Charles Beeler
Managing Director @ Rally Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Charles Beeler is a Series A investor at Rally Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Cyber Security. Charles has been a venture capitalist since 1997 and has focused on early-stage business technology companies throughout his career. Charles co-founded Rally Ventures in 2012 with Jeff Hinck. Prior to co-founding Rally Ventures, Charles was a General Partner at El Dorado Ventures in 2000. He started his venture career as an associate at ScrippsVentures after working as an analyst at Piper Jaffray and earlier as a systems consultant at the Mayo Clinic, where he helped design a radiology information system.Some of Charles’ notable investments include Coupa Software, which had a highly successful IPO in 2016 (Nasdaq: COUP); Compellent Technologies, which held an IPO and was subsequently sold to Dell, returning more than 9x invested capital; NuSpeed, which was acquired by Cisco Systems returning 55x invested capital; Verodin; and Twistlock.Charles founded and helps produce the Node Summit conference series, which focuses on the evolution and future of web application development. He serves on the boards of AnyRoad, Blue Lava, Bugcrowd, Influ2, and Picnic and is Chairman of the Board of the Camp Chippewa Foundation. Charles received his MBA from Wharton and his BA from Colby College.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries Charles Beeler invests in
Stages Charles Beeler invests in
Countries Charles Beeler invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (67%)
- Cyber Security 2 (33%)
- Enterprise Software 2 (33%)
- SaaS 1 (17%)
- FinTech 1 (17%)
Stage
- Series A 2 (33%)
- Series E 2 (33%)
- Seed 1 (17%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (17%)
Investments
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| Picnic is a cybersecurity firm that proactively protects people and companies against the biggest threat vector in cyber today: attacks by social engineers. Social engineers are hackers who use public information about you, your family, and your company to craft attacks that include phishing scams, ransomware, impersonation, identity theft,malware, elder fraud, and many others. Picnic proactively finds and removes the information about businesses and people that can be harvested by social engineers. Our technology works automatically, seamlessly, and continuously to protect you, your organization, and also your family. We make you less visible and reduce your attack surface. This is next-generation security—security at the human level.Get in touch to learn more about how we preemptively safeguard enterprises and individual employees from social engineering attacks. | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 22, 2025 | ||
| Bugcrowd connects companies and their applications to a crowd of tens of thousands of security researchers to identify critical software vulnerabilities. Powered by Bugcrowd’s platform, companies of all sizes can run both private and public bounty programs to efficiently test their applications and reward valid vulnerabilities.Based in SanFrancisco, Bugcrowd is backed by Blackbird Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Industry Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Rally Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures. | $102M / Series E / Feb 12, 2024 | ||
| Picnic is a cybersecurity firm that proactively protects people and companies against the biggest threat vector in cyber today: attacks by social engineers. Social engineers are hackers who use public information about you, your family, and your company to craft attacks that include phishing scams, ransomware, impersonation, identity theft,malware, elder fraud, and many others. Picnic proactively finds and removes the information about businesses and people that can be harvested by social engineers. Our technology works automatically, seamlessly, and continuously to protect you, your organization, and also your family. We make you less visible and reduce your attack surface. This is next-generation security—security at the human level.Get in touch to learn more about how we preemptively safeguard enterprises and individual employees from social engineering attacks. | $14M / Series A / Feb 23, 2022 | ||
| Sherpa develops an extensible, data-driven streaming video platform for the enterprise.With enterprise video now pervasive, companies are increasingly turning to Sherpa to consolidate live and on-demand video under a single streaming system-of-record. Sherpa’s extensible and data-driven platform securely manages, measures and automates allstreaming video touch points with customers, partners, and employees. Many of the world’s premier enterprises have selected Sherpa to power their expanding digital media programs. Sherpa is privately held and headquartered in Redwood City, California. The company is backed by Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV), Rally Ventures, and individuals. | $5.5M / Series A / Aug 07, 2017 | ||
| npm is the package manager for the JavaScript programming language. Developers use it to install, manage, and publish shared pieces of JavaScript code for both front-end and back-end applications. npm supports the JavaScript community by providing the registry where developers publish and share packaged open-source modules, and offers paid productsthat allow for the storage of private packages.The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Oakland, California. | $2.6M / Seed / Feb 11, 2014 | ||
| Coupa Software is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of procurement, finance, and cloud-based financial applications. The company offers cloud spend management (CSM) solutions that help companies control and gain visibility into their indirect spending while generating savings that go directly to the bottom line.Itwas founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Mateo, California. | $22M / Series E / May 10, 2012 |
Co-Investors
About Rally Ventures
Rally Ventures invests exclusively in early-stage business technology companies, focusing on entrepreneurs creating major new markets or bringing transformative approaches to existing ones. Areas of investment include cloud infrastructure, fintech, SaaS+ and security. Since 1997, Rally Ventures' partners and venture capital industry veteranshave invested in or run early stage enterprise business-to-business technology companies with a proven ability to deliver superior returns regardless of the overall market environment. From investing to operating, they have demonstrated a repeatable model that has delivered significant investment returns over the past 30 years.
Rally Ventures Contacts
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Anna Klombies
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Charles Beeler
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Chris DiBona
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Christopher Key
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James Gibson
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What does Charles Beeler invest in?
Charles Beeler invests primarily in Software, Cyber Security and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series A and Series E stage. Most of the 6 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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