# Vess Bakalov

> Vess Bakalov is a seed investor at VT Technology Ventures (Boston) backing Software and SaaS. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [VT Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vt-technology-ventures)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jan 2018
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vess
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/veskoteque

Vess Bakalov is a seed investor at VT Technology Ventures 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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 40% |
| SaaS | 1 | 20% |
| Gaming | 1 | 20% |
| eSports | 1 | 20% |
| Computer | 1 | 20% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Series B | 1 | 20% |
| Series C | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HelloTeam | 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 | 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 |  |
| Framerate | 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 | 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 |  |
| SevOne | 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 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Osage Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/osage-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bain Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Brookside Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brookside-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [HarbourVest Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harbourvest-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Westfield Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/westfield-capital-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About VT Technology Ventures

VC Fund · Boston, United States

VT Technology Ventures is a boutique investment firm, specializing in supporting great ideas which have resulted in great early and growth stage companies. They believe in sweat equity and support founder teams who have already invested their passion, time and energy to turn their ideas into viable businesses. They are ready to help them acceleratetheir growth and take the next step.

2 contacts available at VT Technology Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tanya Bakalov | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tanya-bakalov |
| Vess Bakalov | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vess-bakalov |

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## FAQ

### 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.

### 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.

### 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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