# Ali Kutay > Ali Kutay is a seed investor at Striim (San Francisco) backing Software and Internet. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [Striim](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/webaction) - Location: San Francisco, United States - Total investments: 8 - Last investment: May 2021 - Lead investor: 0% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/ali-kutay/12/21/880 - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Akutay/ Ali Kutay is a successful serial entrepreneur, executive and investor with 35 years of experience. Before founding Striim, Inc., Ali was the Chairman and CEO of GoldenGate Software, the leading infrastructure software company for high availability, that was acquired by Oracle. Previously, Ali was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AltoWeb,Inc., a provider of e-business infrastructure software. He was an angel investor, President and Chief Executive Officer of WebLogic, Inc., the company that pioneered the Application Server technology which became one of the major building blocks of web-enabled applications. WebLogic merged with BEA Systems, Inc. and was acquired by Oracle in 2007. He was the President and CEO of Formtek, one of the first enterprise infrastructure software firms, founded in 1984 as a Carnegie-Mellon University spin-off and was acquired by Lockheed Corporation in 1989. He ran Formtek as its CEO under Lockheed Martin for 7 years. He serves on the boards of public and private companies and advises startups. Ali completed his undergraduate and masters degrees at Middle East Technical University and his PhD work at Carnegie Mellon University. ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Software | 5 | 63% | | Internet | 3 | 38% | | Information Technology | 3 | 38% | | Analytics | 2 | 25% | | Enterprise Software | 2 | 25% | 26 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Seed | 4 | 50% | | Angel | 1 | 13% | | Series A | 1 | 13% | | Series B | 1 | 13% | ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | United States | 5 | 63% | | Turkey | 1 | 13% | | Germany | 1 | 13% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | HiveMQ | HiveMQ helps companies connect devices to the Internet. They make it possible to move data from device to cloud in a secure, reliable and scalable manner. Over 100 customers, including many Fortune 500 companies, rely on their product in production for mission critical use cases like connected cars, logistics, Industry 4.0 and connected IoTproducts. | $11.2M | Seed | May 06, 2021 | | | REscan | REscan is digitizing the physical world starting with large commercial real estate portfolios, making them remotely viewable, analyzable, editable, and XR ready. | | Seed | Jun 30, 2018 | | | Medallia Strikedeck | Strikedeck is the most powerful and comprehensive Customer Success solution, enabling businesses to reduce churn, drive customer trust and loyalty, and maximize revenue through innovative automation and integration technologies. Founded by marketing automation pioneers, our propriety SaaS solution empowers our customers to achieve retention,expansion, and advocacy in their customer base.Strikedeck takes a fresh approach to increasing customer engagement with workflow automation, machine learning, predictive analytics, usage tracking, surveys, and swift personalization. Our customers benefit from a real-time 360° view from the Strikedeck platform. At Strikedeck, we are committed to our customers’ success - we celebrate their achievements and respond quickly to their feedback. Strikedeck has been backed by leading tech entrepreneurs and innovators.Strikedeck develops a platform that enables businesses to integrate, manage, and obtain insights about their business processes and customer data. It also offers analytics and insights about customer satisfaction by deriving information from usage, support, billing, contracts, and CRM. Furthermore, it provides tools that enable its users to schedule and automate QBRs, customer meetings, tasks, projects, on-boarding, milestones, and events on a calendar.Strikedeck offers its customers with tools to integrate with Salesforce, Zendesk, Jira, Desk, Marketo, Freshdesk, Acton, and more. The company also provides email templates and other tools for their customers’ marketing campaigns.Strikedeck was founded in 2015 by Shabd Vaid and Shreesha Ramdas. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. | | Seed | Dec 01, 2017 | | | Hazelcast | Hazelcast is a provider of an open-source in-memory computing platform used for caching, stream processing, and microservices. It aims to address the growing demand for enhanced application performance, data processing speed, and scalability.Hazelcast's in-memory computing platform is comprised of two core products, the Hazelcast IMDG andJet. Hazelcast IMDG is an in-memory data grid that provides high availability and scalability by distributing data across multiple nodes. Hazelcast Jet is an ultra-fast, application embeddable, stream, and batch processing engine capable of supporting real-time streaming data. The company also offers Hazelcast Cloud, a fully managed, low latency data layer for cloud-based workloads at any scale.Hazelcast’s customers include 50 of the largest financial institutions, seven of the top telecommunications providers, and six of the biggest e-commerce retailers. | | Angel | Dec 22, 2012 | | | Peak Games | Peak is a leading mobile gaming company powered by a team that values relentless progress. Peak believes the best products are created when talented people form autonomous teams that strive for impact. Peak currently has two top charting