# Scott Maxwell

> Scott Maxwell is a Series A investor at OpenView backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [OpenView](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/openview-venture-partners)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 59%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottmaxwell
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/scottsnews
- Website: https://x.com/scottsnews

Scott Maxwell is a Series A investor at OpenView in Boston focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Scott Maxwell is the External Advisory Board Member at Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 36% |
| Enterprise Software | 7 | 32% |
| SaaS | 6 | 27% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 23% |
| Analytics | 3 | 14% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 23% |
| Series C | 5 | 23% |
| Series D | 4 | 18% |
| Series B | 2 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 45% |
| Israel | 1 | 5% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Intezer | Intezer introduces a Genetic Malware Analysis technology, revolutionizing cyber threat detection and response. By identifying the origins of software, Intezer equips enterprises with an advanced way to detect modern cyber threats, while providing deep context on how to effectively respond to incidents. Intezer offers solutions for incident responseautomation, cloud workload protection, threat intelligence, and more. For more information, visit www.intezer.com. | $33M | Series C | Sep 17, 2024 |  |
| PERSUIT | PERSUIT is a Software as a Service ("SaaS") company specializing in legal RFP technology. The PERSUIT platform is self-service enabled and an out-of-the-box, cloud-based software application, providing in-house teams the ability to launch matter-based RFPs, RFIs, AFAs, Hourly Rate reviews, and Panel Convergence Programs using industrybest-practice templates. Request types can be used to drive price competition via real-time bidding to achieve true market pricing every time, delivering 30+% savings on external legal spending. | $20M | Series A | Oct 06, 2021 |  |
| Intezer | Intezer introduces a Genetic Malware Analysis technology, revolutionizing cyber threat detection and response. By identifying the origins of software, Intezer equips enterprises with an advanced way to detect modern cyber threats, while providing deep context on how to effectively respond to incidents. Intezer offers solutions for incident responseautomation, cloud workload protection, threat intelligence, and more. For more information, visit www.intezer.com. | $15M | Series B | Jan 21, 2020 |  |
| Zipwhip | Zipwhip features software that helps people businesses have more effective conversations by text-enabling existing phone numbers. Zipwhip pairs direct network connectivity with easy out-of-the-box software, so businesses of any size can give customers the choice to “text or call” and handle two-way text conversations at scale. It was founded in2007 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $51.5M | Series D | Jan 18, 2019 |  |
| Zipwhip | Zipwhip features software that helps people businesses have more effective conversations by text-enabling existing phone numbers. Zipwhip pairs direct network connectivity with easy out-of-the-box software, so businesses of any size can give customers the choice to “text or call” and handle two-way text conversations at scale. It was founded in2007 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $22.5M | Series C | Sep 06, 2017 |  |
| Skytap | It is critical to success in today’s economy to rapidly deliver goods and services through software. Organizations must modernize their approach to software delivery by leveraging the cloud, implementing agile and DevOps processes, and adopting new architectures. This transition enables faster, safer, and more efficient application development,which is the cornerstone of the on-demand digital services that customers expect.Skytap is your partner in this transformation. Skytap Cloud accelerates enterprise innovation by modernizing traditional applications with cloud-native development and services. Our technology makes it easy to build, run, and evolve these hybrid applications by rapidly migrating traditional workloads to the cloud, enabling modern development practices, and integrating new cloud architectures and processes.We deliver cloud benefits in weeks, not months or years. True self-service, on-demand resources enable you to create your own software-defined datacenter and networks with environments on demand that work in the cloud just like in your datacenter. Gain all the benefits of cloud speed and scale with little risk and big reward. | $35M | Series D | Dec 18, 2014 |  |
| Skytap | It is critical to success in today’s economy to rapidly deliver goods and services through software. Organizations must modernize their approach to software delivery by leveraging the cloud, implementing agile and DevOps processes, and adopting new architectures. This transition enables faster, safer, and more efficient application development,which is the cornerstone of the on-demand digital services that customers expect.Skytap is your partner in this transformation. Skytap Cloud accelerates enterprise innovation by modernizing traditional applications with cloud-native development and services. Our technology makes it easy to build, run, and evolve these hybrid applications by rapidly migrating traditional workloads to the cloud, enabling modern development practices, and integrating new cloud architectures and processes.We deliver cloud benefits in weeks, not months or years. True self-service, on-demand resources enable you to create your own software-defined datacenter and networks with environments on demand that work in the cloud just like in your datacenter. Gain all the benefits of cloud speed and scale with little risk and big reward. | $35M | Series D | Dec 18, 2014 |  |
| Socrata | Socrata is the market leader in making existing government data discoverable, usable, and actionable for government workers and the people they serve. Socrata provides a data-as-a-service data platform and cloud applications exclusively for city, county, state, and federal government organizations. Socrata delivers unprecedented, data-driveninnovation and cost-savings by bringing together disparate systems and leveraging the cloud to dramatically enhance the effectiveness of government programs, to improve quality of life for residents, positively impact local economies, and achieve excellence in government operations. Socrata solutions are designed and developed to meet strict government standards. The technology is optimized on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Sector cloud and delivered using the exclusive Socrata Blueprint Methodology. Socrata has earned Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Authority to Operate (ATO). | $30M | Series C | Nov 25, 2014 |  |
| Fieldlens | Fieldlens offers a tool that improves communication and collaboration for construction project teams. It knows what each member of the team needs to do now and reminds them, and it gives decision-makers a bird’s-eye view of every project without stepping on-site, enabling them to spot trends and see who the best performers are. | $8M | Series A | May 08, 2014 |  |
| Skytap | It is critical to success in today’s economy to rapidly deliver goods and services through software. Organizations must modernize their approach to software delivery by leveraging the cloud, implementing agile and DevOps processes, and adopting new architectures. This transition enables faster, safer, and more efficient application development,which is the cornerstone of the on-demand digital services that customers expect.Skytap is your partner in this transformation. Skytap Cloud accelerates enterprise innovation by modernizing traditional applications with cloud-native development and services. Our technology makes it easy to build, run, and evolve these hybrid applications by rapidly migrating traditional workloads to the cloud, enabling modern development practices, and integrating new cloud architectures and processes.We deliver cloud benefits in weeks, not months or years. True self-service, on-demand resources enable you to create your own software-defined datacenter and networks with environments on demand that work in the cloud just like in your datacenter. Gain all the benefits of cloud speed and scale with little risk and big reward. | $6.5M | Series C | Feb 05, 2014 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ignition Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ignition-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Insight Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insight-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Madrona](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/madrona-venture-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [OpenView](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/openview-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [.406 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/406-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About OpenView

VC Fund · Boston, United States

OpenView is an expansion stage venture firm that helps grow software companies like Instructure, Kareo, Datadog, and Expensify into market leaders. Through OpenView's Expansion Platform, they help companies hire the best talent, acquire, and retain the right customers and partner with industry leaders so they can dominate their markets.OpenView's focus on the expansion stage makes it suited to provide truly tailored operational support to their portfolio companies.OpenView Partners has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

5 contacts available at OpenView.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bill Price | Senior Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-price-4 |
| Jeff Sutherland | Senior Adviser | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-sutherland |
| Scott Maxwell | Founder and Senior Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-maxwell |
| Ariel Winton-Jones | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ariel-winton-jones |
| Blake Bartlett | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blake-bartlett |

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## FAQ

### What does Scott Maxwell invest in?

Scott Maxwell invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series C stage. Most of the 22 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 Scott Maxwell last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Scott Maxwell closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 22 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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