation of technologies that allow website operators and large enterprises to dramatically improve web performance.
A home shopping network that manages and operates TV home shopping channels targeting cable television viewers in China.
Leading online classifieds site in China.
Chinese travel web site that focuses on providing the most comprehensive and accurate information for travel services.
Clari, merged with Salesloft, provides an AI-powered system for revenue prediction and optimization serving enterprise customers.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales TechSunnyvale, US
Venkat Rangan(Executive Officer, Director)Andy Byrne(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardEnrique Salem(Director)inAjay Agarwal(Director)inAaref Hilaly(Director)inMark Gainey(Director)
Co-investorsB Capital GroupB4 CapitalBain Capital VenturesHubSpot VenturesLevel EquityMadrona Venture Group+8 more
Enable enterprises to securely adopt the cloud.
Provider of cloud-based business intelligence platform.
Cloud-based e-commerce platform for small and mid-sized merchants to sell products online.
Offers a fully automated cloud management platform, delivered as SaaS, which enables organizations to easily deploy and manage business critical applications across multiple clouds.
Provider of cloud-based software for tax and accounting professionals.
Cloud-based log management and analytics company.
CloudPassage developed Halo, a cloud workload security platform that provided automated visibility, compliance, and protection for servers and containers across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Co-investorsComcast VenturesRunway Growth CapitalSozo Ventures
Transforming how people buy and sell in communities all over the world.
The construction collaboration platform for the field.
Analyzes and correlates, via its Content Activation Platform (CAP), more than 400 million daily conversations and content views across 15,000 exclusive publishers.
Contract lifecycle management platform.
Square is a platform providing integrated payroll, scheduling, team communication, and access management tools designed to help business teams coordinate and manage operations through a unified dashboard.
Enterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Co-investorsAcrew CapitalAspect VenturesGreylock Partners
Provides customer reviews and social commerce solutions to retailers and brands, and also operates a product reviews and recommendation site for consumers.
Agentless, enterprise-class security platform for unmanaged and IoT devices.
Nadir Izrael(Founder)in
Co-investorsAlkeon InnovationCapitalGEvolution Equity PartnersG SquaredGeneral CatalystInsight Partners+4 more
Provider of integrated data protection and governance solutions for enterprise endpoints.
Data virtualization performance leader, scaling from project to enterprise for data federation, data warehouse extension, data virtualization layer, and cloud data integration.
Developer of a DataOps platform that supports the agile design and operation of continuous data architecture.
Develops DC power systems for telecom and enterprise networks.
Provides Demand-Driven Storage™ solutions that dynamically organize data in response to business demand.
Provides a digital experience cloud that dramatically improves web application consumer experience, engagement and revenue.
Digital freight technology designed to connect Indonesian shippers with carriers.
Digital marketing technology company that engineers premium solutions for search marketing, social media, and online advertising.
Offers the only disk backup appliance with data deduplication purpose-built for backup.
Provider of commercial solutions for Drupal, a leading open source content management system (CMS).
Druva provides a cloud-native SaaS platform for data backup, protection, recovery, and AI-driven data insights across enterprise data and workloads.
Cloud ComputingCybersecuritySaaSSunnyvale, US
Milind Borate(Director)Jaspreet Singh(Founder & CEO)inMahesh Patel(Executive Officer)Eugenia Buzogly(Executive Officer)
BoardShailendra Jit Singh(Director)Jishnu Bhattacharjee(Director)in
Co-investorsArbor Ventures UKFounders Circle CapitalHercules Capital, Inc.Orios Venture PartnersPeak XV PartnersRiverwood Capital+6 more
Leading e-commerce platform for fast-growing businesses.
Edmodo was a global education network that empowered educators to engage lifelong learners.
