116 investors have funded 29 IT Operations companies head-officed in Boston, across 243 rounds (Nov 1999 – Feb 2025). They are ranked by how many Boston companies in this market they have actually backed.
"In Boston" describes the companies, not the investor: most of the money in any city comes from somewhere else, and the Where the money comes from section below shows exactly where it came from here.
Ranked by companies backed in this market and city, then by round count. "Led" counts rounds recorded with this investor as lead.
| # | Investor | Based in | Stages here | Companies | Rounds | Led | Latest | Portfolio total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bain Capital Ventures | Boston, United States | Series CSeries ASeries B | 4 | 11 | 5 | May 2022 | 395 |
| 2 | Matrix | San Francisco, United States | Series ASeries CSeries B | 3 | 6 | 1 | Feb 2025 | 320 |
| 3 | Highland Capital Partners | Menlo Park, United States | Series ASeries BSeries D | 2 | 8 | 3 | Feb 2019 | 236 |
| 4 | .406 Ventures | Boston, United States | Series ASeries BSeries C | 2 | 7 | 1 | Dec 2020 | 89 |
| 5 | Y Combinator | Mountain View, United States | SeedSeries ASeries B | 2 | 6 | 2 | Mar 2024 | 5,648 |
| 6 | Sigma Prime Ventures | Boston, United States | Series ASeries DSeries C | 2 | 6 | 1 | May 2016 | 30 |
| 7 | Stage 1 Ventures | Waltham, United States | Series ASeries BSeed | 2 | 5 | — | Nov 2022 | 49 |
| 8 | General Catalyst | San Francisco, United States | Series ASeries BSeries D | 2 | 4 | 3 | May 2019 | 855 |
| 9 | Polaris Partners | Boston, United States | Series BSeedSeries A | 2 | 4 | 4 | Nov 2018 | 330 |
| 10 | Osage Venture Partners | Bala Cynwyd, United States | Series BSeries ASeries C | 2 | 4 | 3 | May 2021 | 62 |
| 11 | Glasswing Ventures | Boston, United States | Series ASeries BSeed | 2 | 4 | 2 | Nov 2022 | 39 |
| 12 | Flybridge Capital Partners | New York City, United States | Series BSeedSeries A | 2 | 3 | 1 | Mar 2024 | 173 |
| 13 | York IE | Manchester, United States | Series ASeed | 2 | 3 | — | Nov 2022 | 34 |
| 14 | Gutbrain Ventures | Boston, United States | Series ASeed | 2 | 2 | 1 | Jul 2021 | 25 |
| 15 | VT Technology Ventures | Boston, United States | Series CSeries A | 2 | 2 | — | May 2021 | 5 |
| 16 | 3i Group | London, United Kingdom | Series ASeries BSeries C | 1 | 6 | — | Dec 2009 | 213 |
| 17 | Giza Venture Capital | Tel Aviv, Israel | Series ASeedSeries B | 1 | 5 | 2 | May 2019 | 53 |
| 18 | Common Angels | Boston, United States | Series ASeries BSeries C | 1 | 5 | — | Sep 2008 | 41 |
| 19 | Menlo Ventures | Menlo Park, United States | Series BSeries C | 1 | 4 | — | Dec 2009 | 417 |
| 20 | 83NORTH | London, United Kingdom | Series ASeries BSeries C | 1 | 4 | 1 | May 2019 | 74 |
| 21 | Globespan Capital Partners | Boston, United States | Series DSeries E+Series C | 1 | 4 | 1 | Feb 2019 | 81 |
| 22 | F-Prime Capital | Cambridge, United States | Series BSeedSeries A | 1 | 3 | 1 | May 2022 | 306 |
| 23 | Scale Venture Partners | Foster City, United States | Series BSeries CSeries D | 1 | 3 | 1 | Jun 2017 | 177 |
| 24 | Craft Ventures | San Francisco, United States | Series ASeries B | 1 | 3 | 2 | May 2022 | 197 |
| 25 | Iconiq Capital | San Francisco, United States | Series DSeries E+ | 1 | 3 | 1 | Feb 2019 | 165 |
| 26 | Sound Ventures | United States | SeedSeries ASeries B | 1 | 3 | — | May 2022 | 116 |
| 27 | OpenView | Boston, United States | Series BSeries CSeries D | 1 | 3 | 2 | May 2019 | 74 |
