Brian Melton
Managing Director/Partner @ Tenaya Capital
Portola Valley, United States
Brian Melton is a Managing Director of Tenaya Capital, and he has been a member of the Tenaya investment team since 2000. Previously, Brian was a member of Lehman Brothers' private equity fund, where he worked in the fund's Hong Kong and New York offices. Prior to joining the private equity fund, he was a member of Lehman Brothers' financial sponsors coverage group in the investment banking division. Brian holds an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. from Wake Forest University.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
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Industries Brian Melton invests in
Stages Brian Melton invests in
Countries Brian Melton invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (39%)
- Enterprise Software 5 (28%)
- SaaS 4 (22%)
- Internet 3 (17%)
- Analytics 3 (17%)
Stage
- Series C 7 (39%)
- Series B 6 (33%)
- Series D 3 (17%)
- Series A 1 (6%)
Investments
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| Valimail is the global leader in zero-trust email security. The company’s full line of cloud-native solutions authenticate sender identity to stop phishing, protect brands, and ensure compliance; they are used by organizations ranging from neighborhood shops to some of the world's largest organizations, including Uber, Splunk, Yelp, FannieMae, Mercedes Benz USA, and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. Valimail is the fastest growing DMARC solution, with the most domains at DMARC enforcement, and is the premier DMARC partner for Microsoft 365 environments. | $45M / Series C / Jun 19, 2019 | ||
| Squelch is the customer experience optimization solution that instantly delivers the most relevant, context-rich intelligence to agents when and where it is needed most, enhancing the customer experience while maximizing a team's productivity. Squelch is the whip-smart, lightning-fast super-sidekick designed specifically for customer supportand success heroes.Squelch was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California. | $12M / Series A / Apr 03, 2019 | ||
| LeanData is the leader in enterprise Revenue Ops solutions delivering a more holistic and unified go-to-market approach to business-to-business (B2B) enterprises seeking to accelerate growth. As the leader in Lead-to-Account Matching, Routing and Marketing Attribution solutions, LeanData stands at the center of CRM connecting the right data to theright people, so businesses can accelerate time to revenue. By ensuring a common data thread runs through the entire revenue chain, the LeanData Revenue Ops platform and family of applications break down the barriers between sales and marketing operations to improve the buyer experience and drive greater revenue. With LeanData, revenue teams can now plan, execute and analyze their ever-changing go-to-market processes from a single, centrally managed platform that’s agile, transparent and comprehensive. Visit www.leandata.com to learn more. | $27.5M / Series C / Mar 18, 2019 | ||
| Valimail is the global leader in zero-trust email security. The company’s full line of cloud-native solutions authenticate sender identity to stop phishing, protect brands, and ensure compliance; they are used by organizations ranging from neighborhood shops to some of the world's largest organizations, including Uber, Splunk, Yelp, FannieMae, Mercedes Benz USA, and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. Valimail is the fastest growing DMARC solution, with the most domains at DMARC enforcement, and is the premier DMARC partner for Microsoft 365 environments. | $25M / Series B / May 22, 2018 | ||
| Wavefront is a hosted platform for ingesting, storing, visualizing and alerting on time series data. It is based on a stream processing approach invented at Google which allows engineers to manipulate time series data with unparalleled power. | $52M / Series B / Oct 24, 2016 | ||
| Revinate empowers hoteliers to connect directly with guests at every touchpoint to deliver delightful experiences and drive direct revenue. Our data platform and guest communication solutions put hoteliers in control of every step of their guests’ journeys — initial research, booking, check-in, throughout the stay, and even after check-out. We dothis all using the communication channels that the guests prefer, whether it’s voice, text, email, or web chat. We have 4 international offices, located in California, Oregon, Amsterdam, and Singapore. | $13M / Series C / Jun 30, 2016 | ||
| Instart is a digital experience management company. They help thousands of leading brands like Neiman Marcus, Coach, Microsoft, AT&T, Hearst and CBS to deliver faster, safer and better online experiences for millions of their customers – and to earn higher profits for themselves. Their Digital Experience Cloud is unique in that it usesartificial intelligence and machine learning to automatically and continuously optimize and secure every object and every page for each of your web and mobile applications for every device and every customer. No other company does this. After you deploy Instart, your customers will enjoy up to 30% faster application performance, and your applications and products will look better, leading to up to 20% higher conversion, more SEO traffic, lower pay per click costs and higher net promoter scores. If your company is selling online, your customers will buy more, delivering up to 8% higher online revenue, greater average order value, and reduced returns. Media companies work with Instart to drive online revenue up to 15% higher by increasing advertising viewability, restoring advertising revenue currently being lost to ad blocking software, and ensuring every visitor always has the best possible experience. IT departments enjoy up to 50% lower TCO, greater security and improved reliability for your existing infrastructure supporting your digital applications. | $45M / Series D / Jan 20, 2016 | ||
| Optimizely develops web content management and digital experience software. Their application combines content, commerce, multi-channel marketing, and predictive analytics in a single platform to work full circle for businesses, providing capabilities such as intelligent optimization, lead generation, web product recommendations, conversion, andrepeat business with unprecedented ease of use for clients. | $58M / Series C / Oct 13, 2015 | ||
| CloudPassage® Halo® is the world’s leading agile security platform that provides instant visibility and continuous protection for servers in any combination of data centers, private clouds and public clouds. The Halo platform is delivered as a service, so it deploys in minutes and scales on-demand. Halo uses minimal system resources; so layeredsecurity can be deployed where it counts, right at every workload – servers, instances and containers. Leading enterprises like Citrix, Salesforce.com and Adobe use CloudPassage today to enhance their security and compliance posture, while at the same time enabling business agility. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, CloudPassage is backed by Benchmark Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Tenaya Capital, Shasta Ventures, Musea Ventures and other leading investors. | $35.9M / Series D / Aug 11, 2015 | ||
| Instart is a digital experience management company. They help thousands of leading brands like Neiman Marcus, Coach, Microsoft, AT&T, Hearst and CBS to deliver faster, safer and better online experiences for millions of their customers – and to earn higher profits for themselves. Their Digital Experience Cloud is unique in that it usesartificial intelligence and machine learning to automatically and continuously optimize and secure every object and every page for each of your web and mobile applications for every device and every customer. No other company does this. After you deploy Instart, your customers will enjoy up to 30% faster application performance, and your applications and products will look better, leading to up to 20% higher conversion, more SEO traffic, lower pay per click costs and higher net promoter scores. If your company is selling online, your customers will buy more, delivering up to 8% higher online revenue, greater average order value, and reduced returns. Media companies work with Instart to drive online revenue up to 15% higher by increasing advertising viewability, restoring advertising revenue currently being lost to ad blocking software, and ensuring every visitor always has the best possible experience. IT departments enjoy up to 50% lower TCO, greater security and improved reliability for your existing infrastructure supporting your digital applications. | $13M / Series C / May 13, 2015 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Tenaya Capital
Tenaya Capital is a venture capital firm with offices in Woodside, California, and Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1995 as Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, they became an independent company in 2009. Over the years they've raised five funds representing over $1 billion of committed capital, investing it in a wide range of high-growth technology companies including software, consumer Internet, communications, semiconductors, electronics, and cleantech.
Tenaya Capital Contacts
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Brian Melton
Managing Director/Partner
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Stewart Gollmer
Partner/Managing Director
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Benjamin Boyer
Partner/Managing Director
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Brian Paul
Managing Director, Partner, and Co-Founder
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Dorian Merritt
Chief Financial Officer
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What does Brian Melton invest in?
Brian Melton invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and SaaS startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 18 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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