Acero Capital
VC Fund
Menlo Park, United States
Acero Capital is a stage agnostic and actively pursuing investments in business software, mobile, cloud, and security They are just getting started, but after they complete investing their inaugural fund and look back at their investments, they want the unifying themes across their investments to be (a) a relentless search for new approaches tolarge and established markets, (b) management teams with exceptional foresight and resourcefulness and, (c) an emphasis on capital-efficient business models that can turn capital efficiency into a competitive advantage.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 31%
Last updated:
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Industries Acero Capital invests in
SoftwareMobileInternetCloud SecurityIaaS
Stages Acero Capital invests in
Series BSeries ASeries CSeries DSeed
Countries Acero Capital invests in
United States
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Rami Elkhatib
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Jayme Pokrzywinski
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (31%)
- Mobile 2 (15%)
- Internet 2 (15%)
- Cloud Security 2 (15%)
- IaaS 1 (8%)
Stage
- Series B 3 (23%)
- Series A 2 (15%)
- Series C 2 (15%)
- Series D 2 (15%)
- Seed 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Rami Elkhatib
Founder & General Partner
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Founder & General Partner | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
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Jayme Pokrzywinski
Vice President
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Vice President | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Contrast Security
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Contrast Security is a code security tool developer that embeds code analysis and attacks prevention directly into the software. Its patented deep security instrumentation completely disrupts traditional application security approaches with integrated, comprehensive security observability that delivers accurate assessment and continuous protectionof an entire application portfolio. This eliminates the need for disruptive scanning, expensive infrastructure workloads, and specialized security experts. The Contrast Application Security Platform accelerates development cycles, improves efficiencies and cost, and enables rapid scale while protecting applications from known and unknown threats. | $150M / Series E / Nov 09, 2021 | |
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Contrast Security
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Contrast Security is a code security tool developer that embeds code analysis and attacks prevention directly into the software. Its patented deep security instrumentation completely disrupts traditional application security approaches with integrated, comprehensive security observability that delivers accurate assessment and continuous protectionof an entire application portfolio. This eliminates the need for disruptive scanning, expensive infrastructure workloads, and specialized security experts. The Contrast Application Security Platform accelerates development cycles, improves efficiencies and cost, and enables rapid scale while protecting applications from known and unknown threats. | $65M / Series D / Feb 28, 2019 | |
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Contrast Security
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Contrast Security is a code security tool developer that embeds code analysis and attacks prevention directly into the software. Its patented deep security instrumentation completely disrupts traditional application security approaches with integrated, comprehensive security observability that delivers accurate assessment and continuous protectionof an entire application portfolio. This eliminates the need for disruptive scanning, expensive infrastructure workloads, and specialized security experts. The Contrast Application Security Platform accelerates development cycles, improves efficiencies and cost, and enables rapid scale while protecting applications from known and unknown threats. | $30M / Series C / Oct 19, 2017 | |
HyperGrid™
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HyperCloud enables businesses to embrace public clouds and drive their digital transformation via the broadest set of functionalities to discover and plan cloud migrations, optimize costs, secure resource and scale operations in the public cloud. HyperCloud has a unique app-centric, modular approach that enables businesses to scale their cloudmanagement capabilities within a common framework that provides centralized control and management of all private and public clouds and eliminates the need for ongoing training. HyperCloud analytics is powered by its massive database of more than 400 million data points across the major public clouds enabling instantaneous recommendations for optimizing new and existing applications using multi-dimensional analysis of factors such as cost, performance, and compliance. HyperCloud also analyzes past cloud usage to understand customer needs and speed service delivery by eliminating manual processes. As a result, enterprise IT and MSPs can deliver customized services across any private or public cloud, improving business performance while minimizing cloud management complexities. | $13.6M / Seed / Sep 27, 2017 | |
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Contrast Security
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Contrast Security is a code security tool developer that embeds code analysis and attacks prevention directly into the software. Its patented deep security instrumentation completely disrupts traditional application security approaches with integrated, comprehensive security observability that delivers accurate assessment and continuous protectionof an entire application portfolio. This eliminates the need for disruptive scanning, expensive infrastructure workloads, and specialized security experts. The Contrast Application Security Platform accelerates development cycles, improves efficiencies and cost, and enables rapid scale while protecting applications from known and unknown threats. | $16M / Series B / Sep 28, 2016 | |
