Led · Equity · Mar 2022

Filtered is a Boston, MA-based platform that automates technical interviews and reduces bias to speed hiring. The system evaluates candidates in minutes for job, team, and company fit through capabilities-based hiring and automates applications, screening calls, and coding interviews. It supports hiring across AI, data science, computer science, full-stack development, blockchain, and DevOps. Fortune 500 customers such as Cigna, Enterprise Holdings and The Federal Reserve Bank use the platform. Led by newly appointed CEO Dan Finnigan, Filtered raised $10M and intends to use the funds to expand operations and broaden its business reach. Usama Fayyad will join the board, bringing AI and data expertise. Filtered.ai offers a skills-based technical hiring service that uses take-home tests and AI to detect fraud, plus session playback and video-based open-ended questions to replace formulaic phone screens and whiteboard interviews. The product is aimed at speeding hiring and improving assessment accuracy for engineering and developer hires. The company says its approach can widen the candidate market and make hiring more equitable by emphasizing demonstrated skills over resumes. Filtered began as an internal project in 2016, split from a consulting group in 2019, and was bootstrapped until deciding to take external capital. Management plans to accelerate hiring, build out its go-to-market model, shift pricing, and move from an enterprise sales focus toward a land-and-expand strategy. The CEO also said the company just had its best quarter in its history around the time the round closed.

Participated · Series B · Apr 2021

AppOmni offers a patented SaaS security platform and Developer Platform that deeply scans APIs, security controls, and configuration settings to evaluate SaaS deployments and enforce best practices and business intent. Its technology enables visibility, continuous validation, and automated remediation for data access, data sharing, and third‑party application risks. The company plans to use new capital to expand go-to-market efforts in EMEA and Asia/Pacific and to extend both the breadth of SaaS app coverage and the depth of product functionality. AppOmni reports rapid growth in revenue, customer base, geographies, and product capabilities. Recent corporate achievements include a SOC 2 Type 2 designation and a newly awarded patent (US11418393B1) covering remediation of detected configuration violations. The company is trusted by large enterprises across technology, healthcare, banking, and government and is positioned to serve regulated industries requiring stringent controls. AppOmni provides enterprise-level SaaS security via a patented platform and a Developer Platform that delivers centralized visibility, data access management, and security controls across standard and custom SaaS applications. The company is expanding coverage to additional SaaS apps including Snowflake, HubSpot, Cisco’s Duo Security, and Veeva, and is adding functionality to its Developer Platform to enable universal coverage. AppOmni’s Developer Platform is in use by customers, partners, and systems integrators to support custom apps and enterprise deployments. The platform protects more than 82 million users and has secured over 260 million exposed data records. AppOmni says the software speeds development processes and enables security and IT teams to secure more of their tech stacks with fewer resources. The company is backed by Salesforce Ventures, ServiceNow Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Thoma Bravo, and other top investors. AppOmni provides a security platform that connects to hundreds of SaaS apps to identify, highlight and remediate vulnerabilities that arise from app interactions and configurations. The platform integrates with major services such as Box, Confluence, GitHub, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, Workday and Zoom, and as of April also supports customers' custom apps. Its customers include large enterprises and tech firms such as Dropbox, Ping and Accenture, along with Fortune 100 financial and healthcare companies. The company says it now secures apps covering 78 million users, 230 million exposed data records and more than 9 billion monthly events, and has continued to record triple-digit growth since its last round. Founders Brendan O'Connor (CEO) and Brian Soby (CTO) bring product-security experience from Salesforce and ServiceNow, and Salesforce is also an investor and partner. AppOmni plans to use the new funding to accelerate international growth and further build out its platform. AppOmni provides a SaaS security management platform that aggregates and normalizes event data across more than 100 connectors and offers deeper monitoring where it integrates directly with apps. The product surfaces risky configurations, overprovisioned permissions, and data flows between applications, and can warn, block or guide remediation when issues are detected. AppOmni highlights that about 95% of enterprises overprovision external-user permissions and estimates 55% have sensitive data inadvertently exposed in SaaS systems. Integrations mentioned include Salesforce, Slack, Zoom, Microsoft 365, Box, GitHub and platforms such as Splunk and Sumo Logic. The company says it grew 900% in the prior year while maintaining 100% customer retention. The recent funding is intended to fuel continued growth and product expansion. AppOmni offers a SaaS security and management platform that deep-scans APIs, security controls, and configuration settings to evaluate the state of SaaS deployments and compare them against best practices and business intent. Its patent-pending technology deploys quickly and provides an always-on dashboard delivering visibility into cloud/SaaS application state, deviations from business intent, and real-time exposures. The platform focuses on enabling organizations to identify and remediate risky configurations and improper access controls before breaches occur. AppOmni serves a diverse client base that includes Fortune 500 organizations across multiple industry sectors. The company plans to use new funding to accelerate sales and marketing and to bolster product development teams at its corporate headquarters in San Francisco and its Innovation Center in Carbondale, Colo.