EdTechSan Mateo, US
Nic Borg(Co-Founder & CEO)inJeff O'Hara(Co-Founder)inCrystal Hutter(Co-Founder; COO, then CEO (Feb 2013-Dec 2014), then President)inVibhu Mittal(Chief Executive Officer)Manish Kothari(General Manager of Platform)Ketan Kothari(VP of Marketing)
Co-investorsGlobal BrainGreylock PartnersIndex VenturesLearn CapitalNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Union Square Ventures (USV)+1 more
Provides an automated email authentication platform that helps companies prevent fraud, protect their brand, and improve email deliverability.
Provider of a unique appliance-based approach to enterprise application integration.
Leading provider of enterprise tag management.
Offers tools that make it easy to sell tickets to all kinds of events, which enables anyone to be an event organizer.
Eventbrite is an event management and ticketing platform used by event organizers to sell tickets, manage attendee access, and handle checkout, with features like waiting rooms, team access controls, and automated ticket pricing.
ConsumerMarketing TechMarketplacesMedia & EntertainmentSaaS
Julia Hartz(Founder)inKevin Hartz(Founder)in
Co-investors137 VenturesCraft VenturesFelicis VenturesFrancisco PartnersUncork CapitalVery Serious Ventures
Fireblocks provides infrastructure and platform services for managing digital assets and transactions, serving enterprises and startups that build and operate blockchain-based financial solutions.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Michael Shaulov(Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder)Pavel Berengoltz(Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder)Idan Ofrat(Chief Product Officer, Co-Founder)
Co-investorsCanapi VenturesCapitalGCoatue ManagementDigital Currency GroupGeneral AtlanticHaun Ventures+12 more
Developer of the GIF Keyboard, allowing anyone to easily search and share GIFs across many leading messaging platforms.
Gupshup provides an AI-powered conversational messaging platform that enables businesses to automate, personalize, and scale customer conversations across multiple channels.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS
Co-investorsInvestXSquareOne CapitalThink Investments
Data warehouse and analytics provider for hospitals and health systems.
Big data software company that went public via IPO.
Co-investorsSilver Lake PartnersTA Capital
Provides a suite of SaaS solutions enabling hotels to improve guest satisfaction, know more about guests, and increase revenues.
Included Health provides healthcare navigation and delivery services—including care guidance, billing and claims support, and virtual and in-person care spanning primary, behavioral, urgent, and specialty care—for employees and members of health plans and employers.
Digital HealthHealthtechMental HealthSan Francisco, US
Owen Tripp(Co-Founder & CEO)inLawrence Hofmann(Co-Founder, Grand Rounds)Adam Jackson(Co-Founder, Doctor On Demand)Jay McGraw(Co-Founder, Doctor On Demand)Phil McGraw(Co-Founder, Doctor On Demand)Colin Quinn(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsAdams Street PartnersAlpha PartnersB CapitalBlackRockFelicis VenturesGaingels+15 more
India-based social network and group messaging provider.
Infoblox provides an enterprise networking and security platform offering DNS security, network visibility, cloud management, and automation for IT teams.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Scott Harrellin
Co-investorsWarburg Pincus
Inkling provides a mobile learning and training platform for frontline and operational employees, giving workers on-the-job access to mission-critical knowledge, certifications, and workflows.
EdTechEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSSan Francisco, US
Charles Matthew MacInnis(Executive Officer, Director)Francis Currie(Executive Officer)
BoardBryan Schreier(Director)inThomas Banahan(Director)Peter Currie(Director)
Co-investorsIcon VenturesSapphire VenturesSequoia Capital
Instart was a Palo Alto-based web content delivery and application performance company whose assets Akamai acquired in 2020.
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersGeodesic CapitalMillennium Technology Value PartnersStructural CapitalWingAndreessen Horowitz+4 more
Offers intelligent video surveillance via its IP surveillance cameras and encoders that include the most advanced, adaptive analytics in the industry.
The preeminent platform for creating, distributing and consuming interactive learning content.
Global Internet fraud prevention platform, delivered as a SaaS model, in the E-Commerce, social networking, and financial services markets.
