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:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
Last updated:
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Industries Brian Paul invests in
Stages Brian Paul invests in
Countries Brian Paul invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Analytics 3 (21%)
- Hardware 2 (14%)
- Software 2 (14%)
- Data Storage 2 (14%)
- Enterprise Software 2 (14%)
Stage
- Series C 4 (29%)
- Series D 4 (29%)
- Series E 3 (21%)
- Series B 1 (7%)
- Series F 1 (7%)
Investments
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Clari
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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 | |
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Clari
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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. | $150M / Series E / Mar 03, 2021 | |
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Clari
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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. | $60M / Series D / Oct 10, 2019 | |
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Clari
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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. | $35M / Series C / Mar 21, 2018 | |
Avere Systems
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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 | |
Platfora
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Platfora’s mission is to empower customers to transform their businesses into fact-based enterprises. Platfora's Big Data Analytics Platform masks the complexity of Hadoop, making it easy for customers to understand all the facts in their business across events, actions, behaviors and time. | $30M / Series C / Dec 08, 2015 | |
GoodData.AI
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GoodData provides the platform and expertise for enterprises to create Smart Business Applications that harness your existing data to help you automate, recommend and take better business actions faster and with more reliability. They drive competitive value, performance, and profit by significantly enhancing the data-driven business processesacross the enterprise and its business ecosystem by bringing analytics to the point-of-work.Their clients include enterprises like Penton that need to deliver revenue-generating data products to their clients and software companies like Zendesk that market their own Smart Business Applications using GoodData.It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $25.7M / Series E / Sep 10, 2014 | |
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Avere Systems
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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. | $20M / Series D / Jul 10, 2014 | |
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Platfora
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Platfora’s mission is to empower customers to transform their businesses into fact-based enterprises. Platfora's Big Data Analytics Platform masks the complexity of Hadoop, making it easy for customers to understand all the facts in their business across events, actions, behaviors and time. | $38M / Series C / Mar 19, 2014 | |
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GoodData.AI
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GoodData provides the platform and expertise for enterprises to create Smart Business Applications that harness your existing data to help you automate, recommend and take better business actions faster and with more reliability. They drive competitive value, performance, and profit by significantly enhancing the data-driven business processesacross the enterprise and its business ecosystem by bringing analytics to the point-of-work.Their clients include enterprises like Penton that need to deliver revenue-generating data products to their clients and software companies like Zendesk that market their own Smart Business Applications using GoodData.It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $22M / Series D / Jun 12, 2013 | |
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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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Stewart Gollmer
Partner/Managing Director
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Benjamin Boyer
Partner/Managing Director
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Brian Melton
Managing Director/Partner
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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 Paul invest in?
Brian Paul invests primarily in Analytics, Hardware and Software startups, most often at Series C and Series D stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Brian Paul last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Brian Paul closed in Jan 2022. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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