# Washington Research Group

> Washington Research Group is a VC fund in Washington backing Enterprise Software and IaaS. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Dec 2014
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026

Washington Research Group is a VC fund in Washington focused on Enterprise Software and IaaS. Washington Research Group provides equity investors with insights and analysis on the impact of government policy on investment openings.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 67% |
| IaaS | 1 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |
| Cloud Computing | 1 | 33% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |
| Series C | 1 | 33% |
| Series D | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | http://www.skytap.com |
| 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. | $10M | Series C | Dec 31, 2010 | http://www.skytap.com |
| Corensic | Corensic provides software quality tools and runtimes that enable developers and IT organizations to build and deploy more reliable software.Corensic was founded in late 2008 (formerly known as PetraVM) and backed by Madrona Ventures, the Washington Research Foundation, and Perkins Coie. Our mission is to fuel the multi-core revolution byenabling software developers and IT organizations to build higher quality software. Corensic’s first product is Jinx, a tool that will help you improve the quality of your applications when they are running in a multi-core environment. Jinx makes your code “unlucky” by forcing hard-to-find concurrency bugs to occur with more frequency while you are debugging. | $1.5M | Series A | Jan 21, 2009 | http://www.corensic.com |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ignition Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ignition-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Madrona](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/madrona-venture-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Insight Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insight-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [OpenView](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/openview-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Washington Research Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/washington-research-foundation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Washington Research Group invest in?

Washington Research Group invests primarily in Enterprise Software, IaaS and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series C stage. Most of the 3 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 Washington Research Group last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Washington Research Group closed in Dec 2014. Shizune tracks 3 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?

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