Bob Hower
Co-Founder & Partner @ G20 Ventures
Boston, United States
Bob Hower is a Series A investor at G20 Ventures in Boston focused on Enterprise Software and SaaS. Bob is a 13-year VC vet twice named to the Forbes "Midas List," having led investments in great ideas and great teams including Acme Packet (APKT, acquired by Oracle), AppIQ (acquired by HP), Channel Advisor (ECOM), Actifio, [x+1] (acquired by Rocket Fuel), Evergage and Fuze. Before becoming a Venture investor, Bob held senior marketing,product management, and sales positions at Lotus Development, Cabot, Cabot and Forbes, General Mills, and Priority Call Management.Today Bob is on the Boards of Channel Advisor, Actifio, [x+1], Evergage and Thinking Phone Networks. He remains a GP at Advanced Technology Ventures; serves as an Xconomist, and on the non-profit boards of the New England Venture Capital Association, Cambridge Community Foundation and Pivot – an NGO in Madagascar.Bob holds a B.A. degree from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from The Amos Tuck School.
- Total investments:
- 32
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Bob Hower invests in
Stages Bob Hower invests in
Countries Bob Hower invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Enterprise Software 6 (19%)
- SaaS 4 (13%)
- Analytics 4 (13%)
- Information Technology 4 (13%)
- Big Data 2 (6%)
Stage
- Series A 7 (22%)
- Series B 7 (22%)
- Series C 5 (16%)
- Seed 3 (9%)
- Series D 2 (6%)
Investments
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| Triangle Tweener Fund seeks to create an index of private company investments in their early stages. Its goal is to create an index of Triangle-area early-stage, high-tech startups that meet the 'Tweener List' Criteria. | $15.3M / Seed / May 05, 2026 | ||
| Triangle Tweener Fund seeks to create an index of private company investments in their early stages. Its goal is to create an index of Triangle-area early-stage, high-tech startups that meet the 'Tweener List' Criteria. | $1.7M / Pre-Seed / Mar 13, 2025 | ||
| Napster offers the ultimate in interactive music experiences, creating better ways to discover, share, acquire, and enjoy the universe of music — anytime, anywhere. The Napster service is the easiest way to find, discover, and enjoy the universe of music online, on the go, and in the living room. With unlimited, on-demand access to music from a webbrowser, smartphone, and home entertainment devices, Napster lets you enjoy music your way anytime, anywhere. The service is available at www.napster.com in the U.S. and is also available in Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The company is a fully owned subsidiary of Best Buy, Inc. (NYSE: BBY). | Venture - Series Unknown / May 10, 2022 | ||
| Knox is the smart and frictionless way to turn the user's home into an investment property delivering passive income while empowering lifestyle freedom, and superior wealth creation. Knox Financial helps people manage and identify residential rentals with its algorithm-based platform.The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Boston,Massachusetts. | $10M / Series A / Apr 19, 2021 | ||
| Everyone needs data. From retailers looking to overhaul their brand strategies, to companies seeking to generate new revenue from existing assets — data is an essential element that ignites compelling stories for every organization.At Narrative, we make it easy for you to access, acquire, and integrate the data your company needs to thrive. Andif you're a data owner, we can help you reach multiple, active data seekers all at once. Narrative's efficient and intuitive platform creates opportunities for both buyers and sellers to acquire or monetize data the way they see fit.Buying and selling data, simplified. So you can shape your story today. | $8.5M / Series A / Aug 27, 2020 | ||
| Emissary's platform pairs sales professionals with former executives at the companies they are targeting.Emissary is a hybrid SaaS marketplace that connects sales teams on one side with people (called emissaries, naturally) who can guide them through the sales process at companies they are familiar with. The best emissaries are generallyex-executives and employees who have recently left the target company and therefore understand the decision-making processes and the politics of the organization. These Emissaries provide unprecedented insight into the people, the culture, and the politics of the target organization, allowing their clients to close key opportunities faster. | $6.3M / Series A / Jun 29, 2020 | ||
| 128 Technology provides software-based routing solutions that enable enterprises and service providers to build networks. Their professional-grade software teaches routers the language of applications and services, letting them understand the requirements of individual services and segments, and adapt the network dynamically to deliver what thebusiness needs, when and where it needs it. They make routers Session Smart, enabling enterprise customers and service providers to create a service-centric fabric that's more simple, agile, and secure, delivering better performance at a lower cost. | $30M / Series D / Sep 18, 2019 | ||
