Chris Pacitti
General Partner @ Austin Ventures
Austin, United States
Chris Pacitti is a Series A investor at Austin Ventures in Austin focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Chris Pacitti is the Founder and Partner at Elsewhere Partners. He was a Founding Partner at AVX Partners. He attended The Johns Hopkins University.
- Total investments:
- 56
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 52%
Last updated:
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Industries Chris Pacitti invests in
SoftwareEnterprise SoftwareInformation TechnologyAnalyticsConsulting
Stages Chris Pacitti invests in
Series ASeries BSeries CFunding RoundSeries D
Countries Chris Pacitti invests in
United StatesIsraelUnited Kingdom
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 13 (23%)
- Enterprise Software 7 (13%)
- Information Technology 6 (11%)
- Analytics 3 (5%)
- Consulting 3 (5%)
Stage
- Series A 15 (27%)
- Series B 14 (25%)
- Series C 11 (20%)
- Funding Round 4 (7%)
- Series D 2 (4%)
Country
- United States 21 (38%)
- Israel 1 (2%)
- United Kingdom 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Learnsoft reimagined organizational learning and compliance training software with a powerful and innovative fully automated and configurable LMS and TMS platform. Our technology eliminates time-consuming onboarding, programming and administration processes so that employees can easily learn and go and provides managers with real-time statustransparency. | $16.7M / Series A / Sep 01, 2022 | ||
| Grey Matter or greymatter.io, is an intelligent mesh platform for enterprise microservice, container, and hybrid cloud operations and management. Our focus on enabling enterprise governance, risk and compliance by leveraging the service mesh technologies for the development to day 2 AI Ops lifecycle. Our platform delivers reliable secure networkperformance, service level management and business intelligence, resource control, automation, and cost efficiency for the enterprise. Grey Matter is a pathway to enterprise modernization and cost control, providing interlacing service control, data management, and neural net functions designed to optimize enterprise distributed systems ROI and TCO.Grey Matter facilitates the management of distributed microservice workloads, controls network traffic, and smartly scales infrastructure to meet business demands. The capture and analysis of over 100 telemetry types powers onboard service level management and control. Our customers rely on Grey Matter’s speed, security, and reliability for critical distributed cloud management and data discovery, storage, and global sharing requirements. An industrial AI software pathway to intent-based networking and AIOps, the platform is also designed to optimize enterprise network availability and performance through AI neural network analysis, enabling AIOps for contextual awareness and intelligent network monitoring. | $7.1M / Series A / Apr 14, 2022 | ||
| BackBox is the provider of solutions for automated backup and recovery software for security and network devices.BackBox is the simple way to backup and restores device configurations, offering centralized management for all your security and network device configurations in a single application with a convenient real-time dashboard.WithBackBox, you can schedule automatic configuration backups and monitor them easily from an intuitive dashboard interface. BackBox can also be set up to alert administrators if backups have not been performed. Furthermore, when BackBox performs its automatic network configuration backup procedures, it verifies that they’ve been done correctly | $32M / Series A / Oct 26, 2021 | ||
| Veros Systems enables industrial customers to maximize production by providing actionable intelligence on their electrically-driven machines.Their web-based Predictive Intelligence Platform uses completely nonintrusive monitors that can be installed in hours. PIP offers real-time predictive reliability and energy efficiency intelligence onelectromechanical systems, and seamlessly integrates with leading Enterprise Asset Management applications. At last, engineers, managers, and executives have a means to see the future: to plan better, reduce costs, and improve a facility’s overall availability. | $2.2M / Series C / Jun 11, 2020 | ||
| Vyze is a financial technology leader in consumer financing solutions. NCL helps merchants launch and implement innovative lending programs that provide more consumers with the financing options they want and need. NCL’s simple solutions deliver increased sales and a better consumer financing experience while giving retailers and manufacturersgreater control over their lending options. | $13.1M / Series C / Aug 11, 2017 | ||
| Vyze is a financial technology leader in consumer financing solutions. NCL helps merchants launch and implement innovative lending programs that provide more consumers with the financing options they want and need. NCL’s simple solutions deliver increased sales and a better consumer financing experience while giving retailers and manufacturersgreater control over their lending options. | $13M / Series B / Jun 02, 2016 | ||
| Bloomfire is a knowledge engagement platform that enables and empowers teams to tap into their organization’s collective intelligence. Bloomfire gives organizations one centralized, searchable place to collect, find and democratize knowledge and insights. Its purpose-built knowledge solution makes it simple for brands like Burberry, Capital One,Conagra, Jackson Hewitt, Metlife and Lubrizol, to find, contribute to, and manage company knowledge so that employees have the information they need to do their jobs. | $12.8M / Series B / May 19, 2016 | ||
| Donuts Inc is the registry of next generation domain names. With nearly 200 top-level domains, and millions of registrants, Donuts offers a wide variety of clear and meaningful names that represent your identity online in the best possible way. Whether looking for business identifiers (.ltd), navigation (.support), vertical market specifics(.builders) or broad-based generics (.world), their portfolio offers unequaled precision and differentiation. Using their industry-first DPML product, they also work with a large majority of the top global brands to protect their trademarks online. With office locations in Seattle, Washington DC, Los Angeles, London and Hong Kong, they sell their products through the world's leading registrars and resellers, including Go Daddy, Alibaba and 1and1. | $54M / Series C / Apr 21, 2015 | ||
| Veros Systems enables industrial customers to maximize production by providing actionable intelligence on their electrically-driven machines.Their web-based Predictive Intelligence Platform uses completely nonintrusive monitors that can be installed in hours. PIP offers real-time predictive reliability and energy efficiency intelligence onelectromechanical systems, and seamlessly integrates with leading Enterprise Asset Management applications. At last, engineers, managers, and executives have a means to see the future: to plan better, reduce costs, and improve a facility’s overall availability. | $3M / Series A / Jul 02, 2014 | ||
| Edgecase (formerly Compare Metrics) is the platform behind today’s most inspiring shopping experiences. By allowing shoppers to communicate their unique preferences, context and shopping style, we empower them to discover products on their own terms.Using a proprietary combination of machine learning and human content curation, the Edgecaseplatform enables shopping experiences as unique as the brands we work with. Our solutions integrate new and evolving layers of merchandising data to fuel product discovery, omni-channel engagement and online experiences that today's shoppers crave.Edgecase was founded in 2012 and is based in Austin, Texas. Our team is made up of experts in retail technology, machine learning and natural language processing. Together, we’re committed to creating memorable shopping experiences and propelling what's next in retail. Forward-thinking retailers using Edgecase include: Crate and Barrel, Golfsmith, Kate Somerville, Rebecca Minkoff, Urban Decay, and The Wasserstrom Company. | $3.9M / Series B / May 14, 2014 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Austin Ventures
Austin Ventures is a venture capital and private equity company that specializes in partnering with talented executives and entrepreneurs to build companies. It was founded in 1984 and headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Austin Ventures Contacts
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Joe Aragona
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Ken DeAngelis
General Partner
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Chris Pacitti
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FAQ
What does Chris Pacitti invest in?
Chris Pacitti invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 56 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 Chris Pacitti last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Chris Pacitti closed in Sep 2022. Shizune tracks 56 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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