Rally Ventures is an early-stage venture capital investment firm that prefers to invest in entrepreneurs and early-stage startup companies. The firm focuses on investing in the cloud technology, business technology, infrastructure, software, mobile and security sectors. It is based in Menlo Park, California and Minnetonka, Minnesota and was founded in 2012.
Rally Ventures invests in high growth technology based companies at the Seed or Series A stage with initial investments ranging from $500,000 to $8 million. They have a hands-on approach to partner with portfolio companies and enable those companies access to Rally Ventures network of enterprise IT executives and domain experts.
Rally Ventures' investments include CrowdStreet, Total Expert, SecZetta, ZAPinfo, AnyRoad, ZeroNorth, Cloud Elements, DisruptOS and Foodsby.
Their exited investments include Twistlock, SportsEngine, Carbon Black, Verodin, Sqrrl, Contactually, ReadyPulse, Coupa Software and Swarm Mobile.
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Funded Companies
Bugcrowd is an enterprise cloud computing and computer security crowdsourcing company that offers a platform for security testing, web, mobile, source code, and client-side applications.
A technology company specializing in creating enterprise software. It was founded in 2013 and is located in San Francisco, California.
Braze is a customer engagement platform founded in 2011 by Mark Ghermezian, Jonathan Hyman and Bill Magnuson.
CrowdStreet is a Portland, Oregon-based company founded in 2013 by Tore C. Steen.
Twistlock is a San Francisco and Herzliya-based cybersecurity company for enterprises.
DisruptOps, Inc. is a Kansas City, Missouri-based company founded in 2014 by Brandy Peterson.
Cloud Elements is an API integration platform for SaaS app providers.
CyberGRX is a Denver-based cybersecurity company developing a cyber risk management platform.
Atavium is a Minneapolis-based company founded by Marc Olin.
Foodsby is a Minneapolis-based company founded by Parag Shah.
Total Expert is a Minneapolis-based company.
eRelevance Corporation is an Austin, Texas-based company.
Associated investment funds
People
Bill Crane
Investor
Charles Beeler
Investor
Chris DiBona
Investor
Donna Wells
Investor
Jeff Hinck
Founder
Tom Peterson
Investor