Provider of an agentless IoT security platform.
Co-investorsMadrona Venture Group
Provider of IT business analytics applications to enterprises.
Kargo uses computer vision hardware installed at warehouse loading docks to capture freight data in real time and convert dock-door activity into structured data.
AI & Machine LearningHardwareLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Sam Lurye(Founder)
Co-investorsSozo VenturesActivant CapitalB3 CapitalGood FriendsGreat Oaks Venture CapitalHat-Trick Capital+7 more
Provides wireless operators with a comprehensive mobile solutions portfolio via the Kodiak Connected Portfolio.
Khoros is a customer engagement platform that unifies communities, social media management, messaging, and customer care across channels using AI.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing Tech
Co-investorsAkkadian VenturesFirstMile VenturesNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)OpenView Venture PartnersSapphire Ventures
Provider of localization solutions for a multilingual world.
Offers location-based applications delivered via a mobile device in 29 countries on 14 carriers on 500+ devices.
Lyra provides mental health care services through a network of evidence-based providers, combining clinical expertise with technology to deliver accessible, quality care for employers and health plans.
Digital HealthEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechHR TechMental HealthBurlingame, US
David Ebersman(Co-Founder & Chairman (CEO 2015–2025))inBob Kocher(Co-Founder and Board Member)inDena Bravata(Co-Founder & former Chief Medical Officer)Alethea Varra(Vice President of Clinical Care)Jennifer Schulz(Chief Executive Officer)Elaine Yang(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsAdditionBreyer CapitalCasdin CapitalCoatue ManagementDragoneer Investment GroupDurable Capital Partners+11 more
New York, US
Koda Mike Wang(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardTimothy Luke Sherwin(Director)
Co-investorsCasdin CapitalGreylock PartnersVenrock
MarkLogic offers a multi-model database and data platform that integrates, curates, and governs multi-structured data to give enterprises a unified view of their information, customers, and knowledge.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Carlos, US
Christopher Lindblad(Executive Officer, Director)Elisa W. Smith(Executive Officer)Joe Pasqua(Executive Officer)Peter Norman(Executive Officer)Jonathan Bakke(Executive Officer)Gary Bloom(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsMillennium Technology Value PartnersStratim Capital
Develops and delivers state-of-the-art software solutions that automatically incorporate medical vocabulary and coding standards into healthcare information technology applications.
Connecting employees to high-quality mental health care.
Mobile mechanics for consumers and fleets.
Namely is a cloud-based HR platform that combines HRIS, payroll, benefits administration, and talent management for mid-market companies.
Enterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaSNew York, US
Matthew Straznitskas(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardAdam D'Augelli(Director)inDavid Skok(Director)in
Co-investorsNotable CapitalScale Venture PartnersSequoia CapitalTrue VenturesBullpen CapitalGolub Growth+6 more
IBM is a global technology company whose business spans enterprise software (including Red Hat, HashiCorp, and Confluent), IT infrastructure such as mainframes, servers, and storage, and IT consulting services.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareQuantum ComputingArmonk, US
Jit Saxena(Founder)Arvind Krishna(Chairman, President and CEO)
Co-investorsBantam GroupBessemer Venture PartnersCRV (Charles River Ventures)DCM VenturesKleiner PerkinsMatrix+3 more
Develops network infrastructure control solutions for services like domain name resolution (DNS), IP address management (IPAM), and network change and configuration management.
Provides network storage systems optimized for the storage and delivery of digital content, such as video, images, audio, and other large files.
Provider of end-to-end network testing, monitoring, and analytics solutions.
Provides visibility across every network an organization relies on, enabling enterprises to dramatically reduce the time to identify and remediate problems.