| 28 | Underscore VC | Boston, United States | Series CSeries ASeries B | 1 | 3 | 1 | Feb 2025 | 52 |
| 29 | Bessemer Venture Partners | Redwood City, United States | Series ASeries B | 1 | 2 | 1 | Jul 2014 | 781 |
| 30 | Khosla Ventures | Menlo Park, United States | SeedSeries A | 1 | 2 | 1 | Mar 2024 | 680 |
| 31 | Tiger Global Management | New York City, United States | Series ASeries B | 1 | 2 | 1 | May 2022 | 791 |
| 32 | Goldman Sachs | New York City, United States | Series DSeries C | 1 | 2 | 1 | Sep 2009 | 695 |
| 33 | Atlas Venture | Cambridge, United States | Series BSeries A | 1 | 2 | 1 | Mar 2003 | 302 |
| 34 | RRE Ventures | New York City, United States | SeedSeries A | 1 | 2 | 1 | Sep 2013 | 276 |
| 35 | General Atlantic | New York City, United States | Series E+ | 1 | 2 | 1 | Feb 2019 | 353 |
| 36 | Sapphire Ventures | Austin, United States | Series DSeries C | 1 | 2 | — | Jun 2017 | 189 |
| 37 | Adams Street Partners | Beijing, China | Series BSeries A | 1 | 2 | — | Mar 2003 | 150 |
| 38 | Newfund | Paris, France | SeedSeries A | 1 | 2 | — | May 2021 | 133 |
| 39 | Frontline Ventures | Dublin, Ireland | SeedSeries A | 1 | 2 | 1 | Sep 2013 | 100 |
| 40 | Acrew Capital | Palo Alto, United States | Series BSeries A | 1 | 2 | 1 | May 2022 | 99 |
| 41 | Azure Capital Partners | San Francisco, United States | SeedSeries A | 1 | 2 | 1 | May 2021 | 79 |
| 42 | Prism Venture Partners | Westwood, United States | Series BSeries A | 1 | 2 | — | Dec 2005 | 65 |
| 43 | Threshold | Menlo Park, United States | Series BSeries C | 1 | 2 | 1 | Feb 2025 | 69 |
| 44 | Vintage Investment Partners | Herzliya, Israel | Series CSeries D | 1 | 2 | — | May 2019 | 57 |
| 45 | Stage 2 Capital | New York City, United States | SeedSeries A | 1 | 2 | — | Mar 2024 | 53 |
| 46 | Integral Capital Partners | Menlo Park, United States | Series BSeries A | 1 | 2 | — | Dec 2005 | 40 |
| 47 | Cedar Fund | Waltham, United States | Series ASeries B | 1 | 2 | — | Jul 2014 | 27 |
| 48 | 3TS Capital Partners | Helsinki, Finland | Series BSeries A | 1 | 2 | — | Dec 2005 | 43 |
| 49 | New Stack Ventures | Chicago, United States | SeedSeries A | 1 | 2 | — | May 2021 | 37 |
| 50 | G20 Ventures | Boston, United States | Series CSeries B | 1 | 2 | — | Feb 2025 | 33 |
| 51 | North Hill Ventures | Boston, United States | Series DSeries C | 1 | 2 | 1 | Sep 2009 | 17 |
| 52 | Council Capital | Nashville, United States | Series CSeries B | 1 | 2 | 2 | Mar 2003 | 20 |
| 53 | BrightCap Ventures | Sofia, Bulgaria | SeedSeries A | 1 | 2 | 1 | May 2021 | 18 |
| 54 | Massey Burch Capital | Nashville, United States | Series CSeries B | 1 | 2 | 2 | Mar 2003 | 9 |
| 55 | Innovius Capital | San Francisco, United States | Series BSeries C | 1 | 2 | 2 | Feb 2025 | 11 |
| 56 | Performance Equity Management | Greenwich, United States | Series C | 1 | 2 | — | Dec 2009 | 9 |
| 57 | Leading Edge Ventures | Newark, United States | SeedSeries A | 1 | 2 | — | May 2021 | 6 |
| 58 | Iron Mountain | Markgrafneusiedl, Austria | Series BSeries A | 1 | 2 | — | Mar 2003 | 5 |
| 59 | Bestcapital.ca | Toronto, Canada | Series CSeries B | 1 | 2 | 2 | Mar 2003 | 1 |
| 60 | Accel | Palo Alto, United States | Series B | 1 | 1 | 1 | Feb 2018 | 1,133 |
| 61 | Kleiner Perkins | Menlo Park, United States | Series D | 1 | 1 | 1 | Jun 2017 | 666 |
| 62 | Intel Capital | Santa Clara, United States | Series B | 1 | 1 | 1 | Jul 2014 | 764 |
| 63 | Battery Ventures | Boston, United States | Series A | 1 | 1 | 1 | Dec 2019 | 458 |
