| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.04.2024 | Anvilogic Raises $45M in Series C Funding | Anvilogic, the industry’s first multi-data platform SIEM, today announced the close of a $45 million Series C funding round, bringing its total funding to date to $85 million since its founding in 2019. Anvilogic will use the funding to exp... |
| 15.04.2024 | Airgap Networks Acquired by Zscaler | Airgap Networks, a Cervin Ventures portfolio company, an innovator in agentless segmentation for enterprise IT and OT environments, has been acquired by Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS). With this acquisition, Zscaler will combine its Zero Trust SD-WAN... |
| 03.04.2024 | Cervin Founder Spotlight: Chas Ballew of Conveyor, Part 2 | Conveyor is the leading generative AI-powered platform that automates and scales the most tedious part of the sales process: customer security reviews. Here is part two of their interview, part one can be found here.
Daniel Karp, Partner, C... |
| 27.03.2024 | Cervin Founder Spotlight: Chas Ballew of Conveyor, Part 1 | Conveyor is the leading generative AI-powered platform that automates and scales the most tedious part of the sales process: customer security reviews. Here is part one of their two-part interview.
Daniel Karp, Partner, Cervin: All right, C... |
| 23.01.2024 | Cervin Founder Spotlight: Ellen Rubin of Causely, Part 2 | Part one of their two part interview can be found here. And part two continues below.
Daniel Karp, Partner, Cervin: Having done this several times, how do you think about building a company and organizational culture?
Ellen Rubin, Co-founde... |
| 18.01.2024 | Cervin 2023 Recap Newsletter | State of the Venture Capital Market
2023 was a sobering year for the startup ecosystem.
Entering the year, we had predicted total deal value would be down 40% to around $150B. The year ended around $170B - and if you remove the $17B in stra... |
| 16.01.2024 | Cervin Founder Spotlight: Ellen Rubin of Causely, Part 1 | Causely is bridging observability with automated orchestration for self-managed, resilient applications at scale. Here is part one of their two part interview.
Daniel Karp, Partner, Cervin: Thanks for joining me today, Ellen! Tell us a litt... |
| 11.01.2024 | Peerlogic Raises $5.6M in Seed Funding | Peerlogic, a leader in AI and conversational intelligence, has announced their $5.6M Seed round. The new funding will be used to expand the company’s product solutions, enhance their Large Language Model (LLM), and develop advanced call ana... |
| 10.01.2024 | Peerlogic Raises $5.6M in Seed Funding | Peerlogic, a leader in AI and conversational intelligence for dental practices, has announced their $5.6M Seed round. The new funding will be used to expand the company’s product solutions, enhance their Large Language Model (LLM), and deve... |
| 14.12.2023 | Kapital Raises $40M Series B | Kapital, a global banking platform, has closed a $40 million Series B equity financing round in addition to a warehouse capital line of $125 million. Tribe Capital led the round, with participation from Cervin Ventures, Tru Arrow, MS&AD... |
| 13.12.2023 | Cervin 2024 Predictions | This time every year, VCs and business leaders reflect on the past year and plan for the new year. Our team sat down and discussed our predictions for the next 12 months to inform our strategy and plan for 2024. Needless to say, 2023 was a ... |
| 04.12.2023 | ArmorCode Raises $40M in Series B Funding | ArmorCode, leader in Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) and Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (RBVM), recently announced a $40 million Series B round of financing. HighlandX led the round, joined by NGP Capital, along with par... |
| 21.11.2023 | Vendelux Raises $14M in Series A Funding | Vendelux, the first AI-powered event intelligence platform, has announced a $14 million Series A led by FirstMark Capital with participation from Cervin Ventures and several other venture capital firms. Industry-leading angels including Jon... |
| 01.11.2023 | Joining the Cervin Investment Team | After spending the last 2 years building Tenacity and previously raising the first Plug and Play supply chain fund, I am excited to join Cervin as a Principal and bolster their efforts in building the leading enterprise-tech VC firm. I will... |
| 01.11.2023 | Cervin Q3 2023 Newsletter | Investing in the future of enterprise software, entrepreneurs
In September, we announced the close of $162 million in fresh capital for us to invest in early-stage enterprise software, data + AI, cybersecurity, infrastructure and DevOps sta... |
| 11.10.2023 | Compliance is broken. Conveyor is fixing it, one product at a time. | “I know the pieces fit, cause I watched them tumble down” - Schism, Tool
Global Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) is a +$40 billion market, growing at a compounded Annual growth Rate (CAGR) of ~13%. It is also fundamentally b... |
| 14.09.2023 | Investing in the future of enterprise software, entrepreneurs | This morning Cervin Ventures announced the close of $162 million of new capital for us to invest in enterprise startups. In addition, we’re excited to announce the launch of our portfolio services team, led by Silicon Valley veteran Scott B... |
| 08.08.2023 | Catch+Release Raises $8.8M in Funding | The round saw continued investment from Accel, Cervin and Stagwell, as well as new investors HarbourVest Partners in addition to successful technology founder and CEO, Nick Mehta, and professional basketball player and entrepreneur Kevin Du... |
| 31.07.2023 | Cervin Q2 2023 Newsletter | State of the Venture Capital Market
Data + AI continues to garner momentum with all major vendors highlighting the importance of it. Every AI app starts with data. Data is clearly the differentiator as it relates to Generative AI. In additi... |
| 15.06.2023 | Type Raises $2.8M in Seed Funding | Type has built a new kind of document editor — designed to help individuals and teams write more, better, faster.
