# El Dorado Ventures

> El Dorado Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 41 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 41
- Last investment: Oct 2017
- Lead investor: 24%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/eldoradovc
- Website: http://www.eldorado.com

El Dorado Ventures is a VC fund in Menlo Park focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Founded in 1986, El Dorado Ventures (EDV) is a leading early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive technologies and business models in emerging and high-growth markets, across a broad range of sectors including software, technology-enabled services, communications and emerging technology.El Dorado has a two-decade track recordof successful early-stage technology investing, including early investments in Compellent Technologies, Cyras Systems, EarthLink, Efficient Networks, Novellus and NuSpeed Internet Systems. Numerous EDV portfolio companies have gone public or been acquired by major technology companies, including AT&T, Ciena, Cisco Systems, nVidia, Siemens and Texas Instruments.With more than $750 million in capital under management, EDV has a stable group of institutional investors, most of whom have invested with EDV for more than a decade. EDV's limited partners also include a select group of successful entrepreneurs and other technology luminaries, known as EDV's Technology Partner Network, who play an active role as strategic consultants to EDV and its portfolio companies.El Dorado's team of investment professionals is cycle-tested, accessible and easy to work with. EDV's General Partners get directly involved in investment decisions early in the process, providing entrepreneurs with valuable and rapid feedback as EDV moves toward making its investment decision.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 32% |
| Enterprise Software | 11 | 27% |
| Internet | 6 | 15% |
| Manufacturing | 4 | 10% |
| Cloud Computing | 4 | 10% |

