# Mitchell Kertzman

> Mitchell Kertzman is a Series A investor at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners backing Software. See 31 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Hummer Winblad Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hummer-winblad-venture-partners)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: Nov 2019
- Lead investor: 39%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchellkertzman

Mitchell Kertzman is a Managing Director at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. He has over 30 years of experience as a CEO of public and private software companies. Most recently, Mitchell was Chairman and CEO of Liberate Technologies, a provider of platform software for the delivery of digital services by cable television companies. Before joiningLiberate, he was chairman of the board and CEO of Sybase, Inc. Mitchell was founder and CEO of Powersoft, which merged with Sybase in February 1995. A former programmer, Mitchell founded Powersoft in 1974 as Computer Solutions. He renamed the company and became a member of the Hummer Winblad family in 1991 when Hummer Winblad invested in the company, which became the leading provider of client-server development tools with its flagship product, PowerBuilder. The merger with Sybase in 1995 was, at the time, the most valuable in the history of the software industry.Mitchell served as President of the Massachusetts Software Council from 1994 to 1996 and was 1990 chairman of the American Electronics Association. He is founder and former chairman of the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth (MassINC), a think tank focused on issues related to the standard of living and quality of life of America’s middle class. He served on the New York State Commission on Industrial Competitiveness and chaired its task force on industrial policy. Mitchell was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He currently sits on the Boards of AspireIQ, Blissfully, 6connect and Symbium.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 19% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 10% |
| Advertising | 2 | 6% |
| Infrastructure | 2 | 6% |
| Brand Marketing | 2 | 6% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 9 | 29% |
| Series B | 7 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 10% |
| Seed | 2 | 6% |
| Series D | 2 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aspire | Aspire is the influencer marketing platform empowering ecommerce brands to build and cultivate influential communities of influencers, ambassadors, affiliates, customers, and more. Brands using Aspire can discover authentic partners, streamline relationships, scale their programs, and measure true business impact — regardless of where they are intheir influencer marketing journey. Aspire is trusted by Glossier, Coola, Bombas, Newell, Ruggable, and over 400 additional customers. Investors include Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Pear.vc, and more. For more information, visit www.aspire.io. | $24M | Series A | Nov 29, 2019 | http://www.aspire.io |
| NuoDB | NuoDB’s distributed SQL database for cloud applications helps customers get applications to market faster and reduce their total cost of ownership. Software vendors and e-commerce companies rely on NuoDB to obtain the combination of scale-out simplicity, elasticity, and continuous availability that cloud applications require, with the transactionalconsistency and durability that databases of record demand.As a result, customers can capitalize on modern technologies such as cloud computing and containerization to ensure their applications are ready for today’s evolving expectations, as well as any future requirements.NuoDB is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with offices in Dublin, London, and Sofia. | $30.6M |  | Dec 31, 2018 | https://www.nuodb.com |
| NuoDB | NuoDB’s distributed SQL database for cloud applications helps customers get applications to market faster and reduce their total cost of ownership. Software vendors and e-commerce companies rely on NuoDB to obtain the combination of scale-out simplicity, elasticity, and continuous availability that cloud applications require, with the transactionalconsistency and durability that databases of record demand.As a result, customers can capitalize on modern technologies such as cloud computing and containerization to ensure their applications are ready for today’s evolving expectations, as well as any future requirements.NuoDB is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with offices in Dublin, London, and Sofia. | $17M | Series B | Feb 22, 2016 | https://www.nuodb.com |
| NuoDB | NuoDB’s distributed SQL database for cloud applications helps customers get applications to market faster and reduce their total cost of ownership. Software vendors and e-commerce companies rely on NuoDB to obtain the combination of scale-out simplicity, elasticity, and continuous availability that cloud applications require, with the transactionalconsistency and durability that databases of record demand.As a result, customers can capitalize on modern technologies such as cloud computing and containerization to ensure their applications are ready for today’s evolving expectations, as well as any future requirements.NuoDB is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with offices in Dublin, London, and Sofia. | $9.5M | Series B | Mar 17, 2015 | https://www.nuodb.com |
| Peerlyst | Peerlyst is redefining professional networking by creating a community of highly specialized IT professionals and information security officers. Already used by more than half a million security professionals, the community has created around 100,000 resources enabling career development for free in the most desired and deficient IT space of cybersecurity. | $3M | Seed | Jul 22, 2014 | http://www.peerlyst.com |
| Flite | Flite is a creative management platform that powers creatives and marketers from top-tier brands, agencies, and publishers. Its platform gives creative professionals the power to design visually stunning ads on live, interactive canvases, while giving marketers the ability to launch, manage, measure and optimize digital ad campaigns in real-time,at scale, all in one seamless experience. Founded in 2006, Flite builds innovative technology to power creativity. Flite is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York City and Chicago and is backed by Sequoia Capital, HWVP, General Catalyst Venture Partners, Conde Nast, Iris Capital, and Harrison Metal. | $24M |  | Mar 18, 2014 | http://flite.com |
| NuoDB | NuoDB’s distributed SQL database for cloud applications helps customers get applications to market faster and reduce their total cost of ownership. Software vendors and e-commerce companies rely on NuoDB to obtain the combination of scale-out simplicity, elasticity, and continuous availability that cloud applications require, with the transactionalconsistency and durability that databases of record demand.As a result, customers can capitalize on modern technologies such as cloud computing and containerization to ensure their applications are ready for today’s evolving expectations, as well as any future requirements.NuoDB is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with offices in Dublin, London, and Sofia. | $16.2M | Series B | Feb 26, 2014 | https://www.nuodb.com |
| Five9 | Five9 is a provider of cloud software for the enterprise contact center market, bringing the power of the cloud to thousands of customers and facilitating approximately three billion customer interactions annually. Since 2001, Five9 has led the cloud revolution in contact centers, helping organizations transition from legacy premise-basedsolutions to the cloud. Five9 provides businesses reliable, secure, compliant, and scalable cloud contact center software designed to create exceptional customer experiences, increase agent productivity and deliver tangible business results. | $22M | Series D | May 29, 2013 | http://www.five9.com |
| 6connect | 6connect is the leader in software defined network control. ProVision, 6connect's unique Dynamic Network ProVisioning (DNP) platform enables the discovery, configuration, and control of physical and virtual devices across distributed and mobile networks, cloud platforms, web-hosting platforms and data centers. Innovative customers like PCCW,CrownCastle, Zayo, ViaWest, Swisscom, iLand Cloud Infrastructure, and CyrusOne utilize DNP to accelerate service delivery time, accurately provision complex network protocols, and dramatically reduce network complexity and costs, while achieving industry change management and compliance requirements. 6connect ProVision dynamically and holistically provisions SDN and physical network control factors needed to initiate and operate network and data center elements, including IP addresses, DNS zones, DNSSEC signatures, DHCP pools, VLAN and device level information. Available as either a highly scalable cloud or on-premise solution, ProVision automatically controls these factors across distributed and separate physical networks in order to reduce errors that can crash networks, cause compliance errors, and delay the creation of new services. | $1M | Series A | Apr 12, 2013 | http://www.6connect.com |
| NuoDB | NuoDB’s distributed SQL database for cloud applications helps customers get applications to market faster and reduce their total cost of ownership. Software vendors and e-commerce companies rely on NuoDB to obtain the combination of scale-out simplicity, elasticity, and continuous availability that cloud applications require, with the transactionalconsistency and durability that databases of record demand.As a result, customers can capitalize on modern technologies such as cloud computing and containerization to ensure their applications are ready for today’s evolving expectations, as well as any future requirements.NuoDB is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with offices in Dublin, London, and Sofia. | $10M | Series B | Jul 09, 2012 | https://www.nuodb.com |

