Dan Avida
General Partner @ Opus Capital
San Francisco, United States
Dan Avida is a Series A investor at Opus Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. A General Partner at Opus Capital, Dan Avida has 16 years experience building successful companies and guiding them through to profitable outcomes. Dan specializes in the developing systems, cloud and enterprise infrastructure and applications, solutions for the post-PC world, security, and next generation collaboration platforms.Most recently,Dan was President and CEO of Decru Inc., a pioneering storage security company that Dan co-founded in 2001. Decru was acquired for $272.5M by Network Appliance (NASDAQ: NTAP) in 2005.In 1989, Dan was a founding member of Electronics for Imaging (NASDAQ: EFII). Under Dan’s leadership, EFI experienced five years of dramatic, consecutive growth, placing the company on Business Week, Fortune and Forbes lists of fastest growing companies, and on the Nasdaq 100 index.Dan holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, where he graduated summa cum laude. Dan has five granted patents.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
Last updated:
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Industries Dan Avida invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (28%)
- Information Technology 5 (28%)
- Enterprise Software 4 (22%)
- Big Data 2 (11%)
- Cloud Computing 2 (11%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (33%)
- Series D 4 (22%)
- Series B 2 (11%)
- Series C 2 (11%)
- Series E 2 (11%)
Country
- United States 9 (50%)
- Israel 1 (6%)
Investments
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| Sisense goes beyond traditional business intelligence by providing organizations with the ability to infuse analytics everywhere, embedded in both customer facing applications and employee-facing workflows. Sisense customers are breaking through the barriers of analytic adoption by going beyond the dashboard with Sisense Fusion - the highlycustomizable, AI-driven analytics cloud platform, that infuses intelligence at the right place and the right time, every time. More than 2,000 global companies such as GitLab, UiPath, Tinder, Nasdaq, GE, Rolls Royce and Philips Healthcare rely on Sisense to innovate, disrupt markets and drive meaningful change in the world. Ranked as the No. 1 Business Intelligence company in terms of customer success, Sisense has also been named one of the Forbes’ Cloud 100, The World’s Best Cloud Companies, five years in a row. | $80M / Series E / Sep 11, 2018 | ||
| Panzura empowers today’s digital-first organizations to do impossible things with file data, making them more agile, efficient, and productive. They trust Panzura to help them consolidate dispersed data, see and manage data in and out of the cloud, make it more cyber-resilient and AI ready, and ensure it is available to people and processes exactlywhere and when it’s needed. Discover how Panzura can fuel your success at panzura.com | $32M / Series E / Jan 10, 2017 | ||
| Sisense goes beyond traditional business intelligence by providing organizations with the ability to infuse analytics everywhere, embedded in both customer facing applications and employee-facing workflows. Sisense customers are breaking through the barriers of analytic adoption by going beyond the dashboard with Sisense Fusion - the highlycustomizable, AI-driven analytics cloud platform, that infuses intelligence at the right place and the right time, every time. More than 2,000 global companies such as GitLab, UiPath, Tinder, Nasdaq, GE, Rolls Royce and Philips Healthcare rely on Sisense to innovate, disrupt markets and drive meaningful change in the world. Ranked as the No. 1 Business Intelligence company in terms of customer success, Sisense has also been named one of the Forbes’ Cloud 100, The World’s Best Cloud Companies, five years in a row. | $50M / Series D / Jan 07, 2016 | ||
| Sisense goes beyond traditional business intelligence by providing organizations with the ability to infuse analytics everywhere, embedded in both customer facing applications and employee-facing workflows. Sisense customers are breaking through the barriers of analytic adoption by going beyond the dashboard with Sisense Fusion - the highlycustomizable, AI-driven analytics cloud platform, that infuses intelligence at the right place and the right time, every time. More than 2,000 global companies such as GitLab, UiPath, Tinder, Nasdaq, GE, Rolls Royce and Philips Healthcare rely on Sisense to innovate, disrupt markets and drive meaningful change in the world. Ranked as the No. 1 Business Intelligence company in terms of customer success, Sisense has also been named one of the Forbes’ Cloud 100, The World’s Best Cloud Companies, five years in a row. | $30M / Series C / Jun 12, 2014 | ||