| 64 | CRV | Palo Alto, United States | Series A | 1 | 1 | — | Nov 2013 | 381 |
| 65 | Felicis Ventures | Menlo Park, United States | Series A | 1 | 1 | 1 | Mar 2024 | 375 |
| 66 | Enterprise Ireland | Dublin, Ireland | Seed | 1 | 1 | 1 | Jul 2012 | 429 |
| 67 | Crosslink Capital | San Francisco, United States | Series C | 1 | 1 | — | Dec 2009 | 263 |
| 68 | SoftBank Vision Fund | London, United Kingdom | Series B | 1 | 1 | 1 | May 2022 | 325 |
| 69 | Cisco Investments | San Jose, United States | Series B | 1 | 1 | — | May 2022 | 265 |
| 70 | Liquid 2 Ventures | San Francisco, United States | Seed | 1 | 1 | — | Oct 2019 | 309 |
| 71 | Summit Partners | Boston, United States | PE | 1 | 1 | — | Sep 2011 | 295 |
| 72 | Pitango | Herzliya, Israel | Series E+ | 1 | 1 | 1 | Nov 2020 | 176 |
| 73 | Meritech | Palo Alto, United States | Series D | 1 | 1 | — | Jun 2017 | 184 |
| 74 | Floodgate | Menlo Park, United States | Series A | 1 | 1 | — | Sep 2013 | 195 |
| 75 | AME Cloud Ventures | Palo Alto, United States | Seed | 1 | 1 | — | Sep 2018 | 190 |
| 76 | Next47 | Palo Alto, United States | Series D | 1 | 1 | — | May 2019 | 170 |
| 77 | Intel | Santa Clara, United States | Series B | 1 | 1 | — | Nov 1999 | 180 |
| 78 | Wellington Partners Venture Capital | Munich, Germany | Seed | 1 | 1 | — | Sep 2018 | 126 |
| 79 | SoftBank Capital | San Carlos, United States | Series B | 1 | 1 | — | Nov 1999 | 142 |
| 80 | Keiretsu Forum | San Francisco, United States | Series A | 1 | 1 | — | Mar 2006 | 154 |
| 81 | Greenspring Associates | Owings Mills, United States | Series D | 1 | 1 | — | May 2019 | 112 |
| 82 | Sevin Rosen | Dallas, United States | Series B | 1 | 1 | 1 | Mar 2003 | 75 |
| 83 | Granite Ventures | San Francisco, United States | Series B | 1 | 1 | — | Nov 1999 | 69 |
| 84 | Stripes | New York City, United States | Series B | 1 | 1 | 1 | Dec 2020 | 88 |
| 85 | HarbourVest Partners | Boston, United States | Series C | 1 | 1 | — | Sep 2015 | 95 |
| 86 | Susquehanna Growth Equity | Bala Cynwyd, United States | Series B | 1 | 1 | 1 | Feb 2018 | 89 |
| 87 | Morado Ventures | San Francisco, United States | Seed | 1 | 1 | — | Sep 2018 | 81 |
| 88 | Garage Capital | Kitchener, Canada | Series A | 1 | 1 | — | Feb 2021 | 76 |
| 89 | River Cities Capital | Cincinnati, United States | Series C | 1 | 1 | 1 | Mar 2003 | 69 |
| 90 | Braemar Energy Ventures | New York City, United States | Series B | 1 | 1 | — | Jun 2013 | 42 |
| 91 | Updata Partners | Washington, DC, United States | Series A | 1 | 1 | 1 | Jun 2014 | 68 |
| 92 | Talis Capital | London, United Kingdom | Seed | 1 | 1 | 1 | Sep 2018 | 52 |
| 93 | Snowflake | Bozeman, United States | Series A | 1 | 1 | 1 | May 2024 | 54 |
| 94 | Fidelity Ventures | Boston, United States | Series B | 1 | 1 | — | Nov 1999 | 39 |
| 95 | Okta | San Francisco, United States | Series B | 1 | 1 | — | Oct 2022 | 40 |
| 96 | Atlassian | Sydney, Australia | Series B | 1 | 1 | — | May 2022 | 49 |
| 97 | Garage Technology Ventures | Palo Alto, United States | Seed | 1 | 1 | — | Oct 2019 | 32 |
| 98 | Ridgemont Equity partners | Charlotte, United States | PE | 1 | 1 | 1 | Sep 2023 | 41 |
| 99 | Brookside Capital | San Francisco, United States | Series C | 1 | 1 | — | Sep 2015 | 27 |
| 100 | Red Hat | Raleigh, United States | Series D | 1 | 1 | 1 | May 2015 | 18 |
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IT Operations companies head-officed in Boston that took money from these investors.
