About Inventures Group
Inventures Group is a venture capital firm located in Palo Alto, United States. As of Mar 2015, Inventures Group has invested in 26 companies. It primarily invests in Series A round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Enterprise Infrastructure and High Tech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series A round of Prevoty Overall, Inventures Group portfolio has seen 2 IPOs and 19 acquisitions including key companies like Amplitude, Proofpoint and BitGo. A lot of funds co-invest with Inventures Group, with names like Benchmark sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio.Key Metrics
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Series A, Seed & 2 more
Portfolio Acquisitions
Inventures Group's List of Top Investments
Inventures Group has a portfolio of 26 companies. Their most notable investments are in Prevoty and VirtuOz.Their portfolio spans across United States, Netherlands and Spain. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Infrastructure, High Tech and 6 other sectors, across stages such as Series A, Seed and 2 more. Here is the list of top investments by Inventures Group:1. Amplitude
Provider of an AI analytics platform for product and marketing insights. The platform offers tools for data governance, integrations, and security. It provides features such as session replay, heatmaps, and experimentation. The platform caters to product, data, engineering, marketing, and executive teams.
Key facts about Amplitude
- Founded Year: 2012
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $100M - $500M as on Dec 31, 2025
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $336M
- Employee Count: 1,011 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Meritech, Herald Investment Management and 36 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Grant (prize money), Jan 01, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Public
2. Proofpoint
Provider of cybersecurity solutions, services, and training for enterprise protection. The company offers a platform securing connections across email, cloud, and collaboration tools. It focuses on protecting people and securing data, addressing threats and data loss. The company provides solutions for collaboration security, data security and governance, and platform technologies.
Key facts about Proofpoint
- Founded Year: 2002
- Location: Sunnyvale (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $1B+ as on Dec 31, 2020
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $86M
- Employee Count: 5,138 as on Apr 30, 2026
- Investors: Sprout Capital Partners, Glynn Capital and 20 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Aug 23, 2019, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
3. BitGo
Platform that offers crypto based financial services. It offers custody, trading, and lending solutions to institutional investors and crypto platforms. It provides regulated and insured custody for digital assets, with a cold storage to manage counterparty risk. Its solutions include features like whitelisting, user level permissions, and velocity controls.
Key facts about BitGo
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: Palo Alto (United States)
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $170M
- Employee Count: 166 as on Dec 31, 2022
- Investors: K2 Global, Founders Fund and 37 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Jan 24, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Public
4. Red Hat
Openstack distribution and cluster management platform. It allows developers to create, delete, and manage kubernetes clusters across multiple private and public clouds. The platform enables users to track costs, control resources, and more. Its offerings include application development, automation, cloud computing, and more.
Key facts about Red Hat
- Founded Year: 1993
- Location: Raleigh (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $1B+ as on Feb 28, 2019
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Employee Count: 19,345 as on Apr 30, 2026
- Investors: Berkshire Hathaway, Intel and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Grant (prize money), Jan 01, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
5. Zimbra
Zimbra is the open source email, calendar, and collaboration web based application, built with AJAX, and an entire collaboration server. It can be deployed on premises or hosted by a third party and run as a hosted email service. It is primarily used in the enterprise market and its competitors are Microsoft Exchange and Google Apps. It is built with well known web technologies and scales economically. The core web client and server are also open sources and can be used for free. One of the other aspects of Zimbra is all APIs are open and a framework exists to incorporate other applications and web services directly into the web experience, such as Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Key facts about Zimbra
- Founded Year: 2003
- Location: Palo Alto (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $17M
- Employee Count: 111 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Accel, Corner Ventures and 7 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Jun 27, 2014, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
Inventures Group's Investments by Stage
Inventures Group has made 2 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $5.5M, 1 investment in Seed stage with an average round size of $2.43M, 1 investment in Series B stage with an average round size of $11.4M and 1 investment in Series C stage with an average round size of $14.5M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Series A | 2 |
Seed | 1 |
Series B | 1 |
Series C | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Inventures Group's Investments by Sector
Inventures Group has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Infrastructure, Consumer, High Tech and Media & Entertainment. Notably, it has invested in 24 Tech companies, 22 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 20 Software companies and at least 13 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 4 |
Enterprise Infrastructure | 3 |
Consumer | 1 |
High Tech | 1 |
Media & Entertainment | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Inventures Group's Investments by Geography
Inventures Group has made most investments in United States (5).Inventures Group's recent investments
Inventures Group has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Inventures Group:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Mar 13, 2015 | United States | Series A | 6099 | [+5] | |
Dec 17, 2013 | United States | Seed | 3539 | [+2] | |
Jan 29, 2009 | United States | Series B | 4173 | [+1] | |
Feb 26, 2008 | United States | Series F | 6716 | [+6] | |
Apr 07, 2006 | United States | Series C | 3907 | [+4] |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Inventures Group's Portfolio
2 of Inventures Group's portfolio companies have become public. BitGo got listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), in Jan 2026 at marketcap of $1.92B and Amplitude got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) at marketcap of $6.18B.Here are Inventures Group's portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 22, 2026 | - | - | 6703 | |
Sep 28, 2021 | - | - | 7114 |
Acquired companies in Inventures Group's Portfolio
19 companies from Inventures Group's portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Proofpoint in Apr 2021 by Thoma Bravo for $*****.Here are Inventures Group's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 26, 2021 | Jul 21, 2003 | Series A | 3778 | |
Dec 23, 2020 | - | - | 2263 | |
May 15, 2019 | - | - | 4002 | |
Apr 09, 2019 | - | - | 2829 | |
Oct 28, 2018 | - | - | 5771 |
Co-investors of Inventures Group
Over the past 28 years, 26 investors have co-invested in Inventures Group's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Inventures Group: Plus Capital, Double M Partners and 1 other have invested in rounds before Inventures Group. There is 1 company where Plus Capital has invested before Inventures Group and 1 company where Double M Partners has invested before Inventures Group.
- Top Co-investors of Inventures Group: 12 investors entered a company along with Inventures Group. These include investors like Benchmark (3 companies).
- Invested after Inventures Group: A total of 11 investors have invested in Inventures Group's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include DAG Ventures (1 company), Icon Ventures (1 company) and Bridgescale (1 company).
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