First Mile Observability for the Distributed Open world. Early-stage venture investing is an unpredictable game. I’ve been doing it for 20 years now so I can say that with conviction! As an infrastructure software investor, I strive to stay on top of market transitions, technology shifts, and venture capital cycles in order to find …
We’re excited to announce Sierra Ventures’ lead investment in DeepHow’s $9M Pre-Series A Round. DeepHow has developed an AI-powered knowledge capture platform to bridge the skills gap in the manufacturing and service industries. Today, knowledge capture and transfer solutions serving the manufacturing and service industries include antiquated solutions like training manuals, classroom instruction, and job …
We’re excited to announce Sierra Ventures’ investment in ArmorCode’s $3M Seed Round. ArmorCode is building a next-generation Application Security Platform. Their vision is to bring security tools closer to the developers, by making it easy for a developer to identify, understand, and fix code flaws faster. Applications are the top cause of security breaches and …
We’re excited to announce Sierra Ventures’ lead investment in Dasera’s $6M Seed Financing. Dasera is changing the way security, privacy, and compliance are managed in the data lifecycle. Although corporate perimeters are now fairly secure, there are large volumes of data interactions occurring internally every second. This leaves security teams with questions such as: Who …
We’re excited to announce Sierra Ventures’ investment in Kyros’ $2.3M Series Seed. Kyros AI is an EdTech platform supporting students and parents through the college preparation and college application process. With more than 5M college applicants, Kyros is aiming to democratize the college prep process and make it more accessible. We were very impressed with …
Today is an exciting day for Fabric Commerce! The three-year-old, Seattle-based company that was Seed funded with $9.5M by Alex Bard at Redpoint and me, Tim Guleri, at Sierra Ventures, announced their $43M Series A. The round was led by Scott Beechuk from Norwest Venture Partners (NVP). I have a long history and association with …
The pandemic has increased the pace of digital transformation in all aspects of our lives, and education is no exception. Students and teachers have had to adapt to virtual and remote learning environments which have historically been very “hands-on”, particularly for STEM education. The Inspirit team noticed this new challenge and developed a no-code platform …
We’re excited to announce Sierra Ventures’ investment in Akasha Imaging’s $10.75M Series A. Akasha Imaging is developing imaging technology that enables robots to calculate the orientation of objects at a precision and speed that assembly and packing processes require for full automation. Their vision system is based on years of MIT research on “Polarized 3D”, …
We’re excited to announce that Sierra Ventures led an investment in Podcastle’s $1.75M Seed Round. Podcastle is developing podcast creation tools for amateur and professional podcasters and a streaming platform for listeners. The creation tools are centered around Podcastle’s text-to-speech technology that enables creators to convert scripts into high-quality podcasts. Creators may choose to have …
We’re excited to announce our investment in Speedscale’s Seed Round. Speedscale is an Atlanta-based company that helps prevent production incidents with unique testing automation for modern applications that are built on distributed architecture. Too many code releases fail because distributed architectures are complex to test and rely on too many dependencies from other application endpoints, …
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