Our Guided Companies
The Venture Guides team performance includes >80% positive outcomes in previous investments with >40% of the companies eventually reaching multi-billion dollar valuations. Venture Guides is highly selective about building a sector-focused portfolio of companies, and we maintain data-driven rigor to identify the industry’s best emerging products and management teams.
Current Companies
Investment Round: Series Seed
Industry: Network Performance Management
ElastiFlow is revolutionizing network management by creating the “network trace.” For the first time ever, enterprises can tie together application and network traces to quickly answer the age-old question of “is the problem the network or the application?” Just like distributed application tracing, the ElastiFlow trace enables users to understand the performance of the network by seeing the usage and consumption rather than just capacity and bandwidth.
Investment Round: Series A
Industry: Cybersecurity
Elastio is a cybersecurity company with the only cloud-native platform that verifies data integrity in near real-time, enabling clean recoveries from ransomware attacks with minimal downtime and data loss. Elastio assures clean recovery across multi-cloud and hybrid environments and major backup providers - all from a centralized console.
Investment Round: Series A
Industry: Infrastructure-as-Code Management
env0 streamlines Infrastructure-as-Code management, boosts development velocity, optimizes costs, ensures reliability and compliance, and enhances team collaboration.
Investment Round: Series Seed
Industry: Digital Trust
Memcyco provides cutting-edge digital trust technologies to empower brands in combating online brand impersonation fraud, and preventing fraud damages to businesses and their clients.
Investment Round: Series Seed
Industry: DevSecOps
Hoop.dev delivers fast, secure, and granular access to developers so they can optimize application delivery with greater reliability, full security and compliance for the enterprise. Hoop.dev ensures safe adoption for enterprises leveraging AI and agentic workflows by protecting sensitive information and preventing destructive actions. With Hoop.dev, the fastest path is also the safest one.
Investment Round: Series Seed
Industry: Product Collaboration Software
VibeIQ provides the first digital workspace purpose-built for product collaboration. Unlike traditional documents, sheets, and slides, VibeIQ’s platform apps maintain associativity with your product’s digital assets and related product data, ensuring accuracy, reducing effort, and enabling agility.
Investment Round: Series A
Industry: Distributed Application Tracing
Odigos automates application tracing with unrivaled performance and ecosystem coverage. By simplifying rapid OTEL implementation, Odigos is redefining tracing for enterprises, providing the most comprehensive visibility across your entire architecture.
Investment Round: Series Seed
Industry: Data Integration and Analysis
Precog is revolutionizing the data integration landscape with AI-driven automation that eliminates inefficiencies and empowers businesses to scale faster. With Precog, ETL connectors are no longer hand-coded and users provide basic input to its AI-driven system, quickly producing customized connectors that deliver fully normalized, fully typed, business-ready data.
Investment Round: Series A
Industry: Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)
Compyl goes beyond automating compliance - it harnesses your rich data to provide contextual GRC insights to strengthen compliance and mitigate risk. With intelligent guidance, flexible automation and granular reporting, you can be proactive and more strategic while maximizing resources. With Compyl, you are not just meeting standards‒you are building a stronger, more resilient security foundation across your organization.
Investment Round: Series A
Industry: Identity Governance
Clarity Security provides an Identity Governance platform (IGA) for hybrid environments, designed to simplify access management, user access reviews, and identity lifecycle management by automating processes and offering an intuitive interface. Clarity makes identity governance easier for organizations by reducing manual work and providing comprehensive reporting capabilities to meet audit requirements.
Investment Round: Series A
Industry: Virtual Edge Management
IO River empowers customers to provide best in class application performance and reliability at the lowest cost by providing a "virtual edge" for their applications. For the first time ever, customers can seamlessly switch their applications across content delivery platforms without service interruptions or negative security implications. This new ability creates performance improvements, unique reliability in the face of outages, and improved cost management.
Investment Round: Series Seed
Industry: Unstructured Data Security
Ray Security is the first and only preemptive data security solution. By predicting how data will be used, it enforces access controls before risk arises and reduces insider, ransomware, and AI-related exposures across cloud and hybrid systems.
Investment Round: Series A
Industry: Application Security
Tromzo provides a prioritized risk view of the entire software supply chain. This context helps security teams understand which software assets are critical to the business, prevent risks from being introduced to those assets, and accelerates remediation by automating the triage of the vulnerabilities that truly matter.
“Venture Guides combines years of experience, work ethic and unmatched performance. It is exciting to work with the Venture Guides team; when you do, great things happen.”
Jack Sweeney, 7x CEO and current Executive Chairman of Tromzo
Team History of Success
Initial Investment: First Funding
NASDAQ: DT
Initial Investment: First Funding
NYSE: SWI
Initial Investment: First Funding
NASDAQ: RPD
Initial Investment: First Funding
Acquired by EMC
Initial Investment: Series D
NYSE: LNKD; Acquired by Microsoft
Initial Investment: Incubation
Acquired by IBM
Initial Investment: Series Seed
Acquired by Dell
Initial Investment: Series A
Acquired by Broadcom
Initial Investment: Series D/E
NASDAQ: DOCU
Initial Investment: Incubation
Privately Held
Initial Investment: Incubation
Acquired by Fungible
Initial Investment: Series B
Acquired by AMEX
Initial Investment: Incubation
Acquired by Google
Initial Investment: Series A
Acquired by Turbonomic; Acquired by IBM
Initial Investment: Series B
Acquired by EMC
Initial Investment: First Funding
Acquired by Rogue Software
Initial Investment: Series A
Acquired by Proofpoint
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