Venture Guides Management, L.P.
Actively deployingBoston · Seed–Series A
Investment thesis
Venture Guides believes exceptional companies are built through active partnership and guidance rather than passive capital deployment. The firm maintains a concentrated portfolio of 15-20 companies and provides hands-on support across all business functions. The team has decades of focused experience in security, cloud, and data infrastructure, enabling deep market understanding. The firm demonstrates high personal commitment through significant GP co-investment (10%+ per partner) and operates a sales training program to accelerate portfolio company hiring and recruiting.
Source: firm website, verified Jul 20, 2026.
What they invest in
from 11 of 20 portfolio companiesEnterprise Software ×10Cybersecurity ×6AI & Machine Learning ×4Data & Infrastructure ×4Developer Tools ×3SaaS ×3Cloud Computing ×2Fintech ×2
HQs:United States×3Brazil×1
Investments · 20 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathVibeIQ is an AI-powered product decision platform for retail, footwear, and apparel brands that consolidates merchandising, design, and sales workflows into a shared visual workspace for assortment planning and launch.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechRetail TechSaaS
Brian Lindauer(Co-Founder & CEO)
Compyl provides an integrated governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform designed to replace fragmented point solutions for managing security and compliance. The platform serves organizations seeking to automate and streamline their GRC processes.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Stas Bojoukha(Co-founder)Simon Shaddock(Co-founder)
ElastiFlow provides network performance and security analytics solutions that collect, transform, and normalize flow records to deliver visibility and insights into network infrastructure reliability and security.
CybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Elastio provides ransomware detection and verified data recovery software that inspects live data, replicated data, and backup data across enterprise environments. The platform is used by financial institutions, healthcare organizations, SaaS platforms, managed service providers, and public sector agencies to identify compromised recovery points and prove recovery success.
CybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
env0 is an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platform that standardizes deployment workflows across teams and departments, enabling consistent execution of plans, applies, validations, and post-deployment actions. The platform supports multiple IaC tools and helps organizations reduce bottlenecks, minimize errors, and maintain control as they scale.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Hoop.dev provides a security gateway that inspects and controls database queries, API calls, and commands at the protocol layer, masking sensitive data and blocking risky operations before they execute. The tool operates as middleware for engineering teams to prevent unauthorized data access and enforce security policies without requiring code changes or SDK installation.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSão Paulo, BR
Andrios Robert(Founder)in
IO River is a multi-edge orchestration platform that unifies management of multiple Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) through a single control layer, enabling automatic optimization for cost, performance, and availability. It serves enterprises and DevOps teams managing complex delivery infrastructure across multiple CDN providers.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Memcyco provides account takeover (ATO) and fraud prevention for security teams at enterprises and financial institutions. The platform uses device analytics and proprietary detection models to predict and block ATO and card data theft attempts in real-time without requiring end-user apps or system disruption.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareFintech
Odigos Technologies uses eBPF-based technology to automatically generate distributed traces for applications without requiring code modifications or manual instrumentation. The company addresses a need among developers and enterprises for faster, lower-effort collection and delivery of monitoring data.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareBoston, US
Precog provides automated data integration (ELT) using multi-dimensional algebra and AI-powered schema detection to transform complex object data from APIs, SaaS applications, and IoT platforms into business-ready data. The platform serves companies that need to integrate data across multiple enterprise applications without manual engineering.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechBoulder, US
Ray Security provides data protection controls for AI applications, identifying and remediating unauthorized AI access to sensitive data across sanctioned and shadow AI tools. The platform helps organizations manage data risk from AI copilots, agents, and large language models.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Board seats · per SEC filings
what is this? ⓘ$5M raise · filed Feb 2024 · via Benjamin 94609 Nye
Inferred from directors named on each company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Venture Guides Management, L.P. invest at?
- Venture Guides Management, L.P. invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does Venture Guides Management, L.P. focus on?
- Venture Guides Management, L.P. focuses on Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure.
- Where is Venture Guides Management, L.P. located?
- Venture Guides Management, L.P. is headquartered in Boston, US.
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