Benjamin Nye
Managing Partner @ Venture Guides
Boston, United States
Benjamin Nye is a Series A investor at Venture Guides in Boston focused on Software and Information Technology. Benjamin Nye is the Senior Advisor of Bain Capital Ventures. He attended Harvard Business School.
- Total investments:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 82%
Last updated:
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Industries Benjamin Nye invests in
Stages Benjamin Nye invests in
Countries Benjamin Nye invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 10 (45%)
- Information Technology 4 (18%)
- Enterprise Software 3 (14%)
- SaaS 2 (9%)
- Computer 2 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 7 (32%)
- Series B 3 (14%)
- Seed 2 (9%)
- Series C 2 (9%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 12 (55%)
- Israel 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Vibe-IQ enables brands to accelerate their go-to-market processes with collaborative apps and an extendible cloud platform. | $22.5M / Private Equity / Aug 04, 2026 | ||
| Cybercrime is on the rise, with attacks becoming ever more frequent and sophisticated. Innocent users who surf the web and communicate online are falling into traps and scams as they have no sufficient way to know if the business they are dealing with is real or fake.While the market has invested tremendous effort into end-user authentication,the natural next step for the industry is a fully comprehensive solution that covers every point of impact between the user and the organization.PoSA is the world’s first solution that provides strong and secure proof of website and communication authenticity via a digital watermark. It has unique protection capabilities to secure both the organization and the user. PoSA provides the organization with an extremely easy-to-install watermark and real-time alerts. The intuitiveness of the solution allows full visibility and control over potential attacks. It can be deployed in stages, and be integrated with existing SOC systems.The users receive immediate visual confirmation that the organization they are interacting with is real, all the while requiring no installation or registration from them. | $37M / Series A / Jan 27, 2026 | ||
| Vibe-IQ enables brands to accelerate their go-to-market processes with collaborative apps and an extendible cloud platform. | $6.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 04, 2024 | ||
| ElastiFlow provides deep visibility into network traffic, resulting in improved performance and security. It transforms a user's preferred open data platform into a powerful network analytics solution in an instant. | $5M / Seed / Jun 04, 2024 | ||
| ElastiFlow provides deep visibility into network traffic, resulting in improved performance and security. It transforms a user's preferred open data platform into a powerful network analytics solution in an instant. | $3M / Seed / Dec 20, 2023 | ||
| ElastiFlow provides deep visibility into network traffic, resulting in improved performance and security. It transforms a user's preferred open data platform into a powerful network analytics solution in an instant. | $3M / Seed / Aug 16, 2023 | ||
| Elastio has redefined modern data protection with its cloud-native platform for protecting cloud applications from risk caused by ransomware, application failures, deployment mistakes, data errors and security vulnerabilities.Powered by Elastio’s application-aware ScaleZ(™) storage with inline active ransomware intelligence, applications can besafely protected and recovered to a last known clean state with integrated tooling for fast application specific backups, automated scanning for ransomware and malware, fast application specific recoveries, flexible data movement and automation into your existing CI/CD pipelines.Purpose built for the cloud with both agentless and lightweight agent architectures, Elastio delivers easy and fast deployments, industry-leading application protection and recovery and immediate time-to-value. | $18M / Series A / Jun 14, 2023 | ||
| Cybercrime is on the rise, with attacks becoming ever more frequent and sophisticated. Innocent users who surf the web and communicate online are falling into traps and scams as they have no sufficient way to know if the business they are dealing with is real or fake.While the market has invested tremendous effort into end-user authentication,the natural next step for the industry is a fully comprehensive solution that covers every point of impact between the user and the organization.PoSA is the world’s first solution that provides strong and secure proof of website and communication authenticity via a digital watermark. It has unique protection capabilities to secure both the organization and the user. PoSA provides the organization with an extremely easy-to-install watermark and real-time alerts. The intuitiveness of the solution allows full visibility and control over potential attacks. It can be deployed in stages, and be integrated with existing SOC systems.The users receive immediate visual confirmation that the organization they are interacting with is real, all the while requiring no installation or registration from them. | $10M / Seed / May 24, 2023 | ||
| env0 is a developer of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management software that helps businesses master cloud infrastructure with environment provisioning, cloud governance, and workflow tools. Built to empower the entire team, env0 provides developers, SREs, data scientists, and even sales and support staff with a way to shift complex workloads intomanageable cloud environments. The env0 platform is the first cloud management platform built to enable self-service with complete governance and cost control in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. | $18.1M / Series A / Mar 29, 2023 | ||
| ObserveIT helps organizations identify and eliminate insider threats.With more than 1,600 global customers across all major verticals, ObserveIT is an insider threat monitoring and prevention solution that empowers security teams to detect insider threats, streamline the investigation process, and prevent data exfiltration.The company isheadquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. | $17M / Series B / Jul 17, 2018 | ||
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About Venture Guides
Venture Guides is an early-stage infrastructure software investment company.
Venture Guides Contacts
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Nishkam Prabodh
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What does Benjamin Nye invest in?
Benjamin Nye invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 22 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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