# ATA Ventures

> ATA Ventures is a VC fund in Redwood City backing Software and SaaS. See 45 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redwood City, United States
- Total investments: 45
- Last investment: Apr 2016
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/ata-ventures
- Website: http://www.ataventures.com

ATA Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seeking out early stage private companies which appear to offer above average prospects for capital growth.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for ATA Ventures. Shizune tracks 6 team members at ATA Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/ata-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 20% |
| SaaS | 6 | 13% |
| Manufacturing | 6 | 13% |
| Semiconductor | 4 | 9% |
| Enterprise Software | 4 | 9% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 14 | 31% |
| Series C | 9 | 20% |
| Series A | 8 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 16% |
| Series D | 5 | 11% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| John Loiacono | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-loiacono |
| Michio Fujimura | Founder, Director Emeritus | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michio-fujimura |
| Nancy McCroskey | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nancy-mccroskey |
| Pete Thomas | Co-Founder & Managing Director | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pete-thomas |
| Setsuko Miyazono | Executive Assistant | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/setsuko-miyazono |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jolata | Jolata provides solutions that help enterprises optimize their network performance. The Silicon Valley-based start-up has built a software solution for real-time network monitoring, analytics and performance optimization. It can monitor up to every packet on a global network with sub-second visualization. The Jolata TruFlow Platform is a big dataanalytics solution for precise and real-time performance monitoring, initially aimed at network operators in wireless/telecommunications, cable and enterprise/financial services environments. |  | Series B | Apr 13, 2016 |  |
| sikka.ai | Sikka Software is helping to rethink the important retail healthcare market using an award-winning single API cloud platform with Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Analytics. Sort of like Stripe in payments and Twilio in communications, Sikka is focusing on non-physician practices in dentistry, vets, optometry, chiropractic, orthodontic andoral surgery.Sikka Software now has 35,000 practice installations and 120 million patients on its platform. The Sikka API Platform connects to 96% of the retail healthcare market and all practice management systems and financial systems practices use. There are 50 apps built by suppliers (many of them Fortune 500) on Sikka platform and 4 apps that Sikka has built on its own. The company vision is to become a global, real-time, platform that connects and empowers the patients, providers and suppliers. The total services spend in this market is more than $260B per year. Sikka ONE API won the Best Health API Award for 2019 from API World. | $10.5M | Series C | Jun 18, 2015 |  |
| sikka.ai | Sikka Software is helping to rethink the important retail healthcare market using an award-winning single API cloud platform with Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Analytics. Sort of like Stripe in payments and Twilio in communications, Sikka is focusing on non-physician practices in dentistry, vets, optometry, chiropractic, orthodontic andoral surgery.Sikka Software now has 35,000 practice installations and 120 million patients on its platform. The Sikka API Platform connects to 96% of the retail healthcare market and all practice management systems and financial systems practices use. There are 50 apps built by suppliers (many of them Fortune 500) on Sikka platform and 4 apps that Sikka has built on its own. The company vision is to become a global, real-time, platform that connects and empowers the patients, providers and suppliers. The total services spend in this market is more than $260B per year. Sikka ONE API won the Best Health API Award for 2019 from API World. | $5.5M | Series B | Feb 24, 2015 |  |
| Jobvite | Jobvite is leading the next wave of talent acquisition innovation with a candidate-centric recruiting model that helps companies engage candidates with meaningful experiences at the right time, in the right way, from first look to first day. The Jobvite Talent Acquisition Suite weaves together automation and intelligence in order to increaserecruiting speed, quality, and cost-effectiveness to serve thousands of customers of all sizes and industries. | $25M | Series D | Oct 07, 2014 |  |
| Lavante | Lavante a is provider of cloud-based supplier information management and audit recovery solutions. Fortune 1000 companies rely on Lavante to reduce the cost of on-boarding and managing suppliers, facilitate government compliance and ensure that all available open credits are recovered quickly. | $3.5M |  | Aug 19, 2014 |  |
| Altierre | Powering a Retail Revolution.Altierre is a leading provider of wireless dynamic pricing solutions for large retail chains.Implementing price changes is a multi-billion dollar problem for retailers around the globe. Altierre’s integrated wireless platform is a revolutionary end-to-end hardware and software solution that brings the digital ageinto the store and down every aisle. Delivering rapid return on investment, Altierre’s products enable chain-wide, real time dynamic pricing, improve price accuracy, sharply reduce costs and paper waste and improve in-store communication with consumers. | $21M |  | Jul 10, 2014 |  |
| Clustrix | Clustrix provides the leading scale-out SQL database engineered for the cloud and the first database built specifically to meet the unique growth, performance and availability demands of today's e-commerce sites. With ClustrixDB, you can build business critical applications that support massive transactional volume and real-time reporting ofbusiness performance metrics. ClustrixDB delivers more than one trillion transactions per month for customers including AOL, Flipkart, MakeMyTrip, nomorerack, Photobox, Rakuten, Symantec, and Twoo.com.Headquartered in San Francisco, Clustrix is funded by HighBar Partners, Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, Don Listwin, and ATA Ventures. ClustrixDB is available in software that runs on commodity hardware and on any cloud. Visit www.clustrix.com to learn more. | $10M | Series D | Aug 19, 2013 |  |
| Clustrix | Clustrix provides the leading scale-out SQL database engineered for the cloud and the first database built specifically to meet the unique growth, performance and availability demands of today's e-commerce sites. With ClustrixDB, you can build business critical applications that support massive transactional volume and real-time reporting ofbusiness performance metrics. ClustrixDB delivers more than one trillion transactions per month for customers including AOL, Flipkart, MakeMyTrip, nomorerack, Photobox, Rakuten, Symantec, and Twoo.com.Headquartered in San Francisco, Clustrix is funded by HighBar Partners, Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, Don Listwin, and ATA Ventures. ClustrixDB is available in software that runs on commodity hardware and on any cloud. Visit www.clustrix.com to learn more. | $16.5M | Series C | May 06, 2013 |  |
| Argyle Data | Argyle Data is used by the world’s leading mobile operators to detect fraud, profit, and SLA threats that cost the industry $38 billion per year. Argyle Data’s industry-leading native Hadoop application suite uses the latest machine learning technologies against a unique, comprehensive data lake to give communications service providers a 360-degreeview of user activities, allowing them to detect in real time the previously undiscoverable revenue threats and attack patterns being waged against their networks. | $5.5M | Series C | Jan 11, 2013 |  |
| AccelOps | AccelOps provides the leading IT operations analytics platform for the modern data center with a focus on security, network performance and compliance. The AccelOps platform automatically discovers, analyzes and automates IT issues in machine and big data across public, private and hybrid clouds spanning servers, storage, networks, security,applications and users. AccelOps’ unsupervised, machine learning engine sends real-time alerts when deviations occur that indicate a security or performance-impacting event. The AccelOps platform scales seamlessly and provides unmatched delivery of proactive security and operational intelligence, allowing organizations to be more responsive and competitive as they expand their IT capabilities. | $18M | Series B | Dec 13, 2012 |  |

10 of 45 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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- [Canaan Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canaan-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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- [Granite Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/granite-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kinetic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kinetic-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does ATA Ventures invest in?

ATA Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Manufacturing startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 45 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 ATA Ventures?

The team at ATA Ventures includes John Loiacono (Venture Partner), Michio Fujimura (Founder, Director Emeritus) and Nancy McCroskey (Chief Financial Officer), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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