# Focus Ventures

> Focus Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 69 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 69
- Last investment: Jun 2021
- Lead investor: 32%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/focusventures
- Website: http://www.focusventures.com

Focus Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers early- and later-stage investment services to firms in the software, communications, semiconductors, and internet industries. It was founded in 1996 and is based in California.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 19 | 28% |
| Enterprise Software | 13 | 19% |
| Internet | 9 | 13% |
| Security | 7 | 10% |
| Telecommunications | 7 | 10% |

91 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series D | 17 | 25% |
| Series C | 14 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 13 | 19% |
| Series E | 8 | 12% |
| Series B | 4 | 6% |

9 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ananth Rao | CEO & Managing Director | 0 | — |
| Jim Boettcher | General Partner & Co-founder | 1 | — |
| Kevin McQuillan | General Partner and Co-founder | 4 | — |
| Steven Bird | General Partner | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| EIS Group | EIS Group is focused on providing IT solutions that enable companies to convert their technology into strategic assets. Its solutions leverage companies existing IT infrastructure to automate and streamline operations to enable straight-through processing for Insurance, banking, communication, and public sector enterprises.The company was foundedin 1999 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $100M | Private Equity | Jun 29, 2021 |  |
| Shape Security | Shape provides defense against malicious automated cyber-attacks on web and mobile applications. Shape has deflected over $1B in fraud losses for major retailers, financial institutions, airlines, and government agencies. Shape Security is headquartered in Silicon Valley and backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Norwest VenturePartners, Venrock, Baseline Ventures, Google Ventures, WING VC and a host of other prominent investors.Shape was founded in 2011 to disrupt automated attacks on web and mobile applications. | $26M | Series E | Nov 01, 2018 |  |
| Reputation | Reputation.com delivers an Online Reputation Management (ORM) platform for large enterprises with hundreds or thousands of locations. The platform provides a 360-degree view of online reputation and allows clients to manage online reviews, social media, business listings, and customer surveys. Its advanced analytics and reporting capabilitiesdeliver valuable operational insights that help clients be more efficient, deliver better service and drive traffic, visits, and revenue.Businesses can also gain valuable insights at the local level that will give it the information needed to make operational changes to maximize customer retention and revenue.Reputation.com was founded on 2006 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California. | $20M |  | Jan 05, 2017 |  |
| Reputation | Reputation.com delivers an Online Reputation Management (ORM) platform for large enterprises with hundreds or thousands of locations. The platform provides a 360-degree view of online reputation and allows clients to manage online reviews, social media, business listings, and customer surveys. Its advanced analytics and reporting capabilitiesdeliver valuable operational insights that help clients be more efficient, deliver better service and drive traffic, visits, and revenue.Businesses can also gain valuable insights at the local level that will give it the information needed to make operational changes to maximize customer retention and revenue.Reputation.com was founded on 2006 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California. | $21.9M | Series A | Jan 05, 2017 |  |
| Apigee | Apigee is a provider of API technology and services for enterprises and developers. The platform gives enterprises control over and visibility into the APIs that connect applications and data, across the enterprise and across clouds. Hundreds of companies including Walgreens, Bechtel, eBay, Pearson, and Gilt Groupe as well as tens of thousands ofdevelopers use Apigee to simplify the delivery, management and analysis of APIs and apps.Apigee's global headquarters are in Palo Alto, California, and it also has offices in Bangalore, India; London; and Austin, Texas. | $60M |  | Apr 29, 2014 |  |
| Apigee | Apigee is a provider of API technology and services for enterprises and developers. The platform gives enterprises control over and visibility into the APIs that connect applications and data, across the enterprise and across clouds. Hundreds of companies including Walgreens, Bechtel, eBay, Pearson, and Gilt Groupe as well as tens of thousands ofdevelopers use Apigee to simplify the delivery, management and analysis of APIs and apps.Apigee's global headquarters are in Palo Alto, California, and it also has offices in Bangalore, India; London; and Austin, Texas. | $35M | Series F | Jul 31, 2013 |  |
| Apigee | Apigee is a provider of API technology and services for enterprises and developers. The platform gives enterprises control over and visibility into the APIs that connect applications and data, across the enterprise and across clouds. Hundreds of companies including Walgreens, Bechtel, eBay, Pearson, and Gilt Groupe as well as tens of thousands ofdevelopers use Apigee to simplify the delivery, management and analysis of APIs and apps.Apigee's global headquarters are in Palo Alto, California, and it also has offices in Bangalore, India; London; and Austin, Texas. | $20M | Series E | Jul 24, 2012 |  |
| SAY Media | Say Media is a digital publishing company. Through its award-winning Tempest publishing platform and media services, Say Media enables its portfolio of independent content creators to build passionate communities around key consumer interest areas such as Style, Living, Food and Tech. The company provides simple and accountable ways for the world’stop brands to engage with these passionate audiences, at scale, with a reach of more than 400 million people around the world. Say Media is headquartered in San Francisco and New York, with offices across North America, in the UK and Australia. | $27M |  | Jul 19, 2012 |  |
| Sojern | Sojern provides digital marketing solutions for the travel industry. Powered by artificial intelligence and traveler intent data, Sojern activates multi-channel marketing solutions to drive direct demand. More than 10,000 hotels, attractions, tourism boards and travel marketers rely on Sojern to engage and convert travelers around the world. | $7.5M | Series B | Mar 27, 2012 |  |
| Hara | Haraʼs enterprise software platform for energy andsustainability management dramatically reduces energy costs and risks to substantially improve operating profits andenhance sustainability. Haraʼs more than 50 customers span global multi-national and public sector organizations including: Avaya, Aflac, Alcatel-Lucent, Bloomberg, Dell,Diebold, eBay, HP, Hasbro, Harvard University, Intuit, News Corporation, Safeway, Tishman Speyer, Union Bank, U.S. Bank and the cities of Las Vegas, Palo Alto and Philadelphia. For more information: www.hara.com. | $25M | Series C | May 17, 2011 |  |

10 of 69 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Norwest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/norwest-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Integral Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/integral-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Benchmark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benchmark) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Focus Ventures invest in?

Focus Ventures invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Internet startups, most often at Series D and Series C stage. Most of the 69 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Focus Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Focus Ventures?

The team at Focus Ventures includes Ananth Rao (CEO & Managing Director), Jim Boettcher (General Partner & Co-founder) and Kevin McQuillan (General Partner and Co-founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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