# HighBar Partners

> HighBar Partners is a VC fund backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 73%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/3109177/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/highbarpartners
- Website: http://www.highbarpartners.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/highbarpartners

HighBar Partners is a private investment firm that provides strategic growth capital to enterprise and infrastructure software companies. They are a creative and engaged investor with resources and relationships to assist management teams with financial, strategic and operational execution. Their unique investment model allows us to participate ina range of transactions including strategic growth equity, restructurings, divestitures, management buyouts and other special situations.They employ a disciplined owner-operator investing philosophy that stems from managing their own capital. They structure their investments to align all stakeholders while working alongside management teams to develop a long-term strategy that unlocks value. As such, HighBar is an ideal partner when evaluating and structuring investments in companies undergoing significant change or transition.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 60% |
| Enterprise Software | 9 | 60% |
| Big Data | 3 | 20% |
| Security | 3 | 20% |
| Cloud Computing | 3 | 20% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 5 | 33% |
| Series D | 4 | 27% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Peters | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-peters-2 |
| Chris Kitching | Operating Partner; Operating Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-kitching |
| Jayson Yuan | Managing Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jayson-yuan |
| Jim Kaskade | Operating Executive (EIR) | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-kaskade |
| John H. Kim | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-h-kim |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Virtana | Virtana is the hybrid cloud optimization platform for digital transformation. | $73M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 13, 2022 |  |
| Virtana | Virtana is the hybrid cloud optimization platform for digital transformation. | $15M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 13, 2020 |  |
| Signpost | Signpost provides powerful marketing automation technology to local businesses to get better reviews and increase their revenue. It specializes in the fields of CRM, marketing automation, SaaS, and software. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, United States. | $52M | Series D | Jul 09, 2019 |  |
| HyperGrid™ | HyperCloud enables businesses to embrace public clouds and drive their digital transformation via the broadest set of functionalities to discover and plan cloud migrations, optimize costs, secure resource and scale operations in the public cloud. HyperCloud has a unique app-centric, modular approach that enables businesses to scale their cloudmanagement capabilities within a common framework that provides centralized control and management of all private and public clouds and eliminates the need for ongoing training. HyperCloud analytics is powered by its massive database of more than 400 million data points across the major public clouds enabling instantaneous recommendations for optimizing new and existing applications using multi-dimensional analysis of factors such as cost, performance, and compliance. HyperCloud also analyzes past cloud usage to understand customer needs and speed service delivery by eliminating manual processes. As a result, enterprise IT and MSPs can deliver customized services across any private or public cloud, improving business performance while minimizing cloud management complexities. | $15.5M | Series A | Sep 12, 2018 |  |
| PatientSafe Solutions | PatientSafe Solutions, based in San Diego, California, is leading the way in smart point-of-care mobile solutions and innovating technologies for the future of accountable care. Its flagship product, the PatientTouch System, delivers measurable safety and quality improvement by making care team workflows easier and more productive. PatientSafeSolutions was named one of Wall Street Journal’s Top 50 Venture-Backed Companies in 2011 and 2012, ranked #2 in Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 Venture-Backed Healthcare Companies in 2012, and chosen by Forbes as one of the top Three Health Technology Companies To Watch in 2012. The PatientTouch system is a cutting-edge wireless clinical mobility solution aimed at advancing health systems' patient safety, clinical productivity, and cost reduction agendas. The PatientTouch system transforms care delivery by providing frontline clinicians wireless clinical mobility on a single, intuitive, handheld device that fits in your pocket. The platform runs on a PatientSafe Solutions-designed, developed, and supported device that pairs Apple iOS hardware with enhancements including a high-performance barcode scanner, full-shift battery, and ruggedized, hospital-grade jacket. The mobile health platform delivers Positive Patient Identification, Care Interventions, and Communication and Collaboration capabilities. Positive Patient Identification workflows utilize barcode-enabled workflows for medication administration, specimen collection, infant care, and blood product administration. Customizable Care Interventions ensure real-time order execution and hospital process/policy instrumentation at the point of care. Communication capabilities allow for real-time care team collaboration and alerting features. By consolidating clinical workflows, real-time information access, and communications into an easy-to-use device, hospitals can eliminate harm, reduce waste, and improve productivity. | $25M |  | Sep 25, 2017 |  |
