• Tasktop

  Led · Equity · Apr 2017

  Tasktop is a Vancouver, BC-based value stream management (VSM) platform provider led by founder and CEO Mik Kersten. Its platform gives enterprises real-time visibility into the health of product value streams to help teams make decisions and align with business goals. Across its product suite Tasktop provides universal metrics, unified dashboards, and integrations that reduce manual data handoffs to measure the flow of software delivery. The platform plugs into existing tools and overlays the end-to-end value stream to provide the abstractions, automations, visualizations and forensics needed for daily value stream management. Customers include BMW, CGI, E*Trade and T-Mobile, and the company serves about half of the Fortune 100. The company intends to use newly raised funds to accelerate growth and expand market leadership. Tasktop offers a Value Stream Integration platform (Tasktop Integration Hub) that unifies tools and provides a unified view across the software development and delivery lifecycle to enable large-scale Agile and DevOps transformations. The Integration Hub lets information flow frictionlessly across the lifecycle and provides transparency into the value stream even across hundreds of projects, tens of thousands of users and millions of artifacts. The company says more than one million users employ its technology and that it provides the software delivery integration layer for 43 of the Fortune 100, with customers in financial services, insurance, government and manufacturing. Tasktop also works via partners and OEM distributions with vendors including CA, HPE and IBM. Management cites a record-breaking fiscal year 2016 in which revenues grew by more than 75% compared with fiscal 2015. The company plans to accelerate go-to-market, marketing and sales activities to drive broader adoption of the Integration Hub. Founded in 2007, Tasktop Technologies is a Vancouver-based provider of Software Lifecycle Integration (SLI) and the creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open-source tool. Its core product, Tasktop Sync, aims to improve software delivery by enabling collaboration across multiple disciplines involved in development. The platform provides automated, enterprise-scale synchronization among widely adopted application lifecycle management tools, including requirements management, test management, agile project management, project and portfolio management, and service desk products. Customers include global leaders in financial services, insurance, government and manufacturing. The company is led by CEO Mik Kersten and COO/President Neelan Choksi. Tasktop has closed an $11M Series A and intends to use the funds to expand into new markets.

• Vyopta

  Led · Series A · Feb 2016

  Vyopta provides performance optimization and visibility across technology, workspaces and people to support collaboration. It offers 360° views across cloud and on-premise communication and collaboration technologies including Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Cisco Webex and Google Meet, delivering actionable insights and dynamic performance monitoring. Led by CEO Alfredo Ramirez, the company gives customers tools to monitor and improve connections between teams, customers and partners. In March 2021 Vyopta raised US$8m in growth funding from Vistara Capital Partners and will use the proceeds to accelerate customer acquisition and add new monitoring and analytics features. The company serves hundreds of organizations worldwide across more than 20 industries, monitors six million endpoints and tracks over 20 billion meeting minutes per year. Vyopta is a provider of monitoring and analytics tools that optimize workplace collaboration, including conference room utilization and unified communications performance. Its products, including Collaboration Performance Management and Room Insights, monitor video, voice, messaging and conference rooms across vendors such as Cisco, Microsoft, Zoom, Poly, BlueJeans and Pexip. The company serves hundreds of large enterprises and managed service providers across industries, including AIG, AstraZeneca, Shared Services Canada, Stanford University and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Vyopta reported 80% growth in new and expansion business in the first half of 2019. The firm plans to deepen integrations with leading collaboration vendors, advance its platform’s ability to optimize performance, adoption and ROI, and expand its customer success and go-to-market teams. Vyopta is based in Austin, Texas. Vyopta offers the vAnalytics platform, a single system to monitor, support and optimize large video and unified collaboration networks. Its products monitor more than 400 million video collaboration minutes per year across infrastructure from vendors including Cisco, Polycom, Microsoft, Vidyo, Acano and Pexip. Vyopta serves more than 70 large enterprise customers representing a combined total of about 3 million employees. The company built its competitive product set without outside capital and this Series A is its first venture funding. With the new capital it plans to develop products further and scale the organization, increasing headcount from roughly 25 to more than 60 by July 2016 (over 35 planned hires). Customers span more than 20 industries including health care, technology, financial services, government and higher education.

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