| Clarizen is a global leader in collaborative work management software, bringing together cross-company project management, configurable workflow automation, in-context collaboration, and a tailored, role-based experience, all built on a secure, scalable enterprise platform. Clarizen simplifies work, reduces communication overload, and providesextensive visibility at any level of the enterprise, so everyone can work more effectively, adapt to changes, and achieve their objectives. | $35M / Series F / May 21, 2014 | ||
| Crittercism, based in San Francisco, California, is the company behind the world’s first mobile application performance management (mAPM) solution.The company’s flagship product monitors every aspect of mobile app performance, allowing Developers, IT Operations and Product Managers to deliver high performing, highly reliable, highly resourcefulmobile apps.Crittercism provides a real-time global view of app diagnostics across iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8, Hybrid and HTML5 apps and is used on more than 600 million unique devices and in more than 100 billion app sessions.The company’s investors include Google Ventures, Opus Capital and Shasta Ventures. Crittercism was part of ** | $30M / Series C / May 04, 2014 | ||
| SolarEdge Technologies, a global leader in the DC power optimizer market. The company provides module-level electronics for solar power harvesting and monitoring systems for residential, commercial and utility-scale solar photovoltaic installers. The SolarEdge portfolio of products includes power optimizers and a web portal for module-leveloptimization and monitoring, as well as PV inverters, specialized to work with power optimizers. SolarEdge envisions that every solar module will be individually managed by DC-DC module-level electronics, accelerating the pace towards grid parity and making clean energy affordable.Founded in 2006, SolarEdge established the DC power optimizer segment and is leading it with over 70% market share. By Q4 2012, SolarEdge has shipped over 1,600,000 power optimizers to more than 40 countries worldwide. With strategic partnerships across the PV value-chain from module manufacturers to integrators, SolarEdge installations can be found in five continents. | $58M / Series D / Mar 31, 2014 | ||
| CyberSense is a provider of cloud-based and on-premises cybersecurity solutions. Some of the world’s leading Global 2000 enterprises serving the financial services, national critical infrastructure, retail, healthcare, pharmaceutical and other industries rely on CyberSense to strengthen their IT ecosystems and reduce the risk of costly anddisruptive compromises, data breaches and compliance violations. With the CyberSense360 platform, Global 2000 enterprises are able to detect and analyze zero-day, undetected malware in use by the world’s most destructive Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) organizations, build threat profiles, block attacks and automatically remediate damage inflicted on IT ecosystems. CyberSense360 traps zero-day malware in its virtualized sensor network of honey pots and next-generation malware traps before the malware can inflict significant damage to customers’ data centers or cloud deployments. | $5M / Series A / Feb 26, 2014 | ||
| Insightera provides a cutting edge, real-time inbound marketing platform that accelerates B2B customer acquisition. | $5M / Series A / Jun 27, 2013 | ||
| GainSpan brings Ultra-low-power Wi-Fi to sensors and embedded applications. The company's semiconductor solutions break new ground in Wi-Fi applications by enabling years of battery life for Wi-Fi sensors and other devices.In September of 2006, a core team of engineers and thought leaders spun off from Intel Corporation to form EmphanySystems, later GainSpan. The vision was simple... enable and accelerate the adoption of new wireless usage models for sensor network applications using an existing widely deployed standard technology.The challenge was daunting... while wireless sensor networks have seen steady growth over the past few years, their market potential has, in fact, been hindered by power consumption issues and lack of mature standards based solutions.The solution was innovative... new Wi-Fi semiconductor and software solutions that enable sensors and other devices to run up to 10 years on a single AA battery. This allows users to leverage the global Wi-Fi infrastructure, existing tools and knowledge investments, for new applications such as temperature monitoring for energy management, condition monitoring of industrial equipment in manufacturing plants or streetlights in metro areas. | $19M / Series D / Jun 26, 2013 | ||
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What does Dan Avida invest in?
Dan Avida invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series A and Series D stage. Most of the 18 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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