Vess Bakalov
CEO @ Pliant.io
Boston, United States
Vess Bakalov is a seed investor at Pliant.io in Boston focused on Software and SaaS. Vess Bakalov is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pliant, the orchestration and automation platform for the digital enterprise. Previously, Vess was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of SevOne, now part of IBM.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
Last updated:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (40%)
- SaaS 1 (20%)
- Gaming 1 (20%)
- eSports 1 (20%)
- Computer 1 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (40%)
- Series B 1 (20%)
- Series C 1 (20%)
Investments
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HelloTeam
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HelloTeam is the all-in-one employee engagement and performance management platform for the modern workforce. Through virtual recognition, surveys, goals, performance reviews, and powerful people analytics, HelloTeam is empowering every employee to be connected, engaged, and inspired. | $2.7M / Seed / Jan 10, 2018 | |
Framerate
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Framerate is a mobile first social video network for esports. The company's content and technology change the way traditional esports video advertising is produced, distributed and shared by millions of esports fans worldwide. | Seed / Jan 02, 2018 | |
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Framerate
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Framerate is a mobile first social video network for esports. The company's content and technology change the way traditional esports video advertising is produced, distributed and shared by millions of esports fans worldwide. | Seed / Jun 13, 2017 | |
SevOne
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SevOne provides the only digital infrastructure performance monitoring solution engineered for Speed at Scale for the world’s most demanding service-delivery environments. The patented SevOne ClusterTM architecture leverages distributed computing to monitor any device in the service-delivery path, integrating performance metrics, flows, and logs atscale, while providing answers in seconds to prevent performance-impacting outages. SevOne’s global customer base includes 5 of the 7 top global investment services companies, enterprises, CSPs, MSPs and MSOs. SevOne serves organizations that are looking to complex, dynamic next-generation infrastructure such as software=defined networks, orchestrated containers, and cloud technologies to support their business goals. The company is backed by Bain Capital Ventures and was named a Visionary in Gartner’s 2015 Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics. | $47.1M / Series C / Sep 23, 2015 | |
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SevOne
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SevOne provides the only digital infrastructure performance monitoring solution engineered for Speed at Scale for the world’s most demanding service-delivery environments. The patented SevOne ClusterTM architecture leverages distributed computing to monitor any device in the service-delivery path, integrating performance metrics, flows, and logs atscale, while providing answers in seconds to prevent performance-impacting outages. SevOne’s global customer base includes 5 of the 7 top global investment services companies, enterprises, CSPs, MSPs and MSOs. SevOne serves organizations that are looking to complex, dynamic next-generation infrastructure such as software=defined networks, orchestrated containers, and cloud technologies to support their business goals. The company is backed by Bain Capital Ventures and was named a Visionary in Gartner’s 2015 Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics. | $150M / Series B / Jan 15, 2013 |
Co-Investors
About Pliant.io
Pliant orchestrates end-to-end automation and connectivity processes. Pliant empowers the digital enterprise to modernize and transform with one unified API-driven platform. Our approach differs from other solutions by providing a strategic, powerful platform that spans departments, technologies, and domains.
Pliant.io Contacts
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Vess Bakalov
CEO
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Daniel Lorer
Board Observer & Investor
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Dave Hegenbarth
Vice President, Systems Engineering; Vice President, Systems Engineering
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Dimitar Blagoev
CTO
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Matt Goldberg
Chief Operating Officer
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What does Vess Bakalov invest in?
Vess Bakalov invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Gaming startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 5 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 Vess Bakalov last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Vess Bakalov closed in Jan 2018. Shizune tracks 5 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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