# Hewlett Packard Pathfinder

> Hewlett Packard Pathfinder is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 20 investments, round sizes, portfolio. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Aug 2023
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hpe-pathfinder/
- Website: https://pathfinder.hpe.com/

Hewlett Packard Pathfinder is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Hewlett Packard Pathfinder provides expansion stage capital and exceptional support to the best enterprise technology start-ups focused on Cloud, Data Centers, Big Data and Security that have received previous funding from a leading early-stage venture capital firm and have completed the initial development phase of their product or service.Hewlett Packard Pathfinder leverages HP’s leadership in these areas to help founders and executive teams build credibility with customers and supercharge routes to market. As a strategic investor, we partner with financial investors who are experts in these technology areas and provide assistance that is complementary to them.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 55% |
| Enterprise Software | 5 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 25% |
| Computer | 4 | 20% |
| Security | 4 | 20% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 7 | 35% |
| Series B | 4 | 20% |
| Series D | 3 | 15% |
| Series A | 2 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 10% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 90% |
| France | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Arcion | Arcion is the cloud-native, zero-code data mobility platform to help deploy high-performance, real-time data pipelines. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 22, 2023 | https://www.blitzz.io/ |
| Ayar Labs | Ayar Labs develops a monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO) solution for applications that require high bandwidth, low latency, and power-efficient short-reach interconnects.The company disrupts the traditional performance, cost, and efficiency curves of the semiconductor and computing industries by driving improvement in interconnectbandwidth density at lower power. Its patented approach uses industry-standard cost-effective silicon processing techniques to develop high speed, high density, low power optical-based interconnect “chiplets” and lasers to replace traditional electrical-based I/O. Ayar’s flagship product is a chip called TeraPhy that implements its optical technology on compact silicon die. The chip can be integrated directly into a central processing unit, graphics card, or another processor to give it optical data transmission capabilities.The Emeryville, California-headquartered company was established in 2015 by Alex Wright-Gladstein, Vladimir Stojanovic, Chen Sun, and Mark Wade. | $25M | Series C | May 24, 2023 | https://ayarlabs.com |
| Cequence Security | Cequence Security is a venture-backed cybersecurity software company founded in 2014 and based in Sunnyvale, California.Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2018, the company has developed the Cequence Application Security Platform (ASP), an open, distributed, and scalable software platform designed to protect customers’ web, mobile, and APIapplications from the growing number of malicious bot attacks. Cequence Security will be delivering multiple security service modules for ASP, each designed to work together, simplify security architectures, and deliver strong protection for today’s hyper-connected organizations. Cequence Security customers include F500 organizations across multiple vertical markets. The executive team is led by industry veterans that previously held leadership positions at Palo Alto Networks and Symantec. |  |  | Apr 19, 2023 | https://www.cequence.ai |
| SafeBreach | SafeBreach is a pioneer in the emerging category of breach and attack simulation. The company's groundbreaking platform provides a “hacker's view” of an enterprise’s security posture to proactively predict attacks, validate security controls and improve SOC analyst response. SafeBreach automatically executes breach methods with anextensive and growing Hacker’s Playbook of research and real-world investigative data. SafeBreach is funded by Sequoia Capital, Deutsche Telekom Capital, Hewlett Packard Pathfinder and investor Shlomo Kramer. | $19M | Series C | Apr 15, 2020 | http://www.safebreach.com/ |
| IonQ | IONQ develops general-purpose quantum information processors to solve the world’s complex problems. Its unique trapped ion approach combines unmatched physical performance, perfect qubit replication, optical networkability, and highly optimized algorithms to create a quantum computer that is as scalable as it is powerful and that will support abroad array of applications across a variety of industries.It was founded in 2015 and is based in College Park, Maryland. | $55M | Series B | Oct 22, 2019 | https://ionq.com |
