Paul Weinstein
Founder & General Partner @ Azure Capital Partners
San Francisco, United States
Paul Weinstein is a founding General Partner of Azure with 30 years of investment experience across numerous sectors of technology. Paul’s primary investment focus is on cloud, enterprise software, analytics, AI/ML technologies, data center and mobility solutions. Paul is currently representing Azure on the boards of Convercent, DecisionNext, NetFortiris, K2 Software, SwitchFly, Unitas Global and Virtual Instruments. Other investments include ATACAMA, Ginkgo Bioworks, IrisVR and Magic Cube.Paul has previously served on the boards of Broadlight (acquired by Broadcom), World Wide Packets (acquired by Ciena) and Vapps (acquired by Citrix) and represented Azure on its investments in Prediction.IO (acquired by SalesForce) and Tutum (acquired by Docker). Prior to Azure, Paul was a Managing Director and communications equipment analyst covering the Data Communications and Network Equipment sectors at Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) in San Francisco. Prior to CSFB, Paul was a Managing Director and held a substantially similar position with Deutsche Bank Securities in San Francisco. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Paul was a Managing Director and held a substantially similar position with Paine Webber in New York and San Francisco. Prior to PaineWebber, Paul was a Senior Vice President and equity research analyst at Kidder Peabody in New York and Boston, where he was responsible for the Data Communications and Data Storage sectors. For four consecutive years (1995-1999), Paul was a top ranked analyst in the Institutional Investor and Greenwich Associates surveys.Paul has provided strategic and investment advice on numerous communications equipment and data storage companies. Notable firms included; 3Com, Alantec Networks (acquired by Fore Systems), Aspect Telecommunications, Bay Networks (acquired by Nortel), Broadcom, Cabletron, CacheFlow (name changed to Blue Coat), Chipcom (acquired by 3Com), Cisco Systems, Conner Peripherals (acquired by Seagate), Efficient Networks (acquired by Siemens), EMC Corporation (acquired By Dell), Fore Systems (acquired by GEC), Juniper, Komag Corporation, Latitude Communications (acquired by Cisco), Maxtor Corporation, MMC Networks (acquired by AMCC), Newbridge Networks (acquired by Alcatel), Nortel Networks, Packet Engines (acquired by Alcatel), Quantum Corporation, Read-Rite Corporation, Seagate, SynOptics, WellFleet (acquired by SynOptics) and Xylan (acquired by Alcatel).
- Total investments:
- 34
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 18%
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Industries Paul Weinstein invests in
Stages Paul Weinstein invests in
Countries Paul Weinstein invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (15%)
- Enterprise Software 4 (12%)
- SaaS 3 (9%)
- Analytics 3 (9%)
- VoIP 2 (6%)
Stage
- Series B 6 (18%)
- Series C 6 (18%)
- Series A 4 (12%)
- Funding Round 4 (12%)
- Seed 3 (9%)
Investments
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Pliant.io
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Pliant orchestrates end-to-end automation and connectivity processes. Pliant empowers the digital enterprise to modernize and transform with one unified API-driven platform. Our approach differs from other solutions by providing a strategic, powerful platform that spans departments, technologies, and domains. | $10M / Series A / May 06, 2021 | |
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Pliant.io
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Pliant orchestrates end-to-end automation and connectivity processes. Pliant empowers the digital enterprise to modernize and transform with one unified API-driven platform. Our approach differs from other solutions by providing a strategic, powerful platform that spans departments, technologies, and domains. | $2.6M / Pre-Seed / Sep 15, 2020 | |
MagicCube
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MagicCube is the Software Defined Trust (SDT) category with its software TEE-based platform. The technology enables large-scale deployment and management of IoT and mobile- secure solutions to consumers. | Series B / May 28, 2020 | |
Virtual Instruments
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Virtual Instruments is the leader in IT Infrastructure Performance Management for the physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments.Virtual Instruments is a dynamic, fast-growing technology company with a performance driven culture. Founded in June 2008 we are headquartered in the heart of the Silicon Valley, led by an industry-provenexecutive team, and backed by a group of highly experienced and successful investors. As a company, we are focused on delivering unparalleled value to our customers through a truly innovative combination of disruptive technology and revolutionary services. Our customers represent industry leading brands in every major vertical market, all of whom have some of the most performance sensitive and complex IT environments in the world. Our unwavering commitment to our customers' success, ensuring the performance and availability of their mission critical application workload as they migrate from physical to virtual and cloud computing environments, is what has fueled our record growth and is driving the ongoing development of our award winning Infrastructure Performance Management platform, VirtualWisdom. | $20M / Mar 30, 2016 | |
Virtana
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Virtana is the hybrid cloud optimization platform for digital transformation. | $20M / Mar 30, 2016 | |
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MagicCube
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MagicCube is the Software Defined Trust (SDT) category with its software TEE-based platform. The technology enables large-scale deployment and management of IoT and mobile- secure solutions to consumers. | $2.2M / Seed / Aug 27, 2015 | |
DecisionNext
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DecisionNext offers a prescriptive analytics platform that helps customers across industries make high-value decisions and improve end-to-end performance. DecisionNext solutions include commodity price forecasting, purchasing optimization, product mix optimization, capacity optimization, and pricing and promotion optimization. Importantly, it isconnecting these optimizations into a single system that delivers the most value to our customers. | $2M / Seed / Mar 24, 2015 | |
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DecisionNext
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DecisionNext offers a prescriptive analytics platform that helps customers across industries make high-value decisions and improve end-to-end performance. DecisionNext solutions include commodity price forecasting, purchasing optimization, product mix optimization, capacity optimization, and pricing and promotion optimization. Importantly, it isconnecting these optimizations into a single system that delivers the most value to our customers. | $2M / Series B / Mar 24, 2015 | |
PredictionIO
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PredictionIO is an open source machine learning server for software developers to create predictive features, such as personalization, recommendation and content discovery. PredictionIO enables developers and data engineers to build smarter apps. Developers can add predictive features to their web or mobile applications easily through a simpleset of APIs. For instance, they can provide product recommendations in the way Amazon does, or news recommendations in the same fashion as Flipboard, with just a few lines of code. | $2.5M / Seed / Jul 17, 2014 | |
Unitas Global
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Unitas Global is a platform=based managed network service provider connecting edge to cloud everywhere. | $5.7M / Series A / Feb 04, 2014 | |
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Co-Investors
Delta Ventures
5 deals together
AllegisCyber
4 deals together
Madrona
4 deals together
Northwest Venture Associates
4 deals together
Argo Global Capital
3 deals together
Entrepia Ventures
3 deals together
About Azure Capital Partners
Azure Capital Partners provides develops products based upon a technology that allows them to compete effectively with much larger incumbents and that enables time to market advantage It seeks to invest in the internet and information technology sector with a focus on software, media, infrastructure technologies, mobile, communications services andequipment, mobility solutions, and communications applications, web, and digital media.
Azure Capital Partners Contacts
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Andrea Drager
Principal
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Dan Park
Venture Partner
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Mike Kwatinetz
Founder & General Partner
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Paul Ferris
Founder & General Partner
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Paul Weinstein
Founder & General Partner
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What does Paul Weinstein invest in?
Paul Weinstein invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 34 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 Paul Weinstein last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Paul Weinstein closed in May 2021. Shizune tracks 34 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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