Bruce Chizen
Angel Investor @ Permira
San Francisco, United States
Bruce Chizen is a venture partner at Voyager Capital.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
Last updated:
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Industries Bruce Chizen invests in
Stages Bruce Chizen invests in
Countries Bruce Chizen invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Series A
- $7.3M–$20M
- Series D
- $103M–$180M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (36%)
- Analytics 3 (27%)
- Information Technology 3 (27%)
- Audio 2 (18%)
- Video 2 (18%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (27%)
- Series D 2 (18%)
- Private Equity 2 (18%)
- Angel 1 (9%)
- Series B 1 (9%)
Country
- United States 8 (73%)
- Switzerland 1 (9%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Uplevel is a software engineering intelligence platform for enterprise companies navigating AI transformation. Where most tools help organizations move faster, Uplevel helps them move in the right direction — pairing continuous measurement with contextual diagnosis and expert capability building so teams understand what AI is actually amplifyingbefore they accelerate it. The result is an engineering organization that can prove its value to the business and adapt as conditions keep changing. | $20M / Series A / Jul 11, 2022 | ||
| McAfee is an online security company that provides virus alerts and analysis on malware, network security threats, and web vulnerabilities.As a cybersecurity company, McAfee provides advanced security solutions to consumers, small and large businesses, enterprises, and governments. Security technologies from McAfee use the predictive capabilitythat is powered by McAfee Global Threat Intelligence, which enables home users and businesses to stay one step ahead of the next wave of viruses, malware, and other online threats.For business, enterprise, and government, McAfee provides comprehensive, integrated information security solutions that cover any environment. Their endpoint and mobile security solutions protect end-user devices from threats, including viruses, phishing, malware, and other threats that target endpoints and users and include antivirus software and web security protection. Their network security solutions protect a network and its perimeter. McAfee solutions protect servers, databases, and data centers from threats that target enterprise systems.Their cloud security solutions provide advanced protection from online threats, whether they are using public, private, or hybrid cloud computing technologies. All their security solutions are managed through the centralized, single-console McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator that allows efficient and responsive management of the security infrastructure. Finally, McAfee Professional Services provide consulting, education, and technical support for all their security products and solutions.For home users, McAfee secures mobile devices, including phones and tablets, as well as home PC, laptops, and other devices. McAfee products such as McAfee Total Protection and McAfee LiveSafe provide comprehensive antivirus and antimalware protection, as well as internet security that includes protection from adware, spyware, phishing scams, malicious websites, identity theft, and other threats to online security.In 1987, McAfee, Petko Stoyanov, and Ravi Kannan co-founded the company in Santa Clara, California. | Private Equity / Mar 01, 2022 | ||
| Videons video compute platform enables scalable, operational, affordable on-premise, in the studio, in-stadium live video solutions. | $9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 01, 2022 | ||
| AllTrails is the most trusted and used outdoors platform in the world, reaching 45 million people a year through alltrails.com, the AppStore and Play Store. We help people explore the outdoors with hand-curated trail maps along with photos, reviews, and user recordings crowdsourced from a community of 10 million registered hikers, mountain bikersand trail runners in 102 countries. The iOS and Android apps are often ranked in the top-10 in Health and Fitness in multiple countries and have been downloaded by over 12 million people worldwide. | $150M / Private Equity / Nov 16, 2021 | ||
| FullStory is a customer experience data app that captures customer experience data in one powerful and easy-to-use platform. Its tiny script unlocks pixel-perfect session playback, automatic insights, funnel analytics, and robust search and segmentation empowering everyone in an organization to help build the best online experience for customers.The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. | $103M / Series D / Aug 04, 2021 | ||
| Videon develops products for audio/video applications in the Global AV, Aviation, and Automotive industries. With over 30 million devices using its streaming media, DVD, and Blu-ray technology, Videon is a partner to the world technology companies and AV product developers.Its holistic approach supports customers at any stage in productdevelopment, offering expertise during ideation, design, development, manufacturing, certification, and support. All of these are done in-house, simplifying, and streamlining the process. Since its founding, Videon has achieved a number of industry firsts, including the first universal Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD player and the first optical disc Google TV. Our Android app Avia was one of the first apps to be released with support for Google Chromecast, and for weeks Avia was the most popular Android app. It’s been downloaded over a million times. Videon continues to grow and expand into new industries, and we have made the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies four times. | $7.3M / Series A / Jun 22, 2021 | ||
| Videons video compute platform enables scalable, operational, affordable on-premise, in the studio, in-stadium live video solutions. | $7.3M / Series A / Jun 22, 2021 | ||
| Nexthink is a global leader in digital experience management. The company's product allows enterprises to create highly productive digital workplaces for their employees by delivering optimal end-user experience. Through a unique combination of real-time analytics, automation and employee feedback across all endpoints, Nexthink helps ITteams meet the needs of the modern digital workplace. | $180.2M / Series D / Feb 08, 2021 | ||
| ChargePoint brings electric vehicle (EV) charging to more people and places than ever before as the world’s leading EV charging network. These stations are available as public charging stations, consumer subscription plans, and utility grid management technology for electric utility companies to smooth electric demands on the grid.ChargePoint wasincorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Campbell, California. | $15M / Series C / Sep 08, 2010 | ||
| ChargePoint brings electric vehicle (EV) charging to more people and places than ever before as the world’s leading EV charging network. These stations are available as public charging stations, consumer subscription plans, and utility grid management technology for electric utility companies to smooth electric demands on the grid.ChargePoint wasincorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Campbell, California. | $14M / Series B / Feb 01, 2010 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Permira
Permira is a global investment firm that provides capital and strategic support to businesses through private equity and credit funds.It focuses on making long-term buyout and growth equity investments across sectors such as technology, consumer, healthcare and services, and also offers flexible financing solutions through credit strategies. Permira works with management teams to support expansion, operational development and value creation at scale. The firm applies a thematic investment approach and collaborates closely with portfolio companies to help drive strategic initiatives and growth outcomes.
Permira Contacts
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Amol Kulkarni
Senior Adviser
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Andrew Young
Partner
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Barry O'Sullivan
Senior Advisor
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Brian Ruder
Co-Managing Partner and Co-CEO
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Dipan Patel
Co-Managing Partner and Co-CEO
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FAQ
What does Bruce Chizen invest in?
Bruce Chizen invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series D stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Bruce Chizen invest in?
Bruce Chizen typically joins rounds of $7.3M–$20M at Series A and $103M–$180M at Series D. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Bruce Chizen's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Bruce Chizen took part in.
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When did Bruce Chizen last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Bruce Chizen closed in Jul 2022. Shizune tracks 11 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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