# Issac J Roth

> Issac J Roth is a seed investor at Shasta Ventures (San Francisco) backing Software and Analytics. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Shasta Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shasta-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/issacroth
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ijroth
- Website: https://www.shasta.vc/bio/issac-roth/

Issac J Roth is a seed investor at Shasta Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Analytics. Issac Roth is a silicon valley entrepreneur and investor.He is best known for creating Red Hat OpenShift out of Red Hat cloud technologies and teams plus Makara, the PaaS startup where he was co-founder & CEO, and leading this effort as Red Hat PaaS Master from 2010 to 2013. He was founding CEO of StrongLoop, the node.js company. While atRed Hat he spoke at many cloud conferences and helped with Red Hat's mobile strategy, corporate and business development, leading corporate investments in Appcelerator and MongoDB.He is one of the Wily Mafia, having been an early leader at Wily Technology which was acquired by CA, Inc and produced many successfully technology executives.Currently he works at Shasta Ventures as Venture Advisor focused on Cloud, Mobile and Big Data.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 63% |
| Analytics | 3 | 38% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 38% |
| Big Data | 2 | 25% |
| Computer Vision | 2 | 25% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Series B | 3 | 38% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Series C | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 63% |
| Germany | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Voxel51 | Voxel51 is the leading data platform for physical AI. The company's flagship product, FiftyOne, combines open-source flexibility with enterprise-grade capabilities to help teams understand and analyze their multimodal data, annotate the right samples, close quality and coverage gaps, and build models that perform reliably in the real world.Trusted by millions of developers and thousands of enterprises—including Porsche, Vivint, Berkshire Grey, and Microsoft—FiftyOne is how the world's leading AI teams build the data foundation physical AI demands. Learn more at voxel51.com. | $30M | Series B | May 16, 2024 |  |
| Voxel51 | Voxel51 is the leading data platform for physical AI. The company's flagship product, FiftyOne, combines open-source flexibility with enterprise-grade capabilities to help teams understand and analyze their multimodal data, annotate the right samples, close quality and coverage gaps, and build models that perform reliably in the real world.Trusted by millions of developers and thousands of enterprises—including Porsche, Vivint, Berkshire Grey, and Microsoft—FiftyOne is how the world's leading AI teams build the data foundation physical AI demands. Learn more at voxel51.com. | $12.5M | Series A | Sep 21, 2022 |  |
| Ascend.io | Ascend.io, named a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor, provides the most advanced automation for data and analytics engineering workloads. Ascend unifies the core capabilities of data engineering—data ingestion, transformation, delivery, orchestration, and observability—into a single platform so that data teams deliver 10x faster. Ascend is backed by theworld’s leading venture capital firms, including Accel, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and 8VC; and supported by notable advisors, such as Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft; Maynard Webb, Board Member Salesforce, Visa; Scott McNealy, former Sun Microsystems CEO; Luanne Dauber, former CMO at Confluent and VP Marketing at Pure Storage; and Deep Nishar, Senior Managing Partner of Softbank Vision Fund. For more information about Ascend, visit www.ascend.io. | $31M | Series B | Apr 06, 2022 |  |
| Hasty.ai | Hasty is an image annotation tool that uses AI to speed up the process of annotation. This allows you to go from weeks of annotation to days or even hours - minimizing the bottleneck and pain of annotation while giving you more time to focus on building meaningful applications. | $3.7M | Seed | Sep 01, 2020 |  |
| Codefresh | Codefresh is a next-generation enterprise software delivery platform for cloud-native applications. We help you automate your GitOps workflows and advanced deployments such as Canary and Blue/Green and are the premium Argo enterprise solution. DevOps teams from GoodRx, Monday.com, Deloitte, and more depend on Codefresh to deploy their softwarein a safe and scalable manner. Codefresh can support any pipeline end-to-end. | $27M | Series C | Jun 29, 2020 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Runnable Inc. | Runnable speeds up development by providing full-stack environments for every code branch. Instant access to clean, performant environments enables your developers to get feedback, test end-to-end, debug and deploy without having to wait. Runnable provides unlimited self-managed environments for any application at a low, fixed cost. | $2M | Seed | Oct 30, 2013 |  |
| 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. | $750K | Seed | Jun 10, 2012 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Drive Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drive-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Top Harvest Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/top-harvest-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alicorn Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alicorn-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Amplify Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Shasta Ventures

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Shasta Ventures invests in startups in sectors. Their program consists of a proven methodology and a set of comprehensive playbooks that dive deep into the obstacles and challenges of early-stage startups. There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to early-stage, so this agile program allows founders to tap into the resources they need when theyneed them.

5 contacts available at Shasta Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Balaji Yelamanchili | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/balaji-yelamanchili |
| Issac J Roth | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/issac-roth |
| Jacob Mullins | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jacob-mullins |
| Jason Pressman | Founder and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-pressman |
| Jayaram Bhat | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jayaram-bhat |

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## FAQ

### What does Issac J Roth invest in?

Issac J Roth invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 8 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 Issac J Roth last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Issac J Roth closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 8 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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