Red Hat
VC Fund
Raleigh, United States
Red Hat is a company dedicated to free and open source software, and a major Linux distribution vendor.The company is known for its enterprise operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and more recently through the acquisition of open source enterprise middleware vendor JBoss. Red Hat provides operating system platforms along with middleware,applications, and management solutions, as well as support, training, and consulting services.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 21%
Last updated:
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Industries Red Hat invests in
SoftwareOpen SourceAnalyticsAppsSaaS
Stages Red Hat invests in
Series DSeries ESeries FFunding RoundSeed
Countries Red Hat invests in
United StatesVietnam
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Charlene Begley
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Micheline Chau
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Sohaib Abbasi
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Azhar Sayeed
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (29%)
- Open Source 4 (29%)
- Analytics 2 (14%)
- Apps 1 (7%)
- SaaS 1 (7%)
Stage
- Series D 2 (14%)
- Series E 2 (14%)
- Series F 2 (14%)
- Funding Round 2 (14%)
- Seed 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 5 (36%)
- Vietnam 1 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Charlene Begley
Member of the Board of Directors
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Member of the Board of Directors | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Chris Wright
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
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Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Micheline Chau
Independent Director
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Independent Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Sohaib Abbasi
Member of the Board of Directors
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Member of the Board of Directors | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
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Azhar Sayeed
Global Chief Architect
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Global Chief Architect | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 13 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Luna Rush
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Luna Rush is an anime-style, blockchain-based idle RPG game where players collect, train, and battle warrior. | $1.9M / Seed / Dec 31, 2021 | |
BlackDuck
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Black Duck secures and manages open source software worldwide, eliminating open source security vulnerabilities and license compliance pain. With the rapid, widespread adoption of open-source software, Black Duck is a key component of Synopsys’ Software Integrity Platform, the most comprehensive solution for integrating security into the SDLC andsoftware supply chain.Black Duck was established in 2002 and is based in Burlington, Massachusetts, United States. | $20M / Series F / Sep 03, 2014 | |
MongoDB
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MongoDB is an American software company founded in 2007 that specializes in modern database technology and developer data platforms. The company is best known for MongoDB, a document-oriented NoSQL database that stores data in flexible JSON-like documents instead of traditional relational tables. This architecture enables developers to buildscalable, high-performance applications capable of handling structured and unstructured data efficiently. MongoDB’s flagship cloud platform, MongoDB Atlas, provides a fully managed multi-cloud database service available across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The company also offers enterprise-grade database management, analytics, search, mobile synchronization, vector search for AI applications, security tools, and developer productivity services. MongoDB is widely used in industries such as fintech, e-commerce, healthcare, gaming, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence. | $150M / Series F / Oct 04, 2013 | |
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MongoDB
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MongoDB is an American software company founded in 2007 that specializes in modern database technology and developer data platforms. The company is best known for MongoDB, a document-oriented NoSQL database that stores data in flexible JSON-like documents instead of traditional relational tables. This architecture enables developers to buildscalable, high-performance applications capable of handling structured and unstructured data efficiently. MongoDB’s flagship cloud platform, MongoDB Atlas, provides a fully managed multi-cloud database service available across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The company also offers enterprise-grade database management, analytics, search, mobile synchronization, vector search for AI applications, security tools, and developer productivity services. MongoDB is widely used in industries such as fintech, e-commerce, healthcare, gaming, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence. | $7.6M / Series E / Nov 14, 2012 | |
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MongoDB
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MongoDB is an American software company founded in 2007 that specializes in modern database technology and developer data platforms. The company is best known for MongoDB, a document-oriented NoSQL database that stores data in flexible JSON-like documents instead of traditional relational tables. This architecture enables developers to buildscalable, high-performance applications capable of handling structured and unstructured data efficiently. MongoDB’s flagship cloud platform, MongoDB Atlas, provides a fully managed multi-cloud database service available across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The company also offers enterprise-grade database management, analytics, search, mobile synchronization, vector search for AI applications, security tools, and developer productivity services. MongoDB is widely used in industries such as fintech, e-commerce, healthcare, gaming, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence. | Sep 17, 2012 | |
Appcelerator
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Appcelerator provides a mobile enterprise platform to deliver native apps, mobilize data, and measure success with real-time analytics. Its mobile cloud platform enables cross-platform mobile application and HyperText Markup Language 5 (HTML5) web development, from a single codebase. It helps companies solve for this new mobile reality: deliveringnative cross-platform apps at the speed of the web, mobilizing any data source, and driving success with real-time analytics all from an open, cloud-based platform. With the Axway Appcelerator Mobile solution, companies can eliminate point tools to scale mobile across the enterprise, drive innovation by unlocking backend data sources for new app capabilities and measure the overall usage and success of the entire mobile app portfolio.Appcelerator was established in 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. | $3M / Series C / Apr 01, 2012 | |
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Appcelerator
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Appcelerator provides a mobile enterprise platform to deliver native apps, mobilize data, and measure success with real-time analytics. Its mobile cloud platform enables cross-platform mobile application and HyperText Markup Language 5 (HTML5) web development, from a single codebase. It helps companies solve for this new mobile reality: deliveringnative cross-platform apps at the speed of the web, mobilizing any data source, and driving success with real-time analytics all from an open, cloud-based platform. With the Axway Appcelerator Mobile solution, companies can eliminate point tools to scale mobile across the enterprise, drive innovation by unlocking backend data sources for new app capabilities and measure the overall usage and success of the entire mobile app portfolio.Appcelerator was established in 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. | $15M / Series C / Nov 01, 2011 | |
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BlackDuck
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Black Duck secures and manages open source software worldwide, eliminating open source security vulnerabilities and license compliance pain. With the rapid, widespread adoption of open-source software, Black Duck is a key component of Synopsys’ Software Integrity Platform, the most comprehensive solution for integrating security into the SDLC andsoftware supply chain.Black Duck was established in 2002 and is based in Burlington, Massachusetts, United States. | $12M / Series E / Oct 12, 2011 | |
Jaspersoft
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Jaspersoft provides the most flexible, cost effective and widely deployed Business Intelligence (BI) suite in the world, enabling better decision-making through highly interactive reports, dashboards and analytics. By leading in support for cloud, big data, and mobile deployments, Jaspersoft helps its customers deliver on the promise ofself-service BI at scale.Leveraging a commercial open source business model and a Community of over 250,000 registered members, Jaspersoft's open source BI software has been downloaded nearly 15 million times. Jaspersoft production deployments, in excess of 175,000, power 100,000 data-driven applications spanning 14,000 commercial customers. Jaspersoft is privately held and has locations around the world. For more information visit http://www.jaspersoft.com and http://www.jasperforge.org. | $11M / Jul 14, 2011 | |
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BlackDuck
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Black Duck secures and manages open source software worldwide, eliminating open source security vulnerabilities and license compliance pain. With the rapid, widespread adoption of open-source software, Black Duck is a key component of Synopsys’ Software Integrity Platform, the most comprehensive solution for integrating security into the SDLC andsoftware supply chain.Black Duck was established in 2002 and is based in Burlington, Massachusetts, United States. | $5M / Series D / Feb 09, 2009 | |
| See all 14 investments → | |||
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FAQ
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