Workday Ventures
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Workday Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Workday Ventures is the strategic investment arm of Workday focused on identifying, investing, and partners with early to growth-stage companies. The company helps accelerate innovation and connects the next generation of enterprise technology companies with Workday’s customers, partners, and employees.
- Total investments:
- 103
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 16%
- Fund size:
- $250M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Workday Ventures invests in
Stages Workday Ventures invests in
Countries Workday Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $8M–$35M
- Series B
- $20M–$50M
- Series C
- $30M–$200M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 34 (33%)
- Artificial Intelligence 32 (31%)
- SaaS 28 (27%)
- Human Resources 16 (16%)
- Machine Learning 16 (16%)
Stage
- Series B 28 (27%)
- Series A 20 (19%)
- Series C 15 (15%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 10 (10%)
- Series D 8 (8%)
Country
- United States 59 (57%)
- Canada 4 (4%)
- United Kingdom 3 (3%)
- Singapore 2 (2%)
- Chile 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Erin Yang
VP and Chief Technologist
|
VP and Chief Technologist | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Barbry McGann
Managing Director & SVP
|
Managing Director & SVP | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Betsy Bland
VP and Managing Director
|
VP and Managing Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Mark Peek
EVP, Managing Director & Head
|
EVP, Managing Director & Head | Total investments: 16 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Straiker builds AI-native security solutions tp protect customers from a spectrum of security & safety risks. | $64M / Series A / Jun 29, 2026 | ||
| Sigma Computing develops cloud-based analytics and business intelligence software for data exploration and analysis. The company provides a spreadsheet-style interface that allows users to work with large datasets using familiar formulas, tables, and reporting workflows. Its platform supports live data analysis, dashboard creation, embeddedanalytics, workflow automation, and collaborative data applications. Sigma Computing also offers AI-powered capabilities for querying data, building applications, and integrating machine learning models within analytics processes. The platform connects directly to cloud data infrastructure, helping teams manage, visualize, and interact with operational and business data without requiring data movement or coding expertise. | $80M / Series E / May 18, 2026 | ||
| Auctor is a software platform that provides an AI-driven system designed to support software implementation processes for professional services teams and system integrators. It functions as an “agentic operating system” that captures, structures, and manages project requirements while keeping related conversations, decisions, and artifactsconnected throughout the delivery lifecycle. The platform ingests institutional knowledge and automatically records inputs from discovery sessions and workshops, transforming unstructured data into structured requirements ready for execution. It also generates project materials such as scopes, plans, and documentation, enabling teams to move from discovery to delivery more efficiently while maintaining consistency across outputs. Additionally, Auctor maintains traceability across teams and stages, ensuring alignment between stakeholders and preserving continuity from initial planning through implementation. | $20M / Series A / Apr 15, 2026 | ||
| Reco provides a SaaS security platform that helps organizations monitor, discover, and manage cloud applications, identities, and associated risks using AI-powered analysis. Its platform continuously maps interactions across applications and users to surface misconfigurations, over-permissioned users, compromised accounts, and risky behaviors sosecurity teams can prioritize actions based on context and risk. Reco also includes AI agents that autonomously process alerts and deliver context-rich insights to streamline threat detection and remediation. The company’s tools extend to discovering shadow apps and generative AI tools, consolidating identity governance, and maintaining visibility across dynamic SaaS environments. | $30M / Series B / Feb 10, 2026 | ||
| LangChain is a large language model application development library. | $125M / Series B / Oct 20, 2025 | ||
| Nominal empowers the next-generation economy.Nominal modernizes and automates accounting and financial management, providing robust reporting, multi-entity consolidation, workflow automation (including accruals and revenue), lease compliance (ASC 842/IFRS 16), period-end close collaboration, and much more.Nominal's generativesubledgers transform business logic into actions and insights using Generative AI - without the need for costly engineering or lengthy IT projects. Our shadow-ledger is implemented in days, not months, and seamlessly integrates with existing general ledgers and ERPs. | $20M / Series A / Jul 09, 2025 | ||
| Laurel provides automated timesheet management solutions tailored for legal and accounting firms. The platform leverages artificial intelligence to capture user activities seamlessly in the background, allowing professionals to track their time without disrupting their workflow. By streamlining the time tracking process, Laurel enables firms toenhance operational efficiency and improve profitability. The software is designed to alleviate the administrative burden associated with time management, allowing users to focus on their core tasks. Additionally, Laurel continuously evolves its offerings to meet the changing needs of the professional services sector. | $80M / Series C / Jun 10, 2025 | ||
| StackOne allows you to build Integrations, easier, faster, and safer, enabling you to focus on your core product development, while effortlessly adding connectors to your customers' tools within your SaaS platform. | $20M / Series A / May 06, 2025 | ||
| Veza is the data security platform built on the power of authorization. We are building SaaS based security products in a dynamic and fast moving world of cybersecurity with ideas rooted in the era of privacy for the cloud. We are well-funded and backed by top-tier VCs and CEOs as angel investors. The founders are serial entrepreneurs who haveexperience in the full 0-to-1 journey with a successful exit with an acquisition. We are looking for founding engineers (summer interns also welcome!) with strong interests in security / cloud-native systems / identity / SaaS. | $108M / Series D / Apr 28, 2025 | ||
| Metronome helps software companies launch, iterate, and scale their business models, with billing infrastructure that works at any size and stage. Metronome prioritizes rapid deployment, flexibility, and user-friendliness, minimizing the usual engineering demands associated with billing. It empowers business and product teams to take full controlof revenue and pricing. After the initial platform integration, teams can promptly introduce new products and pricing, simplify revenue workflows, and provide customers with immediate insight into their spending. | $50M / Series C / Feb 25, 2025 | ||
| See all 103 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Workday Ventures invest in?
Workday Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 103 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Workday Ventures's check size?
Workday Ventures typically joins rounds of $8M–$35M at Series A, $20M–$50M at Series B and $30M–$200M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Workday Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Workday Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Workday Ventures?
The team at Workday Ventures includes Erin Yang (VP and Chief Technologist), Barbry McGann (Managing Director & SVP) and Betsy Bland (VP and Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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