# Trellis Partners

> Trellis Partners is a VC fund in Cedar Creek backing Security and Software. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cedar Creek, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Sep 2012
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.trellis.com

Trellis Partners is a VC fund in Cedar Creek focused on Security and Software. Trellis Partners serves entrepreneurs by providing venture capital and team-based support that enable them to build information technology businesses. It was founded in 1997 by Cassio Spina. Trellis Partners is based in Cedar Creek, Texas.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Security | 2 | 14% |
| Software | 2 | 14% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 14% |
| SaaS | 1 | 7% |
| Mobile | 1 | 7% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 3 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 21% |
| Series A | 2 | 14% |
| Series C | 2 | 14% |
| Series F | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| John L. Long, Jr. | General Partner | 6 | — |
| Bo Holland | Venture Partner | 0 | — |
| Greg Peters | Venture Partner | 0 | — |
| H. Leland Murphy | General Partner | 0 | — |
| Rick Orr | Venture Partner | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Flash Valet | Flash Valet, an Austin, TX-based developer of a cloud-based mobile management system for the valet parking industry. Led by Alex Broeker, chairman of the board, Flash Valet provides cloud-based software that streamlines operations for parking providers who have the opportunity to operate away from cash registers and paper tickets by channelingcommunications and payment through mobile phones. They can track vehicles in real time to control and boost their revenue, manage employee time and attendance (including payroll integration), accept credit cards at the curb and through mobile payments, etc. | $1.3M | Series A | Sep 19, 2012 |  |
| Zilliant | Zilliant, Inc. provides price optimization and price management software for manufacturing, distribution, high-tech, and industrial service companies. The company’s pricing software enables manufacturers and distributors to adopt an approach to price analysis, optimization, price list management, quoting, and negotiation. It offers ZilliantPrecision Pricing Suite (ZPPS), an enterprise software that combines price segmentation and price optimization science with analytics and process automation software for price management; ZPPS Analytics, which provides segment-specific metrics and KPIs to deliver a view of pricing performance and uncover opportunities to improve; ZPPS Price Optimization that produces price and deal envelope recommendations for various price segment; and ZPPS Price List Manager, which administers price lists and policies, as well as other price instruments, such as discount and markup schedules. The company also provides ZPPS Deal Manager and Deal Manager for Agreements, and ZPPS Price Campaign Manager that provides inline analytics and KPIs for scoring deals against peer group benchmarks and enforces corporate price policies; and ZPPS Pricing Information Manager, which manages product mix and selection in various deals. In addition, Zilliant, Inc. offers deployment strategy and planning, and implementation methodology, as well as Zilliant education services for business and technical users. The company has a strategic alliance with Advanous. Zilliant, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. | $13.1M |  | Jul 19, 2010 |  |
| AllClear ID | AllClear ID was founded in 2004 by CEO Bo Holland. In March 2019, AllClear sold its breach response business to Experian and is now an employee owned small business. The proceeds of the sale were used to buy out all institutional investors including Merus, Trellis and Runway. Today, AllClear ID, Inc. is focused on its CrossChannel™ Platformthat uses mobile technology to eliminate passwords and remove friction from every part of a business. CrossChannel gives customers the convenience, speed and security of mobile and connects it to all customer-facing channels - website, in store, call center, mobile and kiosk. The result is fast, high security experience that increases customer engagement by up to 300% while radically reducing transaction fraud and identity theft. The core technology is patented and proven.The award winning AllClear ID team is also recognized for its identity protection products, high quality service and successful deployment of large-scale managed services. AllClear helped organizations like Anthem Blue Cross, Home Depot and Sony to respond successfully to data breaches affecting 200 million customers. | $9.3M |  | Apr 29, 2008 |  |
| Zilliant | Zilliant, Inc. provides price optimization and price management software for manufacturing, distribution, high-tech, and industrial service companies. The company’s pricing software enables manufacturers and distributors to adopt an approach to price analysis, optimization, price list management, quoting, and negotiation. It offers ZilliantPrecision Pricing Suite (ZPPS), an enterprise software that combines price segmentation and price optimization science with analytics and process automation software for price management; ZPPS Analytics, which provides segment-specific metrics and KPIs to deliver a view of pricing performance and uncover opportunities to improve; ZPPS Price Optimization that produces price and deal envelope recommendations for various price segment; and ZPPS Price List Manager, which administers price lists and policies, as well as other price instruments, such as discount and markup schedules. The company also provides ZPPS Deal Manager and Deal Manager for Agreements, and ZPPS Price Campaign Manager that provides inline analytics and KPIs for scoring deals against peer group benchmarks and enforces corporate price policies; and ZPPS Pricing Information Manager, which manages product mix and selection in various deals. In addition, Zilliant, Inc. offers deployment strategy and planning, and implementation methodology, as well as Zilliant education services for business and technical users. The company has a strategic alliance with Advanous. Zilliant, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. | $4M | Series F | Nov 12, 2007 |  |
