# Courtney Broadus

> Courtney Broadus is a seed investor at Operator Collective backing Software and SaaS. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Operator Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/operator-collective)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Aug 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtneybroadus/

Courtney Broadus is a seed investor at Operator Collective in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Courtney Broadus is the Investor & Member at Broadway Angels.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $230k–$2M |
| Series A | $9.4M–$25M |
| Series B | $12M–$24M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 29% |
| SaaS | 4 | 24% |
| Apps | 3 | 18% |
| Mobile | 3 | 18% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 18% |

57 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 41% |
| Series A | 7 | 41% |
| Series B | 2 | 12% |
| Series C | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nightfall | Nightfall is a cloud data protection platform for every application that uses machine learning to identify and detect business-critical data. It also automatically fixes data exposure and hygiene issues without end-user impact. Its comprehensive SaaS data protection platform and the Nightfall Developer Platform, which is an open, flexible platformfor developers to integrate its data classification and protection capabilities anywhere, deliver its detection engine as a set of cloud-hosted APIs and SDKs, helping users to save time and keep business safe. | $20.3M | Series A | Nov 07, 2019 |  |
| Qordoba | Qordoba’s AI helps everyone at a company write with the same style, terminology, and brand voice. With Qordoba’s dynamic content guidelines, organizations can achieve consistency and clarity across all types of content — including communications and marketing, technical documentation, product, customer knowledge bases, HR and legal policies, andmore. Companies such as Intuit, Twitter, Braintree, Visa, and Marriott use Qordoba to empower their writers to create better content. We were named a CNBC Upstart 100 company in 2019 and one of Forbes’ Cloud 100 Rising Stars in 2018.Visit qordoba.com to learn more. | $11.5M | Series B | Oct 11, 2018 |  |
| System1 Biosciences | System1 Biosciences, Inc., is a San Francisco-based neurotherapeutics company that employs phenotypic screening to discover novel drugs for complex neurological and psychiatric diseases such as epilepsy, autism, and schizophrenia, disorders for which current discovery techniques have proved least successful. System1 combines cerebral organoidscience, systems neuroscience, robotic automation, and advanced data analytics to discover characterizations of disease never before achievable. These “deep phenotypes” are exploited to identify novel therapeutic targets and drug treatments. | $25M | Series A | Sep 12, 2018 |  |
| Lacework | Lacework is a security platform for cloud generation that provides automated threat defense and intrusion detection for cloud workloads. Its platform automates every aspect of security, including configuration assessment, behavior monitoring, anomaly, and threat detection as well as incident investigation and provides continuous monitoring of allcloud components such as workloads, applications, processes, containers, machines, users, and accounts that enable security teams to protect data and workloads in the cloud and maintain continuous compliance.The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California. | $24M | Series B | Aug 28, 2018 |  |
| Lacework | Lacework is a security platform for cloud generation that provides automated threat defense and intrusion detection for cloud workloads. Its platform automates every aspect of security, including configuration assessment, behavior monitoring, anomaly, and threat detection as well as incident investigation and provides continuous monitoring of allcloud components such as workloads, applications, processes, containers, machines, users, and accounts that enable security teams to protect data and workloads in the cloud and maintain continuous compliance.The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California. | $24M | Series A | Aug 28, 2018 |  |
| Unbound | Unbound is a sexual wellness company for women. The company makes and sells vibrators, lubricants,and accessories direct-to-consumer through their website. | $1M | Seed | Jun 20, 2018 |  |
| UrbanSitter | UrbanSitter uses members' existing networks to match families with babysitters... Babysitters post their credentials and availability. Parents search and book sitters online. Parents like to share their enthusiasm for sitters by writing reviews. The use of Facebook Connect and affiliation groups mimics community and trusted networksbetween families and sitters | $17M | Series C | Oct 05, 2017 |  |
| tCell | tCell is a next gen web app firewall for the cloud designed to overcome the limitations of traditional Web Application Firewalls. tCell’s technology provides unparalleled visibility into application behavior, dramatically reducing false positives, protects applications from attacks and provides actionable data to prevent future attacks. tCell’sadaptive deployment models enable Security and DevOps organizations to deploy industry leading security along side mission critical applications and is used by leading organizations like Veeva, Zenefits, and John Muir Health. tCell is funded by Menlo Ventures and lead by the executive teams from Splunk, Okta, and Skyhigh Networks. Learn more at tcell.io. | $9.4M | Series A | Oct 12, 2016 |  |
| Flutterwave | Flutterwave provides a payment infrastructure for merchants and payment service providers. They offer an online marketplace for businesses to list their products and services for sale. They provide payment tools, including a smart payment ordering system for businesses to accept payments. | $230K | Seed | Aug 15, 2016 |  |
| Binti | Binti builds modern software to help every child have a safe, loving, and stable family. 300+ child welfare agencies across 33 states use Binti's tools to care for over 30% of children in child welfare in the US. Our software covers the end-to-end of child welfare, from helping agencies efficiently recruit, license, and match foster parents,to supporting families of origin in getting back on their feet and reunifying with their children. Our products are designed specifically to address the complexities of child welfare. Agencies working with us have licensed 80% more families on average in their first year on Binti, with a 16% reduction in time to approve and 20-40% savings in social worker time. Binti is a for-profit, mission-driven company. Investors include Founders Fund, First Round Capital, Kapor Capital, and others. | $2M | Seed | Mar 20, 2015 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Webb Investment Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/webb-investment-network) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Aspect Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aspect-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DCVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/data-collective) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sutter Hill Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sutter-hill-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AAF Management Ltd.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aafmanagement) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Operator Collective

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Operator Collective represents a distinctive venture fund and community composed of seasoned enterprise leaders who have successfully built, scaled, and managed some of the most prominent technology companies in the industry.The organization introduced the Collective Venture Model, which enables operators to actively invest in emergingbusinesses. This innovative approach allows operators to expand their professional networks, advance their careers, and utilize their collective expertise and vast connections to drive growth in areas such as customer acquisition, talent development, and leadership enhancement.Operator Collective concentrates its investments on early-stage enterprise and B2B companies, where its network of operators can deliver substantial support to help teams scale efficiently. The fund prioritizes founders from diverse backgrounds who demonstrate humility, a dedication to lifelong learning, and a shared belief in the importance of culture, diversity, and operational excellence in building exceptional companies.

5 contacts available at Operator Collective.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pam Kostka | Operator In Residence and Limited Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pam-kostka |
| Susan Kim | Limited Partner Operator Collective | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/susan-kim |
| Allison Barr Allen | LP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allison-barr-allen |
| Ambrosia Vertesi | Operating Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ambrosia-humphrey |
| Amy Bohutinsky | Limited Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amy-bohutinsky |

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## FAQ

### What does Courtney Broadus invest in?

Courtney Broadus invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Courtney Broadus's check size?

Courtney Broadus typically joins rounds of $230k–$2M at Seed, $9.4M–$25M at Series A and $12M–$24M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Courtney Broadus participates in.

### When did Courtney Broadus last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Courtney Broadus closed in Aug 2018. Shizune tracks 17 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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