New Relic provides a full-stack observability platform that allows engineering teams to monitor and troubleshoot software systems across their entire stack.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Lewis Cirne(Executive Officer, Director)Robin Schulman(Executive Officer)Chris Cook(Executive Officer)Jim Gochee(Executive Officer)Mark Sachleben(Executive Officer)Hilarie Koplow-McAdams(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsAccelCapitalGDag VenturesFrancisco PartnersGolub GrowthInsight Partners+4 more
Network security company whose next-generation firewalls enable unprecedented visibility and granular policy control of applications and content.
Faction is a venture capital firm that invests in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects at the seed and series A stages, focusing on entrepreneurs building fundamental utility across the technology stack.
BiotechCrypto & Web3New York, US
Oren Harnevo(Executive Officer, Director)Ronald Bianchini, Jr.(Executive Officer, Director)Roneil Rumburg(Cofounder)Ohad Finkelstein(Director)Christina Calvaneso(Executive Officer)Brian Pozesky(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsAccelAdaverseAlephAxeleo CapitalBluebird VenturesBright Pixel Capital+36 more
Co-investorsLightspeed Venture Partners
Provider of proprietary on-demand app-powered electric bike.
Sells online apparel and footwear merchandise by striving to provide shoppers with the best possible service and selection.
Provides online storage optimization through real-time data compression, delivering dramatic cost reduction without performance degradation.
Provider of an online travel vertical search engine.
Optimizely develops an AI-powered marketing operating system used by over 10,000 businesses to manage campaigns and conduct experiments.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSNew York, US
Pete Koomen(Founder)inDan Siroker(Co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer)Alexander Atzberger(Chief Executive Officer of combined Optimizely)inShafqat Islamin
BoardIlya Fushman(Director)inScott Weiss(Director)
Co-investorsAdvancit CapitalAndreessen HorowitzAshton KutcherBattery VenturesBridge BankCorrelation Ventures+20 more
Global provider of packet-optical transport solutions with advanced multi-layer network planning and management systems.
Palo Alto Networks provides cybersecurity platforms and services to protect organizations' digital infrastructure across cloud, network, and security operations.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareCupertino, US
Nir Zuk(Founder - Emeritus)Slavik Markovich(Co-Founder and CEO)Rishi Bhargava(Co-Founder)Dan Sarel(Co-Founder and VP Product)Guy Rinat(Co-Founder and VP Engineering)
BoardJake Flomenberg(Board Member (via Accel; later General Partner at Wing Venture Capital))
Co-investorsAccelACTAI VenturesAlphaDriveAmplify PartnersaVentureBallistic Ventures+17 more
Peer-to-peer ride sharing mobile-application.
PlanGrid was a cloud-based construction management software for general contractors, subcontractors, and owners providing real-time access to project plans, issues, photos, and forms.
Cloud ComputingConstruction TechPropTechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Tracy Young(Founder/CEO)inRalph Gootee(Founder/CTO)inRyan Sutton-Gee(Founder)inKenny Stone(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardDoug Leone(Board Director (Sequoia Capital))inBen Boyer(Board Director (Tenaya Capital))in
Co-investors500 GlobalBase Venture Management, Inc.Brick Mortar VenturesDag VenturesMI VenturesY Combinator+4 more
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzBattery VenturesCisco InvestmentsDCVC (Data Collective)Harmony PartnersWing
Develops power management semiconductors for mobile devices, battery chargers and LED lights.
PowerReviews provides a user-generated content platform that helps brands and retailers collect, analyze, and benchmark customer product ratings and reviews to improve conversion, product quality, and customer experience.
E-commerceMarketing TechSaaSChicago, US
MATT MOOG(Executive Officer, Director)PAUL MARIANI(Director)RALPH TERKOWITZ(Director)ROBERT SCHUR(Executive Officer)BUD ROSENTHAL(Director)KIM FEIL(Director)
Co-investorsABS Capital PartnersAugust CapitalFour Rivers GroupMenlo Ventures
Provides a powerful suite of predictive analytics and real-time information solutions to help consumer-facing businesses find their next customer.
Professional network for scientists and researchers.
