About Woodside Group
Woodside Group is a venture capital firm founded in 1995. It is primarily based out of Easton, 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, Woodside Group portfolio has seen 1 IPO and 11 acquisitions including key companies like Seagate, ConnectAndSell and Pollfish. Woodside Group has team of 2 people including 2 partners.Key Metrics
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Woodside Group's List of Top Investments
Woodside Group has a portfolio of 20 companies. Their most notable investments include Seagate and BrightEdge.Their portfolio spans across United States and United Kingdom. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Enterprise Infrastructure and 7 other sectors. Here is the list of top investments by Woodside Group:1. Seagate
Manufacturer of data storage solutions including hard drives and SSDs. The company provides various storage devices and systems for personal, gaming, and enterprise use. It offers products by type, category, and brand, including solutions for backup, data migration, and video analytics. The company also focuses on data management and factory artificial intelligence innovations.
Key facts about Seagate
- Founded Year: 1979
- Location: Scotts Valley (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $1B+ as on Jun 30, 2025
- Stage: Public
- Employee Count: 16,571 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: August Capital, Silver Lake and 15 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, Sep 17, 2019, $*****
- Highlight: Public
2. BrightEdge
Search engine optimization tool for enterprises. It provides solutions to provide marketers with real-time research, recommendations, and rankings. It helps businesses engage customers across the customer journey by revealing the intent of search queries, exposing competitors for each content topic, prioritizing efforts by forecasting business impact, guiding content creation and optimization, and monitoring content performance.
Key facts about BrightEdge
- Founded Year: 2007
- Location: San Mateo (United States)
- Stage: Series D
- Total Funding till date: $61.9M
- Employee Count: 608 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Insight Partners, Intel Capital and 6 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Jun 11, 2013, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
ConnectAndSell is a sales acceleration solution that aims to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of outbound prospecting by qualifying marketing leads and channel market development. ConnectAndSell delivers live conversations on demand, using a combination of proprietary switching technology and virtual sales agents. Enables client reps to log on to the cloud to dial into a conference bridge and connect with customers on the list. ConnectAndSell integrates with Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics. Its major clients are DocuWare, RingCentral, Convetit, and SavvyRoo.
Key facts about ConnectAndSell
- Founded Year: 2007
- Location: Los Gatos (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $14.9M
- Employee Count: 92 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Montage Capital, IVP and 4 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Unattributed, 2017, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
4. Pollfish
AI-powered survey platform for fast, accessible market research. It provides a comprehensive suite of survey solutions, from DIY to full-service options, including survey programming, behavioral data analysis, data visualization, and questionnaire design. The platform offers tools for survey management, targeting, and results analysis, supporting various question types and methodologies like conjoint analysis and A/B testing. It emphasizes respondent quality, ensuring authentic opinions from real individuals through diverse, first-party audiences. The platform supports global reach with multilingual capabilities and provides resources, including expert consultations, to help users create effective surveys and gain valuable insights. It is a SaaS platform that offers subscription and pricing plans. It leverages Artificial Intelligence to enhance the survey creation and analysis process. The platform is designed for both B2B and B2C market research needs.
Key facts about Pollfish
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $10.2M
- Employee Count: 50 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: EBRD, PJ Tech Catalyst Fund and 6 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Nov 30, 2017, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
5. Transifex
AI-powered localization platform simplifying translation for global growth. It is a cloud-based SaaS solution that streamlines the localization process for various teams, including product, localization, development, and marketing. It offers features like continuous localization, project management, translation quality assurance, and native project team management. The platform integrates with popular tools like GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Slack, Jira, and WordPress, enabling seamless workflows. It caters to diverse use cases such as software, website, mobile app, game, and help center localization. The platform leverages AI to deliver precise, on-brand translations at scale, accelerating time-to-market and improving global reach. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools and integrations to manage translation projects, ensure quality, and streamline collaboration. It empowers businesses to expand into new markets, improve customer experience, and build stronger brands through effective localization strategies.
Key facts about Transifex
- Founded Year: 2009
- Location: Menlo Park (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $6.7M
- Employee Count: 55 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Toba Capital, Espresso Capital and 13 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Venture Debt, May 26, 2022, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Woodside Group's Portfolio
1 of Woodside Group's portfolio company became public - Seagate. It got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), in Dec 2002 at marketcap of $5.12BHere are Woodside Group's portfolio companies that went public:
Filter this listCompany | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 11, 2002 | - | - | 8788 |
Acquired companies in Woodside Group's Portfolio
11 companies from Woodside Group's portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was ConnectAndSell in Jul 2026 by Banzai for $*****.Here are Woodside Group's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 06, 2026 | - | - | 7979 | |
Jan 28, 2025 | - | - | 8284 | |
Feb 01, 2022 | - | - | 8645 | |
Oct 27, 2021 | - | - | 4613 | |
Jul 11, 2021 | - | - | 4551 |