| Virtual Instruments | Virtual Instruments is the leader in IT Infrastructure Performance Management for the physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments.Virtual Instruments is a dynamic, fast-growing technology company with a performance driven culture. Founded in June 2008 we are headquartered in the heart of the Silicon Valley, led by an industry-provenexecutive team, and backed by a group of highly experienced and successful investors. As a company, we are focused on delivering unparalleled value to our customers through a truly innovative combination of disruptive technology and revolutionary services. Our customers represent industry leading brands in every major vertical market, all of whom have some of the most performance sensitive and complex IT environments in the world. Our unwavering commitment to our customers' success, ensuring the performance and availability of their mission critical application workload as they migrate from physical to virtual and cloud computing environments, is what has fueled our record growth and is driving the ongoing development of our award winning Infrastructure Performance Management platform, VirtualWisdom. | $20M |  | Mar 30, 2016 |  |
| Load DynamiX | As a leader in storage infrastructure workload analytics and performance validation, Load DynamiX empowers:1. IT organizations with the insight they need to optimize the performance, availability, and cost of their storage infrastructure. Load DynamiX accelerates new application roll-outs and eliminates the risk of new technology deployments.2. Storage and network equipment manufacturers with the insight they need to maximize the performance, scalability and reliability of their products. Load DynamiX accelerates your time to market.Addressing file, block, and object storage technology validation, Load DynamiX has the unique capability and performance required to stress today’s most complex storage systems to their limits. | $12M |  | May 21, 2014 |  |
| Xangati | Xangati runs as a guest virtual machine within the systems administrator's hypervisor of choice providing 300 times the granularity of performance metrics available from agent-based competitor solutions, delivering a service assurance analytics framework for hybrid-cloud and virtual infrastructures:Performance Problem Triage: Performanceproblem tracking, analysis and remediation using deep analytics that correlate contention issues cross-siloPerformance Problem Prevention: Capacity analytics that are tied to performance analytics so that end-user experience becomes more predictivePerformance and Efficiency Monitoring: Real-time, streaming data with unprecedented speed and end-to-end to scale, from end-user to app to VMAbout Xangati:Xangati is a Silicon Valley virtualization performance monitoring and service assurance analytics innovator, supporting complex virtualized data centers and hybrid cloud environments. Organizations such as Comcast, British Gas, Colliers, Harvard University and the U.S. Army have leveraged Xangati to resolve end-user issues more quickly, optimize virtual applications, diagnose root causes of contention storms and assure overall infrastructure health. Xangati management dashboards, built on patented in-memory architecture, provide a live, continuous and interactional view into the entire IT infrastructure with predictive analytics and prescriptive remediation actions. | $11M |  | Nov 06, 2013 |  |
| Clustrix | Clustrix provides the leading scale-out SQL database engineered for the cloud and the first database built specifically to meet the unique growth, performance and availability demands of today's e-commerce sites. With ClustrixDB, you can build business critical applications that support massive transactional volume and real-time reporting ofbusiness performance metrics. ClustrixDB delivers more than one trillion transactions per month for customers including AOL, Flipkart, MakeMyTrip, nomorerack, Photobox, Rakuten, Symantec, and Twoo.com.Headquartered in San Francisco, Clustrix is funded by HighBar Partners, Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, Don Listwin, and ATA Ventures. ClustrixDB is available in software that runs on commodity hardware and on any cloud. Visit www.clustrix.com to learn more. | $10M | Series D | Aug 19, 2013 |  |
| Blazent | Blazent is the world's most widely-used IT Data Quality Engine. Built on patented algorithms developed over the last decade, Blazent's cloud-based engine aggregates, reconciles and consolidates IT data to guarantee continuous accuracy, and to optimize IT management & operations.Blazent’s IT Outsourcing Governance solutions are usedby some of the largest service providers in the world to gain visibility and decrease costs. Over 1.6 million outsourced desktops and servers are tracked by Blazent for companies spending a total of $32 Billion a year on outsourcing services. | $5M |  | Feb 07, 2013 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Benhamou Global Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benhamou-global-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Citrix](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citrix-systems) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Walden Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/waldenvc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Almaz Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/almaz-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atalaya Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atalaya-capital-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ATA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ata-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does HighBar Partners invest in?

HighBar Partners invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Big Data startups, most often at Funding Round and Series D stage. Most of the 15 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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### Who are the partners at HighBar Partners?

The team at HighBar Partners includes Brian Peters (Partner), Chris Kitching (Operating Partner; Operating Partner) and Jayson Yuan (Managing Director), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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