About Tiptana
Tiptana is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. It is primarily based out of Atlanta, United States. It primarily invests in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and Enterprise Infrastructure. Overall, Tiptana portfolio has seen 1 unicorn and 5 acquisitions including key companies like Grafana, ValiMail and Reclaim. Tiptana has team of 1 people including 1 partners.Key Metrics
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Tiptana's List of Top Investments
Tiptana has a portfolio of 13 companies, one of which is a Unicorn. Their most notable investments include Grafana and ValiMail.Their portfolio spans across United States, United Kingdom, Canada and 1 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Enterprise Infrastructure and 6 other sectors. Here is the list of top investments by Tiptana:1. Grafana
Developer of open and composable platform for monitoring and observability. The company is offering Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale, enabling organizations to see, understand, and act on all their disparate data so they can move at the speed of their ambitions. The platform supports various data sources and integrations, enabling users to create dashboards and alerts. It also provides capabilities for performance testing and synthetic monitoring.
Key facts about Grafana
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series E
- Total Funding till date: $791M
- Employee Count: 1,878 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Sapphire Ventures, GIC and 15 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series E, Feb 25, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. ValiMail
ValiMail provides cloud service for authenticating email to control email services and to eliminate phishing attacks on the brand, employees, and enterprises consumers. The solution ensures that only verified emails are sent out by employing domain based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance, SPF and DKIM technology.
Key facts about ValiMail
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $83.5M
- Employee Count: 104 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Tenaya Capital, Tiptana and 5 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Jun 19, 2019, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
PlayOn Sports is the nation’s premier high school sports media company and is composed of six operating divisions: the NFHS Network, PlayOn Sports Properties, PlayOn Sports Technology, PlayOn Sports Productions, School Broadcast Program, and Digital Scout. They are the rights holder, producer, and aggregator of high school sports events distributed across television, the Internet, and mobile devices. By combining State Athletic Association postseason content with the regular season events of member schools, Playon sports provides viewers the high school sports content available and marketers with a unique multimedia platform solution to reach teens, young adults, and families.
Key facts about PlayOn Sports
- Founded Year: 2008
- Location: Atlanta (United States)
- Stage: Series D
- Total Funding till date: $87.9M
- Employee Count: 25 as on Dec 06, 2025
- Investors: Tiptana, Disney Accelerator and 14 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Feb 01, 2022, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Reclaim
Provider of AI-based online virtual assistant-integrated calendar management tool. It provides users with a tool that helps users to block their time for different tasks in their calendars. Its features include time blocking, task management, calendar sync for routines, meeting buffers, task integrations, and colour coding.
Key facts about Reclaim
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Portland (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $9.5M
- Employee Count: 22 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Index Ventures, Gradient Ventures and 15 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Oct 27, 2022, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
5. NS1
NS1 is a cloud-based DNS management software provider. It uses the architecture which is data-driven and done using a routing engine that uses its Filter Chain routing technology. The algorithm helps to make intelligent routing decisions in real-time, ensuring optimal application performance and reliability. It offers features such as managed DNS, load balancing, DNS monitoring, DDoS protection, disaster recovery, and traffic management. Clients include NextRoll, Bleacher Report, Imgur, Toyota, Magnetic, Algolia, the Guardian, and Encrypt.me.
Key facts about NS1
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Stage: Series D
- Total Funding till date: $125M
- Employee Count: 63 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Salesforce Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital and 18 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Jul 15, 2020, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Unicorns in Tiptana's Portfolio
Tiptana has 1 unicorn in its portfolio - Grafana. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is Grafana which became a unicorn in 2021, 5 years before Tiptana first invested in it.Here is a list of unicorns in Tiptana's portfolio:
Filter this listTracxn Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
71 | Developer of open and composable platform for monitoring and observability | 2014 | New York City | Series E | wjytekz |
Acquired companies in Tiptana's Portfolio
5 companies from Tiptana's portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was ValiMail in Sep 2025 by DigiCert for $*****.Here are Tiptana's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 17, 2025 | - | - | 6231 | |
Aug 20, 2024 | - | - | 4707 | |
Apr 12, 2023 | - | - | 8350 | |
Aug 10, 2021 | - | - | 3317 | |
Jul 15, 2021 | - | - | 4860 |