| Company | Backers | Rounds | Disclosed | Latest round |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vendr vendr.com |
10 | 19 | $1.4B | Series B May 2022 |
| Pliant pliant.io |
9 | 14 | $104.8M | Series A May 2021 |
| Logz.io logz.io |
8 | 18 | $544.2M | Series E+ Nov 2020 |
| Metaplane metaplane.dev |
8 | 13 | $130.4M | Series A May 2024 |
| CloudZero cloudzero.com |
7 | 14 | $562M | Series C Feb 2025 |
| Turbonomic turbonomic.com |
7 | 21 | $492.5M | Series E+ Feb 2019 |
| SevOne sevone.com |
7 | 10 | $453.5M | Series C Sep 2015 |
| Carbonite carbonite.com |
7 | 20 | $254.5M | Series C Dec 2009 |
| CloudHealth Tech cloudhealthtech.com |
6 | 16 | $361.4M | Series D Jun 2017 |
| HYCU hycu.com |
5 | 7 | $387M | Series B Oct 2022 |
| ClearSky Data clearskydata.com |
5 | 10 | $212.7M | Series B Nov 2018 |
| Connected connected.com |
5 | 5 | $117.5M | Series B Nov 1999 |
| Livevault Corp livevault.com |
5 | 9 | $82M | Series B Mar 2003 |
| Logentries logentries.com |
5 | 8 | $44.4M | Series A Sep 2013 |
| CloudTruth cloudtruth.com |
5 | 8 | $30.6M | Seed Nov 2022 |
| CHAOSSEARCH chaossearch.io |
4 | 8 | $188M | Series B Dec 2020 |
| EVault evault.com |
4 | 7 | $49.5M | Series C Mar 2003 |
| Edge Intelligence edgeintelligence.com |
4 | 4 | $12M | Seed Sep 2018 |
| XebiaLabs xebialabs.com |
3 | 3 | $212M | Series B Feb 2018 |
| Tervela tervela.com |
3 | 6 | $114.6M | Series D Sep 2009 |
| LogMeIn logmein.com |
3 | 6 | $60M | Series B Dec 2005 |
| JetPatch jetpatch.com |
3 | 5 | $47.2M | Series B Jul 2014 |
| Thundra thundra.io |
3 | 3 | $12M | Series A Dec 2019 |
| Stackdriver stackdriver.com |
2 | 3 | $25M | Series B Sep 2013 |
| Storiant storiant.com |
2 | 2 | $20M | Series B Jun 2013 |
| OneCloud Software onecloudsoftware.com |
1 | 1 | — | Series A Nov 2013 |
| Tarmin tarmin.com |
1 | 1 | — | Series A Apr 2019 |
| Continuum continuum.net |
1 | 1 | — | PE Sep 2011 |
| smartShift smartshift.com |
1 | 1 | — | PE Sep 2023 |
| Date | Investor | Company | Stage | Round size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2025 | G20 Ventures | CloudZero | Series C | $56M |
| Feb 2025 | Underscore VC | CloudZero | Series C | $56M |
| Feb 2025 | MongoDB | CloudZero | Series C | $56M |
| Feb 2025 | Matrix | CloudZero | Series C | $56M |
| Feb 2025 | Threshold | CloudZero | Series C | $56M |
| Feb 2025 | Innovius CapitalLED | CloudZero | Series C | $56M |
| Feb 2025 | BlueCrest Capital ManagementLED | CloudZero | Series C | $56M |
| May 2024 | SnowflakeLED | Metaplane | Series A | — |
| Mar 2024 | B37 Ventures | Metaplane | Series A | $13.8M |
| Mar 2024 | Y Combinator | Metaplane | Series A | $13.8M |
| Mar 2024 | Khosla Ventures | Metaplane | Series A | $13.8M |
| Mar 2024 | Felicis VenturesLED | Metaplane | Series A | $13.8M |
| Mar 2024 | Flybridge Capital Partners | Metaplane | Series A | $13.8M |
| Mar 2024 | Stage 2 Capital | Metaplane | Series A | $13.8M |
| Mar 2024 | SNR | Metaplane | Series A | $13.8M |
| Sep 2023 | Ridgemont Equity partnersLED | smartShift | PE | — |
| Jun 2023 | Matrix | CloudZero | Series B | $32M |
| Jun 2023 | Innovius CapitalLED | CloudZero | Series B | $32M |
| Jun 2023 | G20 Ventures | CloudZero | Series B | $32M |
| Jun 2023 | Underscore VC | CloudZero | Series B | $32M |
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