# Godfrey Sullivan

> Godfrey Sullivan is a Series C investor backing Cyber Security and Machine Learning. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: May 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/godfreysullivan/

Godfrey Sullivan is a Series C investor in San Francisco focused on Cyber Security and Machine Learning. Godfrey Sullivan has served as a member of our board of directors since 2008 and Chairman since 2011.Sullivan previously served as our President and Chief Executive Officer from 2008 to 2015.From 2001 to 2007, Sullivan was with Hyperion Solutions Corporation, a performance management software company (acquired by Oracle Corporation), wherehe served in various executive roles, most recently as President and Chief Executive Officer, and as a member of the board of directors from 2004 until 2007.Sullivan has served as a member of the board of directors of Citrix Systems, Inc., an enterprise software company, since 2005.Sullivan holds a B.B.A. from Baylor University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cyber Security | 2 | 40% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 40% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 40% |
| Intelligent Systems | 2 | 40% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 40% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 2 | 40% |
| Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |
| Series B | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pangea | Pangea provides globally accessible and regionally intelligent Services, and is available on AWS and GCP. | $25M | Series A | May 17, 2022 |  |
| StrongDM | StrongDM helps organizations manage and secure access to critical infrastructure by using a zero-trust approach. The platform provides users with controlled access to databases, servers, and applications, while also giving administrators clear visibility and audit trails. | $54M | Series B | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| People.ai | People.ai is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform for enterprise revenue.People.ai helps sales, marketing, and customer success teams uncover every revenue opportunity from every customer, by capturing all customer contacts, activity and engagement to drive actionable insights across all revenue teams.People.ai empowers sales leaders to bemore effective at managing their teams and growing revenue by giving them a complete picture of sales activities and leveraging AI to deliver sales performance analytics, personalized coaching, one-on-one feedback, and pipeline reviews.The People.ai platform identifies and targets the buying group, and gives marketers a clear visualization of whom sales has spoken with, and which campaign has been successful in each opportunity. Using this information, marketers are able to build personas and deal models in order to better target their marketing efforts and get better campaign ROI.Customer success and services teams use People.ai to ensure they are engaging with the right people when the customer is handed off to them, but more importantly, these post-sales teams are constantly looking to align their effort and activities with the right opportunities and customers, tracking the true cost to support each customer. | $60M | Series C | May 21, 2019 |  |
| Bright Funds | Bright Funds is the next generation platform for individual and workplace giving, empowering everyday donors to become strategic philanthropists. Bright Funds supports thousands of individuals in their personal giving, and partners with the world's leading companies to bring impact-focused workplace giving to employees on a global scale.Bright Funds helps companies realize the true potential of a comprehensive corporate social responsibility strategy that takes into account the demands and expectations of a new generation of donors. | $1.8M | Seed | Jun 10, 2015 |  |
| Backstory | People.ai is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform for enterprise revenue.People.ai helps sales, marketing, and customer success teams uncover every revenue opportunity from every customer, by capturing all customer contacts, activity and engagement to drive actionable insights across all revenue teams.People.ai empowers sales leaders to bemore effective at managing their teams and growing revenue by giving them a complete picture of sales activities and leveraging AI to deliver sales performance analytics, personalized coaching, one-on-one feedback, and pipeline reviews.The People.ai platform identifies and targets the buying group, and gives marketers a clear visualization of whom sales has spoken with, and which campaign has been successful in each opportunity. Using this information, marketers are able to build personas and deal models in order to better target their marketing efforts and get better campaign ROI.Customer success and services teams use People.ai to ensure they are engaging with the right people when the customer is handed off to them, but more importantly, these post-sales teams are constantly looking to align their effort and activities with the right opportunities and customers, tracking the true cost to support each customer. |  | Series C |  |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bloomberg Beta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bloomberg-beta) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AGO Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aspiration-growth) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ballistic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ballistic-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Godfrey Sullivan invest in?

Godfrey Sullivan invests primarily in Cyber Security, Machine Learning and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series C and Seed stage. Most of the 5 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 Godfrey Sullivan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Godfrey Sullivan closed in May 2022. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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