# Appian Ventures

> Appian Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 36 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Denver, United States
- Total investments: 36
- Last investment: Sep 2014
- Lead investor: 31%
- Fund size: $80M
- Last fund: Jun 2004
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.appianvc.com

Appian Ventures is a VC fund in Denver focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Appian Ventures invests in software and technologies that exploit network connectivity to improve business performance.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 25% |
| Enterprise Software | 4 | 11% |
| Analytics | 3 | 8% |
| Real Time | 3 | 8% |
| SaaS | 2 | 6% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 10 | 28% |
| Series A | 8 | 22% |
| Series C | 6 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 14% |
| Series D | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Stacey McKittrick | Managing Director and CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stacey-mckittrick |
| Don Parsons | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/don-parsons |
| Mark Soane | Managing Director | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-soane |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ping Identity | Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations. They help enterprises achieve Zero Trust identity-defined security & more personalized, streamlined user experiences. The Ping Intelligent Identity Platform provides customers, employees, partners, and, increasingly, IoT, with access tothe cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs, while also managing identity and profile data at scale. Ping Identity was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado. | $35M | Series F | Sep 18, 2014 |  |
| Ping Identity | Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations. They help enterprises achieve Zero Trust identity-defined security & more personalized, streamlined user experiences. The Ping Intelligent Identity Platform provides customers, employees, partners, and, increasingly, IoT, with access tothe cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs, while also managing identity and profile data at scale. Ping Identity was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado. | $44M | Series E | Jul 16, 2013 |  |
| OpenLogic | OpenLogic helps enterprises maximize these benefits and safely use open source software by providing support, governance, provisioning, consulting, and training solutions. | $2M |  | Aug 16, 2011 |  |
| Ping Identity | Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations. They help enterprises achieve Zero Trust identity-defined security & more personalized, streamlined user experiences. The Ping Intelligent Identity Platform provides customers, employees, partners, and, increasingly, IoT, with access tothe cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs, while also managing identity and profile data at scale. Ping Identity was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado. | $21M | Series D | Jun 21, 2011 |  |
| Univa | Univa is the innovator of workload management solutions that optimize throughput and performance of applications, containers and services. Univa manages workloads automatically by maximizing shared resources and enabling enterprises to scale compute resources across on-premise, hybrid and cloud infrastructures. Univa's solutions help hundredsof companies to manage thousands of applications and run billions of tasks every day to obtain actionable insights and achieve faster time-to-results. Univa is headquartered in Chicago, USA, with offices in Canada and Germany. | $7M |  | Jan 25, 2011 |  |
| OneRiot | OneRiot delivers socially-targeted mobile media campaigns for clients such as The Gap, Toyota and AT&T. With OneRiot, clients can target media to audiences with specific interests and demographics in defined geo-locations. The company analyzes masses of publicly-available mobile social media activity to determine audience characteristics.Clients can execute media campaigns directly with OneRiot across its own network of mobile apps, or leverage its targeting data for use across other sources of mobile inventory.OneRiot is a privately held company. Investors include Spark Capital, Appian Ventures and Commonwealth Capital Ventures. | $7M | Series C | Aug 27, 2009 |  |
| mPay Gateway | mPay Gateway is a PCI certified acquiring card processor, delivering bankcard solutions with integrated web based management software to Providers that addresses the increased cost of collecting from consumers enrolled in consumer directed health care plans. They enable Providers to collect patient payment obligations at the point of service inreal time when the service is delivered. Their payment technology allows Providers to transact payments for all members regardless of payer or card type. | $6.8M |  | Sep 01, 2008 |  |
| Selero | Selero provides highly automated trade execution solutions spanning the equities trading supply chain. The Company’s offerings include Smart Order Routing, Trading Systems for market makers and internalization traders, intra and inter-organization System Integration, and a FIX Engine. Included in Selero Smart Order Routing is a wide array ofconfigurable routing capabilities that allow each trader to achieve his unique definition of Best Execution. It is particularly useful for Reg NMS, MiFID, and the Best Execution Obligation. In addition, the Company makes order routing services available to its customers through its agency broker dealer Nunami Services, LLC, Member FINRA, www.nunami.net. Selero’s mission is to give its customers the tools they need to achieve best execution and to maximize profits. Its solutions are designed to be fast to implement, fast to operate, and fast to change in response to real-time market dynamics. Its customers include asset managers, broker dealers, exchanges, ECNs, ATSs, dark pools, and regulators. | $1.6M |  | Jun 20, 2008 |  |
| IP Commerce | IP Commerce is a privately held software company serving small and medium sized businesses (SMBs). Its flagship solution, Commerce Sync, simplifies accounting for thousands of SMBs, helping business owners realize valuable time savings, increased accuracy, and complete business visibility. The Company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. | $17M | Series C | Jun 03, 2008 |  |
| Univa | Univa is the innovator of workload management solutions that optimize throughput and performance of applications, containers and services. Univa manages workloads automatically by maximizing shared resources and enabling enterprises to scale compute resources across on-premise, hybrid and cloud infrastructures. Univa's solutions help hundredsof companies to manage thousands of applications and run billions of tasks every day to obtain actionable insights and achieve faster time-to-results. Univa is headquartered in Chicago, USA, with offices in Canada and Germany. | $8M | Series B | May 02, 2008 |  |

10 of 36 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Highway 12 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/highway-12-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Threshold](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/threshold) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
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- [ARCH Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arch-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Appian Ventures invest in?

Appian Ventures invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Analytics startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 36 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 Appian Ventures?

The team at Appian Ventures includes Stacey McKittrick (Managing Director and CFO), Don Parsons (Managing Director) and Mark Soane (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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