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Vertica Capital Partners

6 East 45th Street, 15th Floor, New York, NY, 10017, United States

Overview

Vertica Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on the software sector. It offers flexible funding options to companies to best fit their needs, including growth equity, partial liquidity, or buyouts to position for growth. Vertica was formed based on the partners’ 20+ years of investment experience across 60+ software companies. With over $200M in capital from leading software entrepreneurs, endowments, and financial institutions, Vertica has a singular mission: invest in a small number of great product founders to provide them with unique resources to grow. Vertica is headquartered in New York, New York.

Total investments
3
Lead investments
3
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
3

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Software
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Investment portfolio

  • Opkey

    Led · Equity · Aug 2022

    Opkey provides an AI platform that continuously tests ERP systems, tracking integrations, updates, upgrades and user acceptance across enterprise applications. The platform covers packages including Oracle, Workday, Coupa, Veeva, Salesforce, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, UKG and Trackwise. Opkey says it serves more than 200 large enterprise customers and has partnerships with system integrators such as KPMG LLC and PwC. The company was co-founded by CEO Pankaj Goel alongside Avinash Tiwari and Lalit Jain, all ERP industry veterans. Opkey positions its product to address testing and integration gaps that arise as cloud applications continuously update. The startup is based in Dublin, California and is focusing on automating ERP testing for large, digitally transforming organizations. Opkey provides a no-code test automation platform that instantly generates and transforms test cases for web, mobile, and ERP applications. The platform includes 30,000+ pre-built test cases across 14+ ERPs and 150+ technologies and is used by more than 250 enterprise clients. Founded in 2016 by Pankaj Goel, Avinash Tiwari, and Lalit Jain, the company automates process intelligence and testing to help enterprises keep pace with release schedules and ensure business continuity. Opkey recently released a new user interface it describes as the most user-friendly no-code interface on the market. The company plans to use new funding to expand product development, sales, and marketing, grow its U.S. presence, and make key hires such as a VP of Sales and Head of Marketing & Growth. It is headquartered in Dublin, California, with offices in New York, Pittsburgh, and India.

  • Pathlock

    Led · Equity · May 2022

    Pathlock provides access governance and data-security solutions for cloud and on-premise business applications. The company announced a $200M capital raise and plans to use the funds to expand its Application Governance and Data Security capabilities. Pathlock merged with Appsian and Security Weaver and acquired CSI Tools and Sast Solutions to broaden its ERP and SAP governance offerings. Led by Piyush Pandey, the combined company serves over 1,200 customers across major industries and will double in size in employees. The business now operates globally with offices in the United States, Belgium, the UK, Germany, Israel and India. Pathlock, formerly Greenlight Technologies, provides a unified access orchestration solution to manage user provisioning and temporary elevation, ongoing User Access Reviews, control testing, transaction monitoring, and audit preparation. The company protects digital enterprises and is led by Founder and CEO Anand Adya. Pathlock serves Global 2000 companies to protect critical digital assets from financial, operational, regulatory and security threats, ensure corporate compliance and improve performance. The company closed a $20M strategic growth investment with Vertica Capital Partners. The funding will be used to accelerate product development for its automated application governance solution and to extend its intelligent insider threat prevention capabilities.

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