Gary Little
Partner @ Morgenthaler Ventures
Menlo Park, United States
Gary Little is a Series B investor at Morgenthaler Ventures in Menlo Park focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Gary is an operating partner at Canvas Prime and he co-founded Canvas Ventures in 2013. Twice named to the Forbes Midas List, Gary brings 30 years of operating and investing experience to Canvas and he focuses on building value in the companies where he serves on the board. Gary began investing in 1998 after joining Morgenthaler Ventures, where hepioneered investments in the open source space, including early backing of MuleSoft, Sonatype, Jaspersoft. Earlier in his career as an operator, Gary played key roles at three companies that shaped and define computing in their era. Gary began his career at IBM, where he joined the sales team the year the company launched the PC. During Gary’s tenure, IBM owned 70% of all IT spend. At Sun Microsystems, he rose through the ranks of marketing and product as the company conquered the server market. At Apple, he served as Senior Vice President of the Power Macintosh Division and Vice President of Sales of the Americas. Gary has a BS in electrical engineering from UCLA and MBA from Harvard Business School.
- Total investments:
- 47
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 30%
Last updated:
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Industries Gary Little invests in
Stages Gary Little invests in
Countries Gary Little invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (19%)
- Enterprise Software 7 (15%)
- SaaS 6 (13%)
- Analytics 5 (11%)
- Information Technology 5 (11%)
Stage
- Series B 11 (23%)
- Series C 9 (19%)
- Series A 8 (17%)
- Series D 5 (11%)
- Funding Round 4 (9%)
Investments
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Functionize
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Functionize is a provider of an AI-powered platform for the intelligent creation of software test cases. The company's Enterprise Application Agents (EAI) deliver autonomous, adaptive, and cognitive functionalities that enable businesses to automate entire workflows and complex processes. Functionize delivers an autonomous testing platformthat incorporates AI and machine learning technologies to automate the painstaking software testing process. The Functionize cloud-based platform enables enterprise teams to rapidly accelerate software development while eliminating traditional test scripts, test maintenance, and the need for a large QA team. | $41M / Series B / Aug 19, 2025 | |
Totango
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Totango is an expert in customer-led growth: the practice of putting your customers at the center of your go-to-market strategy, because they are your most reliable source of growth. Totango’s Customer Revenue Optimization suite was built to help large and fast-growing businesses thrive. The powerful suite brings together three products, eachdesigned to deliver exceptional results, and united by an integrated customer data platform.The Totango Customer Success Platform leverages automated workflows and engagement features to help customers achieve their desired outcomes and drive long-term growth. Unison, the AI-powered Customer Intelligence Engine works independently, or alongside any customer success platforms. It allows businesses to more effectively predict customer risk and proactively reduce churn before it becomes an issue.Catalyst is the dedicated tool for revenue teams, streamlining growth operations by enabling seamless expansion.Leading customer success teams around the world — including SAP, Github, Schneider Electric, Dynatrace, Drata, and Aircall — use Totango products to access actionable insights and empower teams to fuel customer-led growth.Totango, a pioneer and leader in customer success software since 2010, merged with Catalyst Software in February 2024. The combined organization formed a CS powerhouse, which continues to grow through innovation and acquisition of AI and customer revenue operations technology and talent to help CS and revenue organizations retain and grow their customer base.Totango is a remote organization with employees operating in 25 U.S. States, 6 countries, and has two offices in NYC and Tel Aviv. | $100M / Series D / Sep 29, 2021 | |
Folloze
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Folloze is a provider of an innovative Account-Based Management (ABM) Sales Platform, which enables B2B sales teams to use marketing techniques to engage, develop, and win their top target accounts. Built for scale, the platform allows marketing to empower sales to deliver account-specific content campaigns, content automation, actionable accountanalytics, and more, all from within their familiar sales tools. These capabilities enable salespeople to act as consultants through the selling process, delivering significantly more value to customers and drastically increasing their sales pipelines.Folloze is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with a development center in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was founded by a group of marketing, sales, and technology veterans and is backed by world-class investors. The company has dozens of customers including fortune 500 companies. | $13.3M / Series A / Jul 28, 2021 | |
Platform9
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Platform9 is a leader in simplifying enterprise private clouds. Our flagship product, Private Cloud Director, turns existing infrastructure into a full-featured private cloud. Enterprise IT teams can manage VMs and containers with familiar GUI tools and automated APIs in a private, secure environment. Enterprises are selecting Platform9'sPrivate Cloud Director to migrate away from legacy virtualization platforms because it meets all of the following enterprise requirements: - Familiar VM management experience - Critical enterprise virtualization features: HA, DRS, networking, scale, reliability - Compatibility with all existing hardware environments, including 3rd party storage - Automated migration tooling that lowers cost barrier by 10xPlatform9 was founded by a team of VMware cloud pioneers and has over 30,000 nodes in production at some of the world’s largest enterprises, including Cloudera, EBSCO, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace. Platform9 is an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by prominent investors, committed to driving private cloud innovation and efficiency. | $12.5M / Series D / Feb 23, 2021 | |
