Brian Paul
Managing Director, Partner, and Co-Founder @ Tenaya Capital
Boston, United States
Brian Paul is a Managing Director of Tenaya Capital, and he has been a member of the Tenaya investment team since 1999.In April 2011, Forbes published its Midas List of 2011's Top TechInvestors. Brian was ranked at number 54. Brian was also recently selected as one of the 15 most powerful venture capitalists on the East Coast by BusinessInsider.Previously, Brian worked in Lehman Brothers' Global Technology and Healthcare Investment Banking groups in New York, London and Los Angeles. Within these groups, Brian was responsible for public and private equity offerings as well as strategic advisory assignments. Before joining Lehman Brothers in 1994, Brian was at First Boston, where he was responsible for the purchase and sale of mortgage loan portfolios.Brian holds an M.B.A. with distinction from the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management and a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 24%
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Industries Brian Paul invests in
Stages Brian Paul invests in
Countries Brian Paul invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Enterprise Software 8 (38%)
- SaaS 6 (29%)
- Software 6 (29%)
- Analytics 5 (24%)
- Big Data 3 (14%)
Stage
- Series C 6 (29%)
- Series D 6 (29%)
- Series E 5 (24%)
- Series F 2 (10%)
- Series B 1 (5%)
Investments
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| Clari is a connected revenue operations platform that uses automation and AI to unlock all the activity data captured in key business systems such as marketing automation, CRM, email, calendar, phone, content management, conversations, and more.Clari automatically aligns that data to accounts and opportunities, to deliver visibility, forecasting,and apply predictive insights, which results in more insight, less guesswork, and more predictable revenue. Clari helps companies by changing their revenue operations to be more connected, efficient, and predictable. Clari's platform is used by hundreds of sales, marketing, and customer success teams at B2B companies such as Qualtrics, Lenovo, Adobe, Dropbox, and Okta to control pipelines, audit deals and accounts, forecast the business, and reduce churn. | $225M / Series F / Jan 19, 2022 | ||
| Clari is a connected revenue operations platform that uses automation and AI to unlock all the activity data captured in key business systems such as marketing automation, CRM, email, calendar, phone, content management, conversations, and more.Clari automatically aligns that data to accounts and opportunities, to deliver visibility, forecasting,and apply predictive insights, which results in more insight, less guesswork, and more predictable revenue. Clari helps companies by changing their revenue operations to be more connected, efficient, and predictable. Clari's platform is used by hundreds of sales, marketing, and customer success teams at B2B companies such as Qualtrics, Lenovo, Adobe, Dropbox, and Okta to control pipelines, audit deals and accounts, forecast the business, and reduce churn. | $150M / Series E / Mar 03, 2021 | ||
| Clari is a connected revenue operations platform that uses automation and AI to unlock all the activity data captured in key business systems such as marketing automation, CRM, email, calendar, phone, content management, conversations, and more.Clari automatically aligns that data to accounts and opportunities, to deliver visibility, forecasting,and apply predictive insights, which results in more insight, less guesswork, and more predictable revenue. Clari helps companies by changing their revenue operations to be more connected, efficient, and predictable. Clari's platform is used by hundreds of sales, marketing, and customer success teams at B2B companies such as Qualtrics, Lenovo, Adobe, Dropbox, and Okta to control pipelines, audit deals and accounts, forecast the business, and reduce churn. | $60M / Series D / Oct 10, 2019 | ||
| ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand and improve connected experiences everywhere. The ThousandEyes cloud platform offers unmatched vantage points throughout the global Internet and provides immediate visibility into experience for every user and application over any network, so companies can deliver superior digital experiences,modernize their enterprise WAN, and successfully migrate to the cloud. ThousandEyes is central to the global operations of the world’s largest and fastest growing brands, including Comcast, eBay, HP, 100+ of the Global 2000, 60+ of the Fortune 500, 5 of the 6 top US banks, and 20 of the 25 top SaaS companies. | $50M / Series D / Feb 20, 2019 | ||
| StreamSets software delivers performance management for data flows that feed the next generation of big data applications. Its mission is to bring operational excellence to the management of data in motion, so that data continually arrives on-time and with quality, empowering business-critical analysis and decision-making.It was founded in 2014and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $35M / Series C / Sep 11, 2018 | ||
| Namely is an all-in-one platform that manages all HR data in one place, with personalized service to help companies get better and faster. The company's early service offering included HR information system, social newsfeed, payroll, and performance management tools.Namely give companies the software and support they need to evolve theircompany cultures It has evolved along with company needs. They handle administration and compliance across HR, payroll, time, and benefits, so HR teams can focus on developing their people and providing a great employee experience.Name was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, NY, USA. | $60M / Series E / Aug 02, 2018 | ||
| BigCommerce is a cloud e-commerce platform for established and growing businesses. It combines enterprise functionality, an open architecture, an app ecosystem, and market performance. BigCommerce enables businesses to grow online sales with 80% less cost, time, and complexity than on-premise software. BigCommerce powers B2B and B2C e-commercefor more than 60,000 brands, 2,000+ mid-market businesses, 30 Fortune 1000 companies, and industry brands, including Assurant, Ben and Jerry’s, Paul Mitchell, Skullcandy, Sony, and Toyota. | $64M / Series F / Apr 25, 2018 | ||
| Clari is a connected revenue operations platform that uses automation and AI to unlock all the activity data captured in key business systems such as marketing automation, CRM, email, calendar, phone, content management, conversations, and more.Clari automatically aligns that data to accounts and opportunities, to deliver visibility, forecasting,and apply predictive insights, which results in more insight, less guesswork, and more predictable revenue. Clari helps companies by changing their revenue operations to be more connected, efficient, and predictable. Clari's platform is used by hundreds of sales, marketing, and customer success teams at B2B companies such as Qualtrics, Lenovo, Adobe, Dropbox, and Okta to control pipelines, audit deals and accounts, forecast the business, and reduce churn. | $35M / Series C / Mar 21, 2018 | ||
| Avere is radically changing the economics of data storage. Avere’s flash based solutions give companies – for the first time – the ability to put an end to the rising cost and complexity of data storage by giving customers the freedom to store files anywhere in the cloud or on-premises without sacrificing the performance, availability or securityof their data. Based in Pittsburgh, Avere is run by veterans and thought leaders in the data storage industry and is backed by investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and Tenaya Capital. | $14M / Series E / Mar 21, 2017 | ||
| Skyhigh protects data across all cloud services with the speed, scale and user-centricity the cloud demands. With Skyhigh Security Cloud, enterprises can accelerate their business by leveraging technology and services to confidently identify, control and protect data and user activities across any cloud, on any device. | $40M / Series D / Sep 25, 2016 | ||
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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-growthtechnology 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
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Brian Paul
Managing Director, Partner, and Co-Founder
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Dorian Merritt
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What does Brian Paul invest in?
Brian Paul invests primarily in Enterprise Software, SaaS and Software startups, most often at Series C and Series D stage. Most of the 21 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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