| Actifio delivers Enterprise Data-as-a-Service to hundreds of global enterprise customers and service provider partners in more than 30 countries.Actifio helps hundreds of global enterprise customers and service provider partners in more than 30 countries around the world virtualize their data, just as they virtualized their servers and networks.Their Virtual Data Pipeline™ technology decouples data from infrastructure, enabling dramatic improvements in business resiliency, agility, and access to the cloud.Actifio replaces siloed data management applications with a radically simple, application-centric, SLA-driven approach that lets customers capture data from production applications, manage it more economically, and use it when and where they need. The result is enterprise data available for any use, anytime, anywhere, for less. | $100M / Series F / Aug 07, 2018 | ||
| Only Evergage’s real-time personalization platform delivers The Power of 1, enabling digital marketers to transform the dream of 1:1 customer engagement into reality.Combining in-depth behavioral analytics with customer data, Evergage provides the one platform you need to systematically understand and interact with each person that visits yoursite or uses your app – one at a time, “in the moment” and at scale – to deliver a maximally relevant, individualized experience.Personalization is the future of digital marketing, and we believe it should be easy for marketers – without the need for developers or IT – to understand their audiences and respond in real time with the most engaging experiences and the most relevant recommendations. Our customers delight their visitors, prospects and customers every day, building valuable relationships that lead to greater revenues and customer loyalty.Evergage has delivered personalized experiences to more than 2 billion web visitors and users of over 150 organizations, including Academy Sports+Outdoors, Endurance International Group, Intuit, Publishers Clearing House, Rue La La, Zumiez and more.Founded in 2010 and based in Somerville, MA, Evergage is a two-time winner in the Golden Bridge Awards, Stevie American Business Awards, Best in Biz Awards and MITX Awards; a two-time BostInno “50 on Fire” finalist; and a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. | $10M / Series C / Aug 09, 2017 | ||
| 128 Technology provides software-based routing solutions that enable enterprises and service providers to build networks. Their professional-grade software teaches routers the language of applications and services, letting them understand the requirements of individual services and segments, and adapt the network dynamically to deliver what thebusiness needs, when and where it needs it. They make routers Session Smart, enabling enterprise customers and service providers to create a service-centric fabric that's more simple, agile, and secure, delivering better performance at a lower cost. | $21.5M / Series C / May 31, 2017 | ||
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Co-Investors
About G20 Ventures
G20 Ventures provides early traction capital for East Coast enterprise tech startups, backed by the power and expertise of 20 of the Northeast's most accomplished entrepreneurs.We look for great teams in love with big problems. Our focus is generally on early-stage, East Coast, and enterprise software, especially virtual infrastructure andcloud-based solutions. We prefer technology risk to market risk, and won't generally invest in 100% consumer-facing businesses.We get that great teams are built over time, but typically look for a core team (at least 2 people) that includes a technologist with experience building solutions similar to the one being proposed, and a business person who really understands the buyer and how to reach them. We like to see a product in market, and some early customer validation. Our sweet spot investment is $2-5 million in Series A. We reserve capital for every earlier stage deal we do, meaning we want to be with you all the way.
G20 Ventures Contacts
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Bill Wiberg
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Bob Hower
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Derek Yoo
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Michael Troiano
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Andrew Perlman
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What does Bob Hower invest in?
Bob Hower invests primarily in Enterprise Software, SaaS and Analytics startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 32 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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