# Rob Shurtleff

> Rob Shurtleff is a seed investor at Divergent Ventures backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Divergent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/divergent-ventures)
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Mar 2017
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-shurtleff-8b823
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/shurtleff
- Website: http://www.divergentvc.com

Rob Shurtleff is a Managing Partner of Divergent Ventures. He was a Board Member at Appuri. He attended the University of California, Berkeley.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 25% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |
| Big Data | 1 | 13% |
| Computer | 1 | 13% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Appuri | Appuri helps online and mobile businesses keep their users longer. Appuri Backstop uses machine learning to predict which users are likely to leave and the reasons why -- so product and marketing teams can take action to stop churn before it starts.Appuri provides a full Data Platform as a Service that delivers data ingest, processing andoutput integrated into their existing business processes. We also deliver all data into a petabyte-scale data warehouse giving them secure, direct SQL access to their user segmentation data.Our main competitor is companies expending internal resources to build an ad-hoc solution themselves. | $4.3M | Seed | Mar 21, 2017 |  |
| Iron.io | Iron.io's event-driven computing platform delivers and processes 100s of millions of messages and tasks through IronMQ and IronWorker. Its asynchronous workloads operate in public and private clouds, on-premises, or hybrid environments. Iron.io's messaging queuing, task processing, and job scheduling solutions are used for eventprocessing, transaction processing, mobile and IoT compute, microservices, and other asynchronous computing patterns within modern cloud applications. | $3.5M | Series A | Feb 09, 2016 |  |
| Iron.io | Iron.io's event-driven computing platform delivers and processes 100s of millions of messages and tasks through IronMQ and IronWorker. Its asynchronous workloads operate in public and private clouds, on-premises, or hybrid environments. Iron.io's messaging queuing, task processing, and job scheduling solutions are used for eventprocessing, transaction processing, mobile and IoT compute, microservices, and other asynchronous computing patterns within modern cloud applications. | $8M | Series A | Sep 16, 2015 |  |
| Appuri | Appuri helps online and mobile businesses keep their users longer. Appuri Backstop uses machine learning to predict which users are likely to leave and the reasons why -- so product and marketing teams can take action to stop churn before it starts.Appuri provides a full Data Platform as a Service that delivers data ingest, processing andoutput integrated into their existing business processes. We also deliver all data into a petabyte-scale data warehouse giving them secure, direct SQL access to their user segmentation data.Our main competitor is companies expending internal resources to build an ad-hoc solution themselves. | $2M | Seed | Jun 23, 2015 |  |
| Iron.io | Iron.io's event-driven computing platform delivers and processes 100s of millions of messages and tasks through IronMQ and IronWorker. Its asynchronous workloads operate in public and private clouds, on-premises, or hybrid environments. Iron.io's messaging queuing, task processing, and job scheduling solutions are used for eventprocessing, transaction processing, mobile and IoT compute, microservices, and other asynchronous computing patterns within modern cloud applications. | $3.1M | Seed | Oct 01, 2014 |  |
| Union Bay Networks | Union Bay Networks is focused on delivering solutions that will enable the next generation of networking for cloud computing and software-defined datacenters. Union Bay was founded by a team of industry veterans with roots from F5 Networks who have proven track records in application layer networking, virtualization, optimization, and securitysolutions. It is a stealth mode startup headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and backed by leading VCs: Madrona, Greylock, and Divergent. | $1.9M | Seed | Jul 15, 2013 |  |
| Iron.io | Iron.io's event-driven computing platform delivers and processes 100s of millions of messages and tasks through IronMQ and IronWorker. Its asynchronous workloads operate in public and private clouds, on-premises, or hybrid environments. Iron.io's messaging queuing, task processing, and job scheduling solutions are used for eventprocessing, transaction processing, mobile and IoT compute, microservices, and other asynchronous computing patterns within modern cloud applications. | $2.4M | Seed | Dec 07, 2011 |  |
| RNA Networks | RNA networks' Memory Virtualization Platform (MVP) makes memory a shared, network resource. RNA products scale across commodity hardware, leverage existing data center resources and are implemented without application changes to deliver performance and transactional throughput. (Source RNA Networks) | $7M | Series A | Feb 03, 2009 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Baseline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baseline-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Citrix Startup Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citrix-startup-accelerator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Madrona](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/madrona-venture-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Oregon Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oregon-angel-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TDF Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tdf-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Divergent Ventures

VC Fund · Seattle, United States

We have participated in all stages of venture investing. Our preferred initial investment point is in the first professional round. We will consider seed stage investments and we reserve capital for participating in follow on rounds. Our themes are around Big Data, Data Driven Applications, Storage, and Cloud Infrastructure: We have over 30 yearsof experience building products and services and investing in companies that provide the technical building blocks that todayâ€:tm:s networks and information systems are built upon. Early Stage investing is well served by being accessible and available. We have found that time zones make it much more difficult to deliver on the promise of close involvement. We have successfully invested across the country, but are focusing our current efforts on the west coast. The Managing Directors are Kevin Ober, Rob Shurtleff, and Todd Warren--highly experienced and successful early-stage investors. The firm invests in early-stage companies. Our experience has taught us the importance of being closely involved with the companies we invest in, partnering with management to help overcome the many challenges faced by early-stage companies. In addition to investment capital, we actively work with our portfolio company management teams and potitial investment management teams to refine their plans, introduce them to potential customers, employees and investors.

2 contacts available at Divergent Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rob Shurtleff | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rob-shurtleff |
| Todd Warren | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/todd-warren |

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## FAQ

### What does Rob Shurtleff invest in?

Rob Shurtleff invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 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 Rob Shurtleff last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rob Shurtleff closed in Mar 2017. Shizune tracks 8 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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