10 of 31 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Partech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/partech) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Morgenthaler Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morgenthaler-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Adams Street Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adams-street-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Dassault Systemes](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dassault) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Longworth Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/longworth-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Outlook Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/outlook-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Hummer Winblad Venture Partners

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Founded in 1989 by John Hummer and Ann Winblad, HWVP pioneered the idea of a venture capital firm investing exclusively in enterprise software companies. From their earliest funds focused on the disruptive shift away from mainframes to client/server computing, through the commodity-driven cloud data centers of today, they have remained true totheir software-only roots. Through their deep understanding of the technology landscape, they have helped drive companies to success by supporting those at the forefront of disruptive advances in the software industry.Entrepreneurs themselves, their team has deep technology roots and a passion for building successful companies. Having started their careers as engineers and programmers, they understand the challenges inherent in creating a scalable and economically viable company. From the complexities of product launches, building sales teams, making payroll, and raising capital, to running public companies - they have been where you are and taken companies where you want to go.

5 contacts available at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| John Hummer | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-hummer |
| Mitchell Kertzman | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitchell-kertzman |
| Alicia Urizar | Executive Assistant/Office Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alicia-urizar |
| Ann Winblad | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ann-winblad |
| Lars Leckie | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lars-leckie |

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## FAQ

### What does Mitchell Kertzman invest in?

Mitchell Kertzman invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Advertising startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 31 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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### When did Mitchell Kertzman last invest?

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