Jan 21, 2020OpenView Leads $15M Series B in Intezer to Help Defend and Respond Against Modern Cyber ThreatsBy Tom Holahan Tom is a Vice President at OpenView. We are excited to welcome Intezer to the OpenView family as we lead their $15M Series B. Intezer has developed an unparalleled technology revealing the genetic origins of all software code. …Cybersecurity3 min readCybersecurity3 min read
Dec 20, 2019Tales from the Table: A re:Invent Recapby Casey Renner, VP, Executive Network, OpenView The first week of December I had a chance to hang out with 65,000 of my closest friends in Las Vegas. How? Well, I was at re:Invent, AWS’s once a year mega conference that brings together people from all over the world, who…Cloud Computing3 min readCloud Computing3 min read
Dec 6, 2019Battle of the (Product) Benchmarks: Pendo and MixPanelby Sam Richard, Director of Growth at OpenView What do the SATs, Body Mass Index Calculators, and OpenView’s SaaS benchmarks have in common? They let you know where you stand amongst your peers. As someone who works with a number of different software companies, I’m a big fan of benchmarking…Startup6 min readStartup6 min read
Nov 12, 2019To the Next Member of Our Investment Teamby Liz Cain, Partner at OpenView Since our founding in 2006, we have had one mission: partner with the best expansion stage business software companies to improve people’s working lives. You’re probably familiar with many of the companies in our portfolio, including Datadog (Nasdaq: DDOG), Expensify, Calendly, Workfront and Instructure…Venture Capital3 min readVenture Capital3 min read
Nov 7, 2019MTG to MIT to VC: How a Black Lotus Inadvertently Started My Investing Careerby Mackey Craven Mackey is a Partner at OpenView. Unlike many of my peers at MIT, I did not start programming as a kid. I didn’t take household appliances apart and put them back together, and I certainly wasn’t a gearhead. Strategy, rather than engineering, occupied my world. Specifically, that…Venture Capital4 min readVenture Capital4 min read
Oct 30, 2019Why Your Data Science Tool Hasn’t Made Machine Learning Easier (Yet).by Kaitlyn Henry Kaitlyn is an Associate at OpenView. My day one investment thesis when I started working in VC was about finding better tools for data scientists. Before shipping up to Boston to join OpenView, I worked on the finance & BI side of a machine learning team at…Data Science4 min readData Science4 min read
Sep 19, 2019Congratulations, Datadogby Mackey Craven, Partner at OpenView Startups rarely follow the playbook their founders draw-up and share with early investors. When Olivier and Alexis first introduced Datadog to OV in 2013, they shared that enterprises were transitioning from legacy on-premise infrastructure to the cloud and how this was leading to fundamental…Startup2 min readStartup2 min read
Aug 27, 2019Axonius: Continuous Asset Management for CybersecurityOpenView Leads $20M Series B in Axonius to Automate Asset Discovery and Security Policy Enforcement by Tom Holahan We are excited to welcome Axonius to the OpenView family as we lead their $20M Series B. Axonius is an agentless cybersecurity asset management platform that allows enterprises to identify all of…Cybersecurity4 min readCybersecurity4 min read
Jul 24, 2019balena: The Edge Computing Platform for Every DeveloperOpenView Leads $14.4M Series B in balena to Bring Edge Computing into the Mainstream by Mackey Craven Edge computing is everywhere. It’s in the headlines covering drones, robotics and autonomous driving as well as hiding in plain sight powering digital signage, building management systems and logistics automation. At OpenView, we…Internet Of Things2 min readInternet Of Things2 min read
May 30, 2019Our Blog Has A New Look!by Bayley Dietz Bayley is the Marketing Manager at OpenView. Over ten years ago, OpenView started our blog to bring together SaaS leaders and share insightful and tactical articles with our readers. It was a time where almost every business had a blog. But, from the very beginning, we weren’t…Content Marketing2 min readContent Marketing2 min read