Congratulations to founders Stew Fortier and Stefan Li! We're excited to be part of this journey and see what the future holds... |
| 12.06.2023 | Cervin Founder Spotlight: Anshumali Shrivastava of ThirdAI | Shirish Sathaye, General Partner, Cervin:
Hi Anshu, thanks for taking the time to talk with me today. We are excited to be invested in ThirdAI. We were among the first investors in the company, which is an exciting opportunity to change the... |
| 10.05.2023 | Cervin Founder Spotlight: Alex Reynolds of Vendelux | Hi everyone! I'm Alex Reynolds, Co-Founder and CEO of Vendelux. I'm a third-generation entrepreneur. My grandfather came to Ellis Island and started a meat market in Boston, and my dad started a market research company, so I feel like entre... |
| 28.04.2023 | RSA 2023 - Insights and Recap | It was attended by companies, practitioners, and investors focused on cybersecurity, including members of the Cervin team.
Stark contrasts marked the conference - on the one hand, sheer optimism and on the other - market and industry uncert... |
| 28.04.2023 | Cervin Q1 2023 Newsletter | Venture capital activity continues its decline in 2023
Venture capital funding, led by a decline in late stage funding, continued its slowdown that began in 2022. Only 19 late stage mega-rounds occurred in Q1 2023 - compared with 98 in Q1 2... |
| 10.04.2023 | Coast Raises $2.1M in Seed Funding | Coast is the first platform to help developer-facing companies demo their software with instant, branded demos, tailored to a prospect’s use case.
Congratulations to founders Spencer Levitt and Austin Pager! We're excited to be part of this... |
| 28.03.2023 | Cervin Founder Spotlight: Ashish Srimal of Ratio | Ashish started Ratio alongside Mason Blake, a fellow repeat founder. Ratio’s founding team consists of veteran operators in SaaS, technology, risk and finance; they’ve led teams within public companies and early stage businesses.
Hoping to ... |
| 22.02.2023 | Cervin Founder Spotlight: Abhishek Dubey of Bolster | Shirish Sathaye, General Partner, Cervin: Thanks for taking the time to talk with me Abhishek. We are excited to be investors in Bolster. Thanks for allowing us to be part of your journey. First things first, tell us a bit about yourself an... |
| 06.02.2023 | FireCompass Raises $7M in Funding | The round was led by Silicon Valley-based Cervin and Athera Venture Partners (previously Inventus Capital) along with existing investor BIF (Bharat Innovation Fund). The investment will be used to expand FireCompass' operations across U.S. ... |
| 26.01.2023 | Cervin Founder Spotlight: Dor Shany of OwnID | - |
| 18.01.2023 | Cervin's 2022 Recap & 2023 Predictions | 2022 in Review
2022 was a very eventful year at Cervin. We welcomed new team members and portfolio companies and participated in funding rounds for existing companies. Here are some highlights from 2022: |
| 16.11.2022 | ArmorCode Raises $14M in Series A Funding | The round was led by Ballistic Ventures. Previous investors joined the round along with industry leaders such as John Donovan, the former CEO of AT&T Communications and Board Member of the Palo Alto Networks, Oliver Friedrichs, founder ... |
| 15.11.2022 | Cervin Founder Spotlight: Scott Smith of CloudApp | - |
| 25.10.2022 | Cervin Q3 2022 Newsletter | Reflections on the Market
Q3 saw significant evidence of the slowdown in venture. Per CB Insights data, VC investments worldwide totalled $74.5B in Q3’22, down 34% from the previous quarter and is back to 2019 levels. Silicon Valley startup... |
| 18.10.2022 | Bolster Raises $15M in Series A Funding | The round was led by Cervin, Liberty Global Ventures, and Cheyenne Ventures with participation from previous investors Thomvest Ventures and Crosslink Capital.
