Mohr Davidow Ventures
VC Fund
San Mateo, United States
Mohr Davidow Ventures is a VC fund in San Mateo focused on Software and Information Technology. For 30 years the _Mohr Davidow Ventures team has invested in early stage technology-based startups that redefine or create large new markets. They believe that emerging information technology innovations are enabling a decade-long opportunity to invest in the “Era of Digital Engagement,” one in which personal, commercial, and public sectorinteractions of all kinds will be profoundly reengineered to leverage the power of mobile devices, cloud computing, and data analytics. The Firm seeks to identify and partner with exceptional entrepreneurs who leverage these technologies to build companies where seamless, deep engagement with customers will create billion dollar markets in a number of different verticals. These verticals include: Digital Marketing, Advertising, & Media, Collaborative Enterprise Applications, The Digitization of Education and Health, Digital Financial Services, E‐commerce & Digital Retail Innovation, Mobile/Web‐Powered “LifeTech.” The Firm also has previous investments in the innovative life sciences & genomics space.Leading companies funded by Mohr Davidow Ventures includes: Agile (Acquired by NYSE: ORCL); Aryaka Networks; Brocade; Coupa; Genomatica; HealthTap; Infusionsoft; Kabbage; nLight; ONI Systems (Acquired by NASDAQ: CIEN); Proofpoint (NASDAQ: PFPT); Rally Software (NYSE: RALY); Rocket Fuel (NASDAQ: FUEL); Rambus; Shutterfly (NASDAQ: SFLY); Ticketfly; Verinata Health (Acquired by NASDAQ: ILMN); and Visible Measures. The Firm has $1.85 billion under management.
- Total investments:
- 214
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
- Fund size:
- $27M
- Last fund:
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Industries Mohr Davidow Ventures invests in
Stages Mohr Davidow Ventures invests in
Countries Mohr Davidow Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Series A
- $4M–$12M
- Series B
- $6M–$31M
- Series C
- $6M–$35M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 26 (12%)
- Information Technology 19 (9%)
- Health Care 18 (8%)
- Analytics 16 (7%)
- Enterprise Software 15 (7%)
Stage
- Series C 41 (19%)
- Series B 40 (19%)
- Series A 33 (15%)
- Funding Round 20 (9%)
- Series D 18 (8%)
Country
- United States 98 (46%)
- Canada 1 (0%)
- France 1 (0%)
- United Kingdom 1 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Randy Strahan
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Bill Davidow
Partner Emeritus
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Partner Emeritus | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Bill Ericson
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 25 | Find email | |
Bryan Stolle
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 27 | Find email | |
Erik Straser
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 12 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doxo is an all-in-one bill pay service that facilitates secure payment to any biller with any payment method on any device. It currently serves over 7 million users who make payments to 120k local and national businesses, making doxo the largest bill pay directory in the nation. Billers on the network get paid directly and consumers have completebills pay independence over when and how they pay their bills. The company more than doubled its customer base in 2018 and is expanding its team to further accelerate growth and change the bill pay landscape to focus on the customer. doxo investors include MDV, Sigma Partners, and Bezos Expeditions. | $18.5M / Series C / Mar 16, 2022 | ||
| Webscale is an integrated web application delivery solution that provides infinite proactive scalability, high performance, security, and control in a single, powerful platform.Created on the foundation of seven years of PhD research into predictive analytics and its application to the challenge of infrastructure auto-scaling in the cloud,Webscale’s dynamic resource allocation IP is unlike any other scaling or load balancing solution available today, due to its unique ability to look ahead of demand, and scale-out both the ADC and web application layers to deliver a smooth, frictionless user experience for website visitors. | $26M / Series C / Mar 04, 2021 | ||
| Webscale is an integrated web application delivery solution that provides infinite proactive scalability, high performance, security, and control in a single, powerful platform.Created on the foundation of seven years of PhD research into predictive analytics and its application to the challenge of infrastructure auto-scaling in the cloud,Webscale’s dynamic resource allocation IP is unlike any other scaling or load balancing solution available today, due to its unique ability to look ahead of demand, and scale-out both the ADC and web application layers to deliver a smooth, frictionless user experience for website visitors. | $14M / Series B / May 13, 2019 | ||
| Aryaka is a Cloud-First WAN company that offers the industry’s managed SD-WAN delivered as a service. Its SmartServices offer connectivity, application acceleration, security, cloud networking, and insights leveraging global orchestration and provisioning. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California. | $50M / Series F / May 01, 2019 | ||
| Kabbage is a financial technology and data company pioneering a new, automated way for small businesses to access working capital. The company simplifies the manual application process to one that is 100% online and automated. Businesses can use their business data to submit an application online and receive an answer in minutes instead of waitingweeks and filling out numerous forms like traditional lending methods. Businesses can access ongoing lines of credit up to $250,000.Kabbage leverages business data generated such as revenue, accounting data, business transactions, shipping data, social media and other sources to understand a business’s overall health and calculate credit lines throughout the customer lifecycle.The company began serving online merchants in 2011 and extended its automated lending platform to all small businesses – online and brick-and-mortar – in February 2014.In November 2013, Kabbage expanded its business to mobile with an iOS and Android app that enables users to apply or access their funds from their smartphones.Kabbage used to provide a consumer lending product, Karrot, but it is no longer available.Kabbage expanded the application of its platform in March 2015 by licensing the data and technology platform to power lending for other organizations. The company was named one of Forbes magazine’s Most Promising Companies list for the second year in a row. Kabbage further extended its lending reach in