Last week, Venture Guides hosted Alla Piltser, an infrastructure technology leader with three decades of experience selecting and managing enterprise tools and vendors. This fireside chat, hosted by Leigh Moore from Venture Guides, focused on key strategies for early-stage founders looking to break into enterprise markets. Alla shared guidance and first-hand experience about the purchasing process with local Boston founders and sales leaders, along with a virtual audience, sharing what works, and what to avoid, in the enterprise selling process. 

We recently hosted our 2nd Annual Investor Meeting at our Boston office, and we extend our heartfelt thanks to our Limited Partners, portfolio leaders, and friends of the firm for joining us. The last few days have been full of engaging discussions regarding the growing value and awareness of infrastructure software (IS), the present and future of AI in IS, and the progress we have made in guiding some of the most disruptive companies in the domain.

Venture Guides is excited to announce we have led Odigos' $13 million Series A round. The Odigos technology provides customers with the next generation of application tracing and application performance monitoring (APM). Odigos’ unique usage of eBPF to automatically produce context-propagated traces, positions the company as the only solution to unlock distributed tracing for all customers. For the first time ever, customers can observe their entire environment end-to-end without manual instrumentation. 

The Venture Guides team is thrilled to announce our newest portfolio investment in VibeIQ, the first digital workspace purpose-built for product collaboration. With a $6.3 million funding boost, VibeIQ is redefining the landscape of consumer product development, facilitating a seamless, data-driven, and real-time collaborative environment.

The Venture Guides team recently hosted a panel of security leaders along with a roomful of members from the Venture Guides Technology Advisor Network, CISOs and AppSec leaders from Bank of America, NS1, Pega Systems, Rapid7, Salesforce, Santander, State Street and many others to discuss the evolving challenges of managing application security in ever-changing hybrid cloud environments.

Venture Guides, an early stage venture capital firm focused on team-based investing and guiding, today announced the launch of Venture Guides’ Sales Academy for Leadership, Excellence, and Success (VG SALES) designed to accelerate sales for its portfolio companies with trained and motivated sales professionals, ready to join fast-growing tech startups.