# Jonathan Perl

> Jonathan Perl is a Series A investor at Boulder Ventures backing Software and Analytics. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Boulder Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boulder-ventures)
- Location: Chevy Chase, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 55%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-perl-1837916/

Jonathan Perl is a Series A investor at Boulder Ventures in Chevy Chase focused on Software and Analytics. Mr. Perl is a General Partner at Boulder Ventures and has more than 12 years of investing experience, focused primarily on early-stage information technology companies. He led Boulder Ventures' successful investments in iLumin Software (acquired by Computer Associates) and Era (acquired by SRA International), and is on the Boards ofMillennium Pharmacy Systems, Zenoss, and Metron Aviation. Mr. Perl is also a Board Member of The Mid-Atlantic Venture Association (MAVA) and a National Child Research Center (NCRC) Trustee and Chair of its Finance Committee. He is Co-Chair of MAVA's Capital Connection for both 2009 and 2010.Mr. Perl holds an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a BA (magna cum laude) in classical history from Tufts University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 64% |
| Analytics | 2 | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 18% |
| Apps | 1 | 9% |
| SaaS | 1 | 9% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 45% |
| Seed | 2 | 18% |
| Series B | 2 | 18% |
| Series C | 1 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Synaptic | Synaptic is a longstanding Salesforce partner, recognized for its proven track record of delivering customer success. | $5M | Seed | Jun 26, 2025 |  |
| Youreka Labs | Youreka Labs is a Salesforce-native application for simplifying smart mobile forms and procedures at scale. | $8.5M | Series A | Aug 12, 2021 |  |
| Stardog | Stardog, the leading Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform, turns data into knowledge to power more effective digital transformations. Industry leaders including Bosch, Ericsson, BNY Mellon, NASA and the NIH use Stardog to create a flexible data layer that can support countless applications. Stardog is a privately held, venture-backed companyheadquartered in Arlington, VA. It is ranked as one of Fast Company’s most Innovative Companies of 2020. For more information, please visit www.stardog.com. |  | Series B | Oct 29, 2019 |  |
| Stardog | Stardog, the leading Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform, turns data into knowledge to power more effective digital transformations. Industry leaders including Bosch, Ericsson, BNY Mellon, NASA and the NIH use Stardog to create a flexible data layer that can support countless applications. Stardog is a privately held, venture-backed companyheadquartered in Arlington, VA. It is ranked as one of Fast Company’s most Innovative Companies of 2020. For more information, please visit www.stardog.com. | $6M | Series A | Oct 24, 2017 |  |
| Stardog | Stardog, the leading Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform, turns data into knowledge to power more effective digital transformations. Industry leaders including Bosch, Ericsson, BNY Mellon, NASA and the NIH use Stardog to create a flexible data layer that can support countless applications. Stardog is a privately held, venture-backed companyheadquartered in Arlington, VA. It is ranked as one of Fast Company’s most Innovative Companies of 2020. For more information, please visit www.stardog.com. | $2.3M | Seed | Jul 20, 2016 |  |
| SurfWatch Labs | SurfWatch Labs helps organizations and service providers quickly establish a strategic cyber threat intelligence operation that drives more effective use of their tactical defenses.Founded in 2013 by former US Government intelligence analysts, SurfWatch Labs solutions provide a 360-degree view of cyber threats in the context of your business,along with practical and personalized support to create immediate insights and meaningful action. Combining useful analytics, applications, and human expertise, SurfWatch solutions can be an off-the-shelf, cyber threat intelligence team or delivered as a comprehensive product suite that easily integrates with the existing cybersecurity operations. | $3.5M | Series A | Apr 23, 2014 |  |
| Intellinote | Do you work in a team or manage a team?Meet Intellinote, a team productivity platform that helps teams work together easily and accomplish more, everyday. Free for teams with up to 5 people, Intellinote is available over the Web, tablets and smartphones. Sign up today and get started in under a minute. You don’t need a credit card, so feelfree to use it forever, or cancel your account anytime.How does Intellinote workDesigned to mimic how real teams and people work, Intellinote lets you:* Capture: Capture every note, idea, file or document that comes out of your busy life at work. We'll remember everything. So you don't have to.* Collaborate: Share things with colleagues, assign tasks to others, engage with your customers and vendors.* Complete: Now, complete critical projects, tasks and to-do lists quickly and easily. Work smarter. And accomplish more every day.Benefits1. Simplify and streamline everyday work:• File Sharing• Meetings• Task Management• Project Management• Note Taking• Group Communications• Collaboration2. Accelerate your productivity and your team’s productivity on role- and industry- specific projects:• Sales: Proposals, Account Planning & Win-Loss Analysis• Consulting: Proposals & Engagement Management• Marketing: Campaign Planning & Event Planning• Product Management: Release Planning & Tracking Enhancements• HR: Recruiting, On-boarding & Sharing Employee Docs• General Management: Project Management & Performance ReviewsSign up and get started under a minute. | $4.3M | Series A | Jan 14, 2014 |  |
| Zenoss | Zenoss works with the world's largest organizations to ensure their IT services and applications are always on. As the leader in software-defined IT operations, Zenoss uniquely collects all types of machine data to build real-time IT service models that train machine learning algorithms to predict and eliminate outages in hybrid ITenvironments, dramatically reducing downtime and IT spend. https://www.zenoss.com | $25M | Series C | Oct 09, 2012 |  |
| Zenoss | Zenoss works with the world's largest organizations to ensure their IT services and applications are always on. As the leader in software-defined IT operations, Zenoss uniquely collects all types of machine data to build real-time IT service models that train machine learning algorithms to predict and eliminate outages in hybrid ITenvironments, dramatically reducing downtime and IT spend. https://www.zenoss.com | $11M | Series B | Jan 22, 2008 |  |
| Zenoss | Zenoss works with the world's largest organizations to ensure their IT services and applications are always on. As the leader in software-defined IT operations, Zenoss uniquely collects all types of machine data to build real-time IT service models that train machine learning algorithms to predict and eliminate outages in hybrid ITenvironments, dramatically reducing downtime and IT spend. https://www.zenoss.com | $4.8M | Series A | Aug 11, 2006 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Grotech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grotech-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Intersouth Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intersouth-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maryland-department-of-business-and-economic-development) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bloomberg Beta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bloomberg-beta) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CNF Investments, LLC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cnf-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CoFactor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cofactor-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Boulder Ventures

VC Fund · Boulder, United States

Boulder Ventures invests in early stage information technology and life science companies in Colorado and the Mid-Atlantic.

5 contacts available at Boulder Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bill Karpovich | Boulder Ventures | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-karpovich |
| James Dudley | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-dudley-8f95 |
| Jonathan Perl | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-perl-2 |
| Josh Fidler | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/josh-fidler |
| Kishen Mangat | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kishen-mangat |

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## FAQ

### What does Jonathan Perl invest in?

Jonathan Perl invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 11 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 Jonathan Perl last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jonathan Perl closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 11 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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