| EKOS Corporation | EKOS Corporation pioneered the development and the clinical application of ultrasound accelerated thrombolysis, introducing its first system for the treatment of vascular thrombosis in 2005. Today, interventional radiologists, cardiologists and vascular surgeons at leading institutions around the world use the EKOS EkoSonic Endovascular System toprovide faster, safer and more complete dissolution of thrombus. | $26M | Series C | Mar 21, 2006 |  |
| GENBAND | GENBAND is a global supplier of IP gateways, session border controllers and FMC security solutions. These high-performance, high-security gateway solutions are at the center of fixed and mobile networks around the globe, evolving, securing and improving communications networks. | $18M |  | Mar 01, 2005 |  |
| Zilliant | Zilliant, Inc. provides price optimization and price management software for manufacturing, distribution, high-tech, and industrial service companies. The company’s pricing software enables manufacturers and distributors to adopt an approach to price analysis, optimization, price list management, quoting, and negotiation. It offers ZilliantPrecision Pricing Suite (ZPPS), an enterprise software that combines price segmentation and price optimization science with analytics and process automation software for price management; ZPPS Analytics, which provides segment-specific metrics and KPIs to deliver a view of pricing performance and uncover opportunities to improve; ZPPS Price Optimization that produces price and deal envelope recommendations for various price segment; and ZPPS Price List Manager, which administers price lists and policies, as well as other price instruments, such as discount and markup schedules. The company also provides ZPPS Deal Manager and Deal Manager for Agreements, and ZPPS Price Campaign Manager that provides inline analytics and KPIs for scoring deals against peer group benchmarks and enforces corporate price policies; and ZPPS Pricing Information Manager, which manages product mix and selection in various deals. In addition, Zilliant, Inc. offers deployment strategy and planning, and implementation methodology, as well as Zilliant education services for business and technical users. The company has a strategic alliance with Advanous. Zilliant, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. | $14.5M | Series C | Aug 29, 2003 |  |
| Zilliant | Zilliant, Inc. provides price optimization and price management software for manufacturing, distribution, high-tech, and industrial service companies. The company’s pricing software enables manufacturers and distributors to adopt an approach to price analysis, optimization, price list management, quoting, and negotiation. It offers ZilliantPrecision Pricing Suite (ZPPS), an enterprise software that combines price segmentation and price optimization science with analytics and process automation software for price management; ZPPS Analytics, which provides segment-specific metrics and KPIs to deliver a view of pricing performance and uncover opportunities to improve; ZPPS Price Optimization that produces price and deal envelope recommendations for various price segment; and ZPPS Price List Manager, which administers price lists and policies, as well as other price instruments, such as discount and markup schedules. The company also provides ZPPS Deal Manager and Deal Manager for Agreements, and ZPPS Price Campaign Manager that provides inline analytics and KPIs for scoring deals against peer group benchmarks and enforces corporate price policies; and ZPPS Pricing Information Manager, which manages product mix and selection in various deals. In addition, Zilliant, Inc. offers deployment strategy and planning, and implementation methodology, as well as Zilliant education services for business and technical users. The company has a strategic alliance with Advanous. Zilliant, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. | $6M | Series B | Oct 14, 2002 |  |
| Wayport | Wayport operates WiFi hotpots for partners since 1998 with key investors Seven Rosen Funds, New Enterprise Associates, Millennium Technology Ventures and Scale Venture Partners. | $15M |  | Mar 11, 2002 |  |
| Maxxan Systems | MaXXan Systems is the first company to create next-generation networking infrastructure technologies specifically to meet the needs of businesses deploying large-scale storage networks. Businesses at the enterprise level are faced with extreme data growth rates and spiraling costs for managing data. MaXXan products will bring more scalability,reliability and intelligence to storage networks while reducing the cost of management, deployment and ownership of those networks. | $20M | Series B | Oct 10, 2001 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Trellis Partners invest in?

Trellis Partners invests primarily in Security, Software and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 14 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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### Who are the partners at Trellis Partners?

The team at Trellis Partners includes John L. Long, Jr. (General Partner), Bo Holland (Venture Partner) and Greg Peters (Venture Partner), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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