Travel booking platform that later merged with Ctrip (testimonial from founder CC Zhuang).
Co-investorsGSR VenturesMayfield Fund
Co-investorsAglae VenturesCipio PartnersWessel Management
Revinate operates a direct booking and customer data platform for hotels, using guest data to power marketing campaigns, reservation sales, and guest profiles that reduce reliance on online travel agencies.
Marketing TechSaaSTravel & HospitalityPalo Alto, US
Marc Heyneker(Co-founder; former CEO; Chairman)Jay (John B.) Ashton Jr.(Co-founder and original Chief Executive Officer)Bryson Koehler(Chief Executive Officer)Raj Singh(Chief Strategy Officer after Go Moment acquisition)James Hornthal(Director)
BoardPeter Fenton(Director; Benchmark General Partner)in
Co-investorsIndustry VenturesSozo VenturesBenchmark
Provides search and business intelligence software that improves daily decisions for employees and purchase decisions for customers.
Chat application for businesses that employ shift workers.
VoIP platform provider (NASDAQ: SHOR); acquired by Mitel in 2017.
Co-investorsAugust CapitalWindspeed Ventures
Rival offers AI-powered products ("ROSI"/Rival OS Intelligence) for sourcing, recruiting, onboarding, and employee-journey management, integrating with existing ATS and HCM systems.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS
Co-investorsHighBar PartnersIntel Capital
Skai operates an advertising platform with a partner ecosystem spanning walled garden media channels, commerce platforms, and certified agencies, giving marketers access to many publishers and ad types from a single login.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSArlington, US
Yoav Izhar-Prato(CEO, Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board)Nir Cohen(CTO & Co-Founder)Alon Sheafer(Chief Innovation Officer & Co-Founder)Gil Sadeh(President & Board Member)Shirley Grill-Rachman(COO & CFO)Guy Cohen(Chief Product Officer)
Co-investorsBain Capital VenturesQumra Capital91 VenturesArts AllianceNFXPartners for Growth+1 more
Manage shadow IT and securely enable sanctioned IT with unparalleled cloud visibility, threat detection, and policy enforcement.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSCampbell, US
Rajiv Gupta(Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer)Sekhar Sarukkai(Co-Founder & VP of Engineering)Kaushik Narayan(Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer)
BoardAsheem Chandna(Founding Investor & Board of Directors (Partner, Greylock Partners))Aaref Hilaly(Board Member (Partner, Sequoia Capital at time of investment))Bill Burns(Board Member)
Co-investorsSequoia CapitalThomvest VenturesGreylock Partners
Smartling provides enterprise-grade localization and translation software with APIs, SDKs, and CI/CD integrations for software development teams.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaS
Jack Welde(Founder)in
Co-investorsAccelerator VenturesBattery VenturesHarmony PartnersICONIQRidge VenturesUS Venture Partners+4 more
Social business network for IT that is transforming how $1 trillion worth of technology products and services is marketed and sold each year to small and mid-sized businesses worldwide.
Offers social customer solutions that provides complete social monitoring, a comprehensive community platform, and actionable analytics.
World-wide social game developer.
Operates a social network for education.
Co-investorsElsewhere PartnersFloodgateShasta Ventures
IBM StreamSets provides a low-code platform for building and managing real-time data streaming pipelines across hybrid and multicloud environments.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureSaaSSan Francisco, US
Girish Pancha(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Arvind Prabhakar(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Lisa Babel(Executive Officer)
BoardDharmesh Thakker(Director)Peter Sonsini(Director)Sohaib Abbasi(Director)
Co-investorsBattery VenturesDcode CapitalDCVC (Data Collective)Harmony PartnersNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Offers a subscription billing and commerce platform that changes the way subscription businesses manage and sell to customers.
