# George Kadifa

> George Kadifa is a private equity investor at Sumeru Equity Partners backing Software. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Sumeru Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sumeru-equity-partners)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Apr 2024
- Lead investor: 55%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgekadifa
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/gkadifa
- Website: https://x.com/gkadifa

George Kadifa is a Managing Director focused on the firm’s software investments and is a member of the Investment Committee. He has three decades of operating experience in the technology sector.Prior to co-founding Sumeru Equity Partners, George was Executive Vice President at HP, reporting to the CEO and member of Executive Committee. He wasresponsible for leading growth initiatives and alliance programs with key partners, service providers and the largest customers. Mr. Kadifa previously served as Executive Vice President of HP Software. He led HP’s $4-billion software business that includes IT/Cloud Operations Management, Application Delivery Management, Enterprise Security, and HP Big Data.George previously served as Operating Partner at Silver Lake, a global technology investment firm with over $26 billion of assets under management. He was responsible for driving growth and operational improvement in a wide range of enterprises within the company portfolio of the firm’s large-cap investment fund. George has significant expertise in building and managing technology businesses. He has held various leadership positions at technology and management consulting companies such as IBM, Corio Corporation (founder), Oracle, Booz-Allen & Hamilton and Xerox.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 73% |
| Enterprise Software | 4 | 36% |
| SaaS | 3 | 27% |
| EdTech | 2 | 18% |
| Internet | 2 | 18% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 6 | 55% |
| Series B | 2 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 18% |
| Series E | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 64% |
| Canada | 1 | 9% |
| Israel | 1 | 9% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aerospike | Aerospike is an information technology company that specializes in real-time NoSQL data solutions for any scale. Aerospike enterprises overcome seemingly impossible data bottlenecks to compete and win with a fraction of the infrastructure complexity and cost of legacy NoSQL databases. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Mountain View,California. | $109M | Series E | Apr 04, 2024 |  |
| Zappi | Zappi helps global brands make faster and better decisions to drive business growth. They help global brands make faster and better decisions to drive business growth, shape new product development, and enhance their advertising and branding efforts. They assist them predicting success and disrupting their industries | $171.1M | Private Equity | Dec 13, 2022 |  |
| 360Learning | 360Learning develops a collaborative learning solution to help companies unlock learning based on collective expertise. 360Learning offers an easy way to create, deliver, and improve courses together. The Collaborative Learning platform relies on bottom-up peer learning where anyone can elevate and respond to requests for knowledge, closing skillsgaps faster.With the iterative training framework, minimum viable courses are shipped quickly and improved constantly by peers who identify out-of-date content or suggest additions. Feedback & data from interactions within the course are also pushed to coaches on the platform, who facilitate peer learning by ensuring that courses are easily accessible, actionable & impactful.From onboarding new employees to training sales reps on a new product pitch, 360Learning aligns employee aspirations with organization expectations. Our integrations into SalesForce & HR systems help leaders see how training drives business goals.Since 2012, 360Learning has transformed 1200 organizations through Collaborative Learning, including Axa, Criteo, Air Canada, Michelin, and the Red Cross. | $200M | Private Equity | Oct 21, 2021 |  |
| Tasktop | Tasktop offers a software platform that allows companies to better manage the process of building their software. Tasktop plugs into existing tools and overlays the end-to-end value stream to provide the abstractions, automation, visualizations, and forensics needed to practice value stream management on a daily basis. | $100M | Private Equity | Apr 08, 2021 |  |
| Ceros | Ceros is a cloud-based experiential content creation platform that empowers marketers and designers to create rich, interactive content without code or traditional web development. | $100M | Private Equity | Jul 23, 2020 |  |