| Portworx | Portworx is a cloud-native storage and data management company offering the industry’s first storage solution purpose-built for containers. With Portworx, they can manage any database or stateful service on any infrastructure using any container scheduler. It also enterprises depend on to reduce the cost and complexity of rapidly deployingcontainerized applications across multiple clouds and on-prem environments.Portworx creates a storage layer that allows developers to then access that data, no matter where it resides. The company solves the five most common problems DevOps teams encounter when running stateful services in production such as security, data automation, persistence, support, and high availability for multiple data stores and infrastructure.Portworx was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Altos, CA, USA. | $27M | Series C | Mar 20, 2019 | https://portworx.com/ |
| Hedvig | Hedvig, formerly Quexascale is re-architecting software-defined storage. Built by software engineers of the world's largest and most successful distributed systems, Hedvig delivers modern storage for any enterprise compute environment running at any scale. The Hedvig platform is the only software-defined storage solution with true distributedsystems DNA, unconstrained by traditional thinking and existing architectures that can't keep pace with scale-out applications and the velocity of change in today's business climate.What makes Hedvig unique? Put simply: Hedvig gets better and smarter as it scales. Hedvig defies conventional wisdom, transforming commodity hardware into the most advanced storage solution available today. Hedvig accelerates data to value by collapsing disparate storage systems into a single platform, creating a virtualized storage pool that provisions storage with a few clicks, scales to petabytes, and runs seamlessly in both private and public clouds. | $21.5M | Series C | Mar 02, 2017 | https://www.commvault.com/software-defined-storage |
| ThoughtSpot | ThoughtSpot is the AI-native Intelligence Platform for every enterprise. Our mission is to create a more fact-driven world by empowering everyone to explore any data, ask any question, and uncover actionable insights faster—leading to growth, better business outcomes, and efficiency in their organizations. With ThoughtSpot’s intuitive naturallanguage search, every user can confidently generate answers from their business data at every point of decisioning. The platform’s unified capabilities, along with our agentic AI analyst, Spotter, enable users to create precise, transparent, personalized, and actionable insights with enterprise grade trust, security, and scale. Accessible via the web and mobile app, ThoughtSpot ensures intelligent decision-making happens seamlessly, wherever and whenever needed. For developers, ThoughtSpot Embedded offers a low-code solution to integrate AI-powered analytics directly into products and services, driving data monetization and boosting user engagement for customers. Industry leaders like NVIDIA, Hilton Worldwide, Capital One and Huel rely on ThoughtSpot to transform how their employees and customers take advantage of data to create better business outcomes. Try ThoughtSpot today and experience the new era of analytics.The company was co-founded in 2012 by its CEO Ajeet Singh and six other technical co-founders from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle. It is based in Palo Alto, CA, and is currently expanding operations in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. |  | Series C | Oct 17, 2016 | https://www.thoughtspot.com |
| SafeBreach | SafeBreach is a pioneer in the emerging category of breach and attack simulation. The company's groundbreaking platform provides a “hacker's view” of an enterprise’s security posture to proactively predict attacks, validate security controls and improve SOC analyst response. SafeBreach automatically executes breach methods with anextensive and growing Hacker’s Playbook of research and real-world investigative data. SafeBreach is funded by Sequoia Capital, Deutsche Telekom Capital, Hewlett Packard Pathfinder and investor Shlomo Kramer. | $15M | Series A | Jul 26, 2016 | http://www.safebreach.com/ |
| Keen | Keen is the embedded analytics API that makes shipping custom user-facing analytics easy and seamless. It develops tools and infrastructure to help developers deliver in-product analytics to their customers. Its platform can handle all aspects of event data management, from collection to application. Keen enables users to stream, store, query, andpresent data all in one place and get a competitive advantage over the competition. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. | $14.7M | Series B | Jun 29, 2016 | http://keen.io |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bpifrance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpifrance) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DTCP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dtcp) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ignition Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ignition-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Hewlett Packard Pathfinder invest in?

Hewlett Packard Pathfinder invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Series C and Series B 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.

### When did Hewlett Packard Pathfinder last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Hewlett Packard Pathfinder closed in Aug 2023. Shizune tracks 20 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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