Siva Power
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Siva Power develops third-generation thin-film PV technologies which increase solar cell efficiency and reduce manufacturing costs, therefore enabling the commercialization of solar modules that generate electricity at competitive rates without depending on government subsidies. Siva Power was founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Jose,California. | $5M / Series D / Mar 07, 2016 | |
Gridstore
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Gridstore™ is the leader in HyperConverged All-Flash Infrastructure for the Microsoft Cloud-Inspired Data Center. Our customers gain a 10X performance improvement over traditional storage as we put all-flash as close to the workload as possible. They realize 4X lower TCO by consolidation of three layers of infrastructure into one scalable layerbuilt on X86 hardware and 10X less management effort due to less management points and less infrastructure to manage. Gridstore's HyperConverged Appliances include both compute and storage in a single system, and provide external storage and work with any Windows servers and the HyperConverged Appliance, all driven by Gridstore's patented software. Gridstore software architecture delivers native Windows integration, per-VM I/O control, and elastic and independent scaling of resources. Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. and its products and services are available through a global network of value-added resellers. | $19M / Series B / Jan 27, 2016 | |
Swrve
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Swrve is the world's leading mobile marketing automation platform, pioneering the fast-growing mobile engagement marketing space.We are also proud to be the first mobile marketing company to combine predictive analytics with messaging for mobile apps in our Predictive Marketing Suite, which employs a continuously updated behavioralalgorithm that determines an app user’s propensity for action or inaction. Swrve combines class-leading analytics, segmentation, AB testing and in-app messaging in a unified application that allows marketing managers to continually test their applications by tracking user behavior, targeting specific user segments, tuning in-app elements, and talking to users via in-app messages. In the first half of 2015, Swrve signed more than 40 new clients in a wide range of industries from retail, travel, hospitality, banking and insurance to sports, media, entertainment, games, and lifestyle. Among the notable customer wins were The Guardian, Condé Nast, Glamsquad, Warner Brothers, Microsoft, and Backflip. As a result, our global bookings in the second quarter of 2015 increased 33% over the previous quarter and 153% over Q4 2014.In 2015, Swrve also ranked #420 in Inc. magazine’s 34th annual Inc. 500, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was founded by Hugh Reynolds and Steven Collins in 2010. | $30M / Series C / Nov 11, 2015 | |
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Swrve
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Swrve is the world's leading mobile marketing automation platform, pioneering the fast-growing mobile engagement marketing space.We are also proud to be the first mobile marketing company to combine predictive analytics with messaging for mobile apps in our Predictive Marketing Suite, which employs a continuously updated behavioralalgorithm that determines an app user’s propensity for action or inaction. Swrve combines class-leading analytics, segmentation, AB testing and in-app messaging in a unified application that allows marketing managers to continually test their applications by tracking user behavior, targeting specific user segments, tuning in-app elements, and talking to users via in-app messages. In the first half of 2015, Swrve signed more than 40 new clients in a wide range of industries from retail, travel, hospitality, banking and insurance to sports, media, entertainment, games, and lifestyle. Among the notable customer wins were The Guardian, Condé Nast, Glamsquad, Warner Brothers, Microsoft, and Backflip. As a result, our global bookings in the second quarter of 2015 increased 33% over the previous quarter and 153% over Q4 2014.In 2015, Swrve also ranked #420 in Inc. magazine’s 34th annual Inc. 500, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was founded by Hugh Reynolds and Steven Collins in 2010. | $10M / Series B / Sep 18, 2014 | |
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Contrast Security
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Contrast Security is a code security tool developer that embeds code analysis and attacks prevention directly into the software. Its patented deep security instrumentation completely disrupts traditional application security approaches with integrated, comprehensive security observability that delivers accurate assessment and continuous protectionof an entire application portfolio. This eliminates the need for disruptive scanning, expensive infrastructure workloads, and specialized security experts. The Contrast Application Security Platform accelerates development cycles, improves efficiencies and cost, and enables rapid scale while protecting applications from known and unknown threats. | $8M / Series A / Jun 25, 2014 | |
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FAQ
What does Acero Capital invest in?
Acero Capital invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Internet startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Acero Capital?
The team at Acero Capital includes Rami Elkhatib (Founder & General Partner) and Jayme Pokrzywinski (Vice President). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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