Gary Morgenthaler
Partner @ Morgenthaler Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Gary Morgenthaler is a Series B investor at Morgenthaler Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Internet. Gary is a General Partner of the Canvas Venture Fund. He has a national reputation as a successful executive in the software industry and currently emphasizes investments in big data and enterprise software.Gary joined Morgenthaler Ventures in 1989 and currently serves as a Partner at that firm as well. He was a past Director of Siri, Inc.,which was acquired by Apple in 2010, and BlueArc Corporation which was acquired by Hitachi Data Systems in 2011.He currently serves on the boards of Nominum, NuoDB, OneChip, and Overture Networks.Gary co-founded two leading database companies of their time: He was co-founder and past CEO of Illustra Information Technologies, Inc., where he served as a Chairman of Illustra’s Board until its acquisition by Informix in 1996. Gary also co-founded and served as CEO and Chairman of Ingres Corporation, a leading relational database software company.He also led investments in Catena Networks (acquired by Ciena), Nuance Communications, Premisys Communications, Force10 Networks and QuickLogic.
- Total investments:
- 20
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
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Industries Gary Morgenthaler invests in
Stages Gary Morgenthaler invests in
Countries Gary Morgenthaler invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (25%)
- Internet 2 (10%)
- Network Security 2 (10%)
- iOS 1 (5%)
- Database 1 (5%)
Stage
- Series B 4 (20%)
- Series A 3 (15%)
- Funding Round 3 (15%)
- Series C 2 (10%)
- Series D 2 (10%)
Country
- United States 6 (30%)
- Canada 1 (5%)
Investments
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| NuoDB’s distributed SQL database for cloud applications helps customers get applications to market faster and reduce their total cost of ownership. Software vendors and e-commerce companies rely on NuoDB to obtain the combination of scale-out simplicity, elasticity, and continuous availability that cloud applications require, with the transactionalconsistency and durability that databases of record demand.As a result, customers can capitalize on modern technologies such as cloud computing and containerization to ensure their applications are ready for today’s evolving expectations, as well as any future requirements.NuoDB is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with offices in Dublin, London, and Sofia. | $30.6M / Dec 31, 2018 | ||
| Big Switch Networks is the Cloud-First Networking company, bringing public cloud-style networking and hybrid cloud consistency to organizations around the world. The company provides data center switching, monitoring, visibility and security solutions for on-premises enterprise cloud, public cloud and multi-cloud environments that enable companiesof all sizes to dramatically increase operational efficiency, increase business agility, and reduce networking costs. Big Switch was founded in 2010, with roots in the original Stanford research team that invented software-defined networking. Big Switch has strategic partnerships with Dell EMC, HPE and Edgecore, delivering innovative software on industry-standard open networking hardware. Since its founding the company has been an active member and contributor to multiple open source communities. Big Switch Networks is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with a dedicated presence across more than 25 countries. To learn more: www.bigswitch.com | $30.7M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 27, 2017 | ||
| NuoDB’s distributed SQL database for cloud applications helps customers get applications to market faster and reduce their total cost of ownership. Software vendors and e-commerce companies rely on NuoDB to obtain the combination of scale-out simplicity, elasticity, and continuous availability that cloud applications require, with the transactionalconsistency and durability that databases of record demand.As a result, customers can capitalize on modern technologies such as cloud computing and containerization to ensure their applications are ready for today’s evolving expectations, as well as any future requirements.NuoDB is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with offices in Dublin, London, and Sofia. | $17M / Series B / Feb 22, 2016 | ||
| Big Switch Networks is the Cloud-First Networking company, bringing public cloud-style networking and hybrid cloud consistency to organizations around the world. The company provides data center switching, monitoring, visibility and security solutions for on-premises enterprise cloud, public cloud and multi-cloud environments that enable companiesof all sizes to dramatically increase operational efficiency, increase business agility, and reduce networking costs. Big Switch was founded in 2010, with roots in the original Stanford research team that invented software-defined networking. Big Switch has strategic partnerships with Dell EMC, HPE and Edgecore, delivering innovative software on industry-standard open networking hardware. Since its founding the company has been an active member and contributor to multiple open source communities. Big Switch Networks is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with a dedicated presence across more than 25 countries. To learn more: www.bigswitch.com | $48.5M / Series C / Jan 19, 2016 | ||
