# Bruce Cleveland

> Bruce Cleveland is a Series B investor at C3 AI backing Software and SaaS. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: C3 AI
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Feb 2018
- Lead investor: 28%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gil-kliman-93142438/
- Website: https://www.interwest.com/partners/gil-kliman

Bruce Cleveland is a Series B investor at C3 AI in Menlo Park focused on Software and SaaS. Bruce Cleveland is Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at C3.ai. Prior to joining C3.ai, he was a Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners where he focused on early stage software startups that enable digital transformation across business, government, and education markets.Mr. Cleveland has held senior executive roles inengineering, product management and product marketing with Apple, AT&T, Oracle and Siebel Systems. As a member of the founding executive team of Siebel Systems, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Marketing and Products. In this role, Forbes and IDC credited him with creating the most effective B2B alliance program in the software industry.Mr. Cleveland is also the author of the best seller, Traversing the Traction Gap and lectures at leading universities and industry events. He attended the United States Military Academy, West Point, and received a B.S. in business administration from CSU, Sacramento.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 28% |
| SaaS | 6 | 21% |
| Health Care | 6 | 21% |
| Medical Device | 5 | 17% |
| Enterprise Software | 5 | 17% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 7 | 24% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 24% |
| Series C | 6 | 21% |
| Series A | 2 | 7% |
| Series E | 2 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Totango | Totango is an expert in customer-led growth: the practice of putting your customers at the center of your go-to-market strategy, because they are your most reliable source of growth. Totango’s Customer Revenue Optimization suite was built to help large and fast-growing businesses thrive. The powerful suite brings together three products, eachdesigned to deliver exceptional results, and united by an integrated customer data platform.The Totango Customer Success Platform leverages automated workflows and engagement features to help customers achieve their desired outcomes and drive long-term growth. Unison, the AI-powered Customer Intelligence Engine works independently, or alongside any customer success platforms. It allows businesses to more effectively predict customer risk and proactively reduce churn before it becomes an issue.Catalyst is the dedicated tool for revenue teams, streamlining growth operations by enabling seamless expansion.Leading customer success teams around the world — including SAP, Github, Schneider Electric, Dynatrace, Drata, and Aircall — use Totango products to access actionable insights and empower teams to fuel customer-led growth.Totango, a pioneer and leader in customer success software since 2010, merged with Catalyst Software in February 2024. The combined organization formed a CS powerhouse, which continues to grow through innovation and acquisition of AI and customer revenue operations technology and talent to help CS and revenue organizations retain and grow their customer base.Totango is a remote organization with employees operating in 25 U.S. States, 6 countries, and has two offices in NYC and Tel Aviv. | $9M | Series C | Feb 27, 2018 |  |
| Amplero | Amplero is a customer lifetime value management platform that enables marketers to achieve what’s not humanly possible by leveraging machine learning and multi-armed bandit experimentation to automatically optimize every customer interaction and maximize customer lifetime value and loyalty. Unlike traditional rules-based marketing automation,Amplero’s controlled experimentation and machine learning platform dynamically tests 1000’s of permutations to decide and execute the optimal marketing interaction based upon each unique customer and context.Using Amplero, marketers in industries like telecom, banking, and software-as-a-service have seen more than 3% incremental growth in customer revenue and 5x retention benefit, often touching their customers less frequently while delivering great omni-channel customer experiences. | $17.5M | Series B | Aug 29, 2017 |  |
| Neuronetics | Neuronetics is focused on developing non-invasive therapies for psychiatric and neurological disorders using MRI-strength magnetic field pulses. They are the first and only company to have a non-systemic and non-invasive depression treatment cleared by the FDA for patients who have not benefited from prior antidepressant treatment. | $15M | Series G | Jun 06, 2017 |  |
| Avedro | Avedro is a privately held medical device and pharmaceutical company advancing the science and technology of corneal cross-linking. Avedro recently completed its US‐based, multi-centered, Phase III studies of corneal cross-linking for the treatment of progressive keratoconus and corneal ectasia following refractive surgery. Outside the UnitedStates, Avedro has commercialized both VibeX and its KXL System for performing Lasik Xtra and accelerated cross-linking. Additionally, Avedro is developing the science of Thermo‐biomechanics for therapeutic medical applications. The Keraflex® refractive correction procedure is the first technology developed from the Thermo‐biomechanics platform and is a non‐invasive, incision‐less ophthalmic procedure for flattening the cornea without the removal of tissue. Keraflex offers the unique ability to induce refractive change without weakening the cornea’s biomechanical integrity, as happens with Lasik and other refractive correction procedures. Keraflex is commercially available outside of the United States. | $42M |  | Apr 27, 2017 |  |