Participated · Seed · Feb 2021

Hydrolix builds a streaming data lake platform that combines stream processing, decoupled storage, high-density compression and indexed search to enable real-time queries on large volumes of log data. The platform targets log-intensive use cases including security, observability, content delivery, adtech, AI/ML and regulatory compliance. Hydrolix has leaned into channel partnerships—notably a white‑label TrafficPeak offering with Akamai—and added AWS as a go-to-market partner while building connectors for ecosystems like Splunk, Databricks and Kibana. The company says it added 400+ customers in the past year, posted an eightfold sales increase year-over-year, and now earns more than 40% of revenue from international customers. Future plans for the funding include extending availability to additional cloud platforms, expanding the types and sources of data ingested, and amplifying sales momentum through regional partners and vertical expertise. Hydrolix builds a streaming data lake platform that provides a repository for log data and delivers that data to applications in real time. Its technology combines real-time stream processing, decoupled storage and low-latency indexed search to enable high-performance, cost-efficient log management. Hydrolix keeps all data “hot,” avoiding multiple storage tiers and claiming real-time query performance at terabyte scale. The platform powers log-intensive use cases across security, observability, AI/ML and sectors such as advertising, travel and retail, and can run on customers’ cloud infrastructure or as a partner data layer. Hydrolix reported annual recurring revenue of roughly $6 million, doubled revenue from Q3 to Q4 2023 and grew another 75% in Q1 2024; it serves about 90 customers and has a Portland, Oregon–based workforce of around 60. The company plans to scale its sales and partner channel operations as well as marketing and customer onboarding following the new funding. Hydrolix provides a real-time data platform designed to store and query logs, traces and metrics at much lower cost. It uses a custom storage layer that delivers SSD-like performance using cloud object storage and diskless spot instances, enabling fully indexed search without caching or bulk column scans. The architecture targets livestream ingest and ad-hoc data exploration workloads that traditional analytics systems struggle with. Hydrolix is currently compatible with AWS and offered through the Amazon Marketplace; versions for Azure and Google Cloud are expected later this year. The company was founded at the end of 2018, is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and has about 20 employees spread across six countries. Investors and the company emphasize that the product eliminates common trade-offs between retention cost and query performance.

Participated · Seed · Feb 2021

Kleeen provides a wizard-like platform that automates the routine elements of front-end design for data-intensive business applications, allowing designers and developers to focus on custom UX work. The service generates sample data and can output React code that development teams can take and integrate. The company targets analytics, monitoring and action-oriented workflows rather than general-purpose or consumer apps. Kleeen was founded by a team that previously ran a UI/UX studio in the Bay Area. The platform intentionally narrows its scope to excel at data-centric use cases instead of attempting to cover every application type. Financially, Kleeen has raised seed and pre-seed financing totaling $5.3 million.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2020

ModelOp provides AI governance software for enterprises and is led by CEO Pete Foley. Its platform safeguards enterprise AI initiatives, including generative AI, large language models, in-house, third-party, and embedded systems, without stifling innovation. Through automation and integrations, ModelOp helps enterprises quickly address critical governance and scale challenges. The company aims to protect and improve the transformational value of enterprise AI, resulting in effective and responsible AI systems. ModelOp plans to use the new funding to accelerate product innovation and build enterprise expertise. The company is based in Chicago, Illinois. ModelOp provides ModelOp Center, a software platform that automates model deployment, monitoring and governance and enables organizations to put models into production faster with control, visibility and auditability. The company announced general availability of ModelOp Center Version 2. Customers include five of the top 10 largest financial institutions as well as Fortune 500 manufacturers, insurers and credit bureaus. Led by CEO Pete Foley, ModelOp recently expanded its executive team with hires including a CFO and VPs of software engineering and marketing. The company closed a $6M Series A to support demand and to add engineering, services, sales, operations and customer success headcount. The business serves major enterprises and is focused on scaling its platform and go-to-market.