Sumo Logic provides an AI-powered cloud-native log analytics platform that unifies and analyzes enterprise data for development, security, and operations teams.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureRedwood City, US
Christian Beedgen(Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer & Director)Kumar Saurabh(Co-Founder & VP Engineering)Bruno Kurtic(Founding VP of Product / Chief Strategy Officer)Mark Ties(Chief Executive Officer)Chris DeBiase(Chief Financial Officer)Nello Franco(Chief Customer Officer)in
Co-investorsAccelBattery VenturesCross Creek AdvisorsFrancisco PartnersFranklin TempletonGlynn Capital Management+10 more
Provides software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions through an integrated talent management solution.
Tealium provides a customer data orchestration platform that collects, unifies, and activates customer data across real-time, cloud, and hybrid environments.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMarketing TechSaaSSan Diego, US
Ali Behnam(Director)inMike Anderson(Founder)inJeffrey Lunsford(Executive Officer, Director)Doug Lindroth(Executive Officer)
BoardStewart Gollmer(Director)inJames W. MacIntyre, IV(Director)
Co-investorsBattery VenturesDeclaration PartnersKensington Capital Partners LimitedOmega Venture PartnersPresidio VenturesGeorgian
Co-investorsG Vision CapitaliGlobe PartnersMenlo Ventures
San Francisco, US
Ricardo Oliveira(Executive Officer, Director)Mohit Lad(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardAaref Hilaly(Director)Stefan Dyckerhoff(Director)Sanjit Biswas(Director)Michael Tuchen(Director)
Co-investorsGV (Google Ventures)Sequoia CapitalUS Venture PartnersW Capital Partners
ThreatMetrix provides real-time behavioral and device intelligence to detect fraud and recognize legitimate returning customers across the customer journey.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFintechSan Jose, US
David George Jones(Director)Cameron Mark Charles Gill(Director)Reed D Taussig(Executive Officer, Director)Samuel A Hageman(Executive Officer)
BoardVivek Mehra(Director)Steve Krausz(Director)
Co-investorsAugust CapitalUS Venture Partners
Travel focused media company that enables comparison shopping for travel products via a proprietary vertical search engine.
Leverages offline data and predictive scoring to help brands, agencies, and platforms more accurately and efficiently target people across digital channels and devices at scale.
Provider of Unified Communication (UC) solutions based on its IP business phone system.
Offers a purpose-built database for unstructured information that is revolutionizing the way organizations leverage information.
Valimail provides email authentication and identity protection services for organizations, helping them secure their email domains against impersonation and maintain trust in digital communications.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Peter Goldstein(Executive Officer, Director)Alexander Garcia-Tobar(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardJason Pressman(Director)inDavid B. Aronoff(Director)inJohn De Santis(Director)
Co-investorsFlybridge Capital PartnersInsight PartnersBloomberg BetaShasta Ventures
Develops and delivers high definition video communications products.
Online video game rental subscription service, which allows subscribers to rent one or more video games concurrently, with no due dates, late fees, or shipping charges.
Develops video processing semiconductors based on the next-generation H.264/AVC standard.
Provides a virtualized wireless LAN solution that cost-effectively optimizes the enterprise network.
Hosted platform for ingesting, storing, visualizing, and alerting on time series data.
Co-investorsSpider Capital
Takewheels is an affiliate review site rating online sportsbooks and casinos for California and wider US bettors.
Co-investorsBullpen CapitalDreamers VC3L CapitalDBL Partners
Wooga develops narrative-driven mobile games, including the hidden-object title June's Journey, focused on long-term player engagement.
ConsumerGamingMedia & Entertainment
Co-investorsBalderton CapitalHighland Europe
Wrench operates a platform that brings certified mechanics to customers' locations for mobile auto repair and maintenance, letting car owners avoid shops and waiting.