73 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 13 | 32% |
| Series A | 8 | 20% |
| Series B | 6 | 15% |
| Series D | 6 | 15% |
| Series E | 2 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 27 | 66% |
| India | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Robert Chiste | Executive in Residence | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-chiste |
| Charles Beeler | General Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-beeler |
| Tom Peterson | General Partner | 22 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-peterson-4 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HiveIO | HiveIO provides the value and simplicity of the Public Cloud to private data center clients and MSPs at half the cost and twice the performance. HiveIO’s unique zero-layer architecture natively includes built-in security and eliminates the need for proprietary hardware, which allows customers the ability to leverage commodity computing. Our uniqueMessage Bus Architecture is Artificial Intelligence ready, used by many customers to interface into Watson and Open AI. HiveIO Fabric™ architecture is used by customers across multiple verticals with diverse workload types including VDI, VSI, Grid Compute and Hadoop environments. HiveIO Fabric™ replaces expensive hardware, complex licensing and vendor bloat with streamlined and disruptive Swarm-based nodes that predictively scale and auto heal. The value of HiveIO Fabric™ is that organizations of all sizes can implement a holistic, easy to use end-to-end stack that provides computing at a significantly reduced cost. |  | Series B | Oct 11, 2017 |  |
| Beckon | Beckon is The Source of Truth for Marketing™—enterprise software that delivers clean, trusted data and real-time marketing intelligence for agile decisions at the speed and scale of modern marketing. The first platform to combine data best practices with marketing best practices, Beckon provides automated data management, total visibility intocross-channel marketing performance, integrated campaign planning, omnichannel analytics, real-time dashboards and scorecards, and marketing KPIs right out of the box for fast time to value. Beckon is for marketers who want to bring order to messy data, see what’s working across it all, spend wisely, maximize ROI, and tell the story of marketing’s impact on the business. | $8M | Series A | Feb 01, 2014 |  |
| SportsEngine | SportsEngine is the leading provider of web software and mobile applications for youth, amateur and professional sports. Powering more than 500,000 sports teams, leagues, clubs, and associations, SportsEngine features a complete suite of easy-to-use tools that help sports organizations manage, connect, and communicate with a diverse range ofstakeholders including athletes, parents, administrators, coaches, referees, scouts, volunteers, fans, journalists, and sponsors. | $6M | Series C | Apr 02, 2013 |  |
| LockPath, Inc. | LockPath is a market leader in corporate governance, risk management, regulatory compliance (GRC) and information security (InfoSec) software. Built on the patented Dynamic Content Framework (DCF), LockPath’s flexible, scalable and fully integrated suite of applications is used by organizations to automate business processes, reduce enterprise riskand demonstrate regulatory compliance to achieve audit-ready status. The applications are designed to manage all facets of compliance and information security programs, including policies and procedures, risk assessment and mitigation, incident tracking and remediation, vulnerability management, third-party management, business continuity planning and audit preparation.LockPath serves a client base of global organizations ranging from small and midsize companies to Fortune 10 enterprises in more than 15 industries. LockPath is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas. Visit http://www.lockpath.com for more information. | $6M | Series B | Jul 16, 2012 |  |
| Tower Cloud | Tower Cloud provides telecom backhaul services to wireless carriers. The company builds and operates fiber optic and wireless networks to connect cellular towers to the wireless carriers' mobile switching centers. Wireless carriers utilize Ethernet and Sonet T-1 broadband capacity provided by Tower Cloud to manage the exploding volume of voiceand data traffic on their cellular networks. Tower Cloud currently operates backhaul networks in the greater Orlando, FL and Miami, FL markets and is in the process of constructing a new network in Atlanta, GA. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in St. Petersburg, FL. | $17M |  | Jun 26, 2012 |  |
| Badgeville | Badgeville is the leading business gamification company with hundreds of global brand customers. With its unique combination of in-app gamification, SaaS platform and big data analytics, Badgeville is building the future of work. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Silicon Valley. Based in Redwood, CA, the Badgeville teamincludes experts from Zynga, Playdom, Omniture, Google, Salesforce.com, Amazon, WebEx, Microsoft and more. Badgeville investors are InterWest Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Trinity Ventures and El Dorado Ventures.To learn more, follow @Badgeville or visit www.badgeville.com. |  | Series C | May 30, 2012 |  |
| Coupa | 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 |  |
| Joyent | Joyent, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung, helps its customers build and operate modern cloud native applications across multiple clouds. With Joyent, users can experience a new level of operational dexterity and control by leveraging a single infrastructure for managed private cloud, on-premise cloud, or managed hardware cloud, or acombination. It is the cloud infrastructure that delivers bare-metal performance from a virtual machine, enabling applications to run faster and more reliably than on traditional public or private cloud infrastructure. In addition, as the corporate steward of Node.js, Joyent offers exclusive debugging and performance tools for Node.js applications. These capabilities, combined with its expertise and global support, transform companies’ ability to manage and scale cloud applications.Joyent was founded in 2004 by Dean Allen, Jason Hoffman, & David Young. It is headquartered in San Francisco, C.A. | $85M | Series D | Jan 23, 2012 |  |
| Enstratius | Enstratius(Formerly Enstratus) provides cloud infrastructure management for public, private, and hybrid cloud operations aligned with enterprise governance and security needs. Enstratius provides users with a single access-controlled view across all corporate cloud resources. Users with the appropriate access rights may directly provision virtualmachines across multiple clouds or they can deploy fully-automated applications from a cloud-independent service catalog.Features of Enstratius include: self-service provisioning/de-provisioning of cloud resources, multi-currency cost/chargeback tracking, customizable role-based access controls, single login to manage all cloud resources, support for enterprise authentication systems including SAML 2.0 and OpenID, automated encryption of all cloud data in transit and at rest with all keys stored outside of the cloud, full application automation including auto-scaling, auto-recovery, cloud bursting, and disaster recovery, and a service catalog of pre-configured applications with the ability to publish your own.Enstratius supports the following public clouds: Amazon Web Services, AT&T Synaptic Storage, Bluelock, Cloud Central, CloudSigma, GoGrid, Google Storage, IBM, Microsoft Azure Storage, NTT, Rackspace, and Terremark.Enstratius supports the following private cloud platforms: Atmos Storage, Citrix/Cloud.com, [Eucalyptus], [Nimbula], OpenStack, and Zimory. | $3.5M | Series A | Nov 07, 2011 |  |
| Badgeville | Badgeville is the leading business gamification company with hundreds of global brand customers. With its unique combination of in-app gamification, SaaS platform and big data analytics, Badgeville is building the future of work. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Silicon Valley. Based in Redwood, CA, the Badgeville teamincludes experts from Zynga, Playdom, Omniture, Google, Salesforce.com, Amazon, WebEx, Microsoft and more. Badgeville investors are InterWest Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Trinity Ventures and El Dorado Ventures.To learn more, follow @Badgeville or visit www.badgeville.com. | $12.2M | Series B | Jul 12, 2011 |  |

10 of 41 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does El Dorado Ventures invest in?

El Dorado Ventures invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Internet startups, most often at Series C and Series A stage. Most of the 41 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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### Who are the partners at El Dorado Ventures?

The team at El Dorado Ventures includes Robert Chiste (Executive in Residence), Charles Beeler (General Partner) and Tom Peterson (General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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