mobile franchises -- Toon Blast and Toy Blast -- that have consistently ranked within the top 10 and top 20 U.S.iPhone grossing games for the past three years, respectively, and collectively have more than 12 million average mobile DAUs. Peak, founded in 2010, is based in Istanbul, Turkey | | Series A | Mar 30, 2011 | | | Citus Data | Citus Data scales out PostgreSQL, taking relational power further for real-time applications. The CitusDB database offers a unique combination of massive parallelism, real-time reads/writes, and rich PostgreSQL expressiveness including native support for JSON data. The result is an extensible distributed database with an open ecosystem thatpowers interactive analytics and operational workloads -- making it simple for organizations to ingest, explore and aggregate billions of events on the fly.Based in San Francisco, Citus Data is a Y Combinator alumnus, and is backed by investors that include Data Collective, Bullpen Capital and SV Angel. The CitusDB database is used by enterprises across multiple verticals, including e-commerce, retail, security, ad-tech and mobile analytics, and is available for download from the company’s website at www.citusdata.com. | | Seed | Mar 30, 2011 | | | AltoWeb | AltoWeb solution is a software -like intranet developed by Vincent Graux the leadership of national and international audits (DVNI). | | Series B | Jun 09, 2000 | | | Peak Games | Peak is a leading mobile gaming company powered by a team that values relentless progress. Peak believes the best products are created when talented people form autonomous teams that strive for impact. Peak currently has two top charting mobile franchises -- Toon Blast and Toy Blast -- that have consistently ranked within the top 10 and top 20 U.S.iPhone grossing games for the past three years, respectively, and collectively have more than 12 million average mobile DAUs. Peak, founded in 2010, is based in Istanbul, Turkey | | Series A | | | 8 of 8 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [Acequia Capital (AceCap)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acequia-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Active Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/active-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Earlybird Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earlybird-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Firebolt Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firebolt-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Generation Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/generation-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Granpool Innovative Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/granpool) — VC Fund, 1 deal together ## About Striim VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States Striim is an end-to-end streaming data integration and operational intelligence solution enabling continuous query or processing and streaming analytics. With Striim, users can get to know their data and sort out what’s important. Striim specializes in integration from a wide variety of data sources, transaction or change data, events, log files,application and IoT sensor data, and correlation across multiple streams.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. 5 contacts available at Striim. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Ali Kutay | Founder, Chairman & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ali-kutay | | Alok Pareek | Founder & EVP Products | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alok-pareek | | Andrew Lubesnick | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-lubesnick | | Codin Pora | VP Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/codin-pora | | Sami Akbay | Founder & EVP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sami-akbay | ## Similar investors ### Similar industry - [BITKRAFT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bitkraft-ventures) — VC Fund - [Makers Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/makers-fund) — VC Fund - [Animoca Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-brands-corporation) — VC Fund ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund ### Similar country - [Alesta Yatırım](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alesta-girisim) — VC Fund - [APY Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apy-ventures) — VC Fund - [Boğaziçi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bo%C4%9Fazi%C3%A7i-ventures) — VC Fund ## Featured in investor lists - [Video Games Angel Investors in Middle East](https://shizune.co/investors/video-games-angel-investors-middle-east) - [Video Games Angel Investors in Turkey](https://shizune.co/investors/video-games-angel-investors-turkey) - [Internet Angel Investors in Turkey](https://shizune.co/investors/internet-angel-investors-turkey) - [Mobile Apps Angel Investors in Turkey](https://shizune.co/investors/mobile-apps-angel-investors-turkey) - [Gaming Angel Investors in Turkey](https://shizune.co/investors/gaming-angel-investors-turkey) - [Video Games Investors in Middle East](https://shizune.co/investors/video-games-investors-middle-east) ## FAQ ### What does Ali Kutay invest in? Ali Kutay invests primarily in Software, Internet and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio. ### When did Ali Kutay last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Ali Kutay closed in May 2021. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly. ### Is Shizune's investor data accurate? Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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