This round of funding will allow Bolster to fuel additional company growth to he... |
| 06.10.2022 | Cervin Founder Spotlight: Nitzan Shaer of WEVO | - |
| 22.09.2022 | Cervin Founder Spotlight: Or Shoshani of Lightlytics | - |
| 01.09.2022 | Cervin Founders on Building Enduring Companies | As any founder will tell you, there is not a single, straightforward path that must be followed to build and grow a successful start up. There is no formula to grow your company. However, many would probably agree that there are a few thing... |
| 24.08.2022 | Cervin Founder Spotlight: Analisa Goodin of Catch+Release | - |
| 17.08.2022 | Cervin Founder Spotlight: Nikhil Gupta of ArmorCode | - |
| 21.07.2022 | Anvilogic Raises $25M in Series B Funding | The round was led by Neuberger Berman, with participation from Xerox Ventures, G-Squared Equity, Foundation Capital, Point72 Ventures and Cervin. This round brings Anvilogic’s total funding to $40 million.
The company will use the funds to ... |
| 14.07.2022 | Cervin July 2022 Newsletter | Reflections on the Market
The first six months of 2022 have been tumultuous, to say the least. While the entire market has suffered, the technology sector has had an outsized share of declines. High-flying growth software stocks are the har... |
| 22.06.2022 | Advice for Aspiring Entrepreneurs from Cervin Founders | Many people have aspirations of becoming an entrepreneur. They are driven to start, run, and grow their own business. However, as anyone who has actually started their own company can tell you, it’s no easy task, there's often a lot of tria... |
| 15.06.2022 | Cervin's RSA 2022 Recap | It’s impossible to capture all the sights and sounds of the conference, so here is a brief recap of our RSA 2022 experience:
Key Insights/Takeaways
“And in this moment, I am happy.” - Incubus, "Wish You Were Here" | RSAC FOMO Part... |
| 14.06.2022 | Arkestro Raises $26M in Series A Funding | The round was led by NEA, Construct, Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) and Four More Capital, a division of Henry Crown & Company. Existing investors Cervin, Correlation, El Cap, Forum, Illuminate, and Tenacity participated as well.
Th... |
| 24.05.2022 | Cervin Founders on Entrepreneurial Inspiration | There are many reasons why a founder is motivated to start out on the entrepreneurial journey. For some, it’s the desire to solve a problem they’ve encountered in their professional experience, for others it’s the thrill of building somethi... |
| 12.04.2022 | Cervin April 2022 Newsletter | Welcome Cervin’s Newest Partners -
Daniel Karp & Mila Ferrell
2022 is off to a big start here at Cervin. Along with the new year, we welcomed two new Partners Daniel Karp and Mila Ferrell.
Daniel is focused on investments in Enterprise ... |
| 05.04.2022 | Airgap Networks Raises $13.4M in Series A Funding | The round was led by Storm Ventures with support from all existing investors including Cervin, Engineering Capital, and Sorenson Ventures. Individual investors Manoj Apte, Josh Leslie, and Robert Tinker also participated. To date, Airgap ha... |
| 28.03.2022 | Celona Raises $60M in Series C Funding | Digital Bridge led the round with participation from all of Celona’s existing investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, NTTVC, Qualcomm Ventures and Cervin.
The new round of funding brings Celona’s total capital inve... |
| 23.03.2022 | Zoom founding product team member Mila Ferrell joins Cervin as Partner | Mila Ferrell, a founding member of Zoom’s product team, has joined Cervin, becoming the first female partner at the early-stage venture capital firm. Ferrell brings deep product expertise, as well as operator, investor, and financial analys... |
| 22.03.2022 | Lightlytics Raises $30M in Funding | The round was led by Energy Impact Partners (EIP), with participation from Cervin and previous investors, TLV Partners VC and Glilot Capital Partners VC. Lightlytics has raised $30 million to date.
The company will use the funds to continue... |
| 16.02.2022 | Daniel Karp joins Cervin Ventures as Partner | Cervin Ventures today announced that Daniel Karp has joined the firm as partner, becoming the fourth partner in the early-stage venture capital firm. Daniel adds to the firm’s entrepreneurial nature and enterprise expertise, bringing hands-... |
| 16.02.2022 | Venture done the right way: Why I joined the Cervin team | - |
| 25.01.2022 | ArmorCode Raises $11M in Seed Funding | Cervin Ventures led the round with participation from Sierra Ventures, Tau Ventures, and several individual investors. The company will use the funds to expand their go-to-market efforts and AppSecOps platform capabilities. |
| 25.01.2022 | CloudApp Raises $9.3M in Series A Funding | Grayhawk Capital and Nordic Eye led the round with participation from Kickstart Fund, New Ground Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Peninsula Ventures, Forward VC, and Cervin.
