# John Ives

> John Ives is a seed investor at Tahoma Ventures backing Software and Information Technology. See 44 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Tahoma Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tahoma-ventures)
- Location: Boulder, United States
- Total investments: 44
- Last investment: Oct 2021
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-ives/0/111/210
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/jives
- Website: http://johnives.com

John Ives is a seed investor at Tahoma Ventures in Boulder focused on Software and Information Technology. John Ives is the General Partner of Tahoma Ventures. He previously worked at Fashion Metric as a Member of the Board of Directors. John attended the University of Colorado Boulder, where he took Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $603k–$3.1M |
| Series A | $2.4M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 20% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 14% |
| Computer | 3 | 7% |
| Security | 3 | 7% |
| Developer APIs | 3 | 7% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 34% |
| Series A | 5 | 11% |
| Series B | 4 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 7% |

9 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kentik | Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer, Kentik is the real-timesource of truth that understands every network in context, from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, and synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik to run, manage, and optimize their networks. | $40M | Series C | Oct 07, 2021 |  |
| Resurface Labs | Resurface makes every user API calls a durable transaction for troubleshooting, remediation, and rich data sets. | $2M | Seed | Oct 21, 2020 |  |
| Stream | Stream is an enterprise-grade chat and activity feed provider that serves more than a billion end-users. Stream’s feature-rich products include robust client-side SDKs for iOS, Android, React, React Native, Flutter, and support for the most commonly used server-side languages; scalable and secure APIs; and a beautiful UI kit. It is the fastest,most scalable solution on the market today, enabling application product teams to increase user engagement and retention and decrease time to market. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado with an office in Amsterdam. | $15M | Series A | Aug 12, 2020 |  |
| Company Six Group | Company Six Robotic Systems LLC (CO6) is a technology leader and provider of robotic automation systems. The company aims to integrate cutting-edge, disruptive technologies and design turnkey automation systems for enterprises and individuals. | $4.6M |  | Jul 28, 2020 |  |
| Company Six Group | Company Six Robotic Systems LLC (CO6) is a technology leader and provider of robotic automation systems. The company aims to integrate cutting-edge, disruptive technologies and design turnkey automation systems for enterprises and individuals. | $4.6M | Seed | Jul 28, 2020 |  |
| Kentik | Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer, Kentik is the real-timesource of truth that understands every network in context, from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, and synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik to run, manage, and optimize their networks. | $23.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 27, 2020 |  |
| Automox | Automox automates patching, configuration, and security operations across Windows, macOS, and Linux devices. It enables IT teams to manage desktops, servers, and cloud endpoints through a lightweight agent without relying on on-premise infrastructure or VPN connections. The system includes automation tools such as reusable scripts, policyenforcement workflows, and a catalog for software updates and vulnerability remediation. It also delivers visibility through dashboards, reporting tools, and device-level insights to support compliance and operational monitoring. | $30M | Series B | Feb 04, 2020 |  |
| Copper Labs | Copper Labs is on a mission to create a more sustainable energy future by helping utilities take control of energy demand when it matters most to the grid. Copper, the company’s flagship wireless energy monitor, delivers real-time grid-edge intelligence and electric, gas and water usage data, with or without smart meters. These innovative newcapabilities empower utilities and ecosystem partners to engage targeted consumers and help manage energy demand, stabilize the grid and reduce the cost to serve energy. For more information, visit copperlabs.com. | $2M | Seed | Nov 22, 2019 |  |
| Stream | Stream is an enterprise-grade chat and activity feed provider that serves more than a billion end-users. Stream’s feature-rich products include robust client-side SDKs for iOS, Android, React, React Native, Flutter, and support for the most commonly used server-side languages; scalable and secure APIs; and a beautiful UI kit. It is the fastest,most scalable solution on the market today, enabling application product teams to increase user engagement and retention and decrease time to market. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado with an office in Amsterdam. |  |  | Sep 30, 2019 |  |
| Compliable | Compliable helps companies in the real money transaction space obtain and manage the licenses they need to be in compliance across all the jurisdictions they operate in. | $120K | Pre-Seed | Jun 10, 2019 |  |

10 of 44 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [FirstMile Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firstmile-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Engineering Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/engineering-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [August Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/august-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Blue Note Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blue-note-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Techstars Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bullet-time-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Tahoma Ventures

VC Fund · Boulder, United States

Tahoma Ventures offers early stage capital to IT technology startups. The investments of the company are LineRate Systems, IronCore Labs, AutoMox, Stream.io, Section.io, Kentik Technologies, Kazan Networks, Bold Metrics, IronCore Labs, Copper Labs. Tahoma Ventures is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2013 by John Ives.

1 contacts available at Tahoma Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| John Ives | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-ives |

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## FAQ

### What does John Ives invest in?

John Ives invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Computer startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 44 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is John Ives's check size?

John Ives typically joins rounds of $603k–$3.1M at Seed and $2.4M–$15M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds John Ives participates in.

### When did John Ives last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for John Ives closed in Oct 2021. Shizune tracks 44 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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