May 2015 with the announcement of the new Kabbage Card, which gives businesses the ability to pay for items at the point of sale with a purchasing card tied to their Kabbage account. Kabbage also collaborated with MasterCard in May 2015 to make Kabbage’s data and technology platform available through MasterCard’s network of acquirers.In August 2015, Kabbage was named the 36th fastest-growing private company in America on the Inc. 500 list. In October 2015, Kabbage completed a Series E funding round of $135 million led by Reverence Capital Partners. Holland’s ING, Spain’s Santander (via InnoVentures, Santander's venture capital arm); and Canada’s Scotiabank also participated in the round. Kabbage also announced a strategic partnership with ING to deliver instant capital to small businesses throughout Spain.In June 2016, Kabbage was named to CNBC's annual Disruptor 50 list of the most forward-thinking and ambitious companies that are revolutionizing industries and markets worldwide. Two months later, Kabbage was named to the Inc. 500 list of the country's fastest-growing private companies for the second year in a rowIn August 2016, Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) upgraded and affirmed ratings on Class A2-2 Certificates issued by Kabbage Funding 2014-1 Resecurization Trust. The certificates were upgraded from BBB+(sf) to A-(sf) based on structural improvements to the transaction’s concentration requirements and the existence of more historical data relating to Kabbage’s collateral. KBRA also affirmed the ratings on the Class B2A Certificates of BB-(sf), Class B2B Certificates of BB-(sf) and Class B2C Certificates of B+(sf), which were initially rated in November 2015.In 2017, the company raised $250 million from Softbank Group Corp., raising its total equity funding to $500 million, making Kabbage one of the most well-funded companies with a female co-founder at the helm. It also secured the largest asset-backed securitizations of small business loans in the online lending industry of $525 million. In November, it diversified its debt-funding sources further with a $200 million revolving credit facility with Credit Suisse, earning investment-grade ratings of ‘A’ and ‘BBB’ by DBRS. It ranked on the Inc. 500 list as one of the country’s fasting-growing private companies for a third consecutive year, on Deloitte’s Fast 500 list, among CB Insights Fintech 250, in the top 10 of KPMG’s Fiintech 100, and its co-founder, Kathryn Petralia, was named one of Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women in the World. | $700M / Debt Financing / Apr 08, 2019 | ||
| BuildDirect Technologies Inc. is an innovative platform for purchasing and selling quality home improvement materials online. It directly connects buyers (consumers and contractors) with sellers (suppliers and manufacturers). Categories include, but are not limited to, flooring, tile, decking, building materials, outdoor, kitchen & bath,moldings & accessories and doors. The company is credited with building the first open network for heavyweight products. In February 2016, BuildDirect launched the BuildDirect Home Marketplace – the world’s largest online marketplace for heavyweight home improvement products. It is an online platform that cuts out the “middle men” to connect the suppliers of home improvement products directly with their customers. The BuildDirect Home Marketplace allows suppliers to manage the sale and distribution of their home improvement products. In February 2017, BuildDirect launched the Gateway Supply Chain, opening their logistics network to third parties and providing access to warehousing services, ground and ocean logistics for any part of the shipping process. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Vancouver, Canada with warehouses across North America. | $28M / Series D / Mar 26, 2018 | ||
| Splice Machine is a data platform that offers offline, and batch analysis, and powers intelligent applications for operational workflows.Splice Machine is disrupting the $30 billion traditional database world with the open-source dual-engine RDBMS for mixed operational and analytical workloads, powered by Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark. TheSplice Machine RDBMS executes operational workloads on Apache HBase® and analytical workloads on Apache Spark.Splice Machine makes it easy to develop and create modern, real-time, scalable applications, or to offload operational and analytical workloads from expensive Oracle, Teradata, and Netezza systems. Typical use cases are ETL, operational reporting, or real-time applications. | $9M / Series B / Dec 20, 2017 | ||
| Tuition.io provides an employee benefit that enables employers to contribute directly to employees’ student loan debt. In addition, Tuition.io provides a web platform that helps employees manage and optimize their student debt through objective Financial Wellness education. | $7M / Series B / Sep 21, 2017 | ||
| OneSpot is the leading individualization platform for content across digital channels, empowering marketers to increase brand engagement with every individual through always on, personally relevant experiences. OneSpot uses machine learning and natural language processing to instantly analyze all available content along with users’ historicalbehavioral and real-time contextual signals to deliver the optimal brand experience on an individual basis in web, mobile, and email. OneSpot’s customers include Nestle, L'Oreal, Unilever, Campbell's, USAA, Ally Financial, Under Armour, Weight Watchers, and other leading marketers. | $3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 06, 2017 | ||
| WorkFusion provides a platform of AI agents for automating business processes. The agents perform financial crime compliance functions, including sanctions screening and adverse media monitoring. The software is designed to improve operational efficiency for financial institutions. | $35M / Series D / Jan 26, 2017 | ||
| See all 214 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Mohr Davidow Ventures invest in?
Mohr Davidow Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Health Care startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 214 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 Mohr Davidow Ventures's check size?
Mohr Davidow Ventures typically joins rounds of $4M–$12M at Series A, $6M–$31M at Series B and $6M–$35M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Mohr Davidow Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Mohr Davidow Ventures?
The team at Mohr Davidow Ventures includes Randy Strahan (Venture Partner), Bill Davidow (Partner Emeritus) and Bill Ericson (General Partner), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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