# Rami Elkhatib

> Rami Elkhatib is a Series B investor at Acero Capital backing Software. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Acero Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acero-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Nov 2021
- Lead investor: 36%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramielkhatib/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/RamiAcero

Rami Elkhatib is a Series B investor at Acero Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Mobile. Rami is general partner at Acero Capital, a venture capital firm focused on investments in enterprise IT (mobile, cloud, analytics and infrastructure). He currently serves on the board of Gridstore (Software Defined Storage), Argyle Data (big data real-time analytics), LiveHive (channel sales analytics platform), Banyan Energy (non-imaging opticstechnology) and others. Until its acquisition by Oracle, Rami also served as the lead investor and board member at Bitzer Mobile (enterprise mobility). Prior to Acero, Rami was General Partner at Southeast Technology Funds where he focused on IT infrastructure & software investments, and served on the boards of several investments including Pixel Magic (acquired by Dai Nippon), Waveguide Solutions, Elumens Corporation & Arsenal Digital (acquired by IBM).Prior to venture capital, Rami held multiple roles in tech & finance — he co-founded Datacme Software, held multiple senior management roles at Oneworld Software Solutions and worked as a technology investment banker at UBS Warburg where he led the execution of several public offerings and M&A deals that in aggregate raised over $800M for high tech companies. Before that, Rami had started his career as a software engineer, developing large-scale software applications (Design Automation Systems; Decision Support Systems) for Global Fortune 20 companies (Toyota, Procter & Gamble).Before going on leave from Stanford University, Rami was pursuing his M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford, where he was a member of Stanford’s Honors Coop Program. Rami is also a graduate of Purdue University where he earned a B.S. in Computer & Electrical Engineering and a graduate of M.I.T. where he earned an MBA in finance & where he was named the Henry du Pont III Scholar.