ConsumerMarketplacesMobility & TransportationSeattle, US
Edward Petersen(Executive Officer, Director)Douglas Stevens(Executive Officer, Director)Michelle Virta(Executive Officer, Director)Daniel Casey Willis(Executive Officer, Director)William Beaver(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsAscend Venture CapitalData Point CapitalMadrona Venture GroupMarubeni
Zuora provides a monetization platform for managing quote-to-cash processes, including billing, revenue recognition, payments, and collections for companies monetizing through subscriptions, usage-based, or hybrid pricing models.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSFoster City, US
Tien Tzuo(Founder & Chief Executive Officer)K.V. Rao(Co-founder)Cheng Zou(Co-founder)Tyler Sloat(Executive Officer)Todd McElhatton(Chief Financial Officer (also reported as Chief Operating and Financial Officer))Pete Hirsch(Chief Product and Technology Officer)
Co-investorsAcross Capital PartnersConvergeDag VenturesGICGlynn Capital ManagementGreylock Partners+8 more
Exits · 12
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as of Sep 2025| Fund | Vintage | Committed | Net IRR | TVPI | DPI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tenaya Capital Fund VII, L.P.LPs: Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System, North Carolina Retirement Systems | 2015 | — | 16.4% | 2.59x | 0.45x |
| Tenaya Capital VI, L.P.LPs: North Carolina Retirement Systems, Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System | 2012 | — | 0.9% | 1.09x | 0.53x |
| Tenaya Capital Fund VLPs: North Carolina Retirement Systems | 2007 | — | 16.3% | 2.09x | 2.01x |
| Tenaya Capital V-P, L.P.LPs: Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System | 2007 | — | 17.5% | 2.18x | 2.09x |
Source: public limited-partner disclosures (CalPERS, CalSTRS). Net IRR / TVPI / DPI as reported by the limited partner; a fund's early-year IRR is an interim estimate (J-curve).
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Tenaya Capital made?
- Tenaya Capital has 188 tracked investments, 13 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO.
- What stage does Tenaya Capital invest at?
- Tenaya Capital invests at the Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth, Late Stage stages.
- What is Tenaya Capital's typical check size?
- Tenaya Capital typically writes checks of $5M – $10M.
- What sectors does Tenaya Capital focus on?
- Tenaya Capital focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cleantech, Cloud Computing, Consumer, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Digital Health, E-commerce, Energy, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Hardware, Healthtech, HR Tech, IoT, Marketing Tech, Media & Entertainment, New Materials, SaaS, Semiconductors.
- Where is Tenaya Capital located?
- Tenaya Capital is headquartered in Palo Alto, US.
- Who does Tenaya Capital co-invest with?
- Tenaya Capital most often shares deals with Sequoia Capital, Battery Ventures, Greylock Partners, among 251 tracked co-investors.
Co-investors · 109
Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm that partners with founders to build technology companies.
Greylock Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with founders building companies from inception. Its partners make only one or two new investments per year to focus deeply on each partnership.
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is a venture capital firm that invests in and provides long-term support to founders building new companies.
Felicis Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs founders primarily at the Seed and Series A stages, frequently leading or co-leading rounds. It operates with a founder-first approach, including a founder pledge and voting commitments.
Sapphire Ventures partners with expansion-stage enterprise software companies aiming to become category leaders.
Battery Ventures is a global investment firm that has backed more than 450 companies over its 40-year history, operating its investment staff as a single global unit.
Index Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm that backs companies from Seed to IPO and beyond, including through its dedicated seed fund Index Origin.
Norwest Venture Partners is an investment firm whose growth equity team backs private, profitable, fast-growing companies, providing capital and hands-on support through its 'invited guest' approach.
Venrock is a venture capital firm investing across technology and healthcare, backing companies in fintech, developer infrastructure, life sciences, therapeutics, semiconductors, and consumer products.
CapitalG is Alphabet's independent growth fund, backing post-product-market-fit technology companies with capital and operational support drawn from Google's expertise.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, known for pioneering the platform model with a large team of operators supporting founders across stages.
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General Catalyst is a venture capital firm operating as a partnership focused on company building and accelerating the growth of the businesses it backs.
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