| C3 AI | C3 AI (NYSE:AI) is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation. C3 AI delivers a family of fully integrated products: C3 AI® Suite, an end-to-end platform for developing, deploying, and operating large-scale AI applications; C3 AI Applications, a portfolio of industry-specific SaaS AI applications; C3 AI CRM, asuite of industry-specific CRM applications designed for AI and machine learning; and C3 AI Ex Machina, a no-code AI solution to apply data science to everyday business problems. The core of the C3 AI offering is an open, model-driven AI architecture that dramatically simplifies data science and application development. Learn more at: www.c3.ai | $11.8M | Series E | Mar 02, 2017 |  |
| Restoration Robotics | Restoration Robotics is a privately held medical device company, is dedicated to revolutionizing the field of hair transplantation by developing and commercializing a state-of-the-art image-guided system (ARTAS™ System) that enables follicular unit extraction. |  |  | Dec 22, 2016 |  |
| ReVision Optics | ReVision Optics, Inc. designs, manufactures, and delivers implantable products for the treatment of presbyopia. It offers PRESBYLENS Corneal Inlay, a refractive surgery solution to correct vision lost by the natural aging process called presbyopia. The company serves the ophthalmology professionals. ReVision Optics, Inc. was formerly known asIntraLens Vision, Inc. and changed its name to ReVision Optics, Inc. in 2005. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Lake Forest, California. | $32M |  | Nov 10, 2016 |  |
| Restoration Robotics | Restoration Robotics is a privately held medical device company, is dedicated to revolutionizing the field of hair transplantation by developing and commercializing a state-of-the-art image-guided system (ARTAS™ System) that enables follicular unit extraction. |  |  | Sep 30, 2016 |  |
| Vlocity | Vlocity provides industry-specific cloud and mobile software that drives digital transformation for companies. It increases sales, service and marketing agility, operational efficiency, digital adoption, and simplicity at a faster time to value across the enterprise.Vlocity serves customers including large companies in communications, media andentertainment, energy and utilities, insurance, health, and government industries.It was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $50M | Series B | Sep 20, 2016 |  |
| Totango | Totango is an expert in customer-led growth: the practice of putting your customers at the center of your go-to-market strategy, because they are your most reliable source of growth. Totango’s Customer Revenue Optimization suite was built to help large and fast-growing businesses thrive. The powerful suite brings together three products, eachdesigned to deliver exceptional results, and united by an integrated customer data platform.The Totango Customer Success Platform leverages automated workflows and engagement features to help customers achieve their desired outcomes and drive long-term growth. Unison, the AI-powered Customer Intelligence Engine works independently, or alongside any customer success platforms. It allows businesses to more effectively predict customer risk and proactively reduce churn before it becomes an issue.Catalyst is the dedicated tool for revenue teams, streamlining growth operations by enabling seamless expansion.Leading customer success teams around the world — including SAP, Github, Schneider Electric, Dynatrace, Drata, and Aircall — use Totango products to access actionable insights and empower teams to fuel customer-led growth.Totango, a pioneer and leader in customer success software since 2010, merged with Catalyst Software in February 2024. The combined organization formed a CS powerhouse, which continues to grow through innovation and acquisition of AI and customer revenue operations technology and talent to help CS and revenue organizations retain and grow their customer base.Totango is a remote organization with employees operating in 25 U.S. States, 6 countries, and has two offices in NYC and Tel Aviv. | $8.3M | Series B | Sep 14, 2016 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [TDF Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tdf-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Canvas Prime](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canvas-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Benhamou Global Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benhamou-global-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Canaan Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canaan-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Emergence Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emergence-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hummer Winblad Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hummer-winblad-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About C3 AI

VC Fund · Redwood City, United States

C3 AI (NYSE:AI) is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation. C3 AI delivers a family of fully integrated products: C3 AI® Suite, an end-to-end platform for developing, deploying, and operating large-scale AI applications; C3 AI Applications, a portfolio of industry-specific SaaS AI applications; C3 AI CRM, asuite of industry-specific CRM applications designed for AI and machine learning; and C3 AI Ex Machina, a no-code AI solution to apply data science to everyday business problems. The core of the C3 AI offering is an open, model-driven AI architecture that dramatically simplifies data science and application development. Learn more at: www.c3.ai

5 contacts available at C3 AI.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bruce Cleveland | Chief Marketing Officer | — |
| Asaf Elani | Lead Forward Deployed Engineer | — |
| Chip Lutton | SVP & General Counsel | — |
| David Barter | Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | — |
| Ed Abbo | President and CTO | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Bruce Cleveland invest in?

Bruce Cleveland invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Health Care startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 29 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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### When did Bruce Cleveland last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bruce Cleveland closed in Feb 2018. Shizune tracks 29 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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