Participated · Series C · Oct 2025

Findem’s platform converts millions of proprietary, expert-labeled attributes into more than 800 million “3D profiles,” allowing recruiting teams to identify candidates based on validated success signals rather than surface-level résumé data. The solution unifies multichannel sourcing, CRM, and analytics, letting talent acquisition (TA) teams streamline workflows and focus on higher-quality candidates. Introduced in 2020, its data-labeling engine underpins domain-specific AI that predicts which candidates will thrive in particular roles, teams, and cultures. Over the past year the company posted 3× year-over-year growth, earned a top-10 % ranking on the Inc. 5000, and was named one of America’s most innovative companies by Fortune and Fast Company. Customers such as RingCentral and Nutanix use Findem to build continuous pipelines of diverse, high-impact talent. With the new funding, Findem intends to expand its dataset, accelerate development of agentic AI workflows, and scale go-to-market efforts worldwide. The latest raise brings the company’s total funding to $105 million, positioning it for continued global expansion.

Participated · Series D · Sep 2022

Unravel Data provides a platform that captures and correlates granular details across modern data stacks to surface recommendations and actionable intelligence using AI and machine learning. The product gives developer and data teams a single pane of glass for troubleshooting, performance optimization and cost-guardrail enforcement across configurations, resources, containers, code, datasets, lineage and dependencies. Its AI engines establish dynamic baselines, detect anomalies with contextual awareness and deliver automated recommendations and alerts for issues such as job slowdowns or cost overruns. Founders Kunal Agarwal and Shivnath Babu built the company from their experience at Duke University and in large-scale compute systems; Agarwal previously worked at Sun Microsystems and Babu was a tenured professor. Unravel counts customers including Adobe, Deutsche Bank and Kroger’s 84.51° and has more than 100 employees across the U.S., Europe and India. The company declined to disclose revenue or the size of its customer base and plans to use new capital to scale operations, expand API integrations and grow its engineering team. Unravel Data offers a data operations platform that gives unified, full‑stack visibility and AI/ML-driven recommendations and automation to tune, troubleshoot, and improve modern big‑data applications. The product targets complex data pipelines built on technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, HBase and NoSQL, and is positioned to reduce manual troubleshooting and operational silos. The company has emphasized cloud integrations and go‑to‑market with Microsoft Azure and AWS, is available in both marketplaces, and is co‑sell ready with Azure. Unravel cites customer deployments including Kaiser Permanente, Adobe, Deutsche Bank, Wayfair, and Neustar, and has received industry recognition such as Gartner’s “Cool Vendors” and CRN’s Top 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Companies. Financial momentum includes reported Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) growth of 500% year‑over‑year and the completion of a new funding round. Unravel Data provides an application-performance-management style service focused on the full big data stack, covering Hadoop, Spark, Kafka and the Impala query engine. Its system gathers telemetry from servers, containers and applications, surfaces performance issues, recommends optimizations and can automatically apply fixes. The company has secured customers including Kaiser Permanente, Autodesk and YP.com. Founded in 2013, Unravel spent 2017 finding product/market fit and is positioned to scale commercial operations. It plans to expand its sales and marketing teams and continue investing in its core product. Unravel also intends to open a London office to better serve financial-industry customers. Unravel Data is a Menlo Park, California-based company offering a performance intelligence platform for optimizing Big Data operations (DataOps). The company emerged from stealth to launch its platform. From a single platform it allows users to accelerate applications in a Big Data stack or cluster, optimize multi-tenant resource utilization and provide operations intelligence. Unravel was co-founded by Kunal Agarwal and Dr. Shivnath Babu. It raised more than $7M in Series A funding and intends to use the proceeds to continue to launch and expand operations. Advisors include Tasso Argyros, Ken Rudin, Bhaskar Ghosh, Jeff Magnusson and Daniel McCaffrey.

Participated · Series A · Apr 2014

ReadyPulse operates the Pulse Marketing Suite, a patented digital marketing platform that identifies a company’s most effective brand ambassadors across social networks and recruits and activates them in campaigns. The suite consists of four applications—Pulse Ambassadors, Pulse Stories, Pulse Analytics and LikeitWant.it—and enables brands to elevate ambassador content across digital channels and make that content shoppable. The company reports its social displays are driving 1 billion brand impressions per month and powers programs for over 100 leading brands, including Nike, Adidas, Red Bull, The North Face and Twitter. ReadyPulse says customers often exceed a 10X ROI on their investment. The new funding will be used to expand into additional verticals and geographies and to increase focus on mobile applications as the company scales awareness of inspirational marketing among brand marketers. ReadyPulse provides a marketing suite that identifies a brand’s best digital influencers, actively recruits them as brand ambassadors, and associates social content to product collections. Those collections can be displayed on e-commerce sites, social sites, mobile apps and in-store displays via an API or iFrame. The company is led by CEO Dennis O’Malley and is based in San Carlos, CA. ReadyPulse serves over 60 brands, including GoPro, Reebok, O’Neill, Smith Optics and Red Wing Shoes. Financially, the company closed a $2M Series A to support its operations and growth. In conjunction with the funding, two new board members joined: Todd Warren (Divergent Ventures) and Tom Kelly (former Moxie Software CEO). ReadyPulse provides a Brand Advocate Builder built on a patent-pending behavior analysis platform to help marketers identify advocates, recognize and reward them, and measure content performance and competitive standing. The platform delivers audience and content scoring and behavioral analysis to optimize social media marketing and convert fans into customers. ReadyPulse’s co-founders — Srinivas Penumaka, T Vinod Gupta, and Mihir Vaidya — bring backgrounds at Microsoft and Amazon and built the core platform. The company recently launched the Builder and positions the product for enterprise marketers seeking deeper relationships with influential proponents. ReadyPulse is headquartered in Moxie Software’s Bellevue, WA offices and will operate there. Management changes include naming Dennis O’Malley as CEO to lead growth with Moxie’s support.