| NuoDB’s distributed SQL database for cloud applications helps customers get applications to market faster and reduce their total cost of ownership. Software vendors and e-commerce companies rely on NuoDB to obtain the combination of scale-out simplicity, elasticity, and continuous availability that cloud applications require, with the transactionalconsistency and durability that databases of record demand.As a result, customers can capitalize on modern technologies such as cloud computing and containerization to ensure their applications are ready for today’s evolving expectations, as well as any future requirements.NuoDB is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with offices in Dublin, London, and Sofia. | $9.5M / Series B / Mar 17, 2015 | ||
| NuoDB’s distributed SQL database for cloud applications helps customers get applications to market faster and reduce their total cost of ownership. Software vendors and e-commerce companies rely on NuoDB to obtain the combination of scale-out simplicity, elasticity, and continuous availability that cloud applications require, with the transactionalconsistency and durability that databases of record demand.As a result, customers can capitalize on modern technologies such as cloud computing and containerization to ensure their applications are ready for today’s evolving expectations, as well as any future requirements.NuoDB is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with offices in Dublin, London, and Sofia. | $16.2M / Series B / Feb 26, 2014 | ||
| Big Switch Networks is the Cloud-First Networking company, bringing public cloud-style networking and hybrid cloud consistency to organizations around the world. The company provides data center switching, monitoring, visibility and security solutions for on-premises enterprise cloud, public cloud and multi-cloud environments that enable companiesof all sizes to dramatically increase operational efficiency, increase business agility, and reduce networking costs. Big Switch was founded in 2010, with roots in the original Stanford research team that invented software-defined networking. Big Switch has strategic partnerships with Dell EMC, HPE and Edgecore, delivering innovative software on industry-standard open networking hardware. Since its founding the company has been an active member and contributor to multiple open source communities. Big Switch Networks is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with a dedicated presence across more than 25 countries. To learn more: www.bigswitch.com | $25M / Series B / Oct 31, 2012 | ||
| NuoDB’s distributed SQL database for cloud applications helps customers get applications to market faster and reduce their total cost of ownership. Software vendors and e-commerce companies rely on NuoDB to obtain the combination of scale-out simplicity, elasticity, and continuous availability that cloud applications require, with the transactionalconsistency and durability that databases of record demand.As a result, customers can capitalize on modern technologies such as cloud computing and containerization to ensure their applications are ready for today’s evolving expectations, as well as any future requirements.NuoDB is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with offices in Dublin, London, and Sofia. | $10M / Series B / Jul 09, 2012 | ||
| Big Switch Networks is the Cloud-First Networking company, bringing public cloud-style networking and hybrid cloud consistency to organizations around the world. The company provides data center switching, monitoring, visibility and security solutions for on-premises enterprise cloud, public cloud and multi-cloud environments that enable companiesof all sizes to dramatically increase operational efficiency, increase business agility, and reduce networking costs. Big Switch was founded in 2010, with roots in the original Stanford research team that invented software-defined networking. Big Switch has strategic partnerships with Dell EMC, HPE and Edgecore, delivering innovative software on industry-standard open networking hardware. Since its founding the company has been an active member and contributor to multiple open source communities. Big Switch Networks is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with a dedicated presence across more than 25 countries. To learn more: www.bigswitch.com | $13.8M / Series A / Apr 22, 2011 | ||
| BlueArc is a leading provider of high performance unified network storage systems to enterprise markets, as well as data intensive markets, such as electronic discovery, entertainment, federal government, higher education, Internet services, oil and gas and life sciences. Their products support both network attached storage, or NAS, and storagearea network, or SAN, services on a converged network storage platform. Aquired by HDS as of September 7th 2011. | $20M / Jul 28, 2010 | ||
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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.
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Bridget Odorcic
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What does Gary Morgenthaler invest in?
Gary Morgenthaler invests primarily in Software, Internet and Network Security startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 20 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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