Gary Griffiths
Co-founder, managing director @ Wisdom LLP
Los Altos, United States
Gary Griffiths is a pre-seed investor at Wisdom LLP in Los Altos focused on SaaS and Enterprise Software. A 35-year veteran of the high-tech industry, Griffiths has led some of the web’s most innovative companies. Prior to co-founding Wisdom LLP, Griffiths was president and CEO of Trapit, Inc., the world's largest Wi-Fi network. iPass was acquired by Pareteum (NASDAQ: TEUM) in February 2019. Previously, Griffiths was president of products and operations at WebEx, acquired for $3B by Cisco Systems, Inc. Griffiths was also co-founder and CEO of Everdream Corporation, a SaaS company, from 1999 to 2005, as well as CEO at HEAT.net from 1996 until its acquisition by Sega, Inc. in 1999. Griffiths has extensive experience overseeing financial and accounting matters as well as strategic initiatives at small technology companies. Over his long career in high tech, he has founded and/or invested in several successful businesses. Investments include Rackable Systems (which acquired SGI, and then was acquired by HP in 2017), CubeTree (acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand), Biba (acquired by Amazon), Janrain (acquired by Akamai), and DataFox (acquired by Oracle). In addition, Griffiths was a pre-seed investor in Zoom Communications (NASDAQ: ZM), which had its IPO in April 2019. Griffiths holds a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the US Naval Academy, as well as a Masters of Science in business administration from the George Washington University School of Business..
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
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Industries Gary Griffiths invests in
Stages Gary Griffiths invests in
Countries Gary Griffiths invests in
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Round size
- Seed
- $400k–$5M
- Pre-Seed
- $325k–$500k
- Series A
- $515k–$3.3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 3 (23%)
- Enterprise Software 3 (23%)
- Information Technology 3 (23%)
- Messaging 2 (15%)
- Collaboration 2 (15%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 3 (23%)
- Series A 3 (23%)
- Seed 2 (15%)
- Angel 1 (8%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Meet Poppins— the only free AI-based email and text assistant for busy parents. Poppins has >5K users in <6 months, is growing at >50% MoM, and is already post-revenue. Poppins is founded by Namrata Singhal (ex-Harvard Business School) and is backed by Hustle Fund, Wisdom and multiple angel investors. | Pre-Seed / Mar 15, 2024 | ||
| Uptick is an AI-native market intelligence and investment workflow platform that empowers investment professionals to move faster from real-time market analytics to portfolio-aware insights, risk modeling, and mandate-aware ideas in seconds. Built on a multi-agent generative AI framework, Uptick transforms complex financial engineering intosimple, natural-language interactions. Investment teams no longer need deep quantitative expertise to access sophisticated analysis. By asking Uptick's conversational AI tools natural language questions, you unlock deeper investment insights, portfolio risk analysis, and scenario reasoning without requiring specialized technical skills. The platform streamlines research, risk management, and portfolio optimization into one integrated experience, enabling faster, data-backed decision-making across your team. | $400K / Seed / Feb 06, 2023 | ||
| Canvas GFX was founded on the vision of making complex product design accessible to people across manufacturing organizations. We transform the way people communicate and comprehend the products they make and how they come together. | $1.4M / Convertible Note / Jul 22, 2019 | ||
| DataFox is a company intelligence platform that helps sales, marketing, and investing teams find and prioritize target companies to source more opportunities. DataFox's team of 100+ human analysts verify AI-sourced insights on millions of businesses to provide robust Company Data, Growth Signals, and Account Scoring.Headquartered in SanFrancisco, CA, DataFox is backed by Goldman Sachs, Green Visor, Google Ventures, and Slack, and used by high-growth startups and Fortune 500 companies alike; examples include UPS, Accel Partners, Bain & Company, Twilio, Zendesk, and Outreach. | $5M / Seed / Jul 22, 2015 | ||
| Business Conferencing and Messaging Biba is a free, mobile-first business app that helps people get in touch instantly. We solve basic communication problems that plague people every day. Biba is elegant: it's frictionless, seamless and works across companies and devices. | $15M / Series B / Jun 25, 2013 | ||