| X1 Discovery | X1 solutions are powered by patented and award-winning technology. X1 supports more than 600 enterprise customers and more than 500,000 active commercial and government users.X1 leads the industry in providing the best user experience for search and eDiscovery solutions across a diverse range of business uses and IT environments; uniquelysupporting search on traditional or virtualized desktops and servers, including servers in virtual data centers or in the cloud. At the same time, X1 provides a very intuitive ‘single pane of glass’ through which professionals can view and act upon critical information. Whether looking for local emails and files stored in Exchange or SharePoint or attachments scattered across network servers and the cloud, X1’s unified interface displays reliable, comprehensive results as fast as you type, as well as integrated, application-specific post-search actions allowing users to act on information once it’s found.X1 is highly popular because our products quickly locate critical data, enabling our customers to dedicate time saved searching or recreating work to thoughtful analysis, problem-solving, and improving their organization’s bottom line. X1 was founded as X1 Technologies, Inc. in 2003, and X1 Discovery, Inc. was formed in 2011 to expand the X1 product line to include eDiscovery and social media products. In 2012, the full suite of X1 products was combined under X1 Discovery, Inc. | $5.1M | Series B | Oct 02, 2019 |  |
| GoGuardian | GoGuardian provides Chromebook management software that protects students online and gives educators better control over how their technology is used. With GoGuardian, educators can rest easy allowing their students to access the Internet, without harmful content or distractions getting in the way of learning. Plus, insights and analytics helpstreamline instruction and shape student behavior in positive ways. |  | Private Equity | May 24, 2018 |  |
| Newvem | Newvem is the leader in enhancing cloud usage effectiveness through data analytics. Newvem’s KnowYourCloud Analytics, a free SaaS solution for Amazon AWS customers, provides a 360-degree view of their cloud usage to enable running a reliable and efficient cloud deployment. The service collects and analyzes AWS usage data, revealing issues andanomalies in their cloud, and recommends actionable insights that help solve not just cost efficiency, but security, availability and utilization issues as well. Dev-Ops, IT Managers and Business Managers use Newvem everyday to discover meaningful insights on their cloud-based infrastructure, including potential costs savings, security threats, and availability issues. Newvem is led by a seasoned team of serial entrepreneurs and is funded by Greylock Partners, Index Ventures, Innovation Endeavors and others. | $4M |  | May 01, 2012 |  |
| Univa | Univa is the innovator of workload management solutions that optimize throughput and performance of applications, containers and services. Univa manages workloads automatically by maximizing shared resources and enabling enterprises to scale compute resources across on-premise, hybrid and cloud infrastructures. Univa's solutions help hundredsof companies to manage thousands of applications and run billions of tasks every day to obtain actionable insights and achieve faster time-to-results. Univa is headquartered in Chicago, USA, with offices in Canada and Germany. | $7M |  | Jan 25, 2011 |  |
| Univa | Univa is the innovator of workload management solutions that optimize throughput and performance of applications, containers and services. Univa manages workloads automatically by maximizing shared resources and enabling enterprises to scale compute resources across on-premise, hybrid and cloud infrastructures. Univa's solutions help hundredsof companies to manage thousands of applications and run billions of tasks every day to obtain actionable insights and achieve faster time-to-results. Univa is headquartered in Chicago, USA, with offices in Canada and Germany. | $8M | Series B | May 02, 2008 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Appian Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/appian-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [RC Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/river-cities-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ABN AMRO Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abn-amro) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alsop Louie Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alsop-louie-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Austin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/austin-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Sumeru Equity Partners

VC Fund · Foster City, United States

Sumeru Equity Partners is a technology-focused private equity firm, Consistent with the strategy of its predecessor firm,Sumeru Equity Partners invests in building leaders in software, technology enabled services, and hardware. SEP partners with management teams and adds value through deep sector expertise and the application of strategic andoperating services.

5 contacts available at Sumeru Equity Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| George Kadifa | Managing Director & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/george-kadifa |
| Jamol Williams | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jamol-williams |
| Jason Babcoke | Managing Director & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-babcoke |
| John Brennan | Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-brennan |
| Mark Haller | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-haller |

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## FAQ

### What does George Kadifa invest in?

George Kadifa invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and SaaS startups, most often at Private Equity and Series B stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did George Kadifa last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for George Kadifa closed in Apr 2024. Shizune tracks 11 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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