VMware
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that help complex digital infrastructure. The company accelerates digital transformation by enabling unprecedented freedom and flexibility in how its customers build and evolve IT environments. Its software helps business users simply and securely access the apps and data theyneed, from anywhere, to do their best work. The company's software spans compute, cloud, networking and security, and digital workspace.
- Total investments:
- 33
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 9%
Last updated:
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Industries VMware invests in
Stages VMware invests in
Countries VMware invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Series A
- $4.6M–$946M
- Series B
- $7M–$36M
- Series C
- $8.5M–$653M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 12 (36%)
- Enterprise Software 11 (33%)
- Cloud Computing 7 (21%)
- Information Technology 6 (18%)
- SaaS 3 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 9 (27%)
- Series C 6 (18%)
- Series B 5 (15%)
- Series D 4 (12%)
- Series E 4 (12%)
Country
- United States 16 (48%)
- Israel 5 (15%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alex Tosheff
VP & Chief Information Security Officer
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VP & Chief Information Security Officer | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Craig McLuckie
Vice President
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Vice President | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Daniel Lopez
Sr Director Product, Marketplace
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Sr Director Product, Marketplace | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Diana Stefanova
Vice President Global Sites Strategy
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Vice President Global Sites Strategy | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Donald Carty
Director
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Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
| See all 31 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Certora develops unique technology which supplements your programming experts and manual auditors by automatically detecting security vulnerabilities both before the code is deployed and during operation. The process is executed automatically and provides mathematical proofs of correctness on a daily basis. For carefully defined properties of yoursoftware, Certora technology can completely guarantee the absence of security vulnerabilities. | $36M / Series B / May 17, 2022 | ||
| Cohere Technologies is a leading pioneer for software enhanced 4G & 5G networks. The company has developed a 3GPP compliant software solution to dramatically improve today’s 4G and 5G networks. Cohere is the inventor of OTFS for 6G. Founded in 2009, Cohere Technologies is headquartered in San Jose, California. | $46M / Series D / Feb 22, 2022 | ||
| Trala is a developer of a music education application used to teach users to play the violin. Its application offers tutorials, daily lessons, and real-time feedback on mistakes, and its advanced signal processing technology recognizes chords in a busy intersection, providing users with a convenient, affordable, and effective way to learn theviolin. The app gives instant feedback on mistakes through signal processing and has thousands of video tutorials from famous violinists.It was founded in 2017 and has its headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. | $6.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 06, 2021 | ||
| Certora develops unique technology which supplements your programming experts and manual auditors by automatically detecting security vulnerabilities both before the code is deployed and during operation. The process is executed automatically and provides mathematical proofs of correctness on a daily basis. For carefully defined properties of yoursoftware, Certora technology can completely guarantee the absence of security vulnerabilities. | $7.2M / Series A / May 21, 2021 | ||
| Cellwize is all about enabling the networks of the future today. With Chime, their cloudified and AI-driven RAN automation and orchestration platform, they enable mobile network operators (MNOs) to accelerate 5G network deployment and go-to-market, as well as the ROI on their network investments. Even in the most complex and dynamic of networkenvironments, Chime enables operators to connect to any application and any vendor, as well as co-create on top of the platform, delivering unprecedented ease, speed, and agility. With the future of 5G already here, Chime is helping leading MNOs all over the world to launch and leverage their next-generation networks and face the future with confidence.It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Israel | $32M / Series B / Nov 09, 2020 | ||
| Digital Asset describes itself as a provider of blockchain-based software and services that help institutions build and run distributed applications for finance and other regulated markets. The company offers a smart-contract platform called Daml together with its public blockchain network, Canton Network, enabling enterprises to tokenize real-world assets and manage digital asset lifecycles. Through its tools and developer SDK, clients can deploy applications that support tokenization, clearing and settlement, custody and asset servicing, collateral mobility, digital cash, and other workflows across institutional participants. Digital Asset supports interoperability across multiple systems while preserving privacy and regulatory control for participants. | $45M / Series C / Feb 04, 2020 | ||
| QED-it helps businesses accelerate trust with Zero-Knowledge Blockchains. It also developed Zero-Knowledge Blockchain, a protocol which combines Enterprise Blockchain with Zero-Knowledge Proof cryptography. Mentored by Prof. Shafi Goldwasser (Turing Award 2012) who co-invented Zero-Knowledge Proofs, this team of world-renowned experts incryptography, security and blockchain tackles several use-cases. The company provides an enterprise solution for preserving privacy on the Blockchain.QED-it allows clients to can keep their data private and at the same time share proofs about these data with partners, and even with competitors in their ecosystem. They also solve the confidentiality tradeoff using scalable Zero-Knowledge Proof technology. It also enables running audit queries such as credit and risk scoring without revealing the underlying private data used to calculate the scoreQED-it was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. | $10M / Series A / May 07, 2019 | ||
| Cloudify provides universal core-to-edge orchestration that enables service providers and enterprises to automate, manage and virtually transform their network and application services from their core location to branches and multi-access edge devices. Cloudify radically simplifies end-to-end network automation through its open source, intent-basedorchestration platform, which connects and manages distributed containers, network elements, and edge devices on physical servers or the cloud — all under a common automation scheme. With its award-winning TOSCA-based technology, Cloudify ensures flexibility, prevents vendor lock-in, and reduces cost and time. Cloudify has headquarters in Herzliya, Israel, and offices in the US and Europe. Visit us at cloudify.co to learn more. | $7M / Series A / Dec 13, 2018 | ||
| Puppet makes infrastructure actionable, scalable and intelligent. From the data center to the cloud, Puppet helps enterprises modernize and manage their infrastructure to deliver innovation and efficiency through continuous automation. More than 40,000 organizations — including more than 80 percent of the Global 5000 — have benefited from Puppet’sopen source and commercial solutions to ensure business continuity, optimize costs, boost compliance and ensure security - all while accelerating the adoption of DevOps practices and delivery of self-service. | $42M / Series F / Jun 27, 2018 | ||
| HyTrust was founded by veterans in the enterprise infrastructure and security space who recognized early on not only that virtualization and the cloud were going to dramatically transform the data center, but also that security would be a critical inhibitor to cloud adoption.The mission behind HyTrust has always been to mitigate the risk ofcatastrophic data center failure and data breaches — especially in light of the concentration of risk that occurs within virtualized and cloud environments. Organizations can now confidently expand virtualization to mission critical applications and take full advantage of the cloud.HyTrust has assembled a world-class team of company builders and innovators and has earned venture backing from the biggest players in the next-generation datacenter: Cisco, VMware, Intel, Fortinet, and In-Q-Tel, the funding arm of the US intelligence community. Further venture investment has come from highly respected firms such as Trident Capital, Sway Ventures, Epic Ventures, Advanced Venture Partners and Granite Ventures. | $36M / Series E / Jul 11, 2017 | ||
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FAQ
What does VMware invest in?
VMware invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing startups, most often at Series A and Series C stage. Most of the 33 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does VMware invest in?
VMware typically joins rounds of $4.6M–$946M at Series A, $7M–$36M at Series B and $8.5M–$653M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not VMware's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds VMware took part in.
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Who are the partners at VMware?
The team at VMware includes Alex Tosheff (VP & Chief Information Security Officer), Craig McLuckie (Vice President) and Daniel Lopez (Sr Director Product, Marketplace), among 31 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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