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 36% |
| Mobile | 2 | 18% |
| Internet | 2 | 18% |
| Cloud Security | 2 | 18% |
| IaaS | 1 | 9% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 3 | 27% |
| Series A | 2 | 18% |
| Series C | 2 | 18% |
| Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Series D | 1 | 9% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Contrast Security | Contrast Security is a code security tool developer that embeds code analysis and attacks prevention directly into the software. Its patented deep security instrumentation completely disrupts traditional application security approaches with integrated, comprehensive security observability that delivers accurate assessment and continuous protectionof an entire application portfolio. This eliminates the need for disruptive scanning, expensive infrastructure workloads, and specialized security experts. The Contrast Application Security Platform accelerates development cycles, improves efficiencies and cost, and enables rapid scale while protecting applications from known and unknown threats. | $150M | Series E | Nov 09, 2021 | https://www.contrastsecurity.com |
| Contrast Security | Contrast Security is a code security tool developer that embeds code analysis and attacks prevention directly into the software. Its patented deep security instrumentation completely disrupts traditional application security approaches with integrated, comprehensive security observability that delivers accurate assessment and continuous protectionof an entire application portfolio. This eliminates the need for disruptive scanning, expensive infrastructure workloads, and specialized security experts. The Contrast Application Security Platform accelerates development cycles, improves efficiencies and cost, and enables rapid scale while protecting applications from known and unknown threats. | $65M | Series D | Feb 28, 2019 | https://www.contrastsecurity.com |
| Contrast Security | Contrast Security is a code security tool developer that embeds code analysis and attacks prevention directly into the software. Its patented deep security instrumentation completely disrupts traditional application security approaches with integrated, comprehensive security observability that delivers accurate assessment and continuous protectionof an entire application portfolio. This eliminates the need for disruptive scanning, expensive infrastructure workloads, and specialized security experts. The Contrast Application Security Platform accelerates development cycles, improves efficiencies and cost, and enables rapid scale while protecting applications from known and unknown threats. | $30M | Series C | Oct 19, 2017 | https://www.contrastsecurity.com |
| HyperGrid™ | HyperGrid offers a cloud management platform that can discover, plan, optimize, secure, and manage workloads across any cloud. | $13.6M | Seed | Sep 27, 2017 | http://www.hypergrid.com |
| Contrast Security | Contrast Security is a code security tool developer that embeds code analysis and attacks prevention directly into the software. Its patented deep security instrumentation completely disrupts traditional application security approaches with integrated, comprehensive security observability that delivers accurate assessment and continuous protectionof an entire application portfolio. This eliminates the need for disruptive scanning, expensive infrastructure workloads, and specialized security experts. The Contrast Application Security Platform accelerates development cycles, improves efficiencies and cost, and enables rapid scale while protecting applications from known and unknown threats. | $16M | Series B | Sep 28, 2016 | https://www.contrastsecurity.com |
| Gridstore | Gridstore™ is the leader in HyperConverged All-Flash Infrastructure for the Microsoft Cloud-Inspired Data Center. Our customers gain a 10X performance improvement over traditional storage as we put all-flash as close to the workload as possible. They realize 4X lower TCO by consolidation of three layers of infrastructure into one scalable layerbuilt on X86 hardware and 10X less management effort due to less management points and less infrastructure to manage. Gridstore's HyperConverged Appliances include both compute and storage in a single system, and provide external storage and work with any Windows servers and the HyperConverged Appliance, all driven by Gridstore's patented software. Gridstore software architecture delivers native Windows integration, per-VM I/O control, and elastic and independent scaling of resources. Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. and its products and services are available through a global network of value-added resellers. | $19M | Series B | Jan 27, 2016 |  |
| Swrve | Swrve is the world's leading mobile marketing automation platform, pioneering the fast-growing mobile engagement marketing space.We are also proud to be the first mobile marketing company to combine predictive analytics with messaging for mobile apps in our Predictive Marketing Suite, which employs a continuously updated behavioralalgorithm that determines an app user’s propensity for action or inaction. Swrve combines class-leading analytics, segmentation, AB testing and in-app messaging in a unified application that allows marketing managers to continually test their applications by tracking user behavior, targeting specific user segments, tuning in-app elements, and talking to users via in-app messages. In the first half of 2015, Swrve signed more than 40 new clients in a wide range of industries from retail, travel, hospitality, banking and insurance to sports, media, entertainment, games, and lifestyle. Among the notable customer wins were The Guardian, Condé Nast, Glamsquad, Warner Brothers, Microsoft, and Backflip. As a result, our global bookings in the second quarter of 2015 increased 33% over the previous quarter and 153% over Q4 2014.In 2015, Swrve also ranked #420 in Inc. magazine’s 34th annual Inc. 500, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was founded by Hugh Reynolds and Steven Collins in 2010. | $30M | Series C | Nov 11, 2015 | https://swrve.com/ |
| Swrve | Swrve is the world's leading mobile marketing automation platform, pioneering the fast-growing mobile engagement marketing space.We are also proud to be the first mobile marketing company to combine predictive analytics with messaging for mobile apps in our Predictive Marketing Suite, which employs a continuously updated behavioralalgorithm that determines an app user’s propensity for action or inaction. Swrve combines class-leading analytics, segmentation, AB testing and in-app messaging in a unified application that allows marketing managers to continually test their applications by tracking user behavior, targeting specific user segments, tuning in-app elements, and talking to users via in-app messages. In the first half of 2015, Swrve signed more than 40 new clients in a wide range of industries from retail, travel, hospitality, banking and insurance to sports, media, entertainment, games, and lifestyle. Among the notable customer wins were The Guardian, Condé Nast, Glamsquad, Warner Brothers, Microsoft, and Backflip. As a result, our global bookings in the second quarter of 2015 increased 33% over the previous quarter and 153% over Q4 2014.In 2015, Swrve also ranked #420 in Inc. magazine’s 34th annual Inc. 500, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was founded by Hugh Reynolds and Steven Collins in 2010. | $10M | Series B | Sep 18, 2014 | https://swrve.com/ |
| Contrast Security | Contrast Security is a code security tool developer that embeds code analysis and attacks prevention directly into the software. Its patented deep security instrumentation completely disrupts traditional application security approaches with integrated, comprehensive security observability that delivers accurate assessment and continuous protectionof an entire application portfolio. This eliminates the need for disruptive scanning, expensive infrastructure workloads, and specialized security experts. The Contrast Application Security Platform accelerates development cycles, improves efficiencies and cost, and enables rapid scale while protecting applications from known and unknown threats. | $8M | Series A | Jun 25, 2014 | https://www.contrastsecurity.com |
| Gridstore | Gridstore™ is the leader in HyperConverged All-Flash Infrastructure for the Microsoft Cloud-Inspired Data Center. Our customers gain a 10X performance improvement over traditional storage as we put all-flash as close to the workload as possible. They realize 4X lower TCO by consolidation of three layers of infrastructure into one scalable layerbuilt on X86 hardware and 10X less management effort due to less management points and less infrastructure to manage. Gridstore's HyperConverged Appliances include both compute and storage in a single system, and provide external storage and work with any Windows servers and the HyperConverged Appliance, all driven by Gridstore's patented software. Gridstore software architecture delivers native Windows integration, per-VM I/O control, and elastic and independent scaling of resources. Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. and its products and services are available through a global network of value-added resellers. | $11M | Series B | Dec 04, 2013 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Atlantic Bridge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlantic-bridge) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [AVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axa-strategic-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Battery Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/battery-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Enterprise Ireland](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enterprise-ireland) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [GGV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ggv-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Acero Capital

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Acero Capital is a stage agnostic and actively pursuing investments in business software, mobile, cloud, and security They are just getting started, but after they complete investing their inaugural fund and look back at their investments, they want the unifying themes across their investments to be (a) a relentless search for new approaches tolarge and established markets, (b) management teams with exceptional foresight and resourcefulness and, (c) an emphasis on capital-efficient business models that can turn capital efficiency into a competitive advantage.

2 contacts available at Acero Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rami Elkhatib | Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rami-elkhatib |
| Jayme Pokrzywinski | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jayme-pokrzywinski |

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## FAQ

### What does Rami Elkhatib invest in?

Rami Elkhatib invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Internet startups, most often at Series B and Series A 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.

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### When did Rami Elkhatib last invest?

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