# Ed Anderson

> Ed Anderson is a Series A investor at North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity backing Big Data. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/north-bridge-venture-partners)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jul 2018
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-anderson-10363620/

Ed Anderson is a Series A investor at North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity in Boston focused on Big Data and Analytics. For the past 25 years, Ed Anderson has provided financing and advised entrepreneurs who are focused on building game-changing companies. Ed's involvement almost always starts with a modest seed investment.Over the past three decades, Ed has had the good fortune to be involved as a seed or first round investor and director in some of thecommunications industry's most successful start-ups including: Arris Networks (Cascade), Arrowpoint Communications (public), Broadband Access Systems (ADC Telecom), Camiant Networks (Tekelec), Cascade Communications (public), NetCore Systems (Tellabs), New Oak Communications (Bay Networks), Redstone Communications (Siemens), Sonus Networks (public), Spring Tide Networks (Lucent), Starent Networks (public), Sycamore Networks (public), SQA (public), Wellfleet Communications (public) and Winphoria Networks (Motorola).Ed is a graduate of the University of Denver and Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He has numerous philanthropic interests outside of North Bridge.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 2 | 20% |
| Analytics | 2 | 20% |
| CRM | 1 | 10% |
| Mobile | 1 | 10% |
| Software | 1 | 10% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 30% |
| Series B | 3 | 30% |
| Series D | 2 | 20% |
| Series C | 1 | 10% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cazena | Cazena is a stealthy startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz and North Bridge Venture Partners that has yet to reveal any details regarding its product. Cazena is founded by some of the former leaders from data warehouse optimization startup Netezza. | $10M | Corporate Round | Jul 24, 2018 |  |
| Aquto | Aquto is a cloud-based service that enables operators to monetize their mobile cellular internet data connectivity. It specializes in the fields of sponsored data, mobile data monetization, mobile network operator, and digital media advertising. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $8M | Series B | Oct 07, 2015 |  |
| Cazena | Cazena is a stealthy startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz and North Bridge Venture Partners that has yet to reveal any details regarding its product. Cazena is founded by some of the former leaders from data warehouse optimization startup Netezza. | $20M | Series B | Jul 22, 2015 |  |
| Cazena | Cazena is a stealthy startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz and North Bridge Venture Partners that has yet to reveal any details regarding its product. Cazena is founded by some of the former leaders from data warehouse optimization startup Netezza. | $8M | Series A | Oct 20, 2014 |  |
| Anova Data (Formerly Zettics) | Zettics delivers a 360° understanding of data usage, enabling operators to extract greater value from their subscriber relationships and networks while allowing the operator to fully comply with subscriber privacy policies. Zettics enables operators to monetize data with third parties, understand trends in data usage, enrich their CRM systems,identify network abuse, analyze pricing plans, enhance advertising offers, reduce churn, forecast network usage growth, and more. Zettics products deliver over 60 use cases that provide a significant return on investment to operators. | $8.2M | Series D | Jul 24, 2013 |  |
| Aquto | Aquto is a cloud-based service that enables operators to monetize their mobile cellular internet data connectivity. It specializes in the fields of sponsored data, mobile data monetization, mobile network operator, and digital media advertising. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $8M | Series A | Mar 01, 2012 |  |
| Anova Data (Formerly Zettics) | Zettics delivers a 360° understanding of data usage, enabling operators to extract greater value from their subscriber relationships and networks while allowing the operator to fully comply with subscriber privacy policies. Zettics enables operators to monetize data with third parties, understand trends in data usage, enrich their CRM systems,identify network abuse, analyze pricing plans, enhance advertising offers, reduce churn, forecast network usage growth, and more. Zettics products deliver over 60 use cases that provide a significant return on investment to operators. | $8M | Series C | Jul 14, 2011 |  |
| Aylus Networks | Aylus Networks, Inc. provides multimedia sharing solutions for mobile networks. It develops MediaShare, a technology that allows wireless carriers to deploy communications experiences, including video blogging, video sharing, and video telephony for various underlying wireless networks and platforms. Aylus Networks, Inc. was founded in 2005 andis based in Westford, Massachusetts. | $16M | Series D | Jun 15, 2011 |  |
| Aylus Networks | Aylus Networks, Inc. provides multimedia sharing solutions for mobile networks. It develops MediaShare, a technology that allows wireless carriers to deploy communications experiences, including video blogging, video sharing, and video telephony for various underlying wireless networks and platforms. Aylus Networks, Inc. was founded in 2005 andis based in Westford, Massachusetts. | $15M | Series B | Jun 13, 2007 |  |
| Aylus Networks | Aylus Networks, Inc. provides multimedia sharing solutions for mobile networks. It develops MediaShare, a technology that allows wireless carriers to deploy communications experiences, including video blogging, video sharing, and video telephony for various underlying wireless networks and platforms. Aylus Networks, Inc. was founded in 2005 andis based in Westford, Massachusetts. | $10M | Series A | Jan 01, 2005 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Matrix](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matrix-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Formation 8](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/formation8) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Steamboat Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steamboat-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Voyager Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/voyager-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Emergence Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emergence-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity

VC Fund · Wellesley, United States

North Bridge provides seed-to-growth stage funding for businesses in several sectors such as software, communications and infrastructure, digital media, healthcare, and material production.North Bridge Venture Partners invests in exceptional people whose ideas have the potential to disrupt the way they live and work. They provide seed-to-growthfinancing to help transform those ideas into companies and those companies into market leaders.

5 contacts available at North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-mccarthy |
| Bill Burgess | Operating Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-burgess |
| Carmichael Roberts | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carmichael-roberts |
| Christopher E. Cavanagh | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-e-cavanagh |
| Ed Anderson | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ed-anderson |

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## FAQ

### What does Ed Anderson invest in?

Ed Anderson invests primarily in Big Data, Analytics and CRM startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ed Anderson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ed Anderson closed in Jul 2018. Shizune tracks 10 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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