| DataFox is a company intelligence platform that helps sales, marketing, and investing teams find and prioritize target companies to source more opportunities. DataFox's team of 100+ human analysts verify AI-sourced insights on millions of businesses to provide robust Company Data, Growth Signals, and Account Scoring.Headquartered in SanFrancisco, CA, DataFox is backed by Goldman Sachs, Green Visor, Google Ventures, and Slack, and used by high-growth startups and Fortune 500 companies alike; examples include UPS, Accel Partners, Bain & Company, Twilio, Zendesk, and Outreach. | $1.8M / Angel / Feb 01, 2013 | ||
| Business Conferencing and Messaging Biba is a free, mobile-first business app that helps people get in touch instantly. We solve basic communication problems that plague people every day. Biba is elegant: it's frictionless, seamless and works across companies and devices. | $515K / Series A / Feb 01, 2013 | ||
| TappIn, Inc., a subsidiary of GlobalSCAPE, is the leading innovator and award-winning provider of digital content access and sharing for mobile users. TappIn connects people to content and content to people. The TappIn cloud service makes available documents and rich media to mobile devices (including Apple iPhone® and iPad®, Google® AndroidTM andWindows® Phone 7) or web-browsers regardless of where files are stored - without having to upload and sync files or pay for additional online storage.Located in Seattle, WA, TappIn was founded in 2009 by a team of veterans with deep expertise in building sophisticated security and connectivity products that are simple and don't interfere with how people use their computers. These years of experience and know-how are fully incorporated into the TappIn solutions. TappIn is the recipient of numerous industry awards and accolades, including: the Golden Bridge Award for Best Mobile/Wireless Innovation, OnMobile One to Watch, 2011 Red Herring North America 100 finalist, Network Products Guide 2011 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards finalist and a Global Top Mobile 500 App by The Sunday Times. For more information or to try the free Lite Edition, visit http://www.TappIn.com. Follow TappIn on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/TAPPN and Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/Tapp_In. | $2.1M / Series A / Oct 06, 2011 | ||
| Zoom is a software company that offers a communications platform that connects people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing. It has an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, collaboration, chat, and webinars across mobile devices, desktops, telephones, and room systems. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Feb 05, 2010 | ||
| Founded in 2002 in Portland, Oregon, Janrain is the creator of the first customer identity and access management (CIAM) cloud. Janrain is also the inventor of social login and a founding member of the OpenID Foundation—establishing many of the digital authentication protocols used globally today. Janrain continues to lead the CIAM market today,with over half of the world’s connected users within its Identity Cloud network. We believe that each customer’s unique digital identity is their key to their personally connected world, which makes their identity the most valuable thing they own. Janrain is based in Portland, Oregon, with offices in London, Paris, and Redwood City, CA. For more information, please visit www.janrain.com and follow @janrain. | $3.3M / Series A / Dec 09, 2009 | ||
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About Wisdom LLP
We believe creativity doesn't stop at 30. And that experience requires time - and not only wins, but losses. We're looking for savvy, seasoned entrepreneurs who want to turn their idea into a new business, or to help brilliant up-starts realize theirs. If you own a hoodie but wouldn't wear it to a first meeting, you may fit ourprofile. Investing is early stage companies; pre-seed through Series A.
Wisdom LLP Contacts
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FAQ
What does Gary Griffiths invest in?
Gary Griffiths invests primarily in SaaS, Enterprise Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Gary Griffiths invest in?
Gary Griffiths typically joins rounds of $400k–$5M at Seed, $325k–$500k at Pre-Seed and $515k–$3.3M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Gary Griffiths's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Gary Griffiths took part in.
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When did Gary Griffiths last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Gary Griffiths closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 13 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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