Vendia
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Vendia is a multi-cloud serverless development platform that enables customers to share data and code in real-time across multiple clouds and companies.Vendia’s cloud and serverless native platform make that possible by delivering instant scalability and secure data sharing across multiple clouds at a fraction of the cost of traditionalsolutions.It was founded in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $15.5M / Series A / Feb 03, 2021 | |
FOSSA
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FOSSA provides a platform that helps enterprises manage and maximize open-source use at scale. The company's flagship product helps teams track the open source used in their code and automate license scanning and compliance. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $23.2M / Series B / Oct 15, 2020 | |
Turing
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Turing.com connects world-class remote software engineers with world-class companies. 200+ companies, including those backed by Google Ventures, Andreessen, Founders Fund, Kleiner, and Bloomberg, have hired Turing developers. Over 1M+ developers from across 150+ countries have chosen Turing as their preferred platform for landing remote jobs. | $32M / Series B / Sep 14, 2020 | |
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Folloze
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Folloze is a provider of an innovative Account-Based Management (ABM) Sales Platform, which enables B2B sales teams to use marketing techniques to engage, develop, and win their top target accounts. Built for scale, the platform allows marketing to empower sales to deliver account-specific content campaigns, content automation, actionable accountanalytics, and more, all from within their familiar sales tools. These capabilities enable salespeople to act as consultants through the selling process, delivering significantly more value to customers and drastically increasing their sales pipelines.Folloze is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with a development center in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was founded by a group of marketing, sales, and technology veterans and is backed by world-class investors. The company has dozens of customers including fortune 500 companies. | $9M / Series A / Oct 30, 2019 | |
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Platform9
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Platform9 is a leader in simplifying enterprise private clouds. Our flagship product, Private Cloud Director, turns existing infrastructure into a full-featured private cloud. Enterprise IT teams can manage VMs and containers with familiar GUI tools and automated APIs in a private, secure environment. Enterprises are selecting Platform9'sPrivate Cloud Director to migrate away from legacy virtualization platforms because it meets all of the following enterprise requirements: - Familiar VM management experience - Critical enterprise virtualization features: HA, DRS, networking, scale, reliability - Compatibility with all existing hardware environments, including 3rd party storage - Automated migration tooling that lowers cost barrier by 10xPlatform9 was founded by a team of VMware cloud pioneers and has over 30,000 nodes in production at some of the world’s largest enterprises, including Cloudera, EBSCO, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace. Platform9 is an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by prominent investors, committed to driving private cloud innovation and efficiency. | $25M / Series D / Aug 27, 2019 | |
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Functionize
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Functionize is a provider of an AI-powered platform for the intelligent creation of software test cases. The company's Enterprise Application Agents (EAI) deliver autonomous, adaptive, and cognitive functionalities that enable businesses to automate entire workflows and complex processes. Functionize delivers an autonomous testing platformthat incorporates AI and machine learning technologies to automate the painstaking software testing process. The Functionize cloud-based platform enables enterprise teams to rapidly accelerate software development while eliminating traditional test scripts, test maintenance, and the need for a large QA team. | $16M / Series A / Mar 05, 2019 | |
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Co-Investors
About Morgenthaler Ventures
Morgenthaler Ventures has been in the venture capital business for more than 45 years, steadily investing through every market cycle. Select past and present portfolio companies in the IT space include: Evernote, Lending Club, Siri, MuleSoft, Practice Fusion, Adara Media, Check, Doximity, PeopleMatter, Socrata, NuoDB, Jaspersoft, VoltageSecurity, Rhythm NewMedia, Nominum, Wize Commerce (NexTag) and back in the day, Apple.
Morgenthaler Ventures Contacts
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Bob Pavey
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Hank Plain
Partner
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Bridget Odorcic
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Ching Wu
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Gary Little
Partner
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What does Gary Little invest in?
Gary Little invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 47 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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The most recent investment recorded for Gary Little closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 47 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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