Blake Bartlett
Partner @ OpenView
Boston, United States
Blake Bartlett is a Series B investor at OpenView in Boston focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Blake helps identify value and lead investments in product-led businesses driving market dislocation. Prior to joining OpenView, he was a Vice President at Battery Ventures, where he focused on growth-stage software and Internet businesses. Blake joined Battery in 2009 and helped lead 10 investments, including Wayfair, Optimizely, Sprinklr,Catchpoint, Glassdoor, Tealium, Q2eBanking, Mass Relevance, and VSS Monitoring (acquired by Danaher). He began his career in the growth equity group at Kayne Anderson, a $25 billion private equity firm in Los Angeles.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 53%
Last updated:
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Industries Blake Bartlett invests in
Stages Blake Bartlett invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (40%)
- Enterprise Software 5 (33%)
- SaaS 3 (20%)
- Internet 3 (20%)
- Collaboration 2 (13%)
Stage
- Series B 6 (40%)
- Series C 4 (27%)
- Series A 1 (7%)
- Series D 1 (7%)
- Series E 1 (7%)
Investments
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| The collaborative AI Agent building platform trusted by thousands of customers and hundreds of thousands of developers to build enterprise scale AI Agents for customer support automation and beyond. | $15M / Aug 15, 2023 | ||
| Parabola is the spreadsheet alternative where you combine the data running throughout your company and create automated processes.Pull in data from any source you can imagine—from scattered spreadsheets and tools, to emails and PDFs—and build logic that replicates the manual work you do every day. Use our canvas to combine and transform yourdata, and surface the results to the right people at the right time so you can do more with the data you rely on. In the process, you’ll codify the steps for every workflow you manage so they become repeatable, shareable, and usable for the whole team.Create solutions for the problems you’ve always wanted to solve, and make your work more shareable and impactful along the way.Parabola is proud to serve companies like Flexport, Sonos, Uber Freight, Brooklinen, and Chubbies and is backed by OpenView Partners, Matrix Partners, Thrive Capital and more. | $24M / Series B / Jun 28, 2023 | ||
| Highspot is an AI-fueled sales enablement platform that helps companies worldwide improve the performance of their sales teams.Its platform specializes in providing intelligent content management, training, contextual guidance, customer engagement, and actionable analytics. Its unified sales enablement platform gives revenue teams a singlesolution to elevate customer conversations and drive repeatable revenue, bringing together native content and guidance, training and coaching, and engagement intelligence – all supported by actionable analytics.The company was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Seatle, Washington. | $200M / Series E / Feb 22, 2021 | ||
| Calendly helps individuals, teams, and organizations automate the meeting lifecycle by removing the back and forth with scheduling. Calendly's cloud-based platform offers a new layer of the modern digital technology stack by connecting with critical tools to automate scheduling workflows, creates a more delightful customer experience, andprovides insightful, measurable data to drive better business outcomes. Today, over 10 million users across 116 countries use Calendly to simplify meetings, collaborate more effectively and efficiently, and drive the business forward. | $350M / Series B / Jan 26, 2021 | ||
| Cypress.io develops an automated end-to-end and component testing solution for anything that runs in a browser. The company offers the open-source Cypress App, a test engine that combines existing testing tools with a graphical user interface to monitor and debug tests.Additionally, Cypress Cloud is a hosted service that aggregates and appliespowerful intelligence from past Cypress App test runs to support better CI failure debugging workflows, test suite analytics, and intelligent CI orchestration capabilities that improve developer velocity while reducing CI costs.Cypress has more than 3,700 customers across 78 countries and 65 industries who have recorded over 5 billion tests. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. | $40M / Series B / Dec 16, 2020 | ||
| Highspot is an AI-fueled sales enablement platform that helps companies worldwide improve the performance of their sales teams.Its platform specializes in providing intelligent content management, training, contextual guidance, customer engagement, and actionable analytics. Its unified sales enablement platform gives revenue teams a singlesolution to elevate customer conversations and drive repeatable revenue, bringing together native content and guidance, training and coaching, and engagement intelligence – all supported by actionable analytics.The company was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Seatle, Washington. | $75M / Series D / Dec 03, 2019 | ||
| Highspot is an AI-fueled sales enablement platform that helps companies worldwide improve the performance of their sales teams.Its platform specializes in providing intelligent content management, training, contextual guidance, customer engagement, and actionable analytics. Its unified sales enablement platform gives revenue teams a singlesolution to elevate customer conversations and drive repeatable revenue, bringing together native content and guidance, training and coaching, and engagement intelligence – all supported by actionable analytics.The company was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Seatle, Washington. | $60M / Series D / Jun 04, 2019 | ||
| Highspot is an AI-fueled sales enablement platform that helps companies worldwide improve the performance of their sales teams.Its platform specializes in providing intelligent content management, training, contextual guidance, customer engagement, and actionable analytics. Its unified sales enablement platform gives revenue teams a singlesolution to elevate customer conversations and drive repeatable revenue, bringing together native content and guidance, training and coaching, and engagement intelligence – all supported by actionable analytics.The company was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Seatle, Washington. | $35M / Series C / Sep 24, 2018 | ||
| Logikcull was acquired by Reveal in August of 2023. Logikcull, a Reveal technology, helps legal professionals solve complex discovery problems. As a cloud-based provider of eDiscovery software, Reveal clients include Fortune 500 companies, law firms and legal service providers, government agencies and educational institutions in more than 40countries across five continents. For more information, visit http://www.revealdata.com. | $25M / Series B / Jan 29, 2018 | ||
| Logikcull was acquired by Reveal in August of 2023. Logikcull, a Reveal technology, helps legal professionals solve complex discovery problems. As a cloud-based provider of eDiscovery software, Reveal clients include Fortune 500 companies, law firms and legal service providers, government agencies and educational institutions in more than 40countries across five continents. For more information, visit http://www.revealdata.com. | $10M / Series A / Aug 23, 2016 | ||
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Co-Investors
About OpenView
OpenView is an expansion stage venture firm that helps grow software companies like Instructure, Kareo, Datadog, and Expensify into market leaders. Through OpenView's Expansion Platform, they help companies hire the best talent, acquire, and retain the right customers and partner with industry leaders so they can dominate their markets. OpenView's focus on the expansion stage makes it suited to provide truly tailored operational support to their portfolio companies. OpenView Partners has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.
OpenView Contacts
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Ariel Winton-Jones
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Blake Bartlett
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What does Blake Bartlett invest in?
Blake Bartlett invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 15 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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