The company will use the funds to invest further in meeting customer need... |
| 11.01.2022 | Cervin Ventures 2021 Recap | - |
| 01.12.2021 | Introducing ThirdAI’s BOLT Engine | AI models have grown tremendously in the past few years. We have reached a stage where training one AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes.
AI is becoming a more mainstream technology. However, extracting benefit f... |
| 10.11.2021 | Blink Technologies Raises $14M in Series A Funding | InCapital Partners led the round with participation from Trilogy, Eldridge, Elysian Park, and Cervin. The company will use the funds for continued product development and team expansion. The company plans to double its workforce through exp... |
| 25.10.2021 | Cervin Founder Spotlight: Rajat Nigam of Bungee Tech | - |
| 19.10.2021 | Why Cervin Ventures Invested in Bedrock Analytics | Cervin Ventures recently participated alongside Illuminate Ventures in a $5 million funding round for existing portfolio company Bedrock Analytics, a data analytics and AI platform for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers. Bedrock us... |
| 12.10.2021 | Cervin Ventures Q3 2021 Newsletter | A Busy Summer |
| 30.09.2021 | Joining the Team at Cervin Ventures | - |
| 27.09.2021 | Cervin Founder Spotlight: Rajeev Shah of Celona | - |
| 16.09.2021 | Tynker Acquired by BYJU’S | Tynker’s coding curriculum has been used by one in three U.S. K-8 schools, 100,000 schools globally, and over 60 million kids across 150 countries. Tynker has partnered with a number of big names to develop programs including: Mattel, Apple... |
| 08.09.2021 | Cervin Founder Spotlight: Balaji Ganesan of Privacera | - |
| 16.08.2021 | Why Cervin Ventures Invested in ThirdAI | The round was co-led by Cervin Ventures and Neotribe Ventures, with participation from Firebolt Ventures. ThirdAI will use the funds to hire additional employees and invest in computing resources. |
| 27.07.2021 | Paystand Raises $50M in Series C Funding | - |
| 13.07.2021 | Cervin Ventures Q2 2021 Newsletter | Huge Honors & Exciting Exits |
| 07.07.2021 | Ampool Acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) | Ampool’s team and products will be extending the high-performance analytics capabilities of HPE’s flagship Ezmeral software platform, playing a pivotal role in accelerating Ezmeral’s analytics runtime for interactive SQL workloads, helping ... |
| 10.06.2021 | Cervin Founder Spotlight: Karthik Kannan of Anvilogic | - |
| 27.05.2021 | Embracing the B2B Digital Transformation with Folloze | - |
| 21.05.2021 | Cervin Ventures Featured in 2021 Preqin Report | - |
| 20.05.2021 | Cervin Founder Spotlight: Dave Blake of ClientSuccess | - |
| 18.05.2021 | Why Cervin Ventures Invested in Nexient | NTT DATA Services, a global digital business and IT services leader, has entered an agreement to acquire Nexient, a cloud-native company that will expand NTT DATA’s differentiating transformation, modernization and cloud app development cap... |
| 12.05.2021 | Why Cervin Ventures Invested In Anvilogic | The round was led by Cervin Ventures with participation from Foundation Capital, Point 72 Ventures, and Dan Warmenhoven. This round of funding will allow Anvilogic to scale their go-to-market operations and expand research and development e... |
| 20.04.2021 | Catch&Release Raises $14M in Series A Funding | To date, the company has raised to $26 million. Accel led the round with participation from existing investors including Cervin Ventures. |
| 15.04.2021 | Cervin Ventures Q1 2021 Newsletter | - |
| 14.04.2021 | WEVO: A Customer Experience Platform that Delivers Go-to-Market Confidence | - |
| 09.04.2021 | Punchh Acquired by PAR Technology Corporation for $500M | PAR is a leading global provider of restaurant software and has been a Punchh partner for many years. This acquisition makes PAR a unified commerce cloud platform for enterprise restaurants with integrated point-of-sale, back office, paymen... |
| 24.03.2021 | Slapdash raises $3.7M seed round | Slapdash - a re-think of how people work with their cloud applications, with a focus on speed - recently announced that they have raised $3.7 million in seed funding. Cervin Ventures participated in the round along with S28 Capital, Quiet C... |
| 09.03.2021 | Why Cervin Ventures Invested in Privacera | - |
| 24.02.2021 | LaunchDarkly & Privacera on the Enterprise Tech 30 list | - |
| 08.02.2021 | Cervin Founder Spotlight: Oren Yogev of Blink | - |
| 27.01.2021 | How merchants are optimizing the mobile shopping experience with Zycada | Merchants and consumers would agree that in recent years, shopping has shifted from being done in brick-and-mortar stores, to being done online and this trajectory was drastically accelerated by COVID-19. Now people are buying everything fr... |
| 23.12.2020 | Cervin Ventures 2020 Recap Newsletter
Looking ahead to 2021 | 2020 in Review
2020 was a year for the record books. It’s one that we’ll remember forever. It was a year of change where our collective patience and ability to adapt was tested. Many of us are ready to put this year behind us, but before we... |
| 16.12.2020 | Punchh: Helping restaurants adapt and succeed during the pandemic | Over the past several months, as the pandemic has raged globally, the restaurant industry has experienced some of the most dramatic changes in customer behavior and expectations. The operators have adopted new strategies to drive sales. For... |
| 23.11.2020 | CloudApp & SaaS tools: The future of remote work | One of the lessons that the last few months have taught us is that remote work is here to stay. Love it or hate it, where and how we work is changing. Let’s take a look at the past, present, and future of remote work and how SaaS tools, lik... |
| 16.11.2020 | Bungee Tech: Helping retailers stay on top of their game this holiday season | The holiday season and the associated retail rush is right around the corner. Of course, this year, it will look a little different as a result of COVID-19, but that’s all the more reason for retailers and brands to prepare for the holiday ... |
| 29.10.2020 | Cervin Ventures Q3 Newsletter | 5G just got real
At the latest Apple product release event, the CEO of Verizon made this pronouncement — “5G just got real”. Apple’s new line of phones has incorporated 5G and this will begin the process of unleashing a myriad of applicatio... |
| 26.10.2020 | Data storytelling for CPG Brands: A conversation with the CEO of Bedrock Analytics | Words aren’t the only way to tell a story. Consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands want to interpret data to understand their business performance and make a stronger case to retailers. Small to mid-size CPG brands want to be more competitive ... |
| 16.09.2020 | Tackling ransomware: A conversation with the CEO of Airgap
Q: What are some best practices against ransomware attacks as companies transition to remote work? | Ransomware is a type of malware that threatens to publish the victim’s data or perpetually block access to it unless a ransom is paid. Ransomware attacks have become a major issue in the cybersecurity space. According to Forbes June 2020 re... |
| 28.08.2020 | Catch&Release: The company changing advertising in the COVID-19 era | COVID-19 has fundamentally changed the status quo overnight.
The enforced isolation brought on by the pandemic has accelerated the future of work, some say by as much as two to five years, as companies across all verticals adapt to remote w... |
| 24.08.2020 | Cervin Ventures August 2020 Newsletter | An unprecedented, scary, very interesting six months
The world has changed in the last six months. However, there is one certainty — our lives, both business and personal, are more and more reliant on technology. Working from home has resul... |
| 18.09.2019 | The Coming Tsunami of 5G Networks and Why Cervin Invested in Celona | Most of you on AT&T and Verizon might have noticed a 5Ge network on your phone in some areas (spoiler: it’s not 5G). The question then is why are the carriers getting ahead of the marketing game? The answer: 5G is a big deal. Bigger tha... |
| 11.06.2019 | Store of the Future: Why Cervin’s Investment in AiFi is Worth Checking Out | AiFi’s checkout free system tailored to your store
Few industries are evolving at the speed of retail. From Punchh (the marketing platform for brick-and-mortar retailers driving omnichannel experience) to Bedrock Analytics (the data and AI ... |
| 22.10.2018 | Small is the New Big: Why I Joined Cervin Ventures | I have been fortunate to have been associated with several category creators and leaders in enterprise technology. I came to venture capital in 2001 after being an early senior executive at two venture backed startups that went public with ... |
| 21.10.2018 | Former Formation 8 GP Shirish Sathaye Joins Cervin | We’re thrilled to have Shirish join our team. Check out TechCrunch’s @kateclarktweets article on the news. |
| 03.04.2017 | Cervin Ventures Launches Podcast with Soha Systems Founder Haseeb Budhani! | Our portfolio company Soha Systems, an innovator in enterprise secure access delivered as a service, was acquired by Akamai this past fall. When we first met Soha’s founder, Haseeb Budhani in 2